OROVILLE, Calif. — A diversified strategy paid big dividends for Juan Acosta of Tracy, Calif., whose two-day total of 24.19 pounds leads Day 2 of the APEX Cup on Thermalito Afterbay presented by Garmin Fish & Hunt and DUO International.
Placing sixth on Day 1 with 11.82, Acosta surged ahead by adding a second-round limit of 12.37. Day 2 saw him returning to the same area on the south shore, but making an adjustment to find his fish.
“I started on the same stuff I fished on Day 1, but it didn’t pan out, so I literally went across the cove and found these fish,” Acosta said. “I’m kinda junk fishing a little bit; I’m catching them on tules and offshore grass in 3-12 feet.
“Everything’s all in the same area, so I have it all right there. So as I’m going, I’ll see a nice patch of (grass) and I’ll throw my frog and then I’ll flip the tules.”
Acosta caught his grass fish on a Spro Bronzeye Frog in the killer gill color. Day 2 saw the frog produce a single keeper, but it was his biggest — 3 1/2-pounder.
Acosta fished the tules with a 1/2-ounce Beast Coast tungsten jig with a Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver, a Texas-rigged Yamamoto Cowboy with a 1 1/2-ounce weight and a dropshot with a Roboworm in the margarita mutilator color.
Acosta noted that the lake’s full-pool status put a lot of water on the tules. He fared best by targeting tule clumps with 8 feet of water around them.
“The key was to stay out and pick apart the grass...
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