If it had been a day slated for just going fishing, my experience on Lake Ida yesterday would've been a great one! But when we are trying to catch our eight biggest bass, our experience wasn't that great.

Lake Ida was the site of the second Big Bass Bonanza event and after a good practice my partner Mike had me very excited about our chances of having a good day on the water. He was not wrong, we did have a good day, but our day was filled with 100 plus bass, but not the quality we had been hoping for.

The bait that I relied on for this tournament was a drop shot. I fished my drop shot on a 7'2" Wright and McGill Tessera drop shot rod and this rod is truly perfect of this technique. I could feel the lightest of bites, but it still had a good backbone to it so I could get the fish out of the weeds.

I spooled my Quantum spinning reel with 10 lb. Seaguar Inviz X Fluorocarbon, which allowed me to cast far and feel exactly what my lure was doing. I used a variety of small soft plastic baits rigged on a number 1 TROKAR Drop Shot hook. Once I set the hook on these bass, they were not coming off with that TROKAR! The length of my dropper line to my sinker was about 8 inches and my weight was 3/16 oz. Eagle Claw sinker.

Casting my drop shot to the weed line or pockets in the vegetation and then let it sink and slowly drag and shake it back to the boat worked well for me.

When the day was all said and done we finished with 14. 76 lb.'s for 8 fish and landed in 20th place. This isn't how my partner Mike and I wanted things to go, but we had an error free day on the water so we will just prepare for the next Big Bass Bonanza event on Green Lake near Spicer on July 11th.

Here is a recap with the top teams from the event:

For more information or to sign up for the Big Bass Bonanza event on Green Lake, July 11h check out their Website.

I'll have an update on my Website later this week with what place we are in the year end standings.

We'll see ya soon on the water!