Traditionally the Norway Cup for our bass league was the last event of the season and had a very high turnout. Last year only 9 boats showed up for it. So when my dad and I took over we thought putting the Cup the first night of the season might get a better turnout and this year it did. We had 19 teams competing this evening. The Cup is a little different from a normal league night in that the entry fee is doubled and 2 big bass spots are paid instead of just one. It's more money to enter but it's also more to be won. Tonight first place with 19 boats was worth $200.
The league rules have always been, 3 hours of fishing and you weigh in your best 3 fish for the night. Tonight everyone caught their 3 fish limit including my dad and I. Unfortunately our limit of 3 fish for 6.52 lbs was one of the lowest of the night. I'm not sure where we place but it was way down there. Overall the weights were tight though. First place was 8.92 lbs, 2nd was 8.86 lbs, 3rd was 8.84 lbs and 4th was 8.32 lbs. Congratulations to all the winners.
I knew we could catch all the 2 to 2 1/2 pounders we wanted fishing shallow reeds like most everyone else but an event like this with no point standings you just have to go for the win so thats what we did. We started shallow on some docks that traditionally hold some big fish but there was nothing there. We then headed out deeper on a point near those docks but struck out again. We finally put a fish in the boat on a Red Eye Shad in some shallow weeds but it was just a small one. After that we headed to our deep stuff on Games Lake. We put 2 small ones in the boat pretty quick but then the action died. We hit a few other spots and went back to the deep stuff and I stuck our big fish on a Rapala DT 14. It should have been a 4 pounder but it was so skinny and beat up from spawning it ended up weighing only a little over 3 lbs. That made us stick to that spot pretty much the rest of the night but there were no other takers.
Even though we bombed tonight I really don't feel too bad about it. We were fishing for the win and sometimes you strike out when you do that. Catching the good one really kind of hurt us in a way because it made us stick to that when it probably wasn't the best thing to do (even though I probably wouldn't do anything differently anyway.) I already knew we were fishing for just a few fish that might be out deep. Since the spring has been so cold most have not made it out that far yet, but for league we only need 3. In another week or 2 those post spawners will start stacking up on that deep stuff but tonight it wasn't meant to be. Most boats talked about catching a lot of fish tonight but we didn't. That doesn't matter either. Theres been many nights were I think my dad and I have caught the fewest fish of any other team but still won. Numbers don't matter, weight does. Hopefully tomorrow night will turn out better for us.
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