How Many Fish Can Come Out Of One Spot?

Last Saturday I invited a friend to join me in fishing a weekly open at Indian Lake. Taking off at the 7:30 blast off we were fishing within little more than five minutes. It was less than five more minutes and I put a keeper in the boat, in less than 15 more minutes we had our limit, but we didn't stop there. In the 1st hour we boated better than 20 fish, with 1 or 2 lost along the way, all out of a spot not twice the size of my boat. One of which my partner lost was 2+, jokingly I immediately told him that cost us the win, little did I know how accurate that would be. We moved around over the next several hours only catching a few fish, one of which was a Saugeye (dinner). With it only being a six hour tournament we found ourselves back to our starting point the last hour. Wouldn't you know it they were still stacked up. In total we took over 30 fish off that one little spot. Come weigh in time I watched the weights and thought we would be close, but short of cashing a check, so we opted not to weigh in and take them back to the spot. Just for fun I got out the digital scale and weigh bag before releasing the fish, 11lbs 4ozs. My partner was instantly upset knowing the winning weight was only 10.7lbs. It took me a minute to calm him and explain we still needed to weigh the empty bag, 1lbs 5ozs. We made the right call not to weigh in after all, but the one he lost still cost us the win. Time and time again people claim that the front of the boat has the advantage, especially in my boat. I find that hard to swallow when we made 15+ passes over the same spot catching fish each pass, only he caught three fish all day including the funning around we did after the tournament. This is not to brag or to say he can't fish, just sometimes it all comes together and sometimes it doesn't. Some of you may be thinking this is just a fish story, that there is no where around here that you can catch that many bass out of that small of a spot. I told him before we went there that I did the same thing in that same spot this time last year, later in the day he said "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it."


Going to St Clair over the Holiday weekend, let you know how we do.