This year I partnered up with long-time friend Dave Jordan. As we loaded the frost covered boat in the morning we knew that the early bite probably wouldn't be that great, so we didn't get too concerned after the first three hours of fishing without a bite. That was the first half of the tournament, we still had half left. The water warmed up to about 53 degrees and around the noon mark we started to catch some bass. We caught all our fish in depths under 6 feet of water, and each fish was caught on a Hot Rod Baits Big Daddy in the Bruizer color. We worked well as a team and tried many different techniques including; crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, tubes and craws. It didn't' seem to matter what we threw at them, for some reason they were only biting on the Big Daddy. After catching a few smaller bass, we were relieved when I swung a 15 1/8 inch keeper in the boat around noon. It wasn't much but it gave us the confidence to keep pressing on and keep throwing the big daddy. We kept pressing on and soon after the first keeper I was able to catch our biggest which weighed exactly 4 pounds. The wind was steady all day and often had gusts up towards 25mph, we put the Minn Kota Talons anchoring system to work often to fish key shallow water areas. We kept at it, and with about 30 minutes to go we had our third keeper in the boat and we were feeling pretty good. Once again, the Big Daddy pitched in shallow water on a Quantum Accurist 7 foot 6 inch combo got the job done. We ended up in 2nd place with 8.57 pounds, which is a great way to begin the year of competitive bass fishing.
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