I fished today with StarBrite Pro Patrick Pierce who competes in Bassmaster Opens and PAA tournaments. There was a chunk of change on the line today too as we fished the first-ever Bienville Plantation Big Bass Blast near White Springs, Fla.

Pat put on a clinic. He quickly cranked up a pair of bass that weighed 6 and 7 pounds. I contributed a 4-pounder to the livewell but she only stayed long enough to have a cup of coffey before Pat culled her out with a slightly larger fish. In all, we caught at least 4 fish that weighed better than 4 pounds, along with Pat’s pair of monsters. Of course, there were plenty of ‘fun size’ fish in the 2-to-3-pound range to keep us busy as well.

It was another great day of bass fishing at a very special place.

We also got to prefish on Friday so we got a bonus day that included dozens of strong fighting fish which we caught on three different techniques.

Our point-cranking game plan yielded a 3-fish limit that weighed 17.7 pounds – good for 3rd place. Had we been able to keep our biggest 5 we would have had a weight over 26 pounds.

Keith Chapman and Don Bunting won the tournament with 3 bass that totaled 21-plus pounds. That’s an average weight of more than 7 pounds per fish!

The winners caught their fish from flooded bushes. Lake Bienville is a structure lake – and there were some big bass caught from the bars and humps – but 19 inches of recent rain pushed the water, and some whopper bass, into the jungle-esque shoreline cover.

What a fun way to catch big bass!

Join us next month! The folks at Bienville Plantation will host one of these events on the last saturday of each month and it all leads up to the Bienville Classic. For details email [email protected] or call 386-397-1989.

Meanwhile, be sure to check out video on AnglersChannel.com from today’s tourney and keep an eye out for action-packed video of Pat catching a giant – coming soon.

 

Patrick Pierce with a big one.