


I make sure I get the hooks on the bottom.bass mostly feed up on that thing." 17-lb fluoro, Lew's BB1 Pro Reel (6.2), 7' 11" H Lew's Greg Hackney Signature Series Rod. > A-rig with 3.3 Strike King Rage Swimmers (sexy shad), 1/4-oz heads on the bottom and 1/16-oz on the top: "I cut the hooks off the top 2 because we're only allowed 3 hooks. > 3/4-oz football jig (PB&J) with a Strike King Rage Craw (PB&J), 17-lb fluoro, Lew's HyperMag Reel (7.5), 7' 4" H Lew's Elite Rod.

> Strike King 6XD (chart/powder blue – "that's the only color I throw" of that bait this time of year) with Owner STY-35 Trebles and SuspenStrips "to get it weighted right." 15-lb Strike King Contra Fluoro, Lew's BB1 Pro Reel (6.2), 7' 10" Lew's KVD Composite Cranking Rod. He said none of these baits really caught more fish than the others, and the Carolina rig he fished some didn't really matter in terms of weighed fish: Where I found those, typically big bass weren't too far away." > "The bigger fish on Rayburn I feel like key in on gizzard shad this time of year so I was looking for areas that had gizzard shad in drains and was running that. I ran new water.obviously checked some things I fished in the past, but for the most part it was all new water. I didn't have single waypoint in my graph.new graphs and just went fishing.

I just went graphing around and put the trolling motor down. They don't have to move a lot, there's bait everywhere. Those groups of fish, big ones, kind of.winter in those areas. I'm looking for early pre-spawn staging females. > "Basically it's kind of a home run swing whenever I'm there, that's my mindset. I know this time of the year there's the potential for giant bags to be caught. I don't think about going to catch 12 lbs, I don't think about going to catch 15 lbs. > "This time of the year we have a lot of tournaments at Rayburn so I've fished quite a few of them at this time of the year, and it's taken me quite a while to get dialed in to what to look for.I look for stuff to win on there. (I guess the MLF Toyotas are like the former region-based Opens?) Anyhow congrats to him, I'm sure more are on the way, here's how he won it – which was shortened to a 2-dayer and was scheduled BEFORE the weekend, which is interesting: Dakota was knocking at the door all year last year and now has his first bigger W.
