It happens! I can think of three tournaments in 9 years of competitive fishing we didn't come in with 7 fish. First was Cooper lake in 2016. Prefished the lake twice and had 10-11 pounds. Didn't get to fish the week of the tourney and showed up to a clear lake that was 2' lower than when I prefished. I didn't catch many fish but they were all keepers pre fishing. Went through my best area and caught 2 barely legal fish and 7-8 undersize fish! Scrambled all over the lake catching nothing and went right back to the same area and caught 2 more better fish. Looking back we never would have left that area! One was Crappie Masters at Fork in 2018. Had 12 pounds in 2 hours the day before. Weather called for strong NE winds. East in there we would have been ok. It was hard N to NW and blew us off the lake. Caught 5 and tore the trolling motor up and called it a day! Temps dropped about 35 degrees and we both got soaked! The other was Wally's tourney on Lake Hamilton in 2019. We found fish in 2 areas prefishing. Caught plenty of good fish! First day of the tourney we caught 5 of laydowns where we caught 1-1.25 fish all over but today they were dinks. I bet we threw back 150 undersized fish! Caught one nearly 2 pounds off a dock and went to weight in in the pouring rain. I was tying the boat down and about to put the cover on for the ride home disgusted and Clay walked back over and said dude leave the cover off we got to fish again tomorrow we're in 16th place! Half the field didn't catch a fish the whole week! You never know!

Slew