Lake Lewisville, TX.- Central Open, Trail

Click on the above link for tournament standings......


Here is a good spot I was fishing during practice and the two days of the tournament. I fished the entire bank at the end of this trail. I had one good bite on Day 1, my only fish. I ran up this river beyond the bridge and fished tight to the bank and pitched timber. I started there because of cold weather that blew in. I figured the banks would hold some heat. I caught several during practice. I moved back out after the wind died down and the sun came out a little. Still no bites on Day2. I dropped down to 101st place. I was wanting to stay shallow and catch a couple large female cruising the buck brush and banks. I only need a couple large females for a paycheck. The tournament was won on a jerkbait on suspended fish 10'-15'

I made this trail on Saturday while I was waiting for the welding shop to put a new spindle on my trailer. I ran out of Little Elm park all the days of practice, I showed the ramp in an earlier google earth post.

I caught 3 bass on my custom bullfrog flipping to the base of buck brush, and also caught three flipping a Yum papi craw, blue/ brown. All other bass were caught using large Trokar Flipping hooks. My only bass of the tournament came on my bullfrog. If it had only warmed up enough for the big girls to move up I could have had much better results.

Results from Lake Lewisville:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/members/ldr/leaderboard?tournamentId=963


My next stop is Table Rock.....I'm forfeiting my $500 deposit for Lake Norman, Southern Open, I just can't afford the balance and expenses, I also don't have anyone to watch my dogs and house for two weeks after the loss of my best friend of many years and roommate. He was a good friend, he just couldn't deal with his dad dying. I'll miss him being around. He was always there when I needed help. A true friend!

I think I'm going to fish Bass Champs Dodge Megatruck Big Bass tournament on Lake Fork......you're just one cast away from a new truck, I need one of those too.

Lake Lewisville - Central Open

After two days of practice I've pretty much eliminated 99% of the lake. The weather was nice my first day of practice and I covered most of the area I was looking at. Day two was much colder and windy, I kept my coat on all morning. Around noon my Lowrance unit lost contact with the GPS module in the rough water so I pulled off the water at 1:00 and got the module working. I rigged my tackle primary for flipping the next day then went to Walmart for groceries and coffee creamer. When I got back to where I'm staying I discovered the bearings on the trailer were gone and the wheel was about to come off. I'm spending this morning trying to get a new spindle welded on, I caught it right before the mag wheel was damaged.

Oh yeah, they are now calling for rain for the first two days of the tournament so the misery index just went up and the temperature dropped to 67° to start the event. I'm going to need my luck to change big time. At least I have a plan, if it's a good one remains to be seen. As a largemouth fishery this place sucks. Whoever gets a limit every day will be in contention.

Lake Lewisville, TX.- Central Open

I'm packed up and ready to head to Texas for fishing tomorrow. The weather looks great for practice and the tournament. I should be able to enjoy this stable weather because that's all you need to have the big bass move shallow.

Lake Lewisville, TX.- Central Open

I'm leaving for Lake Lewisville on Tuesday and have found a nice ramp to start my practice. It's located on the North East end of the lake. I'm going to start on this end of the lake because of the numerous areas that look protected from which ever direction the wind blows, lots of points and pockets for me to fish.

The weather looks like it's going to get warm fast and stay that way into the tournament which ought to get the big girls moving shallow? I've had enough winter, 70's will be nice!

My plan is to fish points and then move shallow. I'll probably throw a spinnerbait and trap a lot followed up with a c-rig and flipping plastic and some topwater, whatever it takes. If they are shallow my custom bullfrog could be the deal....they seem to love it. All I need to do is run into some big ones and let the fun begin.