oN tour
KentuCKy LaKe – june 9-12
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master of Ledges
Hosted by Kentucky Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
Lambert wins Kentucky Lake ledge-fest in record fashion
A final-day flurry pushed Lambert’s
limit to 29 pounds and his four-day
total to 97-02 — a new Tour record
at Kentucky Lake.
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by David A. Brown
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verall, Jason Lambert finds that ledge fishing on
Kentucky Lake is far less constrained than on his
home waters of Pickwick Lake. Nevertheless, the
Tennessee pro knows that when Kentucky Lake turns stingy
with its bass, picking the lock requires analytic thought and
strategic presentations.
This he did to the tune of daily bags weighing 18-09, 24-
04, 25-05 and 29-00 at the fifth stop of the Walmart FLW
Tour. Tallying a new Kentucky Lake four-day record
weight (see page 14) of 97-02 – with nearly an 8-pound mar-
gin of victory – earned Lambert a $125,000 payday.
Notably, Lambert didn’t bother seeking untouched
schools. He actually leveraged the fact that most of the
more obvious mega-schools were taking a constant bom-
bardment from other pros.
“I think for the most part the fish I was catching were
small groups broken off of those big mega-schools,”
Lambert says. “They’re getting pressure, pressure, pressure
every day. I wasn’t fishing with other people. I was fishing
around other people. My fish were sitting on the same bar
as the mega-school, only 100 to 200 yards north or south.”
To dial in, Lambert idled the perimeter of the schools
until he located a small group of fish that had splintered off
the main body. These fish, he surmised, would go largely
undetected and, therefore, offered greater opportunity.
“I had one school that was on the current-facing point of
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