Yeah it was tough but that was the point right

I always thought the challange for the tournament org was to find a venue that would be as neutral as possible, that way more people would have a shot. Seems logical to me. We fished the WRL side.
Like many others I did not get a chance to pre-fish, in fact you will recall my previous post, "to go or not to go" to the TOC. What I did not mention in that post was I would be on a 2 week road trip prior to the event, I landed in Oakland from Chicago at 3.00 am on Friday the 5th. My wife had my gear packed (bless her) and my partner and I hit the lake that day around 8.00 am. We had a tough bite that day for sure and I felt pretty good considering.
Saturday was a different deal all together, I woke up with a headache and generaly felt crappy all over. We fished our hearts out and got a small limit, mostly due to my partners effort's, what a stud! Anyway seeing as how I felt so shity we passed on the dinner and went back to our room, we stayed in Sonora. The next day as we were tied up to a slip in the marina waiting for safe light and I asked a fellow 2 slips over if they went to the dinner, yes he said, and I asked who was leading, he tells me some guy with 17 pounds, OUCH, I say we weighed just under 9. That's not bad he tells me since second over all has around 10 and I start to think maybe we are near the top in our division, turns out we are leading, imagine that
Well it goes downhill from here, we blast to our first spot, it held big fish in practice and was up past the second bridge if that makes sense. We get a couple of taps but no takers, no problem, our limit water is next and so we blast off for that spot. At about the first bridge my partner slows the boat down, not sure why since this is no where near our area, I look at him and he has a panic look on his face, we had blown the outboard. Talk about bad luck

So we fished our way back toward the ramp, took all day on the trolling motor, never really got to fish where we wanted and we did not have the ability to run points, obviously. We weighed 3 small fish, finished in 7th and can only dream about what might have been. I enjoyed the lake and the challange it gave us, the Glory Hole was freindly and the 100% gang were on their game as ususal. Well there's always next year!