I choked! :(

First, lets talk about the opener. I went fishing both days on opening weekend. Saturday I headed out to Monona, and ended up with 3 LM bass. All males and avg size around 14 inches. Sunday, I went to waubessa and boy was it windy. I tooled around waubessa along with, oh I don't know, 50,000 other boats, and really couldn't find anywhere good to fish. So headed to Upper Mud to give it a try before calling it a day. I got on a weedline and in 30 minutes had boated 3 bass and a decent northern. The bass on Saturday came on a Boggie Bait and the bass on Sunday came on a Shakeyhead Worm. Not bad for the first weekend of fishing, especially considering the millions of people out.

The next week, Foxy decided it was time to paint the living room, and had taken a few days off of work. I had a conference Tuesday and Wednesday, and decided to join the painting fun Thursday and Friday. It was pretty nice since I had about week off of work anyway. Well, I had an opportunity to head out on Friday afternoon. I headed to Monona, the weeds are really up and the bass spawn was really on. I boated 7 bass caught on Boggie baits and Shakeyheads. I also pretty much slimed my boat at the launch. Which kinda sucked, in fact I still need to wash it off.

So then we come to the choke fest. My first RCBA (Rock County Bass Anglers) club tourny was on Tuesday at Delavan lake. I was a nonboater fishing with another guy, who actually has a really nice alumicraft. We headed to some docks off of a steep drop. Saw lots of bass, but couldn't get anything to commit. We fished there for about an hour. Oh yeah, it rained then stopped, then rained, then stopped, then SUPER rained, then stopped. I was aware of the fact it would be raining and ended stopping at Farm and Fleet and purchased a fairly nice rain suite. Good call. Anyway, we moved over to this Marina in hopes of getting out of the weather. Turns out, pretty much the other 3 boats in the tourny had the same idea, only from the get go. So it was pretty well fished out. My boating partner landed a 21" beast. Which turned out not only to be big fish, but also the biggest fish anyone had ever gotten during a tournament. In the end, I caught a northern, and missed probably 3 bass. So basically, I choked. Oh well, I'm boating in the next tournament, which was supposed to be on Waubessa but we had to move do to another tourny going on there. So we will be fishing the Keg, which I've never fished. If I find some time this weekend I might prefish it, but we'll have to see how it goes.