1st Tournament of the year

Lake Howard was the stage. Freezing cold were the conditions. It added up to 1st place going to a 5.3lb sack. Our day started out horrible with nothing wanting to work right due to the freezing temp. Lowrance didn't wanna work, outboard didn't wanna start, reels were froze up, line would be frozen stiff before we could even reel, and the line guides were iced shut. Ronnie started out catching a 1lb warmouth...bad start. A few min. later I caught an 11inch that didn't quite keep. We lost a couple and I broke one off. By the end of the slowwww day I had 2 more keepers. We went to the weigh-in with really low hopes and a really light sack of fish. Turns out our sack of 3 keepers for 3lbs even was enough for 4th place and our big fish came in second at 1.8lbs. No money was won, but it was still a good learning experience for both of us.