FLW BFL, A Role Reversal, Boater Bob 1 And Co-Angler Will 5

Mouth of Glaze to 10mm fishing morning shade, late morning and afternoon shallow docks and brush piles.

Today was my first tournament fishing as a boater on Lake of the Ozarks. I felt well prepared as I had good days practicing on Tuesday and Wednesday, but the buzz bait bite and shallow dock bite was a bit slower on Thursday and Friday. However, I still had confidence in the patterns to get 5 good bites. After about an hour or so, the buzz bait had only produced 3 small not keeper Kentuck’s, so we swithed up to main points deep prior to hitting the shallow docks. No bites on the points, then we went to my first set of docks, which I had 6 bites on Wednesday, we had no bites, then our next row of docks also produced no bites on about the first 6 of 12 docks, so I decided to skip a bunch of them and go to the last two docks and if we did not get bit, I was ready to abandon that plan in favor of deep points and brush. However, our fate was sealed after I caught a 5 pounder (4lb 11oz) and then will caught a 4 pounder on those last two docks. So off to another set of docks we went, but stopped to hit some brush piles first, Will caught 2 12″ keeper Kentucky’s on the brush, we did not get bit at all on the next two stretches of docks, other than Will getting another 12″ keeper Kentucky. With time winding down, I had 1 and Will had 4, I put Will on some brush piles in the Glaze and he caught a keeper to finish his limit. Will qualified for Sunday’s with 9 pounds and finished 4th on the co-angler side, I finished 58th out of 105 with that one big fish. I qualified to serve donuts n coffee at take off Sunday and do some fun fishing. My brother Dave fished as a co-angler and finished in the top 20 so he fished on Sunday and cashed a check. Several of the Bassing Bob expert advisors finished in the top 20 and cashed checks, James Dill, Wayne Fitzpatrick, Roger Fitzpatrick and Dennis Berehorst (3rd place). Dion Hibdon won tournament reportedly fishing brush piles up the river. Denise Dill, BB woman’s expert, qualified for the second day and finished in the top 20 and cashed a check.