July 12, 2008 Tournament on Lake Austin

The club fished Lake Austin from 4:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday, July 12th.  Even though the common "myth" is that very few fish are caught the last couple of hours before daylight, almost all the teams caught their keepers before 6:00 a.m.

Don Steussy and Keith Balkisson figure them out, to catch fish all morning long, winning the tournament with a limit of 5 fish that weighed 18.30 lbs.

(Don with his 18+ pound limit)

All of their fish were caught on a swimbait around some "do nothing" docks.  These docs had no grass, no deep water; nothing but sand (from what I understand).

Second place went to the team of Rick Trussell and John Hackney, with a total of 3 fish that weighed 12.34 lbs.  That was helped out by the monster that Rick caught early in the morning on a jig that weighed 8.20 lbs, easliy moving into first place for Big Bass of the Year.

Good job everyone!  (Now that I think about it, I'd wished we'ed have gotten photos of the snapping turtle that ate my fluke.)