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. Well, I suck! After a good 4 or 5 year run I can honestly say this year is just kicking my arse. I've pretty much lost confidence in every thing I throw. This was not the weekend to feel that way
. I struggled and struggled mightily. Prefishing on Brushy was just terrible. This is normally my FAVORITE lake without question. I went about 7 hours without a bite. Lake is covered with moss and weedbeds. Tried like hell to get a frog bite but apparently all my frogs are cursed. Swimjigs were useless. I did manage to boat one keeper on a spinnerbait on tournament day. Don Williams wasn't much better. Boated one keeper there on a spinnerbait and struggled just as much otherwise. Threw EVERYTHING in the boat. Frustrating as hell. To top it all off. Despite my struggles we were in a position to acutally win the tournament. Trailed by about 2 lbs going into Brushy on sunday. Boated my second keeper and my partner had a small limit. Lipped the bass with my left hand, rod in my right, running the trolling motor trying not to drift into the area I was actually catching some fish in. Well, fish shook, but I still had her, barely. Shook again, onto the deck, a couple of flops and into the lake she went
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. Never boated another keeper and ended up losing by 1.5 lbs
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. Everyone struggled on both lakes. Two day winning weight was 14.5 lbs. Other teams reported catching lot of shorts. I couldn't catch anything. I'm ready for 2011
Water was "clear". Not dirty, not muddy..... murky would be the best way to describe it (the scum line on the boat looked like charcoal). Water temps were 78 degrees. Weeds galore and tons on slop. Lake has dropped about 3 feet in the past week or so.