Warm water = little fish

One fish, one fish, one fish, one fish...
It is funny how a few moments can define an entire event or set the stage for a story I am going to write.
Well that is exactly what happened when the Day 2 weigh-ins at the Rainy River Walleye Tournament began Saturday.
With the weather being calm and hot on Friday, most opinions down at the tent were that with a cooler, windy and cloudy morning the fishing would be much better on Day 2. Boy were we all wrong! It was in fact much worse than the first day.
When the first teams lined up to get their "fish" and I mean one fish, weighed, it became clear that the baskets were going to be small.
I believe the first four teams had only one little fish and then one team came in with four fish; albeit they were small ones as well.
The champs said Day 2 was the toughest bite they have ever experienced in the tournament catching only three fish, two of which were 1.17 lbs. together. They were lucky they caught three nice sized fish over the two days.
The strange weather we have had over the summer (i.e. cold most of the time) and then the three weeks of heat in September, really threw a monkey wrench into a fall fishing derby.
The plans for the original event were that the water gets cold in the fall and the big fish come in from the lake... not this year! Warm water = little fish and not many weighed in.
–Until then, Ken