have to cast directly over it to get bit.
Most of the fish he called up when
there wasn’t any schooling activity
came off a “knuckle” – or drop-off – on
the tip. The rest were scattered.
“They were all over,” he says of the
bass on the point. “They weren’t right
where that cane was. They’d come up
schooling 50 yards from it, either to the
left or the right.”
Fox’s main bait was an ima Little Stik
in the American shad color, but on day
three, when the topwater failed to pro-
duce early, he stuck a 6-pound kicker
with a Strike King Sexy Spoon, and
eventually finished his limit with a
Storm Arashi Top Walker.
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SpooN bIte NeaRLy GIVeS FoX the eDGe
One of the most exciting moments captured on FLW Live occurred on the morn-
ing of day three, when Fox ripped a Strike King Sexy Spoon off the bottom of his
best point and bowed up on a 6-pounder. The spoon got him back in the hunt, and
were it not for a couple of lost fish, plus some true giants that swiped or missed his
topwater bait, Fox might have completed the comeback in part with an unlikely
heavy metal presentation.
“Whenever you’re catching them on the spoon on Kentucky Lake, a lot of
times they’re breaking the water. Or they’re feeding under the water and they’re
schooling,” says Fox. “That’s pretty much the same scenario as you have going on
at Murray. They’re chasing great big bait – big herring. Why not throw that great
big spoon?
“All the tackle shops over there, even the marina, they had like a 2- to 4-foot dis-
play of spoons. I thought they must catch them on that big ol’ spoon over there.
Otherwise, why would they sell them?”
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