Saturday, November 28, 2009

Lee Hillman puts Bass 2.0 in the top 2

Lee Hillman finished in 2ND place in the first ever Louisisana Fishing Buddies tournament. Held on November 28Th on the East Pearl in Slidell, La. With 5 fish going 10.49 lbs Lee was only missing a kicker to put him over the first place team who had 5 fish going 12.29 lbs. Lee had his 5 fish limit in the first 1 hour of the tournament. Lee said " I was fishing a ditch off the river and stay there for 4.5 hours catching about 45 fish in the same spot. I must of had over 4 limits of weigh fish. Its was unreal. I started off using a June Bug Zoom trick worm with a 3/8 oz weight and was catching them every other cast. When I didn't get a bite I picked up a 1/4 oz Red eye shad trap and was catching them almost every cast. I was fishing a ditch that went from 3 feet to 8 with under water grass just before the drop off. I would cast into the shallow water and let it sink down the edge. If they wouldn't hit it on the fall they sure would crash it slow rolling it back to the boat. The water temp was 54.5 and the air temp Early was around 44. The falling tide with water rolling out of the ditch played a key part. After the bite slowed down and I wasn't culling I decided to flipping a 3/8oz black and blue jig. I did some running and gunning to see if I could find a kicker in the last 2.5 hours but was only able to get 4 more bites and none would help what I had already in the live well. The winter time is when I love to use them r-trap baits. I have won alot of money in the winter time with those baits. This is just one more of them outstanding days. Its not to often you can catch a limit in the frist hour. I did try tossing a bigger trap to see if the biger fish wanted something bigger but, never could get a bait with the bigger trp. I guess its true size does matter. Only thing is in fishing the winter you want to down size and thats where the bites came from a smaller size trap." Congrats on a job well done and putting Bass 2.0 on the board.