Category: Pattern Details
Pattern of the Week: Beaver Lake, AR
The pattern used to win last weekend’s FLW Tour event on Beaver Lake, AR – an upland reservoir – was remarkable for two reasons. Winner Matt Arey: a) specifically avoided clear water; and b) fished a jig the entire time. Do jigs work on Beaver? Sure. They catch bass. But this time of year on […]
Why Carolina-Rig the St. Johns? Current
In the course of gathering patterns for places 1-10 for the first two Elite Series events, on the St. Johns River and Okeechobee, we talked to pro Terry Scroggins. One question we asked was a general one: Why do Carolina rigs show up so much in pattern info for the St. Johns? We asked the […]
Details on Oldham’s Falcon Pattern
Jan. 14, 2012 wasn’t a magical day on Texas’ Lake Falcon. To hear Terry Oldham tell it, the conditions weren’t the greatest. Still, he and partner Jamie Buitron weighed 5 fish for 45.52 pounds to win the Bass Champs team tourney there. A crazy huge weight, but was it unusual? Not for that tournament. Theirs […]
