Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 25, 2014 Super User Posted June 25, 2014 Hey guys, just wanted some fun conversation. I will be fishing the big bass bash again in October. If you had to pick 1 rig and one structure and a certain depth range to put that 7+ pounder in the boat.... What would it be? I am a jig man so I would flip and pitch docks with 12' and shallower. Start at the face of the dock and work my way to the bank. How about you? Quote
Brian6428 Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 I hardly feel qualified to answer this, but I took a 2 day trip there june 1-2 so i'll give it a go. If I were there in october for the Bash I would be throwing a Spook or senko on a spot remover. Hopefully I could jump between coves fishing the dock that protrudes most, which i have heard is supposed to hold the most bass in the fall. If I were to go now it would be a 12" worm in 25' deep brush piles or a big flutter spoon in the same spot. Brian Quote
Siebert Outdoors Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 I'd throw a jig around the docks. Works year round. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 26, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 26, 2014 Thinking black buzz bait in between docks, along cables, walk ways and over chunk rock flats. Will probably be throwing a jig 90% of the time. Any thoughts of a nail weighted super fluke skipped under docks? Basically with 2200-2500 people fishing this thing it's basically a crap shoot, but I love fishing the lake, try to take a long weekend there every fall anyways... So why not pay the extra $175 and try to get lucky? 1 Quote
Brian6428 Posted June 27, 2014 Posted June 27, 2014 Thinking black buzz bait in between docks, along cables, walk ways and over chunk rock flats. Will probably be throwing a jig 90% of the time. Any thoughts of a nail weighted super fluke skipped under docks? Basically with 2200-2500 people fishing this thing it's basically a crap shoot, but I love fishing the lake, try to take a long weekend there every fall anyways... So why not pay the extra $175 and try to get lucky? Do you catch many big fish on the buzzbait? I mainly get dinks on them. Also, how heavy a jig are you guys using to fish the docks? Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 27, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 27, 2014 The black omega buzz bait is killer on LOZ. A buddy and I fished a union tournament and had a 28# bag and took 1st with that buzz bait. Fish in the usual spots I mentioned above. If you throw at the bank out it as close to the bank as possible. Had a 6.43 kicker inhale the buzz 6" off the bank. Depends what depth the fish are. 2 years ago at the fall bash we had a stupid cold front come through, reels were freezing up running across the lake... Then we were fishing 25-30 ft of water with 1oz omega jigs and havoc trailers. My favorite jig in the world is a 3/8 oz finesse flipping jig by jewel with a jewel Eakins craw. A lot of bass, especially at LOZ have had a case of sore mouth over that jig Quote
Super User Fishes in trees Posted June 27, 2014 Super User Posted June 27, 2014 Last year, didn't someone throwing a big swim bait win that tournament? Refresh my memory. Quote
Brian6428 Posted June 27, 2014 Posted June 27, 2014 The black omega buzz bait is killer on LOZ. A buddy and I fished a union tournament and had a 28# bag and took 1st with that buzz bait. Fish in the usual spots I mentioned above. If you throw at the bank out it as close to the bank as possible. Had a 6.43 kicker inhale the buzz 6" off the bank. Depends what depth the fish are. 2 years ago at the fall bash we had a stupid cold front come through, reels were freezing up running across the lake... Then we were fishing 25-30 ft of water with 1oz omega jigs and havoc trailers. My favorite jig in the world is a 3/8 oz finesse flipping jig by jewel with a jewel Eakins craw. A lot of bass, especially at LOZ have had a case of sore mouth over that jig What color jigs do you like for LOZ? I tried out a green pumpkin jig when i was there with no luck. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 27, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 27, 2014 Peanut butter jelly, black blue. Not sure what won it last year, but a swim bait wouldn't surprise me. 2 years ago a 13 year old kid had first for all but the last 2 hours of the 2 day tourney. He caught a 7 something on a perch swim bait. What ended up winning it was on a black blue jig under a dock walk way in less that 2 feet of water. Quote
Brian6428 Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Is it really $175 to enter? It sounds fun but that seems pretty steep. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 28, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 28, 2014 That's for both days. There is A LOT of money in this tournament. Like I said... It's a crap shoot. If you catch a 4 pounder, you probably win your money back. If you catch a 5-6 pounder probably $500-1000. If you catch a 7+... Thousands.... Here is the link http://www.midwestfishtournaments.com/lozfall_bbb.html , I definitely recommend this event. If you decide to go, get in touch with me. I've got a connection for stupid cheap condos. 1 Quote
EmersonFish Posted July 9, 2014 Posted July 9, 2014 I hope to fish that tournament if I'm not down in Texas fishing the Gulf. I'm not trying to be cryptic, but I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm hoping as the event approaches, I'll get it dialed in. Depending on what the weather does leading up to that, I'll start shallow and work out, but I wouldn't be surprised if I end up working a Swivel Head Football Jig or a Shakey Head with a variety of somewhat smaller profile baits around the ends of a docks that are in favorable areas, and have brush beneath them. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 28, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 28, 2014 Probably a safe bet. I'm getting more and more excited the closer it gets! Quote
EmersonFish Posted July 29, 2014 Posted July 29, 2014 Probably a safe bet. I'm getting more and more excited the closer it gets! I'm pretty stoked about it as well. I plan to start making a few trips down to LOZ to fish, and although what I do in the Summer will not translate to October, I'm going to be looking for certain areas to mark on my Lowrance and come back to in the Fall. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 29, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 29, 2014 That's awesome man. Let me know how you do. What parts of the lake do you fish? Quote
EmersonFish Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 That's awesome man. Let me know how you do. What parts of the lake do you fish? To be honest, I haven't fished for bass at LOZ much. When I have bass fished there it's been way out west in the river. I co-own a bass boat with my dad and he lives down at Table Rock, so the boat stays with him and that's where I fish most often. Anyway, it doesn't make sense to go down there, get the boat, and go somewhere else. This year I bought a boat to use for multi-species fishing. I just built a casting deck on the front so I could bass fish around here, and I planned on that tournament being my first. Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted July 30, 2014 Global Moderator Posted July 30, 2014 Last time I fished LOZ in October I did really well around PB2. Had several really solid keeper fished and culled a few times. I shot myself in foot twice when I had a 5lb class fish pull off a jig and I busted off a monster at the boat on a football jig that my buddy ended up catching the next week off the same spot on a really similar football jig (she weighed 8lbs 2ozs and still had my jig in her mouth ). Most of my keepers were caught on a shakyhead or a jig, with the bigger fish coming off the jig in 5-20 feet of water, I was nowhere near any docks either. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 30, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 30, 2014 Last time I fished LOZ in October I did really well around PB2. Had several really solid keeper fished and culled a few times. I shot myself in foot twice when I had a 5lb class fish pull off a jig and I busted off a monster at the boat on a football jig that my buddy ended up catching the next week off the same spot on a really similar football jig (she weighed 8lbs 2ozs and still had my jig in her mouth ). Most of my keepers were caught on a shakyhead or a jig, with the bigger fish coming off the jig in 5-20 feet of water, I was nowhere near any docks either. Wow... how long did that fish haunt you? I'm a big fan of shaky-head and obviously jigs. Where you on chunk rock and brush? Or just bottom irregularities? PB2 would be a long boat ride from where I stay up by the dam, but I've done it before. I love that freaking lake.. March/April and September/October are my favorite times to be there. Quote
EmersonFish Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 Wow... how long did that fish haunt you? I'm a big fan of shaky-head and obviously jigs. Where you on chunk rock and brush? Or just bottom irregularities? PB2 would be a long boat ride from where I stay up by the dam, but I've done it before. I love that freaking lake.. March/April and September/October are my favorite times to be there. Since you are staying near the dam, are you planning on using the weigh-in site at Alhonna Resort? Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 30, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 30, 2014 Ya. Where are you planning on staying? Quote
EmersonFish Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 I might commute. I live in Jefferson City. I may decide between now and then that I would rather find a place where I can get a slip. There will be a lot of boats loading and unloading, and potentially some full parking lots at ramps near the weigh-in sites. Plus, it's still takes me about an hour to get to the ramp I'll likely put in at, and gas is crazy. We'll see. If I have to take the boat out of the water anyway, I'll probably just drive home and sleep in my own bed. I will say this: If I catch an 8 lber. the first day, I'm not leaving town. I most likely will concentrate my fishing in the Gravois Arm because that is closest to home and where it's easiest for me to fish in the weeks leading up to the event, so I'll weigh in at Alhonna... assuming I have anything to weigh in. Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 30, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 30, 2014 Pm sent Emerson Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted July 31, 2014 Global Moderator Posted July 31, 2014 Wow... how long did that fish haunt you? I'm a big fan of shaky-head and obviously jigs. Where you on chunk rock and brush? Or just bottom irregularities? PB2 would be a long boat ride from where I stay up by the dam, but I've done it before. I love that freaking lake.. March/April and September/October are my favorite times to be there. I wish I could say I'm over that fish since it was almost 10 years ago, but I still think about what I should/could have done differently. Would have sent me to Mexico and Lake El Salto for the end of the year big bass challenge too. I was fishing a bank that was a mix of gravel and chunk rock where the channel swings in close to the shoreline. There was some brush or something on the edge of the channel and as soon as my jig came over a limb she knocked slack in my line. I was sure it was a catfish and put more pressure on her than I should have and never asked my boater to get the net. As soon as I saw the fish she was on the surface thrashing around and I was sure she was going to toss my jig so I tried to horse her too much and the line broke when she surged back under the boat. 1 Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted July 31, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 31, 2014 Wow man. That hurts. Crazy how things like that haunt you. I don't remember every big fish I've caught, but I do remember every one I've lost. Quote
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