High murky water welcomed the club when we visited for a two day "out of towner" late last June. With bad water conditions and post-spawn fish, this seemed like it would be another struggle as Cadillac is known for. But Day #1 was anything but as a third of the field weighed in limits and when the dust settled, Scott Rice won his first tournament of the year in a shoot-out as he brought 13.6 pounds to the scales to edge out Scott Ferris by ounces.Senkos, grubs and topwaters all accounted for Scotts fish as he visited old haunts and a few new ones he found in practice. "I fished a weed edge off a flat in anywhere from 4-8 foot of water. I probably had a limit in the first 30 minutes of each day". His flats were located on the western side of Lake Mitchell, near but not in the numerous reed beds that litter that side of the lake. Scotts plastics were his customary colors of cinnamon brown/purple flake and he used a g-splash as his topwater weapon. Rice also weighed in the biggest fish of the tournament which went a whopping 3.76 lbs which secured the first of his 3 tournament wins in 08'.
Gear notes: spinning gear consisted of 6'6" medium action rods paired with Shimano Stradic reels, spooled with 12 pound Berkley Big Game mono. The senkos were fished weightless and both texas rigged and wacky rigged. Grubs were fished with a 1/4 oz open jighead.
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