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Scott Martin
Martin comes up short
 When
day-three leader Art Ferguson left the door open with a paltry 7-pound, 11-ounce
catch today, Dudley was not the only one who took advantage of it.
National Guard pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., also crossed Ferguson’s
threshold with a 14-pound, 13-ounce catch today to take the runner-up position
with a two-day total of 28 pounds, 7 ounces worth $50,000.
Martin began his week shallow, fishing a Spro Little John crankbait around
seawalls where he could see shad activity.
But as the water dropped on day two, Martin’s shallow-water program began to
wane and he became much more reliant on deep shell mounds on river ledges in
Fort Loudoun.
He caught his deepwater fish on two deep-running crankbaits, including a DD-22
and a Brian’s Bees B-18, but he actually found the areas with a football head
jig.
“In practice, I kept a heavy football head jig rigged up so I could feel the
bottom,” he said. “If the bottom was soft and mushy, I’d move on. But whenever I
felt that rubble shelly bottom, I marked it.”
Martin also believes the color and cadence of his deep crankbaits over the
shells were key. The shell mounds were 8 to 10 feet and top and he would dredge
the bait into the shells hard and fast.
“I normally use chartreuse-blue-back patterns for crankbaits on TVA lakes, but
the shad-colored patterns seemed to work much better this week,” Martin said.
“Also, I was really cranking the bait fast and making it real erratic, which is
one reason I think I caught so many smallmouth on it.”
“I know this sounds crazy,” he added. “But I really believe
those smallmouth were spawning on the shell bars in about 8 feet
of water. It seemed like the closer the full moon got during
practice, the more smallmouth I started catching off those
bars."
Arron
Hastings
Clark Wendlandt
Hank Cherry
Brian Thrift
Anthony Gagliardi
Todd Auten
Tracy Adams
Chris
Baumgardner
Scott Martin
Davis Cook
Eric Weir
Jim Behnken
Shane Linberger
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