Had my first tournament, buddy tournament, of the year on sunday and caught 3 fish. The main approach i used was slow rolling a lipless crankbait. Water temp was 55 in the main lake and 58-60 in the coves and creek channel. I would have loved to jig but considering we had 25-30 mph south wind gusts all day it was pretty hard to keep the boat straight. There was only one team that had caught a limit that weighed in at 7.75 lbs. There also was another team that did weigh in 4 but had a few 3#ers. Me and my partner focused mainly on the points and shoreline that were getting blasted with the wind. We did try the coves and the creek channel but remember on a 350 acre lake and 12 boats fishing the prime spots are picked through pretty good. I did try jigging but it was almost annoying trying to focus on the line and the boat at the same time. If anyone has suggestions i have open ears, thanks jim.

Congrats on your first tournament.

Just fish the bodies of water as you would fish them on any day.

The secret is to reatin your concentration during tournaments, especially when fishing is slow, due to the number of hours you have to fish.

You also do more homework before heading out.

And sometimes you do well and sometimes you don't.

thanks i tried do as much homework as possible had some strategies and some patterns i would have love to tried but the wind was too furocious! thanks