West Central Fall Bass League - Lake Andrew

November 6th was our final West Central Fall Bass League of the season. The schedule actually ended the week before but since the weather was decent a few people still wanted to fish. We had 5 boats fishing on Lake Andrew and as usual this season the fishing was tough. One boat was able to catch a 5 fish limit but unfortunately they were late coming back to the weigh in so they were disqualified. Only 3 other fish were caught on the day.

1st - Paul 2 4.00 lbs (approximately)

2nd - Andy & Mike 1 2.56 lbs

Big Bass - Andy Nitchals 2.56 lbs

As you can see the DQ ended up working out very well for us but it's still not the way I want to see it happen. It did move us up into the money but I still would have had big bass regardless. Our day was pretty unproductive obviously. We actually went the first 4 hours and 40 minutes of the 5 hour tournament without a bite. At the end of the day we moved back to a weedline area that we had already fished and almost immediately I hooked into a decent bass. Of course I had to lose that fish for no apparent reason but about 2 casts later I was able to connect with the 1 fish we did catch. I was hoping to catch a limit quick in that last 15 minutes but after that the action was done. The one fish came on a watermelon Sweet Beaver fished in the cabbage.

West Central Fall Bass League - Nest Lake

October 30th marked the final event scheduled for the 2010 West Central Fall Bass League season. We returned to Nest Lake which is where the Fall League kicked off about 2 months ago. After a massive front that moved through earlier in the week expectations for good catches were low and that proved to be true. The water temps had dropped over 10 degrees and the winds had really churned it up. Only 1 limit was brought in by the five teams fishing. With 5 boats fishing there were two spots paid.

1st - Andy Nitchals & Grant King 5 12.60 lbs

2nd - Wayne & Ralph 3 6.08 lbs

Big Bass - Grant King 4.32 lbs

Going into the day I felt that fishing the greenest cabbage we could find would be our best bet to get a limit and that is exactly how it played out. Finding the good green weeds though was difficult and much of the day was spent fishing in seemingly dead water. When we were able to find good weeds though there were a few bites to be had. Our fish ended up coming from 2 areas that were 3 to 6 feet deep. I really struggled personally on the day but Grant was able to clean up and catch most of our fish on a Jackall Cover Craw fished slowly in the weeds.