Monday, December 3
Dan writes:
This will be a three day tournament beginning Thursday, with three official practice days beforehand. We chose to fish Crescent Lake for our first practice day. Crescent is a lake about twelve miles long and two miles across, off the St. John’s river south of Palatka. The weather was sunny, with light winds and a high temperature around 80 degrees, and is expected to stay exactly the same all week long.
I started the day with a solid two-pound fish on a half-ounce Terminator spinnerbait, and caught another twelve-inch fish shortly afterwards. After the sun got up though we fished for five more hours and caught only one more fish. Later in the afternoon we stumbled onto a point with a steep drop from two feet down to about ten, and Craig was dragging a Carolina rig across the top when he got a big bite. He pulled out a six-and-a-half pounder. That was exciting, but we fished that point for an hour without another bite, so we had to move on. As it turns out that was the last bite we had all day, so the final results were: eight hours in Crescent Lake; four fish between the two of us.