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"Ever find a real honey hole while fishing?  A place you could catch fish after fish? ." Ronnie

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At the Kerr Lake Everstart Tournament last June, Arlie Napier took the lead the first day with five bass weighing a little over 16 pounds. He said he pulled up on one hole and lost a five pounder, then put seven bass in the boat on seven casts. Five of them weighed a total of 16 pounds.

Reading that report made me think about past catches when I was lucky enough to find a school of bass holding on structure. Pros like Napier use skill to find them, with me it is luck! But I have found some honey holes over the year.

One of the best was a series of points at Clark’s Hill that Linda and I found in 1975. We landed 78 bass off three points one weekend, including one weighing 6.5 pounds and another at 4.5 pounds. Those three points have paid off many times over the years and I caught my biggest bass of the weekend on my last trip off one of them.

It was amazing. We would pull up on one of those points, crank our Rebel Deep Wee R down and say "there is the bottom, and there is the fish." As soon as the plug hit bottom a bass would hit it. We did that time after time.

Another time at Clark’s Hill I spent the morning pulling and shucking corn with my parents. I got back to the lake at about 4 PM and went out to one of my favorite brush piles. In the next three hours I landed 10 bass weighing 26 pounds from it, including one that weighed a little over six pounds. All those fish hit a black grape worm on a Texas rig.

My best catch ever came off riprap at Oconee. We worked back and forth over the same stretch of rocks and I caught 8 bass weighing 27 pounds, including one weighing 8-11 and another weighing 6-13. The next day I went back to that same stretch of rocks and caught just one bass. It weighed 9-5! All those fish hit a spinnerbait crawled on the rocks.

In a tournament at West Point many years ago I found some fish on a point in Weehadkee Creek and caught a 10 fish limit weighing 16 pounds from it. I sat there all day and made cast after cast, and every so often a bass would hit. I watched Larry Stubbs across the creek doing the same thing I was doing and catching bass on a point over there, and his limit weighed 19 pounds!

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