Clearwater Lake
                                                                            Fishers of Men

                                                                           JUNE 4^TH,2011

            Well it’s the first tournament of the year for me and it’s a team tournament on Clearwater Lake near Annandale, MN. My teammate for this is Daryl Larson whom is a friend from my bass club the Renegade Bassers, we both got out and pre-fished at different times but by know means either of us had any stellar results, I did have one pretty good day out practicing with a new fishing friend Jenny Fisk we caught them pretty good up shallow on Secret Lures MVP swimjigs the weekend before. So it’s the   morning now and Daryl and I decided we would start on Daryl’s best spot since we had a takeoff number towards the end of the pack and his spot was fairly close to where we took off from. It’s finally our turn to takeoff  so we get going to the area Daryl pointed too on the GPS and as I start to slow down as we near it Daryl say’s this doesn’t look right and he tells me to head farther down the lake, I finally kill the Mercury in the area and drop the trolling motor in and fire a cast out with a Leena Lures UnRaveller spinnerbait on to cover some water and try and pick up some quick fish. We both were mixing it up pretty good but could not get bit at all so we finally decided to start moving and hitting areas that we both had and man we were struggling bad. I finally said lets make a run and see if my swimjig spot was any good, we get there and start fishing through the broken reed clumps over the flat and haulwater just as I am ready to bail on it I get hammered and flip a keeper into the boat and then fired right back out and caught another and another then shortly another and that’s it for there, 4 keeper fish in less then 10min’s I told Daryl I had another spot very similar to this one not far from here. As we hit the next area we fish it hard but catch nothing and now we make another move and finally pick up or 5^th keeper and a few small upgrades on Rapala Clackin Raps but we are out of time and need to head back for the weigh in. We got back to the crowded beach in front of the resort and had to wait which seemed like forever when we just wanted to weigh our fish for the points on the circuit and get out of there. Out of 50 boats we came in 46^th place with our 5 best weighing 9.72lb’s of largemouth bass, very crappy finish to start the year off but as always Daryl and I had a great time fishing together,we just need too put in more work practicing harder and better and I think we can become a pretty good team.