Like my buddy Jeff Reynolds made the top 10 the final day.Jim Moynagh, Terry Bolton, and on and on. That was one of the coolest things, and fishing with them. It's the old FLW Tour and it was great seeing so many friends I haven't seen in so long. > "It was awesome fishing the Invitational. > "There was so much bait in some of these areas.loaded with bait balls in timber, below the water and you couldn't see them except with ActiveTarget." I wasn't using it to see the fish to make the best lines to make the cast.finding the juice. > "I have Lowrance ActiveTarget and it was really helpful in seeing the timber.very helpful to throw down these rock lines. There wasn't a lot of that, wider flatter points, 2-4' on top – they were on top or right on the edge." > "What I was keying on was the flatter points.not sharp.kind of wide. > Squarebill gear: Same rod and reel, 17-lb fluoro. When it got really gnarly I'd pick the rod tip up and try to speed it up. > "I was contacting the bottom the whole time, feeling it bang off the rocks.slow roll the whole time. The shallowest I probably caught one was 2.5' and the deepest 7' – 3-6' was the key. I caught some off wood that were freestanding stumps, but a lot of stumps were around the rocks I was fishing. The rocks were not smooth river rocks, they were sharp gnarly rocks. ![]() With the wind on day 3 I went ahead and threw 20 and retied all the time. > Vibe jig gear: 7' MH Duckett Pro Series Kelly Jordon Signature Rod, Duckett Paradigm Reel (7.5), 17- and 20-lb fluoro "depending how gnarly the rocks were. All the rest came on a white custom-made 1/2-oz vibrating jig made by a friend of mine with a Lake Fork Live Magic Shad (albino). One was on a YUM Mighty Worm, that giant 10.5-inch trick worm, on a 5/8-oz Epic Swing Head with a 5/0 wide gap hook. > "Of the 15 bass I weighed in, I think 2 were on the Lucky Craft squarebill (chartreuse/green stripe/brown back) although I did get quite a few keepers on it. It depended on where you were.mostly main lake and off-colored water." I was basically down to 3 presentations: a spinnerbait, a vibrating jig and a squarebill, the Lucky Craft BDS2. > "I found some muddy-water fish back in some creeks, I found some clear-water fish, I found some main-lake fish and then found a couple really special spots. I figured the bigger ones were coming, but I had some bigger bites just fishing and was much more fun than looking for bed fish had to take a number at the mouth of the cove. I found about 20 but the biggest I saw was about 3.5. > "I spent 2 hours the 2nd day of practice and found bed fish. There's a million pockets and points, big creeks with clearer water. > "The cover is basically rock, and there's a lot of standing timber in the lake.then a whole bunch of sandy clay. So when you don't have bushes in the water, you look for any other cover you can find because they're gonna spawn.staging areas and spawning areas. > "I thought it's springtime so they'd on the bank and shallow, and there would be water in the was not. It's straightforward – you can put your head down and run a pattern, and it's got some really nice fish. > "I haven't fished there in probably in 23 or 24 or 25 years – I fished an EverStart there in I think the late '90s?, and a Invitational a year or 2 later.did good in both.I just like the lake. They said, 'We have a spot, do you want it?' I was like, 'Heck yeah, I'm mad now!' I got a call on my off day at Murray, the day after I caught 2 bass for 4 lbs which was the most unbelievable day of my fishing career but thats whole 'norther story. > "I found out at the last minute at Murray that I got in off the waiting list. side it's been like 16 years – which shows that never, ever count anyone out who knows how to catch 'em. Kelly Jordon! Not sure exactly how long it's been since he won a tournament since the MLF site doesn't make finding that out easy, but on the B.A.S.S. How Kelly Jordon won the Eufaula, OK MLF Invitational
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