Congratulations to the top performers in this tournament, Matt & Al with 29.66 lb, Butch & Larry with 24.27 and Davis & Spera with 21.61lbs. Fantastic effort! As for Max and me, it was good team effort. Unfortunately, this was only my third time on Liberty this year and the second for Max. This put us at a big disadvantage, as the vegetation has changed a lot since last year. We were fortunate to have a small limit before 7:30 AM. It’s interesting how an early limit changes ones fishing perspective, allowing us to fish very hard but in a more focused and un-rushed manner than if we were chasing a limit all day. The bite slowed dramatically for us by 10:00 AM, but we fished our plan and made some adjustments throughout the day, leading to Max catching two good upgrades. We had our final 8 fish, 18.26 lbs, limit at 12:30 PM, with two small (easily upgradeable) fish in the livewell and 3.5 hours to fish. Unfortunately, there were no upgrades to be found. Finish place was 9th. Team Marchant & Marchant has a lot of room for improvement, but Fishing MRA helps us enormously. We look forward to future tournaments.
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Hi Walt. Once again thanks
Hi Walt. Once again thanks for your campaign updates! What a strange tournament day. I thought the bite would be off (it was for me lol) due to the conditions,moon, recent cool weather, and little wind forecast. In the morning while checking in, Chad said it would take 29lbs to win the tournament and I'm thinking yeah right! Boy he was dead on. I was able to fish all of the spots I wanted to with no pressure but the fish just we're not there! I even left them alone last week. So I guess it was a tough day,but not for most of the other teams! I would have been thrilled with a 18lb.bag of fish for the day so congrats on that as well. See you on the water!
It was a strange day.
It was a strange day.
A lot of us had great practices and high expectations, but couldn't achieve the same results in the tournament. We had a lure and presentation that yielded a 22+ pound bag in practice. That lure didn’t catch a fish on tourney day. I hope readers of the campaign blog realize that this blog is intended as a window into the efforts of a novice team. Hopefully it will help readers who are considering tournament fishing understand that they too can compete. It has taken time for Max and me to feel some level of confidence in competing. It will take a lot more time before we achieve our goals. However, we believe that applying effort and being open to learning will yield success. My hope is that MRA gains some new friends and members as people begin to understand who MRA is, through communications posted on our web site. Thanks to you, Craig, Ian and all of the other regular contributors to the web site.
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