ON TOUR
COSTA FLW SERIES
KENTUCKY LAKE
detaIlS
June 8-10, 2017
presented by lowrance
hosted by kentucky lake convention & visitors bureau
costa FlW Series division: central
GILBERTSvILLE, KY.
By David A. Brown
Winning baits
There was no doubt about how Lambert would approach the Kentucky Lake event. He used his usual
run-and-gun ledge-fishing approach.
Winning angler
Jason lambert, michie, tenn
Winning Weight: 71-10 (15 fish)
stat line: a four-year FlW tour pro, Jason lambert has racked up 16 top-10
finishes with five victories. his previous most notable win was the 2016 FlW
tour event on kentucky lake.
CONDITIONS
Weather | mostly sunny on days one and two; partly cloudy on day three
air temperature | mid-70s on day one; upper 60s on day two; upper 60s
on day three
Water temperature | 78 to 82 degrees
Water clarity | approximately 2 feet of visibility
Wind | light on day one; N at 10 mph on day two; S at 10 mph on day three
moon phase | waning crescent
predominant lake features | river ledges, points, flooded bushes and
emergent bank grass
fishery type | lowland reservoirs of the Tennessee (Kentucky Lake) and
Cumberland (Lake Barkley) river systems, linked by a canal near their north ends
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photoS by Matt pace
Typically, Lambert’s bread-and-but-
ter ledge lure is a 3/4-ounce Hog
Farmer Hog Wobbler head with a 7-
inch Castaic Jerky J (green shad) soft
jerkbait. Keeping this bait combo on
the bottom turned up several of his
winning keepers, but he also found
great success with a 6th Sense Cloud 9
Series C25 crankbait (sexified char-
treuse shad).
“I caught a limit on that Hog
Wobbler the first day, but I ended up
only keeping one of those fish,”
Lambert says. “I don’t know what got
me turned on to that 6th Sense
crankbait, but that C25 ended up being
the deal, for the most part.”
When the action fizzled and he
needed to finesse a few more bites,
Lambert rigged a Gene Larew TattleTail
Worm on a 3/4-ounce stand-up foot-
ball jig and slowly worked it across the
rocky bottom.
“This was kind of the cleanup bait
when I couldn’t get them to eat that
Hog Wobbler or the crankbait,” he says
of the worm. “It was just a slow drag,
and I could get a few bites when I
couldn’t catch them on anything else.”
Lambert used the same rod for his
swimbait (Jerky J) and crankbait presen-
tations: a 7-foot, 10-inch, extra-heavy
Duckett Micro Magic Pro. He paired it
with a Duckett 360 reel with 6.3:1
retrieve ratio and 18-pound-test
Sunline Sniper fluorocarbon when fish-
ing the Hog Wobbler, but went with the
same reel with 5.3:1 retrieve ratio and
14-pound-test Sniper for the crankbait.
He fished the TattleTail on a 7-foot, 6-
inch, heavy Duckett Micro Magic Pro
rod with a Duckett 360 (6.3:1) reel and
18-pound-test Sniper.
flWfIshIng.com I august-september 2017