Didn’t have the best day on Russell yesterday. They pumped water up to Hartwell so all my bank grass was pretty dry. I looked for my fish but just couldn’t put it together. Dropshot and swing jig on rock and marker poles. Caught a multitude of 8”-11” spots, lost two that would have helped and ended up with a bag of four. I spent to much time looking for wet bank grass, should have abandoned that sooner. Middle of the pack finish. PS it was bright sunny and hot AF. I struggled, I finished, I survived chalk it all up to the memory banks and learn from it. One good anchor fish on dropshot in 20’ on marker pole. 

Got out on Lanier today and played with the spots, posted up 82.5” for my first day of the king tourney. 🤙🤙

17”s jumping ship on me 😂

My next live tournament is on Russell, BLAT's home water. Last tournament I did ok on that body of water. Looks like I may get a few random practice days. I was fishing bank grass with chatterbait and texas rig, sounds like the last live. May add frog and wacky this time around and see what I can make happen. Never fished a swim jig successfully, any tips on that would be great to add to my tactics.

I can’t seem to find the tournament code, could someone send me in the right direction. Thanks

UPDATE: I found it.

Please excuse my absence, eating shrimp and crabs hunting for waves. I’ll be more active once I don’t have this distraction over me. 🤙🎣🦀🍤 🌊 Looks like I might get a few rides later today and Friday. 

Sinclair turned out well. They dropped the water 18” and all my spots were dry, seawalls, so I had to go to work. Was still able to feed em a buzzbait but couldn’t find all my fish. All in all I learned, had fun, got poured on, and had a stellar finish among 34 southeast hammers, fourth place. Today I’m headed northeast hoping to catch a wave or three over the week, OBX OR BUST. 

Went to expand on my area at Sinclair today for Saturdays tournament, ended up finding better fish. 91” best 5 today. 

Today’s catch on a 550 acre local pressured lake. I thought the wind and clouds would get my buzzbait firing, but after two hours I finally decided they had zero interest. That’s when I went another direction, changed to a weightless fluke. Boy did they want it, 15 to the boat in one hour, broke a few off and lost a few at the surface. Most epic numbers hour ever, I made the same cast for that whole hour, it was unreal. Here’s a few. 

I heard that there were monthly onlines on one of the roundtables, where do i find out about this? Thanks