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Those are all very helpful. I guess another quetion Is why were the buck bass up the creeks feeding, I know the females haven't spawned because water temp was only 57-60 degrees we didn't catch one fish under three pounds in pre fishing. I guess it all comes down to I should have spent more time on the water to find a secondary bite

Well my dad and i got into a team tournament series on grand lake and eufala lake, are last tournament was on eufala. Going into to the tournament we felt pretty confident from what we found in practice. We found an early shallow water bite that produced some nice bass, but as my luck would go we had a coldfront come in the day before the ttournament, the air temp dropped about ten degrees but the water back in the creeks stayed the same. So we fished all of those areas thinking since the water temp didn't drop are fish will bite. Well that wasn't the case the only bites we got were six short fish, caught em on everything we threw in pre fishing. Where did the big prespawn females go? I am new to tournament fishing and would like to start doin better than I have in the last two tournaments. If anyone has any suggestions or tips I would greatly appreciate it.