Toledo Bend and Blind Hogs

Posted by ken on May 9, 2017

A guy can only fish so many things and this year I just was not able to fish all of the Cowboy BFL tournaments, so I have paid several entry fees where I couldn't fish to qualify for the wild card tournament this fall. The rules have changed and now you must fish at least two events, since I was down at my new place on Rayburn getting some work done Friday I decided to fish the Toledo tournament Saturday to get my second tournament out of the way, so I showed up at Toledo after not having been there in, 5-6-7 weeks, a really long time. The tournament went out of the north end of the lake and with the water a bit high my inclination was to just run over to Martinez and flip bushes, but last time I was in there i didn't do much so I decided, literally as we put it on pad as boat number 130 to go south to the grass. I had not even pulled a rod out of the rod box that morning before we took off because I couldn't decide where I was headed, so when we got down south I pulled a square bill out and went blind hog fishing....and maybe got a little lucky. Although it took a while I was able to cobble together a limit by around 11:00, then I went out deep and culled twice on a Carolina Rig, weighed in a whopping 14-11, but it was tough and that was good enough for 9th on the Pro side. We have Basschamps back down there this weekend and I just don't see anyway possible to catch 30+ over shallow grass, which is what i think it will take to win unless the wind is blowing 25+. Since a $600 check is not going to change much for us I think we are just going to go out deep on the mainlake and see what bites, now don't think I don't want to get a check of any kind, but if your aren't fishing to win this time of year, you almost certainly will not....so I will report next week prior to the McDonald's Big Bass what we are able to find. Good fishing!