Toledo Bend Bass Champs. Bad winds, big waves and BIG BASS!
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Here it is! The February Bass Champs tournament on Toledo Bend Lake!
Now if you've been fishing Toledo or have been following my social media you guys and gals already know Toledo Bend has been fishing very tough. Between icy cold fronts, heavy fishing pressure and lack of good cover(grass) there aren't as many productive areas as there usually is.
Bass Champs called for a trailering event because of incoming weather. We didn't really know exactly where we wanted to fish until tournament morning. We picked an area that we don't really fish often but knew it would be well protected from the heavy northeast winds. A major front was blowing in around lunch and the winds were going to gust close to 40mph.
We caught 3 big keepers before we had the camera rolling. We started recording about 7:20am after it was safelight, and we could remove our anchor light. (Gotta follow the tournament rules and state boating laws)
We used our livescope to find stumps in two to six feet of water. We would throw chatter baits, square bills and rat l traps around the isolated stumps to catch our bass.
The best bite was right at 7am and ended about 7:45. I did catch a 5 pounder about 1:30 in the heavy rain that gave us a huge upgrade! We placed 16th over all in the tournament.
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Get y’all a Russell marine power pole nav light frees up the socket for the yolotek stick! Nice vid congrats
@lanceduff
9 ай бұрын
I definitely need to! Thank you! It was a fun and cold event.
That had to be a cold and wet boat ride. Congratulations
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
It was! Especially coming back 😂 Thanks!
Congrats men I enjoyed the video. I must say I love to fish but I also enjoy being warm lol.
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! I’m so tired of these cold fronts coming in on the weekends. Hopefully one of these weekends it will be warm and dry 😂
@dustinperkins5167
2 жыл бұрын
I got the 400mph bass pro rain suit but I don't think it'll do justice in 20 degree weather lol. I'm looking forward to the 60+ degree water temps.
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve got two 100mph suits. That red one is like from 2004. My other one is from about 2011. The 2011 one is wore out 😂 I’m glad the old one didn’t leak. I put a ton of camp dry on it. That camp dry is a life saver but I agree. 20degree days are TERRIBLE!!!!! I’m so ready for that 60+ myself. Hopefully winter is on it’s way out.
Congratulations brother man I can't wait to get out to Sam Rayburn my boat rebuild is done
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! It’s fishing good. I’m just so tired of these dang weekend cold fronts. I’m up here now but I highly doubt I put my boat in the water. It’s cold and nasty out here. About the same conditions as this day. I ain’t that mad at the fish.
So they’re good at video games I bet
@lanceduff
2 ай бұрын
Yup
There it is! Congratulations bubba
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! It was nasty out there
@rexjohnson8881
2 жыл бұрын
@Lance Duff I see that. Sometimes those make for some good conditions, just no fun being out in it. At least y'all got in the money. I just got in from a project and plan on finally installing my Live. Headed up to O.H. Ivie the week of the 22nd to try and land one of those big girls. They're catching giants over there. A 17.5 pounder was just caught and all of them off of Livescope. Wish I could have gone this month or last for pre-spawn but it is what it is. Went to the Raven the other day and they have the lake drawn way down for construction projects. Fishing was tough
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
@@rexjohnson8881 nice!!! That lake is on fire. I wanna go so bad but with my son I can get away for more than 2 days. Hopefully next year when he gets a little older I can take a road trip. Wow really?! Why do they do this crap while they’re spawning. Those parks and wildlife college degrees are really working for them 🤦🏻♂️
@rexjohnson8881
2 жыл бұрын
@Lance Duff Yeah it is! They're bring double digits in constantly. Maybe we can get together and plan a trip for next year? Two day really isn't enough time since it is a 6.5 hour drive alone. Next year he'll be bigger though and maybe you can break away. I'm not sure if it's still low or not but when I went towards the end of January, it was way down and they just started construction. I saw a lot of nice laydowns and cover that I've never seen before though so at least some good came of it.
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
@@rexjohnson8881 next year would definitely be easier. I agree. At least 3 to 4 days it’s about 7.5 hours from me. Definitely wanna make it worth it. That’s a good thing. Hopefully they don’t mess with the water levels anytime soon and let those bass spawn
Good Stuff...
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! It was a cold and windy day of bass fishin!
That lake can get bad fast!!
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
It sure can!!!! About 1pm it was real sketchy but we never left the cove.
@AllenOutdoors868
2 жыл бұрын
@@lanceduff Stay safe down there
I know I'm a little late lance good job 18 pds I would like to be in one of those tournaments hey lance I've never been in a tournament. I hope you guys made a little money and good luck in your next tournament.god bless you and your family and my buddy Micky. . Ps lance bro you seem like such an awesome guy. I always hit the like button. Good job I'm glad you guys made some money to pay the bills.
@lanceduff
Жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! It’s all good. Better late than never LOL. The tournaments are open to anyone. All you gotta do is pay the entry fee and sometimes a membership. Us too. Hopefully in March will win a few dollars. Thanks bud. Oh yeah we we’re pretty happy on this day. God bless
What should I use in February on Toledo bend and where?
@lanceduff
Жыл бұрын
Go to my Toledo bends playlist and watch the very first video. This video was recorded the second week of February if I remember correctly. As far as fishing big coves where you know they will be spawning. February is either early spawn or prespawn depending on how the cold fronts move in.
Congrats bud
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks man
That’s Christine Fischer on the kayak
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe so. Those kayakers were all over the place! Some of them were really loaded out! Seen several with livescope and 360s on them.
What day did u fish
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
February 12th. It was on a Saturday
I am going crappie fishing on Teledo bend do you know any good spots? Or where the crappie’s would be?
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
La nana bay is full of crappie! Every year there is a major crappie spawn in there. It’s happening now. Fish 3 to 6’ of water and throw black and chartreuse tail grubs. Just fish coves and shorelines where you’d think they’d be spawning.
@mortonoutdoors2016
2 жыл бұрын
@@lanceduff thank you do you think live bait would work?
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
@@mortonoutdoors2016 oh yes it will. Live minnows always works.
@mortonoutdoors2016
2 жыл бұрын
@@lanceduff thank you once again for answering my questions
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
@@mortonoutdoors2016 anytime! Hope you whack em!
Whats water temperature
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
On this day it was 51 to 54
Do u live in Louisiana or Texas
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Texas!
Fire that jig across the bow no reason for that I thought you was at Rayburn at first lol people have no respect good catch in bad conditions $$
@lanceduff
2 жыл бұрын
Man the lord knows I wanted too LOL! It doesn’t take much effort to show a little respect to other boats. I don’t get it. Just after he pulled that little stunt is when I caught our kicker. Thanks bud! Hopefully we can get another big sack soon!