Forest Wood cup 2018

[ohboyitsrobby]

Forest Wood cups this upcoming week in my backyard. Who's everyone's favorite to win?? I've done quite a bit of fishing the past couple weeks and see a couple different thoughts to be successful. Scott Martin is always good here. Has family that lives here and experience. Mark Rose is up there too. It's gonna be a fun tournament.

[flatcreek]

Mark Rose

[bagofdonuts]

supposed to get a lot of rain this week. i'm gonna say john cox wins on a shallow bite.

[BassNJake]

John Cox on a shallow bite is a great for almost any FLW event.

That guy can flat out catch em'.

 

 

[CroakHunter]

If Bryan thrift is fishing, thats who I would choose. John Cox would be a close second. 

[RichF]

Well...since the five guys mention are the only ones that ever win FLW Tour events, I'd say any one of them has a pretty good shot.  

[BassNJake]

John Cox qualified for the elite series and said something to the effect of sometimes it pays to be the big fish in a small pond.

 

Then he opted to keep fishing FLW.

 

 

[Tim Kelly]

1 hour ago, BassNJake said:

John Cox qualified for the elite series and said something to the effect of sometimes it pays to be the big fish in a small pond.

 

Then he opted to keep fishing FLW.

 

 

That is the drawback with the FLW tour in some ways. There are a few players and a lot of donators. 

[ohboyitsrobby]

I think it's gonna be a little more open this year but we'll see. I don't know that someone will win just fishing shallow. The offshore bite is really starting to pick up. Plus the lake got real low last year and then stayed high a long time so the grass on the east end of the lake is off a little bit. We'll just have to wait and see. I believe it'll take somewhere around 45 to win. Someone will catch 18 or so once just don't know that it's a sustainable weight to catch every day. I'll probably go on the water a couple days and be at the expo every day. I'm excited 

[bagofdonuts]

On 8/6/2018 at 12:11 PM, BassNJake said:

John Cox on a shallow bite is a great for almost any FLW event.

That guy can flat out catch em'.

 

 

And he's in a tin boat. So he's alright with me.

[ohboyitsrobby]

RAIN RAIN AND MORE RAIN!!!! Gonna change things up quite a bit. Niggemeyer and stoafer stopped at my ole ladies marina yesterday to get out of the storm. Both said it's gonna be tough.

[scaleface]

Chad Grigsby back to back.

[ohboyitsrobby]

So I'm cheering for a guy named John Soukup out of ada Oklahoma. I've met him a few times now and he's a really cool guy. Plus he's a Garmin and falcon guy like myself. Unlike him I pay full price for mine lol. 

[Texan89]

Hoping Scott takes the cup this year.

[BassNJake]

17 hours ago, scaleface said:

Chad Grigsby back to back.

That would be a great comeback story as last year was a bad year for him.

[bagofdonuts]

Just saw the very back end of the live coverage. Looked like a lot of zeros on the board. Super tough day, 

[ohboyitsrobby]

Some of those 0's have to be from fisherman fishing out of cell service.

Following that heavy rain it was bound to be tough. I also feel like there's a couple spots being left alone that are real productive after 12-1 o'clock. Not spots you can win from but catch a solid limit that'd have you fishing Sunday. A couple of them you can see from my ole lady's work and no one is on them.

[38 Super Fan]

Nick LeBrun is a good story...I've gotta pull for a BFL guy. Skeeter guy too.

[ohboyitsrobby]

Lebrun is a good story. I was surprised the weights were so low. The rain had more effect than I was expecting. Someone will light it up tomorrow I imagine. 

[ohboyitsrobby]

Spoiler alert the cup next year is back on Ouachita

[38 Super Fan]

22 hours ago, ohboyitsrobby said:

Lebrun is a good story. I was surprised the weights were so low. The rain had more effect than I was expecting. Someone will light it up tomorrow I imagine. 

Nope. Doesn't look like anyone will light it up in this one. I like these tough tourneys though, I'm glad the FLW does the cup in August. With the low weights any of those guys going out tomorrow are gonna have a chance.

[ohboyitsrobby]

Nope no one lit it up. Which is crazy to me cuz there's schools of offshore fish that easily hold a 10 lb limit a day if not 14+. They can be finicky and don't start buying till 2 or so but they were there a week ago. Had to be the rain

[38 Super Fan]

18 hours ago, ohboyitsrobby said:

Nope no one lit it up. Which is crazy to me cuz there's schools of offshore fish that easily hold a 10 lb limit a day if not 14+. They can be finicky and don't start buying till 2 or so but they were there a week ago. Had to be the rain

I'm sure it's a much better lake than its shown here in the cup. Watching a little FLW live earlier Scott Martin described it as an old school lake. Just throw the big worm, a spook, and a buzzbait, and forget the rest. I like that, sounds like the lakes around here.

[ohboyitsrobby]

Clent Davis finally figured out the offshore bite and weighed in 17+ to take the prize. 

[38 Super Fan]

Man that was a grinder. Congratulations to Clent…what a final day.