I took some sweet talking, but I managed to talk Jo into fishing a couples tournament. This is a tournament mainly for the husband and wife to fish. The lake that we were fishing was Bartlett, my favorite lake. We had prefished last weekend and found some good fish. The water level is currently dropping at about 1 foot per day, due to the fact that they need to do some work on the dam. The water dropping is confusing the fish and fishermen! The morning started off at the best spot, we pull and start beating the bank. Jo is drop shotting a 4" fat Robo Worm in Salt River Craw. It wasn't 5 min and I hear "I GOT ONE and its good!!!" I turn around to grab the net and this beautiful 2 lb largemouth comes flying out of the water and throws the hook! We try and brush it off, like no big deal. We move to the next spot and Jo catches some rats (12" and under). We move to my favorite spot on the lake that's always productive mid morning and theres a boat sitting on the sweet spot, so we keep our distance and wait for them to move. We watch them boat 3 nice fish. I finally hook up with one on a jig, and Jo was quick to get the net under him. A nice 1.75 largemouth. The other boat finally leaves and move into position. We didn't get bite so I turn around to fish back threw it and get bite and miss it. I let it fall back to the bottom and work it alittle longer, but he didn't want to come back for it. I start reeling it up off the bottom and the fish grabs it, almost ripping the rod out of my hand. I fought him for about 10 sec and the hook pulls. This was my breaking point, I couldn't believe it. I'm now frustrated and we still only have one fish in the live well. We keep working the spot and I mange to get two more fish both about 1.25 lbs. We decide to head to a couple of other spots and find boats sitting on all of them. We only have an hour left and 3 fish in the boat that we can take to the scales. There is a point right next to where you launch your boat. We worked the spot and with 15 mins left I stick a nice 2.12 lber. Our 4th fish in the box, still needing one. We call it a day, with 4 fish over 12 inches about 12 rats. We had a total weight of 5.77lbs. It was one of those days where nothing went right. Lessons learned: 1. Stay positive and keep on keeping on. 2. If things aren't working change game plans and try something different. 3. Can't beat a day on the water with your wife, even tho she jinked us from the start (just kidding).
