Lake Breakdown follow up:

Redstone Lake - unique lake to Wisconsin, created in the 1960’s and has a tanic/brown stain water.  Majority of WI lakes are natural.

We only had 6 hours so Mark and I started out on the lily pads in coves and pockets we waypointed from Google earth and Omnia.  We flipped and threw topwater, no luck.  Then we decided to try our secondary spots rip rap w/ docks.  Multiple species were hanging out right on the bank of the rip rap.  The bass weren’t on the docks, they were only on the rip rap that had docks adjacent.   Once we figured out where they were, we hit as many of those spots as we could.  Caught em’ at will.  We threw a 1-2 punch with a jig and crankbait.  Once we made the switch to a jig and crankbait we realized the bites we were getting were bigger. 

Mark caught a nice Musky and also a new net for himself off the bottom.  We were also able to catch Walleye, Crappie, and even Smallmouth off the same rip rap the LM were on.  Even though on the DNR site it says there are not any Smallmouth…there were.  For 5 biggest bass we each ended up having a bag with 8-9lbs total.  From our research, winning tournament bags have been 9-12.5lbs.  

We had a great time and looking forward to hitting the next lake we broke down, Dutch Hallow.  

We’re breaking down a new lake tonight on the live class!!! Be there!!!

PSA - check your knots. Had a tournament yesterday, my father in law and I both lost a 4+lber because we didn’t check our knots. We were in a spot they were biting and just kept throwing.

I wonder where I caught this fish at. Great first day of King of the Ring!

So, I have a pretty big/Important tournament tomorrow on Lake Russell... I'm in 2nd place, was in 1st, in the AOY points with SEGKBF ....and need to get my lead back ..GA & SC Bass Nation, and SEGKBF (South East Georgia kayak bass fishing) , 3 clubs, are fishing there tomorrow...

What would be your 5 "go-to" baits for this time of year on lake Russell right now...? (It's a kayak tournament, I don't use ffs....granted, I would if I could afford it, but cant..lol)

I know topwater to start off with.. frog, buzzbait, ... a wacky, fluke, spinnerbait (?) , chatterbait (?) Texas worm, Carolina rig (with what bait on it?) And maybe a black n blue jig...(?)

Well I got out today. The bite was slow but I was able to catch a few on a jig. My first time throwing it . Started off a little slow but that’s how I roll. 😁😁😁😁.

I have to say you’ll might be hard to catch but it not over yet.

Loaded up to see if I can get some fish on that board tomorrow.. hopefully find 100+ inches so I can be competitive at the king of the ring.. good luck everybody hoping for a frog bite tomorrow but might have to just Texas rig it or swim jig it..

Correct if I’m wrong, but to my understanding the only you can be allowed into ICAST is if you invite by a company. Is this correct?