The BASSTrakk leaderboard is already lighting up; so much for the gloom and doom predictions from yesterday’s Dock Talk.
Photographer Shane Durrance is on Brandon Card, in this cell phone picture proudly holding the largemouth weighing 3 pounds, 12 ounces that just went into his livewell.
Key to the spot is location. Card is slowly fishing a wacky rig along a bluff bank, targeting isolated laydowns used as ambush points by the largemouth, as the baitfish move into the creek.
What else is key is this: Shane’s boat driver, a local tournament angler, said “nobody ever fishes here.” Why is that a big deal? Because this lake has been through more pressure than normal.
Last spring, and after the COVID home quarantine regulations were lifted here, I came to fish with Carl Jocumsen. We finally found a boat ramp with an available parking spot after visiting the third ramp, and that was on a Wednesday. The fishing pressure has been intense, so Card’s choice of spots, as in getting away from the areas prone to fishing pressure, might be a good thing.
Coincidentally, this was Card’s first keeper of the week.
