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BRANDON COBB | 54 LBS , 10 OZ
By Chad Love
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nlike many pros who fished the
2017 Forrest Wood Cup, Brandon
Cobb knows all about the Lake
Murray blueback herring game, but
that doesn’t mean he particularly likes
it, or even planned to fish it. On the
contrary, Cobb much prefers the shal-
low game, and that’s exactly what he
planned to do on Murray.
That is, until he ran into a red-hot
topwater bite during pre-practice that
made him re-evaluate everything.
When he came back for practice
Cobb spent most of his time idling, pin-
pointing cane piles, brush and drop-offs,
trying to mark as many suspended fish
as he could, and hoping he could come
back and call them up when the tourna-
ment started.
“There ended up being a very small
window when you could catch them,” he
says. “You had to be on your best school
right when they were biting, and usually
that was anywhere from 8:30 to 10:30.”
All Cobb could do was pick what he
thought were his best spots, put the ham-
mer down and hope he picked correctly.
“I was fishing the lower end almost
exclusively, from Bear Creek down to the
dam,” says Cobb. “But I was fishing both
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