The weekend before this tournament Mike Juskiewicz and I headed out to Paynesville,MN to pre-fish lake Koronis, the two of us were paired together for this one. A we put the boat in the water we decided to start out on some of the obvious looking spots, since neither one of us has fished here before. I was told that there is a good population of smallmouth bass as well great largemouth fishing. as we fished main points,bays and Islands we proceeded to catch some real good largie's and I also pulled in a 3lb+ Smallie and Mike had a big one follow his lure back to the boat. As we ended the day we discussed what we had found and came to the conclusion that we both had good 5 fish limits mine would have weighed 16 to 17lbs, only every good fish we caught were spread out and I don't think we caught two good ones in the same spot they were with the smaller ones. 

    Thursday morning on my way up to the motel that the renegade Bassers were staying at for the weekend I stopped at Lake Koronis to check on the few good spots that Mike and I had found just to see if they were still there, and try and make a discission on where we were going to start on Sunday morning. Well the fish were still biting so I went to see if I can find a new spot or two, and man did I find one! it was a subtle submerged rounded weed point. As I tossed my jig around the outside edge a fish smoked my lure hard, as I fought and landed the  4lb largemouth I hurried up and released her and fired right back and before my jig hit bottom in 9ft of water I got smoked again and this one was all of 3lbs so I hit the waypoint button on my Lowrance and got the hell out of there and went to check in to the motel.
    well it's Sunday morning now and I'm pretty jacked up for the day, we all are now at the landing and ready for the day to start. As Mike and I are flying across the lake and near our starting spot I slow the Mercury to an idle and kill the motor and jump up to the front of the boat drop the Minn-Kota into the water all in one motion. I grabbed my jig rod with a Outkast RT jig tied on and began casting and after about ten minutes with not even a bite I start having bad thoughts going through my mind and this is what I have been working on this year, in the past I have let this kind of thinking take over and it just makes for a long miserable day because then you start getting pissed when things don't go the way you hoped, and I don't know about you but I found out I make bad decisions when pissed off. So I pushed the bad thoughts out of my mind and got my focus back and then it happened, i made a cast and before my jig hit bottom it was crushed and I hammered it home and Mike was netting a good 3lb Largie and I quickly put it in the livewell and fired another cast to the same spot and it happened again with a identical sized fish and over the next few minutes I put two more of about 2lbs into the well. Mike and I moved further down the weedbreak as the action had slowed here as there was weeds floating on the surface from the fighting of fish so I would let the spot cool down for a bit. Mike threw his texas rigged tube craw way up onto the weed flat and set the hook on a 2lb largemouth so we worked this spot over for a good ten minutes with no more fish landed. I turned the boat back around and fished our way back to the spot and as we got near I felt the tick of a fish and wrenched in a 2+lb Smallie to round out my limit in the first 45 minutes of the morning.
    Made a move to another spot that Mike and I caught quite a few fish from in practice and He caught three more decent keepers, We then hit a different spot,nothing and back to the magic spot  and Mike hooks up with a pig and I net a 4lb'er for him to finish his limit and he says that is the fastest he has ever caught a limit in all the club tournaments he has fished, man we were pumped and we decided to keep on the move and go Hawg hunting and try to upgrade our limits. We both caught numerous fish all over the lake but nothing to help too much maybe a few oz. here and there, next thing Mike and realize is it's time to head in and weigh our fish. 1st place goes to Steve Oswald with 15.82lbs of nice Smallie's way to go Ozzy.                       1st    Steve Oswald    15.82    
                                     2nd  John Pozarski    13.78
                                     3rd   Daryl Larson      13.17
                                     4th   Nick Madison    12.71
                                   out of 14 anglers
    In conclusion to the day I am pretty satisfied with what went down, first I over came the bad thoughts and got results in my fish biting and second of all had a blast with my buddy Mike Juskiewicz, he always has me laughing and last of all I am sitting in a good position for AOL with a 4th,5th and 4th for the year.