Hello everyone,
 I signed up for this tournament as a pro without a linked non-boater,if your linked you are guaranteed to be a boater well as luck would have it I got paired with another pro his name is Art Smith,and at the pre tournament meeting I could have sworn that they said the first called in a pro-pro situation was was guaranteed boater and that was me little did I know that I was suppose to share spots and front of boat so it got alittle ugly and real quite about 5 hours into the day.
 We started the morning on my first spot throwing rattle traps to pick up a quick limit before going after some bigger fish,I had 4 bass between 12"-14" and I think Art had a fish or two of the same small size and it just died so I made the decision to move to a big main lake point and do some crankbaiting and 5 minutes into it I hooked into a real nice fish on a RAPALA DT 10 (bluegill) we got it in the net and I was pumped a pig at 4lb's nice to get a kicker fish to fill out a limit with lots of time left to upgrade the other runts, we both ended up getting a few more fish and I think I only got alittle help from one. Art told me he had a spot nearby that he said he did good on earlier in the week so we went there and fished jigs in the cabbage beds,he picked up a nice 2lber and then a 2 1/2 a bit later and that was it,we worked the area hard to no avail probley stayed way to long but I think I was trying to will a nice fish into the boat. we then moved to main lake lake flat with scattered weed clumps,we were back to trowing traps it was pretty windy and Art hooked up with a big fish that he fought up near the boat when it turned and pulled off looked like about 4lbs and would have really helped his day but I think it took the wind out of his sail so to speak that was it out here and time  is running out so we move to a wind blown shoreline weedbed and fish this for awhile with zero takers it is time to head in soon and on one of my last casts of the day I hook a 3+lber on the end of the cast and make 5 turns of the reel handle and it launches out of the water and throws my lure go figure that sure would have made my day respectable. At weigh in ART weighs 9.91lbs and finishes 22nd while I weigh only 8.71 for 35th, I would like to congradulate Robert Perkins on the win with 12.68lbs.