After a move down lake, Johnston has found a group of quality bass. His third bass was a 3-12 and shortly after he landed another big smallie that he entered in BassTrakk as a 3-14. Right before 9 o’clock he filled his limit before landing another bass over 3 pounds. Unofficially he has 13-10 and a total of 65-2.
While it was not productive yesterday, Johnston has returned to his primary area today, and it has obviously reloaded.
Johnston had struggles getting groups of smallies to bite yesterday. He could see them on his forward-facing sonar but could not get the stubborn fish to bite, no matter how hard he tried.
Today, that doesn’t seem to be the case as he’s landed a limit and more before 9:30 a.m. Johnston noted during weigh-in that a Spro CJ Smasher has been one of his primary baits this week as well as a couple other baits.
Sitting here in the camera boat, we have seen some smallies come up and break the surface, so there seems to be plenty of activity in this area.
Wind is beginning to pick up some as well, another key for Johnston’s bite.
