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WES LOGAN | 25 LB 9 OZ (11)
FINDING THE RIGHT
PILES
Ouachita is loaded with
brush piles, and finding them
is relatively easy with modern
electronics. Logan managed
to reduce his collection to
three spots that produced the
majority of his fish.
“The best spots had multi-
ple piles on the same point in
18 to 22 feet of water,” he
says. “I was able to keep the
boat in one spot and cast to
several piles. These seemed
to be the ones that were
holding groups of fish.”
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By Tyler Brinks
PHOTO BY ANDY HAGEDON
wo solid days of fishing landed Logan in first place going into the last
day, but the Alabama pro saw his chances evaporate with his fish when
his offshore bite dried up. He landed only one keeper the final day.
Logan relied on a two-part program that hinged on an afternoon brush pile
pattern that he was confident would produce 10 pounds per day. He spent
each morning shallow with a Brian’s Prop Bee topwater while waiting for the
right time to move to deeper water.
“Each of the first two days I caught two fish on top, and then around
lunchtime I would head out,” he says.
He patiently fished the brush piles with a 6-inch NetBait Contour Worm in
the AM dawn color rigged on a 2/0 straight-shank hook with a 3/8-ounce Flat
Out Tungsten drop-shot weight.
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