With the plan to fish the Lowe Memorial Tournament with Tony on Sunday, we wanted to get into some good numbers just to shake the cobwebs off and set the hook into some fish.. and to spend a long time doing it.
The plan was to fish a favourite Eastern Ontario lake of Tony’s which he always fishes on opening day. It is one of those small lakers that tend to have bass that want to hit almost anything.
On the water by 0730hrs we started throwing spooks, swimbaits, flipping, cranks, senkos.. and really whatever we wanted just to get back at it. It didn’t take too long to get into some fish either as in the first few hours we were averaging 10 fish an hr.
The rest of the day (until 1800hrs) we spanked 60+ largies. Most were around the 2lbers range making the total weight of over 100lbs of bass.
Tournament Day:
Although not having a pre-fish we were confident we had an idea of where the fish would be hanging out.
Luckily the low clouds cleared right after blast off.
We worked our butts off flipping, throwing cranks, senkos and only really got into a mid morning pattern. A typical day on this lake for us is low numbers but high average. Unfortunately we couldn’t find the bigguns and culled only 3 fish for a total weight over 14lbs plus we had a fish die in the last 30mins.
We were a little disappointed but then again we had zero pre-fish and it is a challenge up against 60 boats of which a lot were pounding the same areas. But that’s tourny fishing and shows we certainly are no pros. 
Two biggest of the day were 3.9 and 3.4
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