Keith Combs has a new game plan today. Over the past three days, he’s had a 105-mile round trip, south/north pattern. He starts south, where he caught 17 pounds in five casts on a Carolina rig the first day, then he goes north to crank with a Tennessee shad colored Strike King 6XD.
But Combs has realized that his weight has increasingly come from his north spot.
“If I just focus on there, maybe I can catch over 30 (pounds), and maybe make a run at it,” Combs said. “I’m trying to keep my bait in the 12- to 15-foot zone. I’m on big schools of fish, and there’s lots of small ones in there. If you throw a worm, you’ll catch one on almost every cast. But it seems like a crankbait will get a bigger bite on average.”
As mentioned in a previous blog post, Combs pulled up on a spot yesterday that he hadn’t fished in about three years, hooked up but didn’t land two “giants,” then caught one weighing almost 7 pounds. He started today with two 6-pounders, so it appears Combs is mining that 30-pound-bag potential.