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Why We
Had A Back To Back Win
by Rick Parrott
Starting
with the December Tournament on the Illinois River we had above
normal temps, one of the nicest December's that I can remember. Pre
fishing the day before the tournament Dan and I split up in separate
boats and had our own water we had to cover. Dan worked the North
part of the river and my wife Joby and I started at Henry. We knew
we had to find some good fish to even have a chance to get in the
top three finish and to do so it was going to take a lot of fish in
the boat. Dan and I met on the water that after noon and discussed
how we did, we both caught fish every where we went. I always keep a
sample in the live well so I reached in and pulled a 41b sauger out,
Dan's eyes popped out of his head. Joby and I had found a small pod
of sauger, that as it ended up no one else had found and hadn't been
pressured. Dan and I knew if we could pull a limit with two four
pounders we would have a chance. So we worked out a game plan, the
plan was to stop at a well known spot first to make sure we had a
limit before moving on After take off we ran through fog most of the
way it was slow going for a while after arriving a lake snatch wine
the fog was almost gone. We started the first pass and rite off we
putt a three and a half pounder in the boat as it ended up we left
the spot with a limit but only one was a good one. We arrived at our
other spot at about eleven o'clock, we knew we only had about three
hours to up grade. After making the first pass with no fish being
put in the boat Dan asked me "so where's the fish at" I
replied Game Plan they're still here (I hoped) we ended up only
catching a total of eleven fish that day but we weighed a whooping
fifteen pounds eight ounces good for First place!!!!!!!!!
March 13th, The day before the Team
Walleye Tournament held out of Barto Landing Spring Valley.
Starting the morning out Dan was to work the water around Henry,
Joby and I worked from Henipen to Spring Valley. The
first place we fished was the Henipen flats, we hadn't gone twenty
yards and putt a five pound two ounce sauger in the boat, I was
thinking to my self to bad I caught her today and not tomorrow.
After moving up river and fishing every spot that I new could hold
fish, we could not come up with a pattern the fish were scattered
from the fishing pressure. Dan and I talked that afternoon, he said
he had some fish going down stream. We came up with a game plan of
staying on one spot that was holding some two pound fish and after
putting five in the boat we would run. The day of the tournament we
had our limit by nine o'clock and then started running. The hole
time I was thinking it would be nice to have that five pounder in
the box. We ended up upgrading our five fish limit to tie for first
place with fourteen pounds seven ounces, not to shabby !!!!!!!!
You have to have a game plan,
and be able to stick with it. Your first choice is always the right
one. And because this circuit is a Team event you have to have Trust
in your partner and be able to communicate. If you don't have that
you might consider fishing by your self.
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