I was off Friday, so I met Billy Harris (visiting from NC) at the ramp around 6 am. We planned to fish the Saturday am tourney together, so Friday was about practicing and locating some fish and / or a productive pattern.
We started near the Weakley Ln bridge and Billy caught a keeper spot off the bat at the end of the bluff on a jig. We eased down past the ramp and chunked shad raps on the flat. We caught 5-6 short fish here. Next, we ran to the next bluff heading upriver, and we caught a couple more on a jig, but no keepers. We decided to run down lake and fish our way back. We caught a bunch of small spots and smallmouth on the point past Long Hunter and the bluffs at Elm Hill. We ended the day back on the bluffs just up from Weakley Ln, and we found our pattern- "joggles" on the bluff walls. We landed four more keepers here, and at 2 pm, we headed home.
Saturday, we put in at Stewarts Creek, and we scouted the area before heading over to Fate Sanders to register. We decided to start back in Stewart's, but no luck, so we headed up to the Weakley Ln area. We struggled early, but I was able to land 3 keepers on the joggle pattern by around 10 am. Due to the honking south wind, we scrapped our main lake gameplan. We would bounce around upriver most of the rest of the day, and we caught several short fish but no keepers. With time running down, we ran to a bluff just down from Fate Sanders to finish the day. Billy caught our fourth keeper, a 12" spot with 15 minutes to go.
We ended up with 6 1/2 lbs which was good for around 12th out of 40 boats. Fun weekend all in all. The 25 MPH south wind really hurt our chances to contend on Saturday.
RBK
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Great report, Rob but you forgot to explain the "joggle" pattern. Also, did you fish the Tennabama rig on Priest?
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