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Monday, April 18, 2005

Lake Buchanan Texas Classic Bass Club April Tournament

TCBCApril 2005 Lake Buchanan April 16, 2005 6AM- 4 PM

I fished with Bill Wells in our Texas Classic Bass Club tournament over the weekend. It was a great day to be on the lake, couldn't have asked for better weather conditions. We started the morning off by motoring over to a little cut near the dam and caught our first two keepers on back to back casts on senkos at 6:30 AM. Bills fish had to be the shortest, 14 inch fish I've ever put in the live well, meaning you really had to compress the tail to get it to stretch hehe. The fish I caught on the next cast was 15 1/2 inches and made us feel pretty good about how the day was about to go. There were shad about 4 inches long numbing in the thousands along the banks in a foot or less of water in the area we were fishing. At times they would bunch up and flip out on to dry land they were so frenzied and it would sound like rain hitting the surface of the water. We caught a number of short fish chasing the shad on senkos before the bite died. The senkos we were throwing were watermelon/red and watermelon/white lam. Sometime after 6:30 and before 10:30 I caught another 15 1/2 fish on a chrome/ blue rat-l-trap and Bill put another 14 inch bass in the live well on that watermelon/red senko. At 10:30 We packed up and headed out to the big rocky point on the West side of the lake and fished it, Bill caught a short fish on a crank bait just after I dropped the trolling motor. I missed a fish on a senko, think it was probably an aggressive perch looking back. I took my boat through one of deeper gaps on the point and caught a 19 inch striper with the rat-l-trap. On Bill's next cast after I boated the striper, he caught a 14 inch bass on his crank bait. We were pretty excited to have finished out our 5 fish limit, even if it was tiny.

We fished the point a little longer and I caught a 6 inch bass on a 4 inch senko, hehe. That fish hit harder than any of the bass we'd caught all day. We loaded up and went to Silver creek and fished wood cover and cliffs only to pick up a few more short fish and kill a lot of time. At 2:00 we went to a spot I can only describe as "The Wall." We caught several fish off the wall, including one 14 inch fish that culled out the little squeaker caught early in the AM. We called it a day and headed to Blackrock park for the weigh-in at 3:30.

The day in review:

We caught 6 keepers with the 5 largest weighing, 6.94 lbs, total fish caught was somewhere between 15 and 20. We had one 19 inch striper and 1 small hybrid as well. Other guys in the club reported catching striper and cat fish as well so it seems everything was biting well on Saturday. Full tournament results are below.




Tournament results: 41 fish weighed in for 80.60 pounds Average weight per fish 1.97 pounds
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 75F winds S 5-10 MPHWater Conditions: Temperature 65-70F, clear


April 16, 2005 Results from Buchanan are at:
http://www.tcbc.net/results/apr05.htm
Current Standings are at:
http://www.tcbc.net/standings/standings05.htm
Current Weights and Big Bass are at:
http://www.tcbc.net/standings/weights05.htm

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