Hey Guys,

  I just got back from lake Eufaula and had a blast. We had our second qualifier of the year there to see who will represent Troy in the College tournaments. Going into this event I was leading the points system by winning at Miller's Ferry. I was filling good comign into the event but didn't get to practice so I was a little nervous. I studied the lake and weather to see what it was doing to help me level the playing field. I learned that the lake had rose a foot in teh last few days and a mass front was coming in. So looked over notes and read books to see what the bass "should" do and geared up for the lake.

  Everyone makes it to the launch site on time and we are all ready to go. We blast off. I simply turn around and start fishing the creek that we came out of. I like this creek and knew it had enough to it to put together a pattern or find a strong spot.

  I fish down the bank with my partner at a fast pace with a spinnerbait. I get a little lucky in my experimenting cause early on I learned that the bass would crush a white spinnerbait in the top 6inchs of the water column on grassy points. 30 minutes into the day I hook it a 4lber and into teh livewell he goes. Great start  ;D

  We catch a few small ones and am now driving from point to point not wasting anytime on anything else. At a large wind blown point I have a huge bass come out of the water on my blade...but never hooked up  :-?. I think I froze alittle  . Save that point for later. Move to the next one. We go through a few hours dead spell when I lost 3 fish. I was a little messed up.

  To start clean I reset to where we started and tried to see if a few places reloaded. The wind was getting strong by the minute and I'm glad that it did. I was still throwing the blade but I adjusted my casting angle so that the spinnerbait came with the wind. We also began targeting only the larger grassy points with sparce grass. Those adjustments made all the difference We went from two fish in the boat at 10am to 15lbs at 1pm. We learned that the point that the big one was on that I lost earlier held a school of large bass.

  We would fish through it catching two 3lbers each time we hit it. We'd leave for an hour to look for other places like it and then return. In the inbetween times I hooked a 4 but lost it. I had a hard time getting fish in the boat so when we made our last pass on that point and culled the last small keeper, I looked in the livewell and was shocked at the weight that we had. I guess I was thinking of catching 20lbs so bad that those 3lbers I was catching didn't seem as big to me.  

  We got to show off some beautiful Eufaula bass at weigh in. We weighed in 15lbs 7 oz to take first place and qualify to fish for Troy U. in the college tournaments this year. I'm extremely excited about how efficient i was able to fish and how well I used the knowledge I came across before the tournament. I'm learning guys  ;D  lol.

Mottfia

    Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

    I hope you do good in future college tournaments!!!!!

     

Awsome dude!! Keep up the good work and I hope you go far. I plan on fishing college myself, when I get there so I love hearing about college tournaments.

A dead on pattern.  Unfortunately I was fishing against you. I can't skimp on the three chunks I caught, they were healthy  hearty fish. I just made the unwise decision to stick with a bait too long >. Great job out there. I look forward to Lake Jordan next month.  ;D

You know... you guys at Troy got it going on. Guntersville right up the road. The 'Hooch chain (West Point, Eufala and Seminole) right next door and lets not forget the Coosa chain (Weiss, Neely Henry, Logan Martin, etc.). I am wondering if it is possible to pick a better location for a college bass fishing team. Seriously. Maybe somewhere in Texas, but I doubt it.

(I had to sneak away from college to fish. My have times changed)

excellent!  these are the kind of posts we can learn from.  liked the way you broke down your thought process.  congrats.

You know... you guys at Troy got it going on. Guntersville right up the road. The 'Hooch chain (West Point, Eufala and Seminole) right next door and lets not forget the Coosa chain (Weiss, Neely Henry, Logan Martin, etc.). I am wondering if it is possible to pick a better location for a college bass fishing team. Seriously. Maybe somewhere in Texas, but I doubt it.

(I had to sneak away from college to fish. My have times changed)

It's hard to always go to class. We have a great multitude of lakes at our fingertips. Jordan (my favorite) is coming up as our last qualifier. Then it's own to the collegiate trail. I love our location. I grew up fishing Columbia Lake on the Hootch, which is actually holding big heads right now. Its not SUPER close to anyone but a little drive is just part of the fishing experience to me  ;D.

excellent! these are the kind of posts we can learn from. liked the way you broke down your thought process. congrats.

I agree Paul, good stuff here...and congrats Mottfia!

Congrats!

Nice work Mottfia, 15-7 is a great stringer!

Roger

Very nice. Great job.  

Great job man.  I am glad you had a great day.