Big Water

For those of you who havent been there, Lake Erie is immense. Everything is exagerated and nothing is what you expect when you pull up on a spot. Take a look at a topo map of the lake sometime, those areas of high spots that look like cliffs are anything but. Those reefs look like hotspots and most of the time they are but its not that simple. You ride up on one of those reefs and you find out real quick that they are bigger then most of Ohios inland lakes. There are smallies somewhere, at some depth, on some break on those reefs but its like trying to pick apart a "spot" the size of the southern pool of Alum Creek. In any case, it was a ton of fun smoking some football size smallies but burning through 100s of dollars of gasoline trying to find them isnt as fun, especially when your being beat to hell by 3 to 5 foot refract waves.  On a side note, the largemouth fishing is phenomenal just about everywhere but that isnt going to help you in a tournament like this. If Brannon wants to make the cut and have a chance to win, he absolutley has to find enough smallies to fill out a 20lb bag EVERY day. It sounds hard but it isnt if you just find the fish. These arent suspended fish, they arent burried under fields of lilly pads, they arent in 50 feet of water and they arent finicky. All you have to do is find them, pray for calmish water and make your bites count. Good luck buddy, wish I was in it with you but you have your work cut out for you.