07 September 2013

This past weekend my best friend, Chris Thomas and I decided to check out the Mad Dog Moore Memorial Bass Tournament (130+ teams), so we grabbed a room at Oak Ridge Marina, which hosted the tournament.

We decided to  fish Little Mustang during the morning and the south eastern main lake points in the evening.

The morning bite was produced with a blue-fleck Hyper Freak from Lake Fork Trophy Lures and what I heard later, the XPS XXX Shad Crank bait, fished just on the outside edge of the Hydrilla, on the northern part of the lake, produced many slot-fish.

My buddy, Chris, had some luck with a medium running bass colored crank-bait.

We took a break during the afternoon and watched some of the weigh-in at Oak Ridge, where there were just 3 fish over the slot...the top two were 8.38 lbs and 8.5 lbs. This made me feel a bit better, as it appears the big 10+ lber's were no where to be found. But, October's coming, that means big bass....and the tournaments. I can't wait!

We then re-launched around 6 pm and hit the points between highway 34 bridge and the damn, with no luck, but we did get some awesome pictures. We finished out the night with Chris catching a catfish and a snapping turtle... (BTW, they are not so slow!)

Bottom line, it was hot and the fishing was slow, however, the lake was beautiful and seeing the weigh-in was fun.

Next weekend, we hit the northern part of the lake and the hydrilla beds!