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Largemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureLily PadsWater temp sitting around 69°F. Water clarity was nuts for this lake. Could pretty easily see 10' deep, which with the amount of grass and wind made it hard to fish. Wind conditions were pretty nuts (20mph+). It seemed to be changing directions constantly and we couldn't really get a position for any period of time. The winning anglers were able to sit on a couple of points for pretty much the entire night and fill their bags. We hit the banks and pads and put a keeper in early (1.5lbs), but didn't get another keeper (3lbs) until much later in the evening. Both on wacky rigs. We spent the evening aiming for the small gaps in the pads and caught several small ones and two keepers.
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueLipless CrankbaitsSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureSubmerged VegetationTournament started at 5:30pm, water temp was 75° and the wind was sitting right around 5mph. Water clarity was about 2-3 feet. Bluebird sky's and barely a cloud. We started off frogging and picked up our first keeper pretty quickly that ended up being big bass for the night as well. We were targeting shallow pads and watching for swirls/moving pads/pops/etc. Caught some more dinks, but ultimately decided to move on. We hit the banks for a bit and managed to catch another keeper for the night right off a dock/pontoon near a drop off on a wacky worm. Fishing slow got boring so I started ripping a lipless through the submerged vegetation pretty much as fast as I could reel and put two more keepers in the boat back to back. Co-angler lost a pretty big one on a drop shot, but boated one that was on the line to fill our bag. We hit that bank for a bit longer and caught some dinks but nothing to cull out the small one. Pulled up and went to the other side of the lake and initially tried to fish the banks but got no love. Went into 3-5' of water and managed to get on some more dinks and culled up a couple oz's with some slow moving baits. We decided to pull to the outside of the weedline and started ripping the rat-l-trap again and managed to catch some more dinks, but finally culled out the smallest bass shortly before we headed back to the launch. Tournament Results- 1st - 10.8lbs 2nd - 9.83lbs - us 3rd - 8.84lbs Big Bass - 3.01lbs - us
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureLily Pads
Water surface temp was 82° and bass were hiding in shade where they could find it. Most were either suspended about 15-17' or hiding around docks WITH LILY PADS. No luck if there were no pads around the docks. Caught 19 bass between 8:45-9:25 and only 1 was a keeper skipping docks with lily pads.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureDocks
Windy was blowing hard the whole night and spent more time fighting the trolling motor than fishing. Had an early blowup on a frog, but couldn't put any in the boat with it. Finally put two in the boat on wacky's but overall pretty crappy night for us. Winning weights were 9.73, 8.47, 8.33 with a big bass of 3.35.
