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SCOTT MARTIN | 41 LBS , 4 OZ
By David A. Brown
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photo by chRIS bURGaN
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ommitted to the offshore bite,
Scott Martin fished from mid-
lake to the Saluda Dam and
focused his efforts on main-lake points
and secondary points with brush piles
in 10 to 15 feet and cane piles in 20 to
30 feet. He also found a couple of
open-water areas that produced a
schooling bite every day.
“I fished the same area all three
days and, for the most part, the same
10 to 15 places. I would just rotate
them throughout the day,” Martin says.
“I needed a few more places to really
do good because you start educating
those fish. After day two, the element
of surprise, as far as your lures, is gone,
and they get used to what’s going on.”
Martin threw a LIVETARGET Yearling
Walking Bait in calm conditions and for
accurate casts to schooling fish. When
the fish snubbed the topwater, he
threw a pearl Yamamoto D-Shad on a
5/0 Trokar straight-shank hook.
“Once the schoolers went down, I
threw a LIVETARGET [Blueback] Herring
swimbait because it was like they were
looking around for another bait,”
Martin says. “A lot of times, for the first
30 to 40 seconds after they stopped
schooling, that wolf pack would still be
hunting around for herring.”
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