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Boats
Air Temp: mid to upper 80's
Winds: NE 5mph-Gust 15mph"
Sky: Overcast Scattered Showers
Humidity: 79%
Barometer: 30.00
Moon: Waning Crescent 7% of Full
Water Temp: 83-87
1st Place Boater Phillip Puryear
Boater
Phillip Puryear from Hanson, Kentucky bested the field of Anglers
with a five fish limit weighing 16 pounds and 1 ounce.
"I was fishing drop offs all day" said Puryear
" I tried to stay with an area that I was confident held fish
but there wasn't shad moving like there was during
practice." The lack of bait fish caused Puryear to
change his plans "I just started moving around to
different drops until I found some shad" said Puryear
"The Best drop I hit was on the main lake and the top was in
about five feet of water dropping to twenty feet. I threw
worms, jigs and crankbaits but the only bait I caught keeper fish on
was a jig."
2nd Place boater James Turner
James
Turner of Nortonville, Kentucky grabbed the second place position
with a five fish limit weighing 15 pounds 15 ounces. Turner
was paired with another boater and they fished his spots till
about 9:30 with little for their efforts they then switched to
Turner's areas. "The first area we pulled up too I
caught my two best fish of the day." said Turner
"I was popping a Jig on shallow ledges on Barkley Lake.
The ledges were five to six feet on top dropping off to about
twenty feet" Turner also mentioned that a couple of fish came
off big worms on the drops.
3rd place boater Steve Freeman
Coming
in third place was Steve Freeman of Eddyville, Kentucky with a
five fish limit weighing 15 pounds 3 ounces. "I ran to
Barkley and fished ledges throwing jig." said
Freeman "My partner caught most of his fish on a big
worm but mine came off a black and blue 1/2 ounce jig"
Steve's Co-Angler came in first place (see below) "We
caught fish pretty much all day. My Co-Angler had ten pounds in
the boat be fore I had a fish" said Freeman
"I was fishing shallow ledges drooping to 15 feet with brush
on top" The finish positioned Freeman 2nd place in the
point standings.
1st place non-boater Rick Holt
First Place on the non-boater side was Rick Holt of Camden,
Tennessee. He had a three fish limit weighing 10lbs 9
ounces. As mentioned above Rick caught most of his fish on a
big worm but he did report catching a couple on a jig. "
Really we caught fish on several baits. We were getting ready to
leave an area that had a tremendous amount of fish on it and I
threw out a topwater bait out and caught a keeper" Rick
reported catching five keeper fish during the day. Rick currently
leads the points race on the co-angler side.
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