Dave Lefebre has a secret weapon in his arsenal today. On Friday with 21-3 in the bag early Lefebre had some time to kill. Wood structure has been one of the key bass-holding targets in the vast Fox Creek backwater area where Lefebre has caught all of his 60 pounds, 9 ounces this week.
Before doing anything, Lefebre called B.A.S.S. tournament director Trip Weldon to make certain it was legal to do what he was considering. Weldon informed him that as long as it didn’t violate any local regulations, what he proposed was within the tournament rules. And it’s legal locally too. So Lefebre went to work building some tree houses for bass.
“The key pieces of wood on these flats are way offshore,” Lefebre said. “I’m catching them in a certain type of area. There was a lot of that dead wood that’s in the wrong spot. I had about four hours to goof around, so I hooked that stuff up and drug it into prime areas.”
Lefebre didn’t fish any of his prime wood cover yesterday, either that previously in place or the ones he made.
“I’ve got some brush in the lily pads that every time I fish there I catch a big one,” he said. “I didn’t fish those (Saturday), which is a bonus. There’s six or seven of them. I didn’t touch even one of them.”