Last Sunday 11 members of the Spalding County Sportsman Club fished our January tournament at Lake Sinclair.  After eight hours we brought 21 keeper bass to the scales weighing about 27 pounds.   There was one five-bass limit and two people didn’t have a keeper.

Jay Gerson had the limit and it weighed 7.11 pounds for first place and his 2.94 pound largemouth was big fish.  Raymond English had four weighing 4.77 pounds for second and third was Robert Proctor with three weighing 3.28 pounds. Kwong Yu’s two weighing 2.86 pounds was fourth, beating my one at 2.52 pounds that gave me fifth place.

After catching four keepers the week before in the Potato Creek tournament I had some hope, but those four were on no pattern, just one here and there.  Will Mcclean fished with me, joining this club as well as the Flint River club, and we started trying to hook a fish after a very cold run first thing that morning.

At 10:00 neither of use had a bite after fishing four or five different kinds of places trying to find some kind of pattern.  We then made a cold ride to near the dam where I had caught my fish the week before.

After about 30 minutes the keeper I weighed in hit my spinnerbait near a grassbed in front of some rocks. I told Will I felt like you needed to catch at least three bass to establish any kind of pattern, but that one was all we had to go on.

For the rest of the day we fished similar places, making hundreds of casts around grass beds near rocks, but neither of us ever had another bite!