Lake Oconee, Ga. -Nov.
19, 2005
Going into the
third event of the season, 100 anglers gathered on the cold days in November
during a cold front to fish for the famed Oconee hogs. With a reputation of
the best trolling lake in the country and also with an elite group of
trollers that make it almost impossible for any non-resident to invade in
any kind of bragging rights, it actually happened. As you have read earlier
in other reports, this was going to be the day that trollers came to glory
for the first time this year. If you ever fish for crappie when one week the
temperature is in the eighties and two days before a tournament it drops to
fifty with winds to go with it, you know what happens, the fish virtually
shut down during the pre-fish days for most people, getting better on
tournament day. But when things get tough the tough get tougher as the
LUGOFF, S.C. team of Joe Branham and David Padgett did. What is so good for
tournament fishing is that the duo did it with one pole a piece. It doesn't
matter if you have one or sixteen poles, when your game plays in your hands
you can show your stuff. Joe and David were fishing the standing timber in
Sugar Creek to come out on top with 14.80 lbs. of toads.
Almost doing it
for the trollers but just short of their goal was the Georgia team of Allen
Brown and Rick Howard. The two were trolling double rigged jigs in between
the bridges in Lick Creek. The bridesmaids boated 14.57lbs.
Always getting a
payback on this lake is the male and female team of Danny and Beth Williams
also from Georgia. Once again a top trolling team in the south, the two were
fishing somewhere but I don't know for sure, but it was a good place. The
two netted 13.96lbs. to capture third place along with top male and female
team plus a 2.39lb. crap to take big fish honors for the tournament and also
for the year so far.
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