Wes Logan's Pattern, Baits & Gear
Wes Logan topped the leaderboard headed into the final round, but the quantity and quality of bites dropped off substantially. "I only caught the five keepers and two shorts," he said. "I'd been catching eight or nine keepers a day. I knew I'd beat on the area really bad - along with about four other people. "I didn't have a great practice; I didn't catch that many flipping. The two areas I focused on, I caught three in one and two in the other so I just bunkered down in those. I'd never done very good here before and I think it's because I ran around to much. Finding a group of fish is where it's at on Guntersville."
He fished a lot of "trash mats" that featured a mix of eelgrass, dead hydrilla and milfoil. Most of his bites came from the 4-foot depth range. "I never could get anything going really shallow. I didn't spend a lot of time on it and it may have hurt me, but I did what I had confidence in."
Gear:
Flipping gear: 7'10" heavy-action Ark Randall Tharp Series Guntersville Special rod, Lew's Pro Ti casting reel (7.5:1 ratio), 60-pound Sunline FX2 braided line, 1 1/2-ounce Ark tungsten weight, 4/0 straight-shank flipping hook, various creature baits.
He caught a few weigh-in fish from grass flats on a 1/4-ounce Dirty Jigs Canterbury Buzzbait (white) with a Zoom Z Craw Jr. trailer (white).
Bassmaster Elite Tour Lake Guntersville 2-5 Patterns - BassFan 10/7/20 (John Johnson)
