Pickwick turned out some quality largemouth bass for the B. A. S.S. Nation Kayak Series fished there last week, but not on the deep ledge pattern that usually produces in mid-summer.
Joshua Diehl of Grovetown, Ga., won the event with a five-bass catch of 92.5 inches. Kayak tournaments are determined by measuring and photographing the fish on the water, rather than weigh-ins as in traditional bass tournaments.
Diehl topped second-place Coley McGowan of Gadsden by a 4-inch margin. Diehl’s best five bass measured 19.25, 19, 18.25, 18 and 18 inches.
Diehl reported spending most of his time near an offshore island upriver from the Natchez Trace Bridge. He fished submerged grass in 5 to 8 feet, with most coming on a crankbait, unusual in the grass beds.
Diehl actually started his day throwing a Texas-rigged Zoom Speed Worm and boated a couple of fish. However, the vast majority of his 25 bass came on the crankbait.
He said he saw shad breaking on the surface, which keyed him to try the crankbait, a Strike King Hybrid Hunter—and it got hit hard immediately.
“That’s when I realized I should stick to the Hybrid Hunter in the early morning. But the more I threw it, the more they kept eating it.”
Diehl said he had his limit in about 20 minutes. He continued upgrading for the next two hours.
Diehl said he was confident he had found an area with a good population of fish, but he was surprised by their behavior.
“I didn’t expect them to stay shallow all day,” he said. “I expected that, as the heat of the day came up, they would get off the ledge and get into deeper water, but they never did. They stayed up the entire day.”
Diehl said he based his presentation on the advice of a Bassmaster Elite Series veteran from Alabama.
“Gerald Swindle always says ‘In the summertime, speed kills.’ The faster I ran that bait, the harder they hit it. They were reacting big time.
“The faster you move the bait, the less caution the fish show. The bait’s (hitting) the grass, banging and moving in between. They’d just come up and rail it.”
Diehl said he remained on the same 300- to 400-yard stretch all day, moving up and down the length and adjusting with the fish.
“There was a sweet spot, but as the day went on, I think the sweet spot was moving,” he said. “When I started the day, I was in the spot that I knew about; but as that bite died in that location, I started to ease out.
“As I started to ease out toward the deeper water and a little farther down from the island, I started getting bit again. As the sun got hotter, they came out a little farther, but they stayed in the grass.
McGowan’s second-place effort included five bass measuring 20.25, 19, 18, 16.25 and 15 inches. The frequent kayak tourney winner did not give details on his catches.
Brian Delahunty of Fyffe, Ala., finished third with 86.75 inches. His best five measured 19.5, 18.5, 16.75, 16.50 and 15.50.
Fishing a Hobie Pro Angler 14 with the MirageDrive 360 and a Torqueedo 1103 electric motor, Delahunty fished the mid-lake area and targeted submerged grass in 6 to 8 feet. Working one area about 300 yards long by 100 yards wide, he caught approximately 20 bass.
“My Garmin LiveScope helped me pick out the larger strands of submerged grass,” Delahunty said. “You’d look out and see it was 8 feet deep and there’s 2 feet of grass and then there’d be a hump of grass that was 4 feet tall. Those almost always held fish.
“That was instrumental because I could cruise through the grass and every time I saw one of those clumps, I marked it. When I’d come back down through again, there would be another fish on it.”
Delahunty caught all of his bass on a Texas-rigged Zoom Speed Worm with a 1/8-ounce weight. He fished this bait on 15-pound Gamma braid line with a 15-pound Seaguar AbrazX fluorocarbon leader.
Justin Patrick of Arlington, Tenn., caught the day’s biggest bass — a 23.25-incher. See full results at www.bassmaster.com.
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