Big Bass Bash Day 2 -Tom Smith Hangs on to Win $100,000

Tournament Results On April 30, 2019

General Information
Date	April 30, 2019	Reporter	Bob
Number of Boats	3000	Location	All Lake

Weather/Water Conditions
Water Temperature	59-66	Sky	Mostly Cloudy
Air Temperature	40-50's	Generation	Heavy

Tournament Results
Placement	Angler(s) Name	Total Keepers	Total Weight
1^st Place	Tom Smith	1 Weighed at Ivy Bend	7.93
2^nd Place	Winston Cresswell	1 Weighed at PB2	7.11
3^rd Place	Kylre Fehrmand	1 Weighed at Red Oak	7.06

Big Bass Award
1^st Place	Big Bass Winner Name	Big Bass Weight
1^st Place

Tournament Notes
After catching his 7.93 big bass in the first period on Saturday, Tom’s big fish held up to be the biggest fish of the two day Big Bass Bash and took home $100,000 for the big bass of the tournament. Tom reported catching his big bass on a Crock-o-Gator Swamp Bug rigged on a Crock-o-Gator Shaker Head. Check out the video on the Swamp Bughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQIfSh1h1Q On Sunday the bite was much tougher than Saturday. Saturday night a small cold front blew in and moved the fish off the bank and shut down the bite a bit at least from the big ones. Saturday there were three 7 pounders weighed in and several 6 pounders, today there was only one 6 pounder weighed in all day and it was weighed in the last time period after the sun had been out for a while. The anglers that I talked with caught their money fish on spinner baits, crank baits, top water baits, swim baits and bottom baits, including the shaky head worm, jigs and creature baits, texas rigged and carolina rigged. Big bites came from many areas of the lake and types of banks, from the backs of creeks and side pockets on banks and secondary points leading to spawning areas to main lake big fish as well. While Alhonna had the most fish weighed in this weekend, it seemed the entire lake fished well as the top 3 finishers were weighed at three different weigh in locations. Alhonna area has bigger water and a more anglers fish that area due to most residential/condo’s and resorts in the area, so it seems natural that there would be more fish weighed in that area. See full results at https://midwestfishtournaments.com/bbb-live-leaderboard/

Tournament Notes

After catching his 7.93 big bass in the first period on Saturday, Tom’s big fish held up to be the biggest fish of the two day Big Bass Bash and took home $100,000 for the big bass of the tournament. Tom reported catching his big bass on a Crock-o-Gator Swamp Bug rigged on a Crock-o-Gator Shaker Head.

Check out the video on the Swamp Bughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQIfSh1h1Q

On Sunday the bite was much tougher than Saturday. Saturday night a small cold front blew in and moved the fish off the bank and shut down the bite a bit at least from the big ones. Saturday there were three 7 pounders weighed in and several 6 pounders, today there was only one 6 pounder weighed in all day and it was weighed in the last time period after the sun had been out for a while.

The anglers that I talked with caught their money fish on spinner baits, crank baits, top water baits, swim baits and bottom baits, including the shaky head worm, jigs and creature baits, texas rigged and carolina rigged.

Big bites came from many areas of the lake and types of banks, from the backs of creeks and side pockets on banks and secondary points leading to spawning areas to main lake big fish as well.

While Alhonna had the most fish weighed in this weekend, it seemed the entire lake fished well as the top 3 finishers were weighed at three different weigh in locations. Alhonna area has bigger water and a more anglers fish that area due to most residential/condo’s and resorts in the area, so it seems natural that there would be more fish weighed in that area.

See full results at https://midwestfishtournaments.com/bbb-live-leaderboard/

Big Bass Bash Day 2 -Tom Smith Hangs on to Win $100,000

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