Ice Bowl #2?

Posted by ken on February 27, 2015

It is not often I blog beforehand but I'm sitting here in my office 11 stories above Central Expressway watching it snow while all my competitors are down practicing. Practice, huh, guess I am going with the blind hog-acorn thing for the first Cowboy BFL for 2015. It has been 7 weeks since I was on Rayburn last when Skip Chancellor and I fished and won the West Ice Bowl January 10th. Funny, although I haven't been down I actually think that may be an advantage. Don't get me wrong, practice is important, but I'm guessing the water temp at Rayburn has probably dropped 6-10 degrees since last Sunday and still dropping. That's going to make any shallow fish either retreat or get really hard to catch. I'm going to start the day deep, probably 18-25 feet and just keep getting deeper until I either get bit or the clock expires. Since I can't get out of Dallas until late this afternoon which will put me at the lake around 10:00 tonight I went ahead last night and went to boat storage and rigged everything. I did tie on 5 shallow baits, a spinnerbait, a chatterbait, a new, unnamed 6th Sense protype shallow crankbait (the one Albert Collins won at Lake of the Pines with a couple weeks ago), a 1/2 ounce Yamamoto Midasu rattling bait, a Tenkuu jerkbait in the 110 size. However those 5 rods are in the bottom of the rod locker, on top and 2 black blue 1 oz football jigs, 1 brown and orange 1 oz football jig, 2 rods rigged for Hog Farmer A-rigs, a 6th Sense 500DD and a Carolina rig. My first 15-20 minutes will be the black blue jig...from there, if the weather is as nasty as the forecast the Hog Farmer A-rig is likely to be a key player in my day, only one way to know, put on 37 layers of clothes, a good pair of gloves, a warm hat and let's go fishing. I will report back Monday.