Weather Conditions:

Low – 64

High – 88

Clouds early, Clearing to Mostly Sunny

Wind – Southwest 5-10mph

Well the 2014 SBBC season is officially halfway over. The 5^th tournament of the year took place at Black River Lake. This tournament is always one of the best of the year. Black River Lake usually produces more limits than any other tournament throughout the year. It is actually 3 lakes (Black River Lake, Cocodrie Lake, and Horseshoe Lake) combined by different bayous when it was all said and done all 3 lakes played a role in the top results. We had 30 anglers show up bright and early for our 5^th tournament. Black River Lake was unusually muddy this year which changed up the way it usually fishes, but that didn’t stop 2 time Black River Lake champion Wallace Woodson from bringing in his usual sack of big fish.

Wallace was able to scratch and claw and put together the winning sack. His fish weighed 12.74lbs. Anchored by his 4.74lb pig which was caught first thing that morning. All of his fish came out of Black River Lake and were all caught on top water, his two biggest fish coming on a chug bug and the rest on a frog. This is Wallace’s 3^rd win at Black River Lake in 5 tournaments. I would have to say he has got this place figured out pretty well. I considered renaming the article from “Winning Ways-Black River Lake” to “Here is what Wallace Woodson did to kick our tails here again.” We will have to see what we can do to change things up a little bit next year for him. Possibly make him take off last or just make him fish off the bank (Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated). Hot on his heels was new comer Brian White with 12.6lbs. Brain stayed in Horseshoe Lake all day flipping a jig around cypress trees. All of his fish were caught before 10:30. He also had a 4lb plus fish anchoring his bag. Not too bad for someone who had never set foot on the lake! Third place went to Jeff Greuhl with 11.92lbs. Jeff stayed in Cross Bayou all day flipping a black/red creature bait around cypress trees. Jeff said he caught between 15-20 fish all day. Finishing out the top five were Michael Watts with 11.7lbs and Jason Brown with 11.44lbs. Michael also had big fish of the day. His 5.01lb toad was caught on a jig in a tree top.

Overall Black River Lake lived up to its reputation with a total of 21 limits being brought to the scales. The overall total of fish weighed in was 123 for an average weight of 1.95lbs. 70% of our anglers had a 5 fish limit. Lots of anglers claimed to have caught anywhere from 15 to 30 fish throughout the day. That’s really good considering the water conditions and the boat traffic conditions. At times Black River Lake looked like Toledo Bend on a 30mph windy day. I seen a good quote on Facebook that would describe our day on lake…. Memorial Day weekend on the lake calls for topwater in the morning and tracer rounds in the afternoon!!!!!

With the season halfway over now, the point standings are as follows: Two time AOY Wallace Woodson is still leading and beginning to separate himself from the rest of the pack. With 4 tournaments left a lot can still happen!!! Our next tournament will be at Cane River out of Shell Beach on 6/21.

Always pay attention to the details. The details are the difference between 1^st and 10^th place!!!!

See below link for the video of tournament. I forgot to delete previous videos off my camera so there isn’t much footage this time.

 

Brandon Nugent