Lee Livesay went into the day sitting in third. He’s not having a big-fish morning, but he has a limit in the live well for about an estimated 13 1/2 pounds. He is fishing the north edge of Lake George, and he just landed his last three fish doing the craziest thing: He’s flipping over a concrete dock and then trying to swing the bass over the structure when they bite.
He’s just Power-Poled down on one side of the dock, flipping as far as he can on the other side of the dock and whacking on them.
The last bass he landed was a over 5 pounds, and Livesay was unable to swing it over the dock. So he had to lay down and use the rod to pull the 50-pound Hi-Seas braid into reach while the bass just sort of laid there waiting.
“She just gave up,” Livesay said. “She was barely hooked, too.”
Why the unconventional approach?
“I’m a rookie,” Livesay said. “I have to do something different.”