does anyone have any tips for Lilli. i will be fishing my first tournament there as a Jr. next weekend.

Pete, good luck in your first event!! If I were going this weekend I would look for the first hard points entering a cove and work my way back from there, this past weekend I found that rocks were not as important as was brush and trees in soft sandy bottom areas. The Bass were thrown for a loop when the water temp dropped after that warm spell and a "false spawn". I would usually fish the shepaug arm and work the flats with a jerk bait or small red wiggle wart. This past weekend almost all my Bass came on a 3/8 oz. Rat-l-back casting jig in Black/blue and purple with a Bo Hawg Senior pork in Black and blue. The jig had to be fished slowly and put in the brush and shaken before they woulld hit it but with warmer weather on the way and a new moon for the weekend I would expect some good stringers caught!! If I were to pick my tackle for the trip Rod #1 1/4 oz. Melon pepper tube, 1/8 oz black Marabou jig, both fished on 8# test Berkley Vanish, 1/4 red craw fish (wheighted with two suspend strips under the bill) Storm Wiggle wart or a Red Luckycraft Moonsualt, and a (your choice) either a spinner bait 3/8 oz. chart/white with a willow gold blade with a small nickel colorado front blade or the 3/8 oz ratlback jig n pig. I would be targeting bass moving up to spawn and looking for warm wooded areas that lead to spawning flats as the day warms look for bass to become shallower and I would also not forget about the Pointer 78 jerk bait or the "wacky rigged senko" good luck Dan Bass!!

Bassinpete- I hope you did well this past weekend. If you paid attention to the tips that DanBass provided to you, you will have narrowed the odds in your favor.
Lillinonah can be very tricky at times, so don't feel too bad if you didn't catch as much as you expected. As you develop your confidence, your weights will increase.
Let us know how you did and our other Pro's will also help out.
Bass Wishes, JoeM