Steve Donald Nebel

Fished in the FLW college tournament last Saturday. After a miserable few days of practice, me and my partner found some nice fish up shallow the night before the tournament. While my partner was reeling in a warmouth, I noticed a big spot followed it up to the boat trying to eat it. After we saw this, we searched some banks and found many good sized bass up shallow. During the tournament, we caught a 4.50 female largeie in less than a foot of water on a wacky rigged senko. We saw a few males on/making beds and a large 4+ pound female that was holding tight to a branch in the water for all 8 hours of the tournament. Never could get her to bite. Water temps were only 55, so we were surprised to see the bass up shallow. Talked to a few other guys at the tournament and they said they has been seeing bass on beds since last Tuesday. We also caught a few nice smallies in 8' of water under some floating docks near spawning coves. Also caught some nice spots on floating dock near spawning coves. Both on a green pumpkin ned rig. We ended up in 21st out of 110 with 11-1 with 4 fish. Winning weight was 16-5 i think. Would have been nice to put that big female on that branch in the box.