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Tournament Scenario
BFG	Port: Anchor Point, Lake Erie	01/17/2007 13:07

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Alright..since we have some very reputable tournament teams on the site, I would like to pose the following scenario and see what sort of responses can be generated.

Your team has pre-fished for 2 days prior to a major Lake Michigan tournament on the Michigan side of the pond. You have had reasonable success with your pre-fishing efforts, managing to catch good numbers of mature kings from a couple different areas. Your trout search has been rewarded with several solid steelhead producing locations as well.

Tourney day 1. You sit down on one of your best king locations. Prior to all lines in the water, you have a double going. Both fish are 6-8# kings..and immediately after boxing those two fish, you hook up a triple, all three of which are also kings in the 5-7# range. You now have 5 of your allotted 9 king limit for the tourney, totalling a whopping 35#...and you are fishing the Pro division, which has rules which state you cannot release fish once they are brought into the boat (while still under your allotted 9 salmon limit).

The question at hand:

Do you continue to fish the obvious immature school of kings, knowing you'll likely box out quickly, and then head off for your trout....or...do you pull and move to one of your secondary king locations, knowing you'll need bigger kings to compete at the weigh-in? It's a significant run to your other king spots, and don't forget...you'll need your trout as well.

Tourney Day 2:

As a team, you decide to immediately start at one of your secondary king locations, as many boats also caught many smaller kings in the "first choice" area on Day 1. This secondary location is a 20 minute run from where you whacked the little kings on Day 1. 90 minutes goes by at the secondary location and you have nothing to show for your efforts. Not one little bump. Locator screen is blank...no bait, no hooks.

Now what? Go back to point 1 and try to at least fill the box with little kings? Go catch your trout, hoping the immature kings will still be feeding when you eventually get to them by mid-morning?

Let's hear some opinions...

BFG

Official Ohio Delegate to Team Heavy
Super-Sized Fishing Specialists
bfg@educatedangler.com

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