CLEARLAKE, CA!  (Just joking about the thread title. 9 fish isn’t a clinic)

Today was stunning.  Weather was clear and calm.  Hurricane H is down the road, so I watched the sky.  Lake-Water is hot, and there was a major bass tournament. The boats were ripping past like it was a race.  Epic in sound and visuals.    I got a fish quickly while I waited for my friend to…. “evacuate his innards” 

 

then we went straight to our point.  It was surrounded by boats. 15 boats!  We hung outside and I started catching.  The boats heard the ruckus and moved deeper.  So we went shallower.  I ended with 9 good fish.   When a bass bites, the wind and fish moves us off our spot.  Buy the time you net the fish and look up, we’ve moved a long ways.  The boats would nuzzle in. Haha.  Whatever.   Is it a rule that they can’t get tips while in a tournament?  They never asked, and I kept my bait obscured.   My last fish hit hard and I exclaimed, “oh my…what is this?”   (Kinda loud).

 

im gonna search out tournament results. I think I was a contender. Hehe. 
 

 

Nice ones 

Nicely Done ~

Congrats

A-Jay

You caught some good ones.

Awesome when that happens.  2 years ago we were slamming smallmouth on Lake St Clair close to an area called Metro Beach.  Just so happened there was a kayak tournament going out of a launch at that beach.  Every time we would boat a fish, it was like a cloud of gnats encircled us.  ? Orange flags would descend on us in a swarm.  Didn’t bother us in the slightest.  We understand they were very limited on where they could go and we had the entire lake. 

Yep, you put on a clinic. 

 

I've been swarmed a few times in my life. I've even had boats troll around me.

Nice fish @Darth-Baiter some people can’t stand when your catch and they’re not.

Very nice @Darth-Baiter. Congrats. I've actually gotten to the point where I kinda enjoy when someone cuts me off on a bank or encroaches on me. I normally come out on top in those situations. 

Congrats! That's a clinic I would have liked to observed. 

Great report! Those are the best kind of days!