West Central Bass League - Solomon Lake

The first night of the Thursday edition of the West Central Bassmasters league took place last night on Solomon Lake. Solomon is known as a lake that kicks out numbers of quality fish and it showed again last night. Quite a few teams struggled but the weights at the top of the leaderboard were very solid. With 18 teams competing 4 spots were paid. 1st place went to "Superstar" fishermen Grant King and Tim Stockland with a 3 fish limit weighing 10.50 lbs. 2nd place went to David & Daniel with 10.37 lbs. 3rd went to Todd & Jeff with 10.26 lbs and 4th went to Dean & JD with 9.78 lbs. There was a tie for big fish by David & Daniel and Todd & Jeff. Those fished weighed in at 4.19 lbs apiece. My dad and I were out of sync all night and ended up with 3 fish weighing 7.83 lbs which was good enough for 7th place.

We wanted to start our night on a point in a slough area but we had a poor start number and ended up following another boat into the slough. They headed straight for the point and we had to go to some secondary areas. They were still within view though and it turns out there were no fish left on the point anyway. There were no fish in our areas either so we quickly moved to the second stop which was a mix of bullrushes and reeds. I boated one close to 3 lbs on a black/red flake Berkley Chigger Craw on my first cast. We continued along the reeds and ended up catching close to 10 fish but nothing over 3 lbs. All of those fish came on Chigger Craws and hematoma Sweet Beavers. After the action slowed we moved to an area with several fallen trees where we upgraded slightly. At this point it was about half way through the night and we never boated another keeper the rest of the evening.