I fished a bass tournament once at Patoka Lake. I got to fish for free in that one but I had to provide a boat for a college student from Purdue's Bass Fishing Club. One of my frat brother's started the Purdue Bass Fishing Club a few years before this tournament.
We only caught one bass that day. Only fished for about half a day anyway and it was right after a cold front moved in. Bluebird skies and all. I worked my way out of the creek until we hit one of the bays in the creek with timber in it at it's mouth. We worked our way back into the creek a ways and veered to the left following the creek channel though the submerged timber. We caught on fish that was 1/2" short of the legal size and had to return it. When we got back we found out that a 6 lb small mouth had won the tournament. No one else even caught any fish. I felt good to know that we at least caught one fish and no one else caught any except for Ray and his 6 lb SM bass. We would have done much better but I had never fished Painter Creek Before and had just got my new Garmin GPS unit and was still trying to figure out how to use it properly. But it did help me find that creek channel in that bay.
We caught the bass on a spinner bait. The fish were all suspended in the timber that day.
Originally Posted by quack
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