KENtuCKy LAKE — April 4-6
ChERoKEE LAKE — April 11-14
andrew upshaw, tulsa, okla.
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one 75-yard stretch of a creek bend behind Goat
Island in the Little River arm of Lake barkley pro-
duced all of Morris’ winning catch. targeting a steep
shoreline that dropped to 4 to 6 feet and an adja-
cent flatter stretch with laydowns, Morris slow-
rolled a stan sloan’s Zorro baits Aggravator spin-
nerbait with a chartreuse skirt, Colorado and wil-
low-leaf blades, and a white Zoom Fat Albert Grub
trailer.
67 lbs, 10 oz
jake morris, McKee, Ky.
44 lbs, 2 oz
upshaw dialed in on spawning smallmouths on the
shorelines of main-lake islands. the fish set up on
steep-dropping banks with slight turns and large
boulders. he pitched behind the boulders with a
wacky-rigged 4-inch green pumpkin strike King
ocho. on the final day, in the final hour, he secured
the win with a secondary pattern of throwing a 3
1/4-inch ghost shad strike King Rage swimmer on a
1/4-ounce head to a large rock pile alongside a point.
sANtEE CoopER — April 25-27
LAKE ChICKAMAuGA — May 2-5
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john cox, Debary, Fla.
With day two canceled due to high winds, beavers
weighed in bookend limits of 31 pounds, 2 ounces
and 23-7 to win. he caught spawning bass on cypress
trees in lakes Marion and Moultrie, though the latter
was his preferred area, and he repeatedly skipped a
wacky-rigged yamamoto senko to key trees. on the
final day, he also caught some morning fish around a
shad spawn using a 1/4-ounce Eye strike texas Eye
Jighead with a Keitech swing Impact FAt trailer.
83 lbs, 9 oz
bradford beavers, summerville, s.C.
54 lbs, 9 oz
hitting some key cypress trees in the final minutes
boosted Cox from third to first in heroic fashion.
prior to that, he bed-fished and blind-casted around
spawning sloughs using a wacky-rigged 6-inch
berkley powerbait Maxscent the General in the baby
bass color and a white Dirty Jigs swim Jig with a
matching berkley powerbait Maxscent Meaty Chunk
trailer. Cox targeted sawgrass, cypress trees, lay-
downs and any other shallow banks that felt right.
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