We pulled into our spot on the river at 6:15 Am, my partner caught a 17 inch striper on his first cast, I followed that up with an 18 incher on my first cast.
Two minutes into fishing the tournament and we already had two keepers in the boat! Figured we were going to wear the fish (and the other contestants) out.
Turns out we wouldn't put another fish in the box for 7 hours!
I never caught another fish in 10 hours. My partner boated some more small hybrids.
Two hours left in the tournament we moved closer to the weigh-in spot and Mike caught a nice 7.36 hybrid and then a little later he caught a 4.8 hybrid, giving us a little over 12 lbs, good enough for third.
The two stripers we caught at first were our only stripers of the day.
One boat caught a 20+ lb striper for big fish and to win the tournament. Their only other fish was a four lb hybrid.
One boat did catch a 13+ lb hybrid.
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