Sunflower Team Series had their first event; Kyle and I were ready. It was a cold morning as we waited at the ramp with the other 39 boats for take-off. The wind was going to blow hard out of the NW about 20 mph. That was going to make it hard to fish our best spot. But, we were going to go there and fish as long as we could. Kyle was throwing a finesse bait and I started with a Jerkbait. We fished two hours in the spot with only 1 bite, and we did watch another boat land a keeper in the area. I knew they were there, but something had changed. Kyle was also getting very cold, and it was hard to fish in the wind.
We decided to move to another spot out of the wind, so we could fish a little slower and maybe feel a bite. We moved to area that had a lot of secondary points as we could fish multiple spots out of the wind. Everyone else was there too, and there were probably 10 boats or more in the area. I looked at Kyle and said, “Lets do something crazy; go throw square bills in the back of these pockets.” The water temp was 49 to 50 degrees. We fished around in the back of a pocket when we came to a drain, and I hooked up. I had a good smallmouth on, and Kyle was fighting with getting the net out. I told him to take his time; he finally got it out and netted our first and only keeper of the day. It weighted 2.34lb. We would catch 3 more fish on square bills in the pockets. Kyle would catch 1 smallmouth on a secondary point with a finesse bait to end the day. I thought we fished hard for the conditions, and was so proud of Kyle. He never said anything negative about the weather and just kept fishing. We would end up 16th place out of 39 teams; not a bad start. There were about 20 boats that didn’t come in with a keeper. The next Sunflower Team series event will be at El Dorado April 14. Thanks to Rick and Kip for putting on a great event and letting me fish with my boys. Nick will fish the 3rd Event at Wilson with me.