Finally I was able to return to my home water and do some serious fishing! I pre-fished Friday and Saturday for a tournament on Sunday and found various patterns in action. The pre-dominant pattern was fishing swimming jigs through new vegetation. The key was to figure out in each area where exactly the bass were setting up on the new grass or pads.
I did find a few fish that were starting to relate to summer time patterns, but the high winds on Saturday made that water muddy and not productive come tournament day.
The picture is 3 of our 8 fish that we weighed in for our 21 lb. first place limit and Adam’s 4 lb. 14 oz. big bass. A total of 40 teams fished the annual Grant County Bass Club spring open.
I will have another report and more pictures up after this Memorial Day weekend!!
I think if our team would of had some pretty shirts we would have done alot better
. On a side note the bite was alot tougher than earlier in the week. The water was definitely dirtier and with water temps in the high 50’s finding active quality fish was a struggle for us. To all the local club guys better luck next time. Dan
Nice Bag and good report. Congrats on the tournament!!!!
C
Thanks guys, appreciate it.
Congrats on a great tourney ! Great report too !
Any insight on swimjigs colors ? Light or dark pattern ?
thanks !
Through out the three days I went through a lot of colors and couldn’t pinpoint one over the other. A pumpkin w/ green and purple in it did very well.
Side note, I caught and got bit off by some big northern’s pre-fishing and on tournament day, we caught a few of the smaller ones.
Good stuff Glenn !
I will be over fishing the lower end this weekend and will give darker colors a try ! I would take a nice toothy critter or two for the grill , just not in the mood to lose a bunch of swimjigs to them !
Thanks again !
Good luck this weekend !
Thanks, you too! The bigger ones bit me off even with 30 lb. Power Pro.
Last question
Was the grass and pads you were fishing in current ?
thx again !