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
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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