TRAVIS FOX | 56 LBS , 11 OZ
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By Curtis Niedermier
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photo by matt pace
T
ravis Fox didn’t know anything
about fishing for herring-eating
bass prior to the Forrest Wood
Cup, but he understands them a little
better now after coming just one kicker
shy of winning at Murray.
In practice, Fox located a series of
main-lake points on the lower end where
bass were schooling on herring and
banked his tournament on that area.
“I had three different spots where I
caught multiple fish and I could catch
them fast,” says Fox, who planned to
fish one spot per day once the tourna-
ment began. “One spot was dynamite,
and they were all good ones. I thought,
‘Oh my gosh, I’ll win off of here.’ But
during the first hour of the first day of
the tournament, I pulled up to fish the
very best spot and never had a bite.
Then I went to my day-two spot and
never had a bite, and then my day-
three spot and never caught anything.”
Fox eventually improvised and ran to
a back-up spot: a long, slow-tapering
main-lake point that he figured as noth-
ing more than mediocre, but where he
quickly started filling the livewell. That
spot wound up churning out three
keepers per day, with the remainder of
his catch coming “a fish here, a fish
there” from similar main-lake spots.
Though there was a cane pile situat-
ed on the main point, Fox says he didn’t
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