Fished our first tournament of the season in Savannah, Ga this past weekend. The weather was brutal all week before the tourney. We found new schools of fish every day down there even in the brutal wind. The hard part was figuring out which spot to start at on game day because dead low-our ideal tide was first thing and we could only hit two spots before the fish disappeared in the silty water as the tide rose. We had seven solid low water spots to pick from and all were within a two mile radius. We chose a school of fish we had found just the day before the tourney as out A spot. The school of fish at this spot was massive with about 300 fish in it from 16-32 inches. We were unable to locate the school early so we hit our B spot. After having trouble locating the fish there due to the light and wind shimmer on the water we found them in a spot we had not seen them before. The fish were shut down and freaked out in the gin clear cool water. We left that school to hit another school in which we had not caught but one good upper slot in pre fishing. Good call because we found a large school of upper and just over slots in short order. We had a double hookup with our first casts in the school. One perfect 23 in which was our heaviest fish of the tourney and a 21 incher. After a few more small reds and an overslot we moved on to another spot. The fish were not home at the next spot so we went back to our a spot to try to find the fish on higher water. Luckily the fish were right where they were the day before but we were unable to get them to eat. At this time the tide was high and we only had an hour and a half to fish before we had to head back to check in. We went to our high tide spot that we had not seen a boat on all week and found a friend of ours from the area on the same flat. We started at the opposite end of the flat and poled down to let the other team continue to work the flat towards us. Once they poled down both teams continued to wack fish. We caught about 25 fish in short order and culled out the small fish 3 times. Headed back to weigh in knowing we had good weight we got back to weigh in early which is very rare for us. We ended up with 8.89 lbs for two 23 inch slots-this is upper end of the slot for SC. This secured a third place finish for us to start the season off right.

I saw more "schools" of fish in one week in Savannah than I have ever seen anywhere in the country. They have a great fishery there and I cannot wait to fish there again.

The next day I decided to stay and fish the kayak tournament down there. I had not been in a kayak since 2008 on a trip to the mosquito lagoon with Drew before Sunday. I had forgotten how bad it sucked fishing from a yak. Just kidding. I put in at a spot we had send some fish at high tide but never stuck a fish-yes it was a risk knowing I had about 30 spots to choose from in paddling distance that we knew over slots were hanging. I ended up catching 36 fish in the first 2 hours of the tourney with my largest being 27.6". I pulled to over slot fish as they popped my jig right at the yak. Man it was cool seeing spots I could never had fished at low tide in a boat. Decided to try another spot we never stuck a fish but ran over some in murky water. Good move caught several more in several different spots on the front side of the island. Headed back to the shore and washed my gear and organized my stuff for the ride back to weigh in. When I got in the truck I saw where it was going to take me way more time to get to check in than I thought. I ended up getting DISQUALIFIED for being 2 minutes late. Yes it sucked but I would not have placed anyway. I would have finished 4th. Stupid mistake but had a great day on the water wacking fish in the super skinny.