My husband (fishing cowboy) and  I fish a local club (Weekend Warriors) once a month and the lake is randomly drawn the morning of the tournament, and you must stay in that particular lake. This month was Lake Kissimmee  and it was held yesterday. We caught our first 5 limit by 8 am and were pretty happy about that.(no excemptions)Then hubby catches two 7 lbers back to back casts using a senko in the lily's. We were totally excited about that,but figured if as usual, we were catching them, so was everyone else in the club.  It was hitting mid 90 degrees and the air was so heavy, it was just stifling. I wear long sleeve UV clothing, gloves, big hat, and a buff. my face still gets bright red from the heat. It was so hot some of the guys told me later, they even dipped there shirts in the lake to try and cool off.  

 

 We managed to cull 2 more of the 14" minimum fish we had with a 2 and 3 lber. That left one 14" to try and upgrade. We were pretty sure we would move up in the standings from 11th. We called the tournament director to verify the 22" rule,and I'm sure he looked at his partner and wondered what was going on, because we've never weighed in one fish over 22" in a tournament.  With just 15 minutes left before the 2 pm weigh in,I catch one on a lipless crankbait and was hoping it was a short 3 lber at least. Instead, it was the biggest fish in my life!!! We were celebrating  that  big old gal and realized........

 

 " We have to cull a 7 lber!"  We just couldn't believe we had caught 3 big fish on a hot, dog days of summer.

We were one of the last teams to weigh in and it took both of us to carry the bag to the weigh in.  I'll never forget hearing one of the guys sitting there, " oh that doesn't look  good at all".  Several even got up to see us pulling the fish out of the bag.

 

 

We won 1st place with 22lbs and my big gal, caught in the last 15 minutes won big fish. We moved up in standings to a tie for 4th.

Congrats on the PB, the win and a great story.

Congrats on the win and new pb.

Way to go! Awesome story and congrats!

Congratulations, on the win and those beautiful fish.

Congratulations. Thanks for the story!

What was the big girls weight since you had to get rid of a 7lber?

The colors on that largemouth are beautiful!

Great story! Congrats on the win and PB.

Congrats on the win, what did second place weigh in at?

Those are some awesome fish!

Congrats on the win, and the new PB!

Wow. Congrats to both of you!!

Jeff

Oh, I did forget to put the weights in..oops.

 

The big girl and personal best was 7.46 lbs. The one my husband has weighed in at 7.27 lbs. The one we released weighed 7 lbs. Our total weight was 22lbs. We were ahead of 2nd place by 7 lbs. We won $250 for 1st and big fish put another $120.00 in for us and moved us 112 points to 4th place in standings so far this year.

Wow,  Thats awesome!!  Congrats.

Congrats, on both