‘tough’ Fishing Expected For Flw College Fishing Southern Conference Tournament On Texoma
“Man, it’s been really tough.”
That was Dwight Camp, a senior at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, describing the fishing in Lake Texoma in the days leading up to the FLW College Fishing Series Southern Conference tournament Saturday,
“”Last spring it was taking almost 30 pounds to win local tournaments. Last weekend it only took 13 pounds to win the Bud Light tournament on the lake. Fishing is just really tough right now.”
Camp, who teams with fellow senior Jonathan Furlong on the Southeastern Oklahoma Fishing Team, said whoever weighs in 12 to 13 pounds Saturday will probably be doing pretty well in the tournament.
“We had about a week and a half of really good weather, stable weather, and the water temperature got up into the upper 50s. Before that it was cold, in the high 40s,” Camp said. “Now, we’ve had about three days of really cold weather, 20-degree weather. We’ve not been out there yet to see what that dropped it to.”
Camp and Furlong plan to spend Thursday and Friday practicing on the lake which is only about 10 minutes away from their campus, although the launch site for the tournament is 35 minutes away.
“Some fish are moving up. They are not spawning yet, but they are wanting to. But they are catching some fish real shallow on a jerkbait,” Camp said. “That is what supposedly won the Bud Light tournament last weekend, a jerkbait in 5 feet of water.”
Camp said he and Furlong will probably spend their practice time looking for brushpiles on lake points, along with some stumps and rocky areas holding fish.
“The fish in the tournament will probably be caught on the Alabama rig and the jerkbait,” he said.
FLW College Fishing is the country’s largest tournament circuit for collegiate anglers with more than 600 clubs nationwide competing for lucrative awards plus a chance to fish against the world’s top anglers in the Forrest Wood Cup.
College Fishing teams compete in qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top 15 teams from each regular-season tournament will qualify for one of five Conference Championship tournaments. The top 10 teams from each of the five Conference Championship tournaments will advance to the 2016 FLW College Fishing National Championship.
Saturday’s tournament is the second of three regular-season stops in the Southern Conference. A full field of college teams will be competing for a top award of $2,000 and a berth in the Southern Conference Championship tournament.
FLW College Fishing Series – Southern Conference – 2015
Sat, Feb 21, 2015
Lake Texoma
Highport Marina
