The lake is beautiful and holds giant smallmouth and largemouth in it. I only had a few hours so I fished one section of the lake trying to find something for next week. I'll make one more pre-fish trip out there and spend it fishing for largemouth because that should be the way to catch the 20+lbs it should take to win. You can get 20lbs with smallmouth, but with largemouth it is a little easier....if you can find the good ones.
I was fishing for smallmouth exclusively yesterday, just to check it out and see if it is worth my time during next week's tournament. I was focusing on water from 15-35feet and they were everywhere I went. No big ones, but plenty of 1.5-2.5lb fish on drop shot. These are the kinds of areas I was targeting: underwater points and humps.
If you ever have a chance to come up and fish it, do it. It is a great fishery.
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