Thats cool everything was all good out there. The caption under the photo on the newspaper made it appear different.

On the bite being slow I would have to differ. While I didn't do so well in the tourney, I caught fish and had my chances. On day one my pro had been on a swimbait bite and so we went for them after his flip bite didn't produce. We were getting our swimbaits hammered but they were not hanging onto them at all. I started ripping later in the day and was able to put some keepers in the boat. I got one good bite on day one and I got her all the way to within a couple of feet to the boat, right before he was gonna dip the net for her she turned and the one hook from the pointer that was in her lip popped out. He figured she was at least 8, oh well that was my one good bite of the tourney and I didn't get her in. On day 2 my pro fished a lot slower than I'm accustomed too, but I was still able to scratch a limit together,ripping. My prefish and after fish was a lot better for me than the tourney, I caught some swimbait fish and rip fish the day before the tourney for around 14-15lbs. On Saturday I was able to stick a 7-7 on a swimbait, and I watched Jimmy Walker stick a big fish, I don't know what it weighed, but it was a toad, it got stuck in some bushes, and was sweet watching him wrestle that big girl out of there. The amount of 7-10lbs fish that were caught this last week was incredible, Clearlake is just loaded with solid fish.

cz