The Eyes Have It Team

                        2008

Cadillac

Lake Cadillac is not our favorite lake and after last weekends three tournaments and all the regular fishers, we thought for sure the bite was going to be tough. We kept a positive attitude and had a great night, we had quite a few keepers with 4 fish over 3#. I caught our Big Bass for the night a 3.47 #, which was Big enough to take first. We are in the Classic and pressure is off, at least as far as making sure were in the Classic. Now we can just fish, slow down our presentation and catch fish. Of course Senko's were the lure of choice, hard to try new things when you have one that's working. There were 37 boats in the first tournament, 30 of the boats caught fish, 74.02#, a very good night of fishing. Rose Lake is the next tournament and were hoping to do it again. We are going to be able to practice for this one and we will be trying the new lures we need to test.

Jolynn, with our winning 3.47# Largemouth.

Rose Lake

I caught our keeper for the night, a 2.93# Largemouth. Not a bad fish, but on Rose Lake you need bigger to hold your place in the standings. There were a lot of nice fish taken, most were caught up close, we stayed out on the sunken islands and battled the winds. Senko's again were our lure of choice, but with it as windy as it was, fishing Senko's is tough, we both caught a keeper, tough night for us. We dropped to fourth in he standings, but everyone is real close, looking to be an exciting year. Missaukee is next and from what we seen last year, there should be some good fish caught next week.

Missaukee

Tonight didn't go as well as we had planned, the night started with our big motor not starting, so we were faced with Lake Missaukee, wind and only the trolling motor. We didn't  get to far from the Launch and did manage to get a 1.99# for the night, Jolynn caught our keeper this week. We both caught plenty of fish, but couldn't get any monsters to bite. We did hold our fourth place position in the standings, so all worked out good enough, for what we had to work with.

Chippewa

Once again we were without our big motor, with only the trolling motor its tough out there. Of course it was windy and a very tough night of fishing for all. There were 39 boats tonight and only 23 caught fish. I caught our keeper for the night, a 1.73#. Wasn't the monster we wanted but we went from fourth to second place in the standings, because there were not many big fish caught. The pike terrorized us all night long, we lost a lot of baits and caught quite a few small pike.

Cadillac

Started off the night thinking we were going to be using the trolling motor again, our boat would not start. Maybe I flooded it, not sure but about an hour into the tournament, Jolynn says, I'm going to start the big motor, she tried it and it started. Turned the night around, I ended up getting our keeper for the night, a 2.46#. We both caught keepers tonight, even with all the wind. We dropped to third in the standings and away from first a little more, but the lakes coming up should get us back up there.

Martiny

What a night, storms went through for three hours before the tournament, with lightning and torrential rains. It calmed down long enough for everyone to get their boats in and start the tournament. Then it started up again, just a little lighting, but the rains pounded us for the first two hours of the tournament. Fishing was very tough, there were 31 boats only 14 caught a keeper for the night. We had a good night, we both caught keepers, Jo's fish was a nice 2.80#, which we would have settled for, but we didn't have to because I caught our big fish for the night, a 3.48#, which was good enough for second for the night. This moved us into second in the standings, only 1.60# out of first and 2.06 in front of third. Next week is Rose Lake which is our favorite lake and our favorite time of the year, we should be able get a Hawg and move up. Yes Senko's were the bait to get us our fish tonight.

Rose Lake