Big M area 9/14

[bluebasser86]

That COG buzzbait got my biggest bass of the year so far last week. It just barely got it though.

[Donna G]

Nice.

[Quillback]

Son!  Nothing like a big ol' bass on a top water.

[Donna G]

Going to give a black buzz bait a shot this morning in the fog.  Launching soon.

[cheesemaster]

11 hours ago, Donna G said:

Going to give a black buzz bait a shot this morning in the fog.  Launching soon.

Donna - any love on the black water chopper today?

[Donna G]

1 hour ago, cheesemaster said:

Donna - any love on the black water chopper today?

No, sorry to say.  It was pretty tough today.  We ran across a huge school of main lake breaking fish shortly after getting on the water not far from Shell Knob and played around with them for awhile, but they were scattered and never stayed up long.  Champ188 caught a short LM and a big, fat keeper spot on a top water in the school.  We left the school and tried buzz bait, top water, square bill and swim bait in some trees, jig and shaky head in docks, but very little love.  Clouds burned off and it got hot and blue.  Boat traffic was nuts, both recreational and fisherman.  Saw plenty of material for the thread "you can't make this stuff up." 

Champ found us some FB jig fish and we started catching a few off bluff ends and gravel, but it was hard not to get killed or washed overboard.  Best bite seemed to be in 25-30 fow.  Gave it up and headed to the bridge so boo-boo lip Donna could try and catch another one when we met Codywskeeter1521 and his son, Cooper.  We had a nice chat with them.  Cooper is a nice young man and was showing us the soft plastics they received from Pepe. Ours were on deck, too.  Good looking stuff and I'm anxious to give them a thorough test on a better catch'em day.

We finished up with FB jigs close to the ramp. I got to catch another keeper spot.  We had around a dozen total with three keeps.  Most were spots, but we had one or two brownies and the largemouth from the school.

While we still had fog and cloud cover, I threw the heck out of that black buzz and was really surprised that I never got a sniff.  Full moon last night and very little wind today., I guess.

We're playing golf tomorrow and I'm probably staying away from the lake until some of the wake boats get put up for the year.  Starting to look like a junior LOZ out there.

[MOsmallies]

On 9/15/2016 at 10:23 PM, Champ188 said:

Doesn't hurt their popularity at LOZ that Mark Wiese throws their stuff. If there's a better tournament fisherman on the lake, I've not met him. Besides, he's a good guy.

Mark is one hell of a fisherman and still does extremely well on LOZ... But I'd venture to say Marcus Sykora is widely regarded as the best tournament angler on LOZ these days. Never met either of them but if you look at the standings in most tournaments over the last 5 years, Sykora is almost always at or very close to the top.

I'd also say that the Bassing Bob website has immensely helped the popularity of COG baits on LOZ.

[Champ188]

I would agree that Sykora is strong as can be up there. Pretty good debate between him and Wiese.