The Fishing Tail Final Report

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The Fishing Tail Final Report

1. Name:Kevin Frazier
2. Weather Conditions:Sunny and 80 Degrees
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:60-64 degree water temp, 1' to 8' of water, All day both days.
4. Type of Structure:Pea gravel to bigger rock. 1/2 to 3/4 way back in pockets.
5. Bait/Color Used:Baby Brush Hogs in Green Pumpkin and Spinnerbaits in White/Charteuse.
6. Technic Used:Carolina Rigged plastics, slow rolled Spinnerbaits.

1. Name:Ryan Panke
2. Weather Conditions:Unseasonably warm for the beginning of April. High for the day was around 90, sunny, windy.
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Water Temp not sure. Boat was sitting in approx 12-15 ft of water (slight stain, big bass probably hit in about 5-8 ft of water.
4. Type of Structure:Big bass was caught on a secondary point with chunk rock in between two boat docks.
5. Bait/Color Used:4 of the 6 keepers including Big Bass was caught on a 3/4 oz spinnerbait. Spinnerbait was white and chartruese with a single large Indiana blade (gold).
6. Technic Used:Slow rolling Spinnerbaits.

1. Name:Andy Cook
2. Weather Conditions:Saturday: Sunny/Hot  Sunday: Overcast, Breezy/Warm
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:I honestly never looked at the water tempertaure so I can't even tell you what it was. The water was murkey and most of our fish were caught between 5 feet and 15 feet. We caught fish all day both days. When the sun came out on Saturday, you had to make sure the shadow of your boat wasn't over the fish. This would allow them to see you coming.
4. Type of Structure:We caught our fish Saturday in shallow water around trees. On Sunday, structure wasn't a factor. It was the depth changes that mattered.
5. Bait/Color Used:We used plastics the whole tournament. I threw a spinnerbait and a crankbait for a little while on Saturday but didn't catch anything that could go into the livewell. Beacuse the water was stained, we used a darker color than the green pumpkin most were probably using. The darker color gives the bait a darker profile and allows the bait to stick out to the fish in the murkier water.
6. Technic Used:Saturday was tough for us to find our fish. We only weighed in 4 and all 4 fish came from 4 different locations. We were flipping plastics into shallow water and pulling them through and by structure. We started the tournament looking for isolated big fish with the assumption that we would still catch our 5. After weighing in 4 fish on Saturday, we knew we had to find 5 fish on Sunday to stay in the running. This changed our gameplan for Sunday as we were out lookiing for schools of fish and the small males that were still protecting the frye instead of the isolated larger females. We found a school almost immediately in the morning and had probablly 5 fish for 8lbs by 7:30. The school was hanging out on a ledge that stepped from 5 feet, to 20 feet, then to 35 feet. We were casting our plastics into the 5 feet of water (probably 5 to 10 yards from the bank) and letting them fall into the 20 feet. We were getting bit as the baits fell to the bottom. We culled probably 3-4 times before the bite stopped and we went looking for bigger fish. We never found bigger fish, but managed to upgrade a couple more times throughout the day. We probably caught 20 keepers on the day, just no pigs. Interestingly enough, we went back to our early spot a little after lunch and tore in to them again. It was just like the morning bite as they bit what seemed to be every cast for around half an hour and then just shut off. Sunday was probably one of funnest days Pop and I have had as anglers. We outright smoked'em on Sunday. 

1. Name:Kevin Frazier
2. Weather Conditions:Sunny and 80 Degrees
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:65-69 degree water temp, 3-10ft all day.
4. Type of Structure:Pockets 1/4 to 3/4 back off bigger pockets.
5. Bait/Color Used:7" Plum Worms.
6. Technic Used:Texas Rigged pitching trees and the bank.

1. Name:Ryan Panke
2. Weather Conditions:Partly Sunny/Overcast, windy,warm
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Unknown water temp(gauge broken) fish where in 5 ft or less,caught all throughout the day but the bite slowed down considerably when the sun was shining.
4. Type of Structure:Most of the our fish came off 45 degree chunk rock banks with brush in the immediate area.
5. Bait/Color Used:All of our fish were caught on brush hogs (both baby and normal sized brush hogs). Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Candy, Watermelon, and Pumpkin Seed.
6. Technic Used:Carolina Rig, Shakey Head, and Texas Rigged with no weight. 

1. Name:Jason Murphy
2. Weather Conditions:?
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:70 We fished 3ft to 15 ft.
4. Type of Structure:Standing Timber on Points.
5. Bait/Color Used:shakey heads 4 inch worms.
6. Technic Used:Slow.

1. Name:Clyde & Susan Gott
2. Weather Conditions:Light winds, cloudy and about 60-75 degrees.
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Our Big Bass was caught by 6:20 am but we caught fish all day. They were mostly in 2-10ft.Water temp 68-70 degrees.
4. Type of Structure:Caught them in brush piles and off secondary points.
5. Bait/Color Used:Plastics, mostly plum baby brush hogs and Rapalas DT-6 in blue & chartruese.
6. Technic Used:Plastics drug across the bottom and crankbaits with a steady retrieve.

1. Name:Ryan Panke
2. Weather Conditions:Clear Skies and hot.
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:We fished a water depth range of 3-15 ft deep. Not sure what water temp was, I never checked because I knew it was HOT. Our best times of catching fish were immediately after take off and after 2 or 3 am.
4. Type of Structure:We fished a variety of structure but the consistent place we caught 5 of the 6 keepers at was just inside the mouth of a small cove on the main lake. There were brush piles there in deeper water but most of the fish we caught there were not in the brushpiles trhemselves. They seemed to be relating to the brush piles but not in them. During the last couple hours we flipped the cables of the docks to catch out last couple of fish.
5. Bait/Color Used:7.5 and 10 inch plastic worms (Junebug, Redbug and Plum color).
6. Technic Used:Slow.

1. Name:Nathan Portell
2. Weather Conditions:Hot, dry, little breeze, full moon.
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Water temp-90* Fish were caught in 8-14 feet of water. We caught our first keeper at 7:30pm and didn't catch another fish till 1:00am. Thats when it got good. We caught numerous fish including 4 more keepers between 1 and 3am. It got slow again until about 6am when we caught a few more keepers and did some culling. My big fish was caught at 1:30am.
4. Type of Structure:We fished between docks and near brush.
5. Bait/Color Used:All our fish were caught on creature baits, fished texas rigged or on a heavy shakey head or jig. Dark colors.
6. Technic Used:Heavy Shakey heads, texas rigs, jigs.

1. Name:Nathan Portell
2. Weather Conditions:Hot, Dry
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Water temp was near 90 degrees.Was on fish all day both days.
4. Type of Structure:Points and Ledges.
5. Bait/Color Used:Large worms and finesse worms.
6. Technic Used:Texas Rigged and Shakey Heads.

1. Name:Byrnes and Cook
2. Weather Conditions:Sunny and unseasonablly warm. Strong wind on Saturday and light wind on Sunday.
3. Water Temp/Depth/Time of Day:Honestly, never paid attention to the water temp. We caught nearly all our fish in around 25 feet of water and both days our quality fish were caught between 11am and noon.
4. Type of Structure:We noticed that the bait fish started in the back of coves early in the morning and moved out to deeper water as the day went on. The bass followed and the better fish seemed to be on secondary points waiting on the bait fish to make it out there. We focused on around 1000 yards of bank in one area with chunk rock around basketball size.
5. Bait/Color Used:We were throwing shakey heads (1/4oz) but once the wind picked up, we switched to football jigs (7/16oz). I know it's the cliche, but green pumpkin was the color of choice for our plastics.
6. Technic Used:We tried to maintain contact with the bottom as we pulled our lures into the depth we were expecting the fish to be in. They seemed to suck it up right off the bottom. We literally waited in one area on Sunday for 3 hours for a bite that lasted 20 mins. All 3 fish on Sunday came in that 20 mins and 6 of our 8 fish were caught in approx 16 square yards of water. It took a lot of patience and faith in our gameplan.