Eufaula Bedding Bass
Dateline 03/15/99
Last Tuesday, March 9th, Brendan Smith showed me how he won the Georgia Bass Chapter Federation Top Six Tournament at Lake Eufaula last April. The bass were already bedding, just like they were a in that tournament. The water is warmer this year and they are a month ahead of last year.
The first place we stopped Brendan landed an 8 pound bass on a Terminator Spinnerbait- the bait he used to win the Top Six. During that tournament he fished pockets near White Oak Creek and caught five keepers on the first day weighing 20 pounds and three weighing 10 pounds on the second day. That was enougth to beat the 600 other competitiors in the tournament. The eight pounder Brendan is putting in the livewell of my boat in the pictrue below came from one of those same pockets.
picture by Ronnie Garrison
Brendan added two more three pound fish like the one below in another pocket. They hit the spinnerbait, too.
photo by Ronnie Garrison
Later, Brendan brought his Terminator Spinnerbait by a brush top and a good fish hit it. The fish pulled off, but hit again a little later. It weighed six pounds. Brendan is shown below with the two big ones.
picture by Ronnie Garrison
Just before Brendan caught the six pounder, he let me catch one! The five pounder below hit my Norman's Little N crankbait right at the boat, and put up quite a fight before I was able to land it.
photo by Brendan Smith
After Brendan landed his six pounder, I added another one weighing almost three pounds to our stringer. That made six bass weighing almost 28 pounds - quite a day on the lake!
Details of this trip, including a marked map, will be available in the April issue of Georgia Outdoor News.
For a good article on why Terminator Spinnerbaits are worth the price, check out an article by RichZ.
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