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Fished the rollover event yesterday with Grant.  We were pretty jacked cause we had been on some good fish up the Colorado thanks to a little help from our buddy Jacky Roberts.  Anyhoo, the fish had been shallow in brush and around stumps and we had pretty good milk run worked out.  Even built a few new homes for 'em earlier in the week. 

Start the day on a lit boat dock up the river with flukes and a Caffeine Shad.  A few tugs, but no hook ups.  We tried a topwater plug and a buzzbait…not a ripple.  I picked up a KVD 2.5 square bill and started throwing on a clay/chunk rock transition next to a drain and caught two whites, then the same bite came a few casts later…or so I thought.   This time, the fish stayed down a bit longer before surfacing right at the boat and spitting the crank.  It had a huge head and pretty stout mid-section.  It was an easy 6 plus, maybe bigger.  We are sick at this point, because you don't get many bites like that on LT.

Fished on as the morning sun got up high, and started flipping the brush we had located previously.  Our key pile was more of a tree laydown with some small brush around it.  In about 5 minutes there, Grant caught a 4 pounder on a Mega Craw, and I caught a 2.75 on the square bill.  The whole while we were surrounded by surfacing gar all over the river bumping our lines and at times you could even feel your line go over their backs.  There must have been thousands of them around that bend of the river….crazy stuff.

The rest of the day we continued to flip.  Grant with the Mega Craw, and me with the E'gr Craw.  We caught a lot of fish, but the size wasn't there like it had been.  But we broke a lot of fish off.  Weird, like we were fishing in razor blades.  Set the hook, and no resistance, you'd just have your line surgically sliced several feet up your leader.  Could have been the gar?  Who knows.  

Didn't appear to be any current to speak of, which I think explains why they weren't as  tight to cover or apt to bite.  

Ended up losing the 4 pounder during the day, but it was our biggest in the bag.  We culled a few times in the afternoon.  With the penalty probably had 12 pounds, maybe a little more.  Didn't weigh because it wouldn't have mattered.  Coulda, woulda, shoulda, but if we'd landed the big girl that bit the crank and/or the one that peeled Grant's drag for a bit who knows.  Our small was a two pounder, so one or both of those would have greatly enhanced the bag.  Still wouldn't have beat beat Lee and Charles I don't think, but might have given the money a good run. 

That's fishing…kinda getting tired of saying that though.  Really sux more when you put in the time we did for this one.  Oh well, you live to fight another day I suppose. 

Congrats to Lee and Charles!  Also, to Dale and Jake for an awesome near twenty pound bag good for second, and to Dan Taylor who pulled off a nice third place bag solo!!

Thanks especially to all that fished the Travis Tuesday nighters with us.  We'll start again before you know it!