Saturday, November 25, 2017

JML Outdoors Weekend Warriors Bass Series - Nov. 18th - Roosevelt Lake

We were able to get out the previous weekend to get some pre-fish in, as we hadn't been to the lake in the fall with the water up in years. We found a great pattern and solid fish and planned on working that throughout the day. Unfortunately, the weather changed to severely windy and our point bite was too tough to work, but we managed to figure a few secondary options as the day went on.
We started near the dam, hoping for a big bite, we were rewarded with two small keepers on crankbaits, but it was a start. We worked down lake to our primary area to find the wind pushed the fish off of it. We did find the fish scattered around the edges of the points, just not schooled up. We ran that pattern throwing crankbaits and ned rigged baits the rest of the day and culled up throughout the day.
We finished the day up with a 5 fish limit for 8.02lbs and finished 22nd out of 41 boats. We kept our heads down and fished all day even though out main pattern was gone, and kept working at figuring it out as the weather changed all day.

JML Outdoors Weekend Warriors Bass Series - Oct. 21st - Bartlett Lake

This was the second stop of the season for JML WWBS, but my step-father and I missed the first one due to a conflict in schedules. We decided to play off of my previous tournament as well as our pre-fish, which yielded 50+ fish but lacked size. We were boat 3 in launch order out of 64 boats.
We went all the way up river to where we pre-fished and through crankbaits all morning. We worked hard and filled out our limit, weeding through multiple short fish. As the crankbait bite slowed we found a rick pile in the area and proceeded to catch multiple fish on dropshot rigs and culled a few times as well. At the end of the day we made one last stop with 15 minutes to go and caught two more keepers that did up our total.
We caught over 70 fish, and our 5 fish limit weighed 8.77lbs and put us in 25th place. We fished hard for every fish and caught them consistently, we figured out another pattern throughout the day but didn't have the extra time to capitalize on it.

Bass Junkyz Teams - Oct. 7th - Bartlett Lake

This was the first tournament of the season for the Bass Junkyz Team Tournament, and wow was it insane. There were 97 boats that showed up, most I have seen in years. The weather was gorgeous with a major wind in the main lake and and hardly any up river.
Our tournament started on a summer area and a crankbait produced immediately but only one keeper off the area. We made a move and unfortunately lost both of the better fish on chatterbaits. We moved our way up river and proceeded to catch 30-40 fish on carolina-rigged baby brush hogs. We fished numerous spots and finally came back to where we started with about 10 minutes left in the day and culled twice, unfortunately we needed way more size to do well.
We finished with a small 5 fish limit that weighed 7.41lbs, which put us in 61st for the tournament. Not sure what we would have done different, as we caught more fish that most of the other teams, we just never had the bigger bites.