We now know more about what Alton Jones calls the finest spot he’s ever fished in 26 years of B.A.S.S. competition.
He’s fishing a rockpile at the end of a jetty running across an expansive grass flat. The recent rainfall and higher water has created swift current from the river. As a result, the bass are positioning on the down current side to seek refuge from the current. On normal river levels the jetty is out of the water.
Not surprisingly, Jones is casting a Texas-rigged Yum Dinger into the calmer water behind the rockpile to catch his bass.
Local anglers appropriately call the area “The Rock Box.”