My buddy and I fished a bass tournament near Grand Rapids MN (not on Pokegama) yesterday. We started on a shallow largemouth bite but it wasn't on. So we switched to fishing a couple deep reefs with tubes. He caught a three pound smallmouth followed by a three pound largemouth. A little bit later I caught a largemouth just under 4 pounds and then hooked into a pig smallmouth. The fight was intense on the 10 lb spinning tackle. He tried jumping twice and I had my rod tip about 5 feet under water to prevent it lol! We got him in the net.
He would end up weighing 4.90 pounds! After it slowed down for a while we made a move. We found a school of baitfish surfacing near a deep shelf. I hooked into a three plus lb smallmouth on a crankbait. He made a couple bitlg runs but eventually we got him a couple cranks from the net. We could see he was barely skin hooked. Tragically, the bait and fish separeted, and he slowly sank back down to the abyss.
I ended up catching one more largemouth flipping a reed edge. My buddy lost two other smallmouth. We ended up weighing in 5 fish for 17.9 pounds. Unfortunately it was a six fish limit and we didn't have a complete bag. Winner was a hair over 20 pounds for six fish. If only we landed one of the three lost, we might have won the whole thing. Oh well, that's tournament fishing.
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Ah, thats a big one alright! Sweet!!!!!!! 
