There is really only one trend from day two that sticks out to me as notable here at the Forrest Wood Cup, and that is that if you were to watch the FLW Tour pros fish, you might think it should be the FLW Crappie Tour. That’s what the fishing looks like.
I watched about a dozen pros fish today, and aside from a couple who were casting to schooling fish, most of them were either parked on top of a brush pile, fishing vertically, or making short casts with light spinning tackle to brush piles. Go to a one-pole crappie tournament on a reservoir in this country and it would probably look the same.
The brush-pile bite is the dominant pattern. I’m amazed at how well the pros can find these brush piles in a short amount of time and then determine which brush piles hold the “right” fish. The “right” fish would be the biggest ones and the active ones.
Saturday and Sunday, however, it might be a bit more difficult to fish some of those brush piles if they are on the main lake. The boat traffic today midday and early afternoon was getting heavy. It’s going to be busy this weekend, so I expect that will make it a bigger challenge to get on and stay on a good spot. But these guys are the best, so I suspect they’ll manage just fine.
