Fishing tournament at LOA in September, glaize arm, Suggestions?

[randman011]

Hello,

I'm fishing a 2 day tournament in the 3 rd weekend of September at Lake of the Ozarks. I have literally 'no' recent experience in fishing LOO, except for Warsaw in June, and Shawnee Bend night tournament in early August. I plan on pre fishing 3-4 times within the 2 weeks before the 23/24th weekend. I could use some advice or suggestions on what to fish and even where. I'm very familiar with Pomme, Stockton and parts of T Rock and can return the favor.

I'm strong with crankbaits, spinnerbaits, bladed jigs, jigs, and tube lures. Not so strong with creature baits, shaky heads, ned rigs, carolina rigs, etc, as I haven't fished them that much, at least not recently.

I did have some luck in early December last year hitting main lake points in the PB2 area during a club tournament. My club partner, in his boat won 1st in the tournament with 15.8 lbs, all caught on crankbaits, and I caught 1 3lbr also on crankbait, fishing the rock points of 3 main lake cuts. 

Realizing that the time period will be fall, not winter, I was wondering if a similar pattern would work, maybe further back in the creek arms, near docks or along channel swings/drop offs.?/

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks, Randy

[Jerry Rapp]

spend your practice time idling along the bank lines in 15 to 20 feet of water and marking brushpiles.  go up to the FLW rec area, and down to the bridge area.  You will get sick and tired of it after an hour and want to beat the bank with your crankbaits and such, but that will just be time wasted.  Find the brushpiles and then fish them in your tournament with a jig, big worm, creature bait, tube.  Dark colors the first hour or two, then green pumpkin and lighter hues when it gets light.  Save the piles back in coves for later in the day when the cruisers come out.  You are just fishing for 5 good bites a day.  Good luck!