TW_Staff
11-24-2008, 01:49 PM
Louisiana’s Greg Hackney hammers home East-West Fish-Off win with a 109-6lb 3 day total.
The Walmart FLW Series East-West Fish-Off was designed around head-to-head matchups for Forrest Wood Cup berths to offer a multitude of competitions between FLW Series Eastern and Western pros for added excitement.
Winning Pattern:
The first was a submerged pond dam and the other was big flat, which was crowned with a fence row and gravel road bed before falling off into the main channel.
“The main thing that both areas had in common was a hard clean bottom that dropped off vertically into deep water,” Hackney explained. “All those big fish were sitting up on top of the hard bottom in 10 to 20 feet of water right where it fell off into deeper water.”
Hackney’s primary weapon all week was a pair of 10-inch Strike King Rage Tail Anaconda (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=SKRA) worms (Bama bug and red bug) topped with ½-ounce and 3/8-ounce sinkers.
Worm gear: 7'2" heavy-action Quantum Greg Hackney Signature Series Senko rod and 7'11" heavy-action Quantum Greg Hackney Signature Series flipping rod (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=QSSCR), Quantum Tour Edition PT casting reel (7.0:1), 20-pound Gamma Edge fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=GEF), 3/8- and 1/2-ounce Tru-Tungsten Denny Brauer Flippin' Weights (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=TTFW)(black), 5/0 and 6/0 Youvella extra-wide-gap hooks (black nickel)
“The whole key was to keep that worm in constant contact with the bottom,” he said. “I never lifted my rod or raised it to swim the worm at all. I held my rod in one position and barely crept the worm along the bottom with the reel only. If the worm lifted off the bottom, they would not eat it; it had to be crawling on the bottom.
Terry Bolton:
Bolton targeted fish relating to an old road bed.
“The road bed was probably on dry land before the water came up,” he said. “But I think it kind of intersected with the old shoreline; it was a hard, clean bottom, and they were loaded on it.”
Bolton’s two main lures were a 10-inch Zoom Old Monster (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=ZOM) topped with a ½-ounce Tru-tungsten weight (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=TTBW) and a Rapala DT-20 crankbait (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=RDTSS) in chartreuse and brown. He fished the Old Monster on 20-pound-test Trilene 100% fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=BTFCC) and the crankbait on 12-pound-test Trilene 100% fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=BTFCC).
David Fritts:
The Chevy pro spent the week cranking a DT-14 (brown bone and hot mustard) on 14-pound test Suffix line around the tops of submerged bushes.
Chris Baumgardner:
Baumgardner’s main pattern all week was to fish “point bushes” with a spinnerbait – a ½-ounce homemade model, featuring a white and chartreuse skirt.
“The fish were suspended in the tops of those point bushes out on the main lake,” Baumgardner said. “I was only getting seven or eight bites a day, but they were all big ones.”
Koby Kreiger:
Kreiger’s primary Falcon pattern was to fish “fluffy” mainlake bushes with a 1-ounce Oldham’s spinnerbait and a Zoom Brush Hog (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=ZBBH).
“The biggest, bushiest flooded trees were the best,” Kreiger said. “The fish were suspended around the tops of them and the spinnerbait did most of the damage.”
TW Staff
The Walmart FLW Series East-West Fish-Off was designed around head-to-head matchups for Forrest Wood Cup berths to offer a multitude of competitions between FLW Series Eastern and Western pros for added excitement.
Winning Pattern:
The first was a submerged pond dam and the other was big flat, which was crowned with a fence row and gravel road bed before falling off into the main channel.
“The main thing that both areas had in common was a hard clean bottom that dropped off vertically into deep water,” Hackney explained. “All those big fish were sitting up on top of the hard bottom in 10 to 20 feet of water right where it fell off into deeper water.”
Hackney’s primary weapon all week was a pair of 10-inch Strike King Rage Tail Anaconda (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=SKRA) worms (Bama bug and red bug) topped with ½-ounce and 3/8-ounce sinkers.
Worm gear: 7'2" heavy-action Quantum Greg Hackney Signature Series Senko rod and 7'11" heavy-action Quantum Greg Hackney Signature Series flipping rod (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=QSSCR), Quantum Tour Edition PT casting reel (7.0:1), 20-pound Gamma Edge fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=GEF), 3/8- and 1/2-ounce Tru-Tungsten Denny Brauer Flippin' Weights (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=TTFW)(black), 5/0 and 6/0 Youvella extra-wide-gap hooks (black nickel)
“The whole key was to keep that worm in constant contact with the bottom,” he said. “I never lifted my rod or raised it to swim the worm at all. I held my rod in one position and barely crept the worm along the bottom with the reel only. If the worm lifted off the bottom, they would not eat it; it had to be crawling on the bottom.
Terry Bolton:
Bolton targeted fish relating to an old road bed.
“The road bed was probably on dry land before the water came up,” he said. “But I think it kind of intersected with the old shoreline; it was a hard, clean bottom, and they were loaded on it.”
Bolton’s two main lures were a 10-inch Zoom Old Monster (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=ZOM) topped with a ½-ounce Tru-tungsten weight (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=TTBW) and a Rapala DT-20 crankbait (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=RDTSS) in chartreuse and brown. He fished the Old Monster on 20-pound-test Trilene 100% fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=BTFCC) and the crankbait on 12-pound-test Trilene 100% fluorocarbon (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=BTFCC).
David Fritts:
The Chevy pro spent the week cranking a DT-14 (brown bone and hot mustard) on 14-pound test Suffix line around the tops of submerged bushes.
Chris Baumgardner:
Baumgardner’s main pattern all week was to fish “point bushes” with a spinnerbait – a ½-ounce homemade model, featuring a white and chartreuse skirt.
“The fish were suspended in the tops of those point bushes out on the main lake,” Baumgardner said. “I was only getting seven or eight bites a day, but they were all big ones.”
Koby Kreiger:
Kreiger’s primary Falcon pattern was to fish “fluffy” mainlake bushes with a 1-ounce Oldham’s spinnerbait and a Zoom Brush Hog (http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=ZBBH).
“The biggest, bushiest flooded trees were the best,” Kreiger said. “The fish were suspended around the tops of them and the spinnerbait did most of the damage.”
TW Staff