Even with the problems we had a great tournament, as usual. The Flint River, Spalding County and Potato Creek clubs go every October and many of us stay for most of the week, camping or renting cabins. In two days the 28 members fished 17 hours and landed 213 keepers weighing 279.47 pounds.

On Saturday I won with a five fish limit weighing 9.79 pounds, Tom Tanner was second with five at 9.54 pounds, Lee Hancock placed third with a limit weighing 9.31 pounds and had big fish at 3.26 pounds and Brent Terry was fourth with five qt 8.62 pounds. We had 22 limits that day.

On Sunday we fished only seven hours but there were still 11 limits brought to the scales. Bobby Ferris blew us all away with five at 12.01 pounds and his 4.06 pound largemouth was big fish, Niles Murray was second with five at 8.79 pounds, my five at 7.66 pounds was good for third and Raymond English was fourth with five at 6.61 pounds.

As expected there were many more spotted bass than largemouth weighed in. On Saturday there were only 18 largemouth and Sunday there were nine largemouth, so 27 of the 213 fish were largemouth.

Spots are great fun to catch and pull hard, much harder than largemouth, but are usually smaller. I had a spot and a largemouth just under three pounds each on Saturday and the spot felt twice as strong as the largemouth. And another three pound spot on Sunday almost took the rod away from me.

Martin would be a great trip this fall but be aware of the rules at Wind Creek if you plan on camping.