Bass Fishing Apr 2017 | Page 90

ON TOUR T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BFL WINNING TACTICS Arkie – Lake Dardanelle – Feb. 18 Boater: Matt Wood, Jessieville, Ark. – 21-02 Fishing a dock with a Strike King Red Eye Shad and a white Strike King Pure Poison vibrating jig with a white YUM Swim'n Dinger trailer Co-Angler: Johnny Crider, Fulton, Ark. – 16-10 Bama – Lake Guntersville – March 4 Boater: Casey Martin, New Hope, Ala. – 40-11 Targeting bridge causeways with a 1/2-ounce Picasso Double Barrel under-spin with a 4-inch smoky shad Z-Man DieZel MinnowZ trailer and a swimbait on a 3/4-ounce Freedom Tackle Hydra Hybrid Jig, or fishing grass with a Rat-L-Trap Co-Angler: Taylor Parker, Lake View, Ala. – 14-07 Bulldog – Lake Lanier – Feb. 18 Boater: Tyler Morgan, Columbus, Ga. – 16-15 Cranking bluff walls and fishing the backs of pockets using a red craw-colored Berkley Pit Bull crankbait and a black and blue Z-Man ChatterBait with a black Keitech Swing Impact FAT 4.3 Co-Angler: Harold Grizzle, Gainesville, Ga. – 16-03 Choo Choo – Lake Guntersville – Feb. 18 Boater: Tim Wilson, Gas City, Ind. – 23-10 Casting an umbrella rig along a bluff wall Co-Angler: David Bryant, Covington, Va. – 17-01 Cowboy – Sam Rayburn Reservoir – Jan. 21 Boater: Blake Schroeder, Whitehouse, Texas – 28-10 Fishing grass with a crawfish-colored Rat-L-Trap and deep points with a Carolina-rigged watermelon candy red Zoom Brush Hog Co-Angler: Scott Duckworth, New Caney, Texas – 24-00  Cowboy – Sam Rayburn Reservoir – March 4 Boater: Jason Bonds, Lufkin, Texas – 31-05 Sight-fishing with a Texas-rigged blue craw Strike King Rage Bug and targeting cruising fish with a white Strike King Popping Perch and an electric shad Strike King Rage Swimmer Co-Angler: Hugh Cosculluela, The Woodlands, Texas – 26-07 North Carolina – Lake Norman – Feb. 25 Boater: Jeff Queen, Catawba, N.C. – 16-09 Swimming a 3/8-ounce Queen Tackle tungsten jig with a blue Zoom Super Chunk trailer on open, windy banks in 3 to 8 feet of water Co-Angler: Austin Wike, China Grove, N.C. – 11-05 Ozark – Table Rock Lake – Feb. 25 Boater: Eric Hammond, Rogersville, Mo. – 17-06 Cranking transitions between 45-degree rocky banks and gravel with a phantom green Storm Original Wiggle Wart and winding an umbrella rig around deep trees Co-Angler: Michael Fey Sr., Cuba, Mo. – 12-07 Gator – Lake Okeechobee – Jan. 14 Boater: Robert Beatty, Clermont, Fla. – 27-10 Pitching flattened reed clumps, hydrilla and hyacinth with a shadow blue Gambler BB Cricket and Gambler Why Not Co-Angler: Michael Chadwick, LaBelle, Fla. – 18-06 Savannah River – Lake Keowee – Feb. 4 Boater: Ken Wheeler, Martin, Ga. – 15-06 Fishing deep with an Outkast football-head jig with a watermelon red Zoom Super Chunk Jr. trailer, a Zoom Z-Drop on a drop-shot and a Fish Head Spin Co-Angler: Dwayne Parton, Anderson, S.C. – 12-14 LBL – Kentucky-Barkley – March 4 Boater: Edward Gettys, Paris, Tenn. – 25-14 Fishing main-lake ditches and bars with a Rayburn red BOOYAH One Knocker Co-Angler: Chris Fornash, Richmond, Ky. – 15-5 South Carolina – Lake Murray – Feb. 11 Boater: Chris Marshall, Forest City, N.C. – 22-09 Skipping docks with a Chris crawl-colored Katch-Her Lures Flipping Jig Co-Angler: Pete Kenny, Ashburn, Va. – 18-03 Gator – Lake Okeechobee – Feb. 11 Boater: Bryan Honnerlaw, Moore Haven, Fla. – 21-05 Winding a Z-Man ChatterBait over a shell bed in a hole in the grass where bass were chasing shad Co-Angler: Roy Gentry, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – 22-09   88 Cowboy – Sam Rayburn Reservoir – Feb. 11 Boater: Tommy Mackey, Bryan, Texas – 26-11 Fishing staging areas with flooded trees or an outside grass line with a Carolina-rigged green pumpkin Zoom Brush Hog and cranking a drain with a blue chartreuse Norman DD22 crankbait Co-Angler: Chris Sims, Houston, Texas – 16-11     Savannah River – Clarks Hill Lake – Feb. 25 Boater: Brock Taylor, Pendleton, S.C. – 22-10 Fishing brush with a green pumpkin Zoom Trick Worm on a shaky head, pitching an Alabama craw-colored jig on rocky channel swings and winding a white spinnerbait through mud lines Co-Angler: Matt Deufel, Grovetown, Ga. – 17-10    FLWFISHING.COM I APRIL 2017