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The final tournament of the year saw 12 boats and 17 anglers fishing under adverse conditions with cool temperatures, rain and wind. Water temperature were a seasonable low 60's. The largemouth bite was good but the smallies just didn't cooperate with half of the anglers blanking and only two limits brought to the scales.
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Finishing first with 12.54 pounds was Ken
Ganancial.. This was Kenny's second victory of the year, his 20th
overall which wrapped up his seventh Angler of the Year title.
Kenny said, "I fished all over the
In
second place with 11.69 pounds and the second angler with a 5 fish limit
was Shawn McDaniel. Shawn said, "I was struggling until
about 12:30 when I caught my first fish on a jig in about 28 feet.
After another half an hour I gave up on rock and decided to fish some
bridge pilings. In the first 5 minutes I had my second fish and
began to catch one after the other. 30 minutes later I had my 5.
From there I decided to try some deep docks and ended up catching 4 more
and culled twice. It ended up being a real good day. All of
my fish were caught on drop shot in 25 to 30 ft. It just goes to
show you that sometimes you have to change it up if things aren't
happening for you".
Finishing
third with four fish weighing 7.25 pounds was Jaymee Strasbaugh.
Jaymee said, ........ .......................... .................
Finishing
fourth with three largemouths weighing 6.35 pounds was Doug Jorgensen. Doug said, "I
fished for largemouths figuring the warm water temp (61) would have them
active. I caught about 10 largemouth, but only 3 would keep.
I caught all my fish on spinnerbaits where the weeds break from right at
the surface to 10 feet deep while fishing the east channel and the north
end of the lake. Edges of flats was key to finding fish".
Rounding
out the top five was Luke Morgan with two smallies weighing 4.25 pounds.
Luke said, .........