This past weekend my Dad an I fished our clubs tournament over in western Wisconsin on Balsam Lake. It's an interesting fishery with a ton of fish, but not a whole lot of size to go with it. Temps were hovering around 90 during the day with little wind and the bass were post spawn, but not far enough to really be schooled up out deep. We caught most of our keepers in grass flats between 5-8' deep on wacky rigs. Fishing shallower or deeper still resulted in fish, but they were little ones. Over the course of the day we only managed to catch 7 keepers out of the 50-60 fish we caught. Our biggest came off a small piece of structure we hadn't prefished and I didn't even realize was there until we passed it running to our first spot. Overall it was a fun day, and at the end of it we ended up weighing 10.26 with our best 5. Despite the measly weight, we ended up finishing in the money in 9th place. 

 

 

 

I won a club tournament several years ago on a lake with a 12" minimum.  I had the only 5 bass limit...it weighed 6.2lbs.  Has to be some sort of record.

18 hours ago, KP Duty said:

I won a club tournament several years ago on a lake with a 12" minimum.  I had the only 5 bass limit...it weighed 6.2lbs.  Has to be some sort of record.

Haha that's impressive right there, I would think it would be some sort of record. I don't know the details of the tournament, but it was one of the big bass format they scheduled down on a lake in Florida with a slot limit. Nobody caught one bigger than the slot, so it turned into a tournament of catching the heaviest 14 incher!