Clear Creek Tournament 5-16-2015

The last of the Bayou Bassin' League Fall/Spring tournament series was held on Clear Creek Bayou yesterday.  The Houston and Clear Lake area of Texas had received as much as 12 inches of rain the first part of last week and by mid week Clear Creek was almost 12 feet over normal.  In fact you couldn't even see the dock at the boat ramp on Wednesday the 13th.  Needless to say all of us had our fingers crossed that we wouldn't get any more rain even though it was forecasting 50% chance or better.  Some how other than a few light showers we were spared any really heavy rains between Tuesday and Saturday so the conditions were safe enough to fish.  In fact by Thursday evening you could see the dock again but it had a tree on it that was blocking good access to ramp.  We have to give credit where credit is due and on Friday the Park Services folks removed

the tree so everything was set for Saturday's tournament.  The fishing conditions were going to be rough we knew going in, but I don't think any of us thought they would be as tough as they turned out to be.  A few of the guys even Pre-Fished on Thursday and Friday and they were catching some fish.  It had to be better on Saturday and hey we have all gotten used to catching bass in muddy water.

Saturday turned out to be a very nice day for fishing.  It wasn't overly hot and there was some cloud cover to keep the sun from beating us most of the day.  The rains also held off, but there were times the skies didn't look to friendly.  Even though the day was nice the bass really weren't nice to us at all.  There weren't any limits caught though most of us caught fish that were under the 14 inch minimum. However with this bunch of fishermen someone is going to find some fish.   That was the case so lets get to the out come.

As they normally do ole Tyrone and his partner Robbie found some keepers. They weighed in 3 bass which was the most keepers of any team taking big stringer at 5.86lbs as well as big bass 2.42lbs.  I can say you have to be on top of your game to unseat this team out of 1st.  .

Now these next guys aren't any slouches in the bass catching department.  Raybo and son Cameron brought 2 bass to the scales for 3.94lbs which put them in 2nd.

In 3rd place was a new comer to our tournaments, but I think we will be seeing more of James who was fishing by himself.  Even though he didn't have a teammate he was able to put 2 keepers in the boat that tipped the scales at 3.48lbs.   Welcome James it was great meeting you and we hope to see more of you at these tournaments.

In 4th was Jake and Brad as they were able to get one keeper in the boat on the day.  It was a really good fish for the bayous!!!

All the rest of us tied for 5th place as none of us could get a keeper in the livewell.  I can't speak for how the day went for the other guys that came in empty, but for Brett and I it was tough.  It wasn't that we didn't find fish from time to time, it was we couldn't land fish.  On the day I broke off two bass and lost another good fish that hit a spinnerbait.  I am please to say that even though it was a bad day I'll be applying for a new world record.

That fish has to be the smallest fish ever to be caught fairly hooked in the mouth.  I don't know it's total weight because the scales wouldn't go that low.  The other good thing that I can say that came yesterday is how well my Skeeter performed.  As you may know I've put a lot of work into her over the last month and all that work paid off big time!!

Hey even though it was a bad day fishing I had fun and I think I can say the same for everyone.  Folks it's not all about catching fish, it is about getting outdoors with a group of great guys that love the sport.  When ever you have that chance it makes for a good day in your life!!!  For those of you interested in fishing some of our Bayou Tournaments you can click on this link for the Bayou Bassin' League website for more information.   You can also go to their Facebook page by clicking here BBL Facebook  to see more pictures and stay up to date on things happening real time.   The dates for our next series tournaments should be released in the near future.


Until next time, Tight Lines and Take a Kid Fishing!!!

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