FISHING
WINNING TECHNIQUES
clear lake — May 16-18
table rock lake — May 9-11
46 lbs, 3 oz
66 lbs, 13 oz
patterN
Kyle Grover, rancho santa Margarita, calif.
grover got dialed in on a key rock pinnacle and a
particular stretch of sloping bank along the rocky
shoreline of henderson point to catch two stout 20-
plus-pound stringers. he tossed a brown/green
pumpkin phenix football jig with either a strike king
rage bug or a 3-inch berkley powerbait chigger
craw trailer. a 3/8-ounce jig was his go-to, but when
the wind blew, he upsized to 1/2 ounce or mixed in
a Norman dd22 crankbait in the chili bowl color.
potoMac rIVer — May 30-june 1
potoMac rIVer — june 4-6
48
51 lbs, 3 oz
Mccord caught his winning fish in Mattawoman
creek, fishing different targets each day: a small
milfoil patch on day one, a patch of grass behind
an island on day two, and a combination of the
same plus some pads adjacent to deep water on
day three. key baits were potomac favorites: a 3/8-
ounce Z-Man/evergreen chatterbait jack hammer
with various trailers, and a texas-rigged reaction
Innovations sweet beaver.
adam puckett & Blake albertson,
Murray state university
45 lbs, 11 oz
Brennon mccord, west frankfort, Ill.
a local guide, olliverson knows table rock better
than most, and he executed a perfect combo of
smallmouths in the morning and largemouths in
the afternoon. the former tour pro caught smallies
in offshore areas off points on the lower end using
a keitech swing Impact fat 3.3 on a 6th sense
divine swimbait jighead and a 6th sense dogma
115 walking topwater. the largemouths came flip-
ping or on the topwater around shallow brush.
eric olliverson, lampe, Mo.
keeping it simple worked for the racers. puckett
and albertson caught their fish from a grassy flat
and some bank laydowns up pomonkey creek. the
team’s winning baits included a reaction
Innovations spicy beaver, 1/2-ounce white/char-
treuse Z-Man/evergreen chatterbait jack hammer
with a gene larew sweet swimmer trailer and a
3/8-ounce black and blue jack hammer with a
green pumpkin lake fork live Magic shad trailer.
FlWFIshInG.com I Fall 2019