“This could be the best ever Bassmaster craziness, besides maybe Florida,” said Dave Lefebre, after bagging 24-1.
“You’ll see some monumental stringers,” said Kevin VanDam, who has topped 20 pounds both days. “This is one of the best lakes in the country, and our timing is pretty good. If the water was high, you’d see freak-show stuff here.”
“I caught some (Friday) that when you squeezed them, eggs were squirting out of them,” said Brandon Lester, after sacking 26-3. “This moon, the way the weather is setting up, I think it’s going to be the perfect storm.”
So what exactly would a “perfect storm” be on Grand Lake? Well, a 30-pound bag is definitely possible. Lefebre was lamenting a 6-pounder he lost on a boat-flip late yesterday that would have put him near 27 pounds for the day.
“Thirty pounds is way possible here,” Lefebre said. “My big bass was 6-1, and I had three fish like that. You can definitely catch five of those bass, especially the way the weather is. More fish are coming. You can’t script it any better than this.”
VanDam explained the significance of this near perfect timing on a top-ranked bass fishery like Grand Lake, saying, “You can say what you want about other lakes. Rayburn is hard to beat. This lake may not have a bunch of 10-, 11-pounders in it, but it has as many 4- to 7-pounders as any place we go.”
Today at 9 a.m. VanDam has 17-9, anchored by a 5-7, so the perfect storm of bass fishing at Grand Lake may well be upon us.