Ultimate Challenge Tournament

[Sprint21fter]

Finished 21st out a 186 boat field. Bittersweet, left them biting the first day to manage the fish. Weighed 14.5 lbs nothing over 3.25 lbs.  Second day, head scratcher the first couple of hours with wind and clouds only 1 keeper. Wait it’s fall fishing!  Anyways worked topwaters/crankbait /spinnerbaits/jigs. Had 7 total bites, 6 were keepers, caught 2 one was a 4lber.  Weighed 7.98 for 3 fish.  Blessed to have the opportunities. Good luck everyone! WT: 70-71.

[Bassin4fun]

It is crazy what a difference a day can make. Sounds like you still did well. Did you mostly fish the bank? What depths seemed to do the best? I am hoping to get out Friday morning...and will definitely be on Table Rock Sunday morning.

[Lvn2Fish]

1 hour ago, Sprint21fter said:

Finished 21st out a 186 boat field. Bittersweet, left them biting the first day to manage the fish. Weighed 14.5 lbs nothing over 3.25 lbs.  Second day, head scratcher the first couple of hours with wind and clouds only 1 keeper. Wait it’s fall fishing!  Anyways worked topwaters/crankbait /spinnerbaits/jigs. Had 7 total bites, 6 were keepers, caught 2 one was a 4lber.  Weighed 7.98 for 3 fish.  Blessed to have the opportunities. Good luck everyone! WT: 70-71.

Awesome job we were 14th and pretty much the exact same thing happened to us . 14.6 had us in 4th the first day . Day two was a lot tougher . First fish was 3.0 and didn’t come until 9:00 . Second fish 4.0 was minutes later . Fished forever without a bite. In the last hour I missed a big one on the jig. A few casts later I broke a fish off on the set . Next cast caught a 2.0 . Had a few others Sunday slap at the top water and just splash it . Sunday we had 3 fish for 9.07. I love fall fishing, the bite is very tough and you never really know where the next bite is coming from. 

[Quillback]

Bass fishing has been tough on the Rock lately.  I believe the Toyota owners tourney is this coming Saturday, it will be interesting to see the results.

[stealthycat]

our lower unit went out - we trolling motor/idled in the take off cove and around bridge .... toughest fishing I've had in a decade? we had 2 keepers in 2 days, i think I only caught 5 total fish (finesse baits)

3 years fishing it, 3 years motor trouble ... we've not had a chance yet to fish it really 

[Bill Babler]

Hate to report this, but the skuttlebutt from some of the Toyota guys is that they are hammering them. 

Topwater and jig is what I’m hearing with the jig really being the deal. 

Some shallow and some on a big jig deep. Pattern seems to be top and little jig early and big jig deeper as the day moves along. 

Guess the results will tell the tail. 


 

[Sprint21fter]

There were 2 things working for the guys that were successful, 1 was a deep jig on structure/brush piles.  Not my thing, 2 was a shallow power fishing deal: topwater,squarebill, trap fishing on long shallow flats!  Upper sections of the lake were the most productive if your a shallow guy! My two cents!

[gitnby]

On 10/11/2022 at 8:05 AM, Quillback said:

Bass fishing has been tough on the Rock lately.  I believe the Toyota owners tourney is this coming Saturday, it will be interesting to see the results.

I heard they were going to Stockton?

The mystery tournament format. 
 

maybe that’s something different?

[Quillback]

It's on TR I believe, the Toyota Bonus Bucks is what it is called.  Maybe there is another on Stockton?

[Bill Babler]

17 hours ago, Quillback said:

It's on TR I believe, the Toyota Bonus Bucks is what it is called.  Maybe there is another on Stockton?

It’s also hosted by Big Cerdar Lodge, so guessing and after speaking to guys practicing here for it I’m pretty sure.