Third Leg Of Winter Bass-O-Thon

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

Wow I just received the news of the results of this weekends tournament and what a surprise!! The winners Lynn Luther & Anthony Gates caught a five fish limit of 25.59 pounds to win!! That would win almost all tournaments in the U.S. or at the very least have you in the top ten!! That is a 5.2 pound average!! The top ten teams were all above 16 pounds!! The most amazing part is with all the snow of last week the surface temps were in the 37-42 degree range and for that kind of water that should be some kind of RECORD!!Big Bass was 5.92 pounds caught by Jim Byler & James Southard.Most of the guys I talked to were using crank-baits and stickbaits to catch their fish. I truly believe that this spring we will see a tournament with a five fish limit over thirty pounds!! Like I wrote on my website I personally can not wait till this spring as I think this will be a year where everyone is talking about the awesome fishing on the Big Bull, GOD Bless and congratulations to all the Tournament Guys!!

[Gone Fishing]

Hotdawg, never fished on Bull much but I am coming down to fish around Diamond City this weekend. Any tips, type banks, depth,or anything to help me get on some fish.

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

  On 2/10/2010 at 2:19 AM, Gone Fishing said:

Hotdawg, never fished on Bull much but I am coming down to fish around Diamond City this weekend. Any tips, type banks, depth,or anything to help me get on some fish.

Nice to hear from you and bring your Longhandles!!Most of the fish are being caught on Rogues, Lucky Crafts and crankbaits. Go to the Northwest creek arms and go middle way back in the creek arm and hold your boat in about 15-20 feet of water and parallel cast to the bank working it slow and sometimes stopping the bait.Also the bluff ends with the same bait or a spoon will work. Drive careful Good luck Hotdawg!

[Hogfan]

With that kind of report I may have to make a trip to Bull myself. I wonder what area of the lake those big sacks are coming from? I like fishing around Lead Hill myself but would make the trip to the other end if that's where the bite was.

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

  On 2/11/2010 at 1:04 AM, Hogfan said:

With that kind of report I may have to make a trip to Bull myself. I wonder what area of the lake those big sacks are coming from? I like fishing around Lead Hill myself but would make the trip to the other end if that's where the bite was.

Most are coming from yocum bend all the way up to k dock the tournament guys are pretty close mouthed to location as they have the final coming up and don't want to give exact location up. The next few months will just get better and better as the lake warms up .

[ryan]

  On 2/11/2010 at 3:49 AM, Hotdawg Guide Service said:

Most are coming from yocum bend all the way up to k dock the tournament guys are pretty close mouthed to location as they have the final coming up and don't want to give exact location up. The next few months will just get better and better as the lake warms up .

I was up at bullshoals last weekend and fished in the dam area withing 5 miles of the boat dock, we struggled to put two keepers in the boat. We caught our fish on gitzets but they were few and far between. Threw jerkbaits till I was blue in the face on bluff end points and couldn't get bit, I never really saw any good schools of fish or shad on the graph all day and I was looking pretty hard. When you say they were catching them on crankbaits are you talking about wiggle warts? I have a tournament coming up on the 20th and am curious to figure out this lake. Havent fished bullshoal much and am gonna go back up and try it saturday. My question is would you stay around the lower lake or make a run? Also if you have any advice/tips let me know I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much and have a great day.

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

  On 2/11/2010 at 6:09 PM, ryan said:

I was up at bullshoals last weekend and fished in the dam area withing 5 miles of the boat dock, we struggled to put two keepers in the boat. We caught our fish on gitzets but they were few and far between. Threw jerkbaits till I was blue in the face on bluff end points and couldn't get bit, I never really saw any good schools of fish or shad on the graph all day and I was looking pretty hard. When you say they were catching them on crankbaits are you talking about wiggle warts? I have a tournament coming up on the 20th and am curious to figure out this lake. Havent fished bullshoal much and am gonna go back up and try it saturday. My question is would you stay around the lower lake or make a run? Also if you have any advice/tips let me know I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much and have a great day.

Wiggle warts have been the best of the crankbaits. Some locals are doing good down here but most are going up the lake I caught some on hula grubs today so that is working also.I would go up lake as that is what I did to catch fish Good Luck Hotdawg!