First off I have to apologize for not staying up to date with the blog, I know how much all you readers look forward to reading it   LOL. Seriously though I joined a new MN B.A.S.S. club this is the first year of the RENEGADE BASSERS 2010 and are first Tournament was held on Medicine Lake in Plymouth,MN on Saturday June,12th I was paired with Brian Burandt but unfortunately he could not make it to this one. My practice can be summed up as bad,the weekend before the tournament I made it out there and must have thrown everything in my boat at the fish and came away with nothing but a few fish that would of kept and the water temp plus water color. It's now the day before the tournament and I really need to figure something out so I head to Medicine in hopes of putting a game plan together. Well it is hot and sunny out just like last weekend and the fishing was not much better but I did find two separate shallow weedlines. At the first of the two weedlines I had a nice fish follow a Booyah Boogie bait back to the boat and then a couple of casts later I caught a 14" bass along same weedline which was in about 3 feet of water,the thing I liked about this is it was out a ways from shore so I figured it may see less pressure from all the bankbeaters. The second spot was very similar to the other one and had baitfish flipping along it so I picked up my spinnerbait rod with a 3/8oz Leena Lures spinnerbait(white) and I caught two keepers in short order so I called it the day and went home and prepared my gear for tomorrow.
    Woke up to very overcast and cold temps,man complete opposite of both my practice days. I had drawn last boat for take-off and proceeded to my first area and it began raining almost immediately,well I picked up spinnerbait rod and started to fire casts out along the shallow weedline and on the 5th or 6th one my spinnerbait just got smoked as I hammered the hook home I realized that this was a good fish, sure hope it's a bass and not pike! a couple more cranks on the Abu Garcia Revo STX and I see a bass roll and then come up and wallow by the side of the boat and as I slide the net under the bass I realize I 5 minutes in and I already have 4lb's whew now thats the way to start a day. Ok from that first good fish to the end of the day through a constant cold rain I caught fish after fish but none even close to that 4lb'er. I bet I caught 30 pike and some good ones too and probably 20 bass all on a spinnerbait, granted I had to change out 3 or 4 of them from getting twisted to hell but when catching that many fish it's going to happen. 
    It's now time to head in and see how I did, I'm thinking I have about 11lb's maybe 11-1/2 but thinking if I caught them this good the others must have to because the guys in this club are good sticks. I was right Guy Knudson weighed in 15.04 pounds for the win John Pozarski weighed in 13.50 for third place and big bass with 5.01 pig, oh I was pretty dead on with me weight prediction as I weighed 11.06 for 4th place. To be honest I am very OK with this because in the past I have been known to bomb in the first tournaments of the year so maybe were turning that around