Amistad was fun but Stingy

My long time fishing partner Ronnie Wallace and I ventured to the Big Friendly for our 1st tourny of the year on Jan.16th.
Basschamps is the largest team fishing circuit in the country and with a guaranteed 1st place prize of $20,000. clams it makes your mouth water in excitement as does fishing against some of the most talented fisherman in the state of Texas. Ronnie and I took a year off fishing team tournys but are back and we took on the blue gin clear waters of Amistad in hopes of catching a big sack of fish.
The day started with a few clouds in the skys ,48degrees and light northwest winds. We ran up the Rio Grande arm of the lake to an area around Mile Marker 24 that we are very familiar with and have caught goods stringers before. Since we did not get to practice much at all we started with a spot we thaught we could get bit.
Starting witha DD-22 Crankbait we caught a nice 3 lber and thinking things were fxing to get good we chunked and cranked until are arms were sore. Ronnie picked up a Zoom Magnum finness worm Texas rigged and began filling out our stringer. We hit several spots that day but could not catch a good fish to our dissapointment. We caught about 3 limits of keepers but nothing better than 3 lbs. and ended up 66th place out of 201 teams. The Magnum finess worm caught most of our fish in depths of 15 to 30ft depths. near points and ledges that dropped into deep water. Keep this in mind when things get tough and nothing else seems to work. On Amistad this always works for me when I cant get any other baits to work.
See Ya on the Water