This was a very tough day for me – I fished solo. My partner was fishing his 100% TOC. It was a nice rainy day with little wind. First place I started was up near Union Point – had a high incoming tide. Could not get anything going, so then fished down Victoria. Was unable to get bit there due to the clear water. Ran all the way down to Grant Line, and couldn’t get anything going. Wondered what to do. Knew the tide had already topped out and was outgoing at this point. Ran over to Widow’s Island and started throwing my 5/8 ounce jig at the mouth of Widow’s, fishing a deep ledge, from 10 – 20 feet deep. I was letting my jig sit on the bottom. First fish of the day was a 5.02 big fish. After my big fish, I was unable to get bit off the jig again. I switched over to a chrome and blue rattletrap. Caught two small ones – one was a keeper. By this time, it was already 1 pm. Thought to myself that I’d fish the rest of the day in Grant Line, fishing on the island in between the weed pocket and the bank. I started fishing a black and chartreuse spinner bait w/ chartreuse blades, and on about my fifth cast, I stuck my 3rd keeper which was about 2.5 pounds. Proceeded down the bank towards the marina with very few bites. It’s about 3 pm at this time and I have 3 fish in the livewell, basically praying for 2 more good quality bites. At about 3:15 pm, the rain starts coming down really good. Puts a good chop on the water and the fish were postioned right where they should’ve been. I got 2 more keepers, and my last fish was at 3:40 pm. Weigh-in was 3:45 pm. Headed in and I took 7th place with 13.67 for 5 fish. With 3 Saturday tournaments down, we’re sitting in 3rd place overall.
Tournament # 4
Not much to say on this tournament. Fished a lot of unproductive water. Did manage to sticka 5.24 big fish on a black and red spinnerbait, and we also had a small 1.25 fish on a big hammer swim bait. Our total weight was approx 6.5 pounds.
Tournament # 3
We started out our day concentrating on weedlines with jigs and spinnerbaits and stayed the course with these two baits, and ended up finishing in 10th place, with 13.28 lbs. Big fish came on a jig and the remainder throughout were jigs and spinnerbaits. Water temp was 70-73 degrees, winds 5-15 mph. Fished down south, Grant Line, Victoria, Union Point. My next tournament is Sunday, 10/19. Will post up my results for the day.
The Jig
Here is some pic of the jig I fish the 5/8 I like to fish in water that is 10 to 25 off big ledges.
The 3/8 I like to fish up to the rock bank and out to about to ten feet. I look for points with deep water
and will fish out on to the point far from the bank.
Tournament #2
We ran from Tracy Oasis out to Victoria slough and fished topwater first thing in the morning, throwing buzzbaits parallel to the weed line on a low tide. Our first fish was a 7.5 lb. Continued throwing the buzzbait for another hour or so. The topwater died for us, so we switched over to throwing jigs, but the jig bite wasn’t there. We started fishing worms and started to get into some fish. By 9:30, we had our 5-fish limit. We then worked on getting bigger fish. We tried a few different things but nothing seemed to work. I told my partner that since there was some chop on the water we should try throwing spinner baits. He threw a black & red spinner bait and I threw a white one w/ gold & silver blades. We caught about 30 fish on blades, but nothing of size. We were culling by the ounce. We fished down Grant Line towards the marina near the end of the day – our weigh in was at 3:45. We finished in 5th place with a total weight of 16 lbs, 28 oz.
Tournament
It was a good day on the Delta we got 7th place with 13.94 for 5 fish with a 5.43 big fish.
All are fish came on Jigs on rock Banks. Water temp was 72 to 74 fish where in 1ft to 6ft of water.
We fished in Grant Line all day.
Tracy Bass
This coming Saturday is the first tournament of my season. I’ll be updating this blog after each tournament, with my weights and finishes. Also, conditions, water temps, baits, weather, etc…
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