Buggs Island/Kerr Lake

[Nitrofreak]

Two day club tournament with each day being a separate tournament.

 

Day one water surface temps were in the mid 50’s with a front moving into the area, water conditions were calm and stained roughly about 10-12” my partner started out throwing crank baits and landed three bass in the first 10 minutes and then it was like a light switch and the bite just stopped, I focused on pitching with skirted jigs and soft plastics and mixed in fishing out with a Carolina Rig, I caught a friggin 5 lb. striper doing that which is a first for me, I never thought a striper would hit a Carolina Rig ?

 

All day we had boats that would pull in on us and I told my partner that I felt like we were fishing behind others whenever we made a locational change, come to find out there was a BFL tournament that day so it made sense why I thought that, anyway we managed 9.01 on the day and out of 28 boats we survived and finished somewhere in the top 10, not sure exactly where since we have not seen the final results from the day but 4th place was a 10 something bag so we feel like we were in there somewhere close which is good for our points standings if we did.

 

Day 2

Started out with a waiting period under the bridge to wait out thunderstorms that were passing through, once we got to our starting spot I started out with crank baits and got three in the boat in the first 10 minutes and again it was like a light switch and the bite just stopped, winds were at this time ripping across the lake at 15-25 so we focused on fishing areas/banks that were being hit with the generated current and picked up two culls but we still needed a good kicker to be competitive we felt, we made a change in the area we wanted to fish so we ran north to fish a split and found a few secondary points to focus on, my partner hooked up with a 5.68 in the last minutes which was enough to give us the win with a total of 13.97 on the day which was just ounces ahead of second place, it was an exhausting day but in the end it was well worth the effort.
 

Nichols spinner baits, Berkley Pit Boss and Bottom hopper worms, Spro crank baits, Dirty Jigs swim jigs, Luke Clausen’s Dirty Jigs designed Shaky Heads, Strike King Thunder Cricket, structure bug, Blade Minnow and Twin Tail Menace, Missile Baits Ike’s mini flipping jigs, Zoom speed craws and Buckeye lures mop jigs are all the baits I used over both events.
 

Thanks for the read and I wish you all safe journeys !!

 

 

[Dwight Hottle]

Sounds like you guys stayed persistent. Congrats on the win. 

[Nitrofreak]

We did my friend, after he and I were talking about the day I think the one thing we took away from that first day is that we felt confident about our choice of areas that we selected before we left the house, there were a good number of boats fishing those same areas, the takeaway for us is that it drove us to explore some new water.

 

Thanks for the reply Dwight !!!

[buckmaster27012]

sounds  like a pretty good weekend. headed down this weekend for a small club tourney. fished monday but really never found a good pattern just picked up fish here and there. nothing over 3 lbs. 

[Nitrofreak]

On 3/31/2021 at 10:46 AM, buckmaster27012 said:

sounds  like a pretty good weekend. headed down this weekend for a small club tourney. fished monday but really never found a good pattern just picked up fish here and there. nothing over 3 lbs. 

How did you get along with your tourney ??

[buckmaster27012]

guys didnt want to fish anyway and ended using weather as excuse to cancel. going back in a couple of weeks. fished yesterday but didnt have much luck a few small ones here and there. i'll keep going and looking.