Water Temperature: 57
Water Clarity: 4 feet or greater
Wrapping up DBC’s Fall Season; 24 teams including 3 guest teams showed for what turned out to be a
wonderful day on beautiful Lake Sidney. Undoubtedly a great day for the many teams who found
cooperating quality fish. Appeared there was a pattern working to nearly everyones’ liking from top to
bottom.
Jay Donohue snagged the Terminator $100 sponsor certificate this month. Gene is getting more sneaky
during inspections, however the guys are also becoming more resourceful. Jay had the Terminator
tackle tied on and received the goodies this month…..Congrats to Jay.
Tony Combs came through with the tournaments BB, a nice 4.21 lb spot caught in 8’ depths working the
shorelines and was the single bass weighed over the 4-lb mark.
However, it was Gene Hacker and partner James Eason that impressed the crowd with their December
bite. Working in harmony, Gene - James combined spinnerbaits shallow, and the green pumpkin T-Rig
while combing the 45 ft depths and culling through over 2 limits to produce a real nice bag of spots
weighing 15.14 and win a tight contest. Gene had command of the spinnerbait early with the moderate
breeze and produced the tournament’s #2 big bass weighing 3.91 lbs. Grinning ear to ear, Gene noted
that Lanier somehow always bites them this time of the year and this one was a long time coming and a
good win.
Congratulations, James and Gene on an excellent Lanier win! Great Catch Guys…
Capturing second, Joe Yurina – Mike Haddad culled through many 2.5 lb spots to produce a limit
pressing the scales to 15.03 and falling less than 2 oz behind Gene – James. Mike - Joe relied on the
late fall pattern of finding bait in the creek channels and spooning them up. Joe has gained a lot of
confidence in the 3/4oz. spoon and Mike runs the back-up bait; a small 3/16 oz jig with the Yamamoto 4”
GP twin tails. Mike - Joe noted, the 4 limits of keepers they culled through during the day all came out of
30-40’ of water, we would track baitfish & brush-piles on the electronics and most ditches appeared to
have good fish cruising in them. Their showing was consistent with all the recent T-Giving weekend
results.
Third place went to Matt – Dick Perron, who showed a strong performance with their respectable 12.31
mixed sack of spots/LM. Matt – Dick worked one small creek on the lower end, casting Bomber 200 CB’s
on the bank for a few keepers and then used a back-up plan of working a jig-head finesse worm in the 6-
40 range over all types of shallow to deep cover.
The forth position went to Jerry Adams and Steve Nalder; this duo produced a limit weighing 12.12.
These guys worked GP creepy crawlers in 45 ft brush-piles, standing timber, and stump fields all day
long. Their sack maintained a hold on the fall season points race and Jerry – Steve claimed the Fall
Season Points Championship. Congratulations guys!
Jay Donohue fishing solo finished 5th with 5 pressing club scales 11.86. Jay’s pattern was working a G/P
Hula grub in a 40 ft ledge.
Winning Patterns: The SB early in the wind appeared to be the predominate morning pattern. No
surprise --- deep water slowly worked worms and creepy crawlers after locating the bait and you have
located the fish. There are good fish yet to be caught shallow in the backs of deepwater pockets. Look
for the wind blown pockets and again locate the bait. This pattern will hold, as the weather remains
steady. Lanier is at its best this time of year, so get out and go play with the magnums for the next
several weeks.
Weather Conditions: Perfect fishing conditions, easterly winds blew early and died around noon, lots of
sun and no clouds. The low in the morning was 42 degrees and pleasant 58 later in the afternoon. The
water temps are holding 57 to 58 degrees north and south. Creeks and rivers are clear with the lake is
near 8.17 ft below pool.
Our website will be updated shortly with the complete tournament results, pictures, and club info @ www.
duluthbass.com Thx, Joe
Water Clarity: 4 feet or greater
Wrapping up DBC’s Fall Season; 24 teams including 3 guest teams showed for what turned out to be a
wonderful day on beautiful Lake Sidney. Undoubtedly a great day for the many teams who found
cooperating quality fish. Appeared there was a pattern working to nearly everyones’ liking from top to
bottom.
Jay Donohue snagged the Terminator $100 sponsor certificate this month. Gene is getting more sneaky
during inspections, however the guys are also becoming more resourceful. Jay had the Terminator
tackle tied on and received the goodies this month…..Congrats to Jay.
Tony Combs came through with the tournaments BB, a nice 4.21 lb spot caught in 8’ depths working the
shorelines and was the single bass weighed over the 4-lb mark.
However, it was Gene Hacker and partner James Eason that impressed the crowd with their December
bite. Working in harmony, Gene - James combined spinnerbaits shallow, and the green pumpkin T-Rig
while combing the 45 ft depths and culling through over 2 limits to produce a real nice bag of spots
weighing 15.14 and win a tight contest. Gene had command of the spinnerbait early with the moderate
breeze and produced the tournament’s #2 big bass weighing 3.91 lbs. Grinning ear to ear, Gene noted
that Lanier somehow always bites them this time of the year and this one was a long time coming and a
good win.
Congratulations, James and Gene on an excellent Lanier win! Great Catch Guys…
Capturing second, Joe Yurina – Mike Haddad culled through many 2.5 lb spots to produce a limit
pressing the scales to 15.03 and falling less than 2 oz behind Gene – James. Mike - Joe relied on the
late fall pattern of finding bait in the creek channels and spooning them up. Joe has gained a lot of
confidence in the 3/4oz. spoon and Mike runs the back-up bait; a small 3/16 oz jig with the Yamamoto 4”
GP twin tails. Mike - Joe noted, the 4 limits of keepers they culled through during the day all came out of
30-40’ of water, we would track baitfish & brush-piles on the electronics and most ditches appeared to
have good fish cruising in them. Their showing was consistent with all the recent T-Giving weekend
results.
Third place went to Matt – Dick Perron, who showed a strong performance with their respectable 12.31
mixed sack of spots/LM. Matt – Dick worked one small creek on the lower end, casting Bomber 200 CB’s
on the bank for a few keepers and then used a back-up plan of working a jig-head finesse worm in the 6-
40 range over all types of shallow to deep cover.
The forth position went to Jerry Adams and Steve Nalder; this duo produced a limit weighing 12.12.
These guys worked GP creepy crawlers in 45 ft brush-piles, standing timber, and stump fields all day
long. Their sack maintained a hold on the fall season points race and Jerry – Steve claimed the Fall
Season Points Championship. Congratulations guys!
Jay Donohue fishing solo finished 5th with 5 pressing club scales 11.86. Jay’s pattern was working a G/P
Hula grub in a 40 ft ledge.
Winning Patterns: The SB early in the wind appeared to be the predominate morning pattern. No
surprise --- deep water slowly worked worms and creepy crawlers after locating the bait and you have
located the fish. There are good fish yet to be caught shallow in the backs of deepwater pockets. Look
for the wind blown pockets and again locate the bait. This pattern will hold, as the weather remains
steady. Lanier is at its best this time of year, so get out and go play with the magnums for the next
several weeks.
Weather Conditions: Perfect fishing conditions, easterly winds blew early and died around noon, lots of
sun and no clouds. The low in the morning was 42 degrees and pleasant 58 later in the afternoon. The
water temps are holding 57 to 58 degrees north and south. Creeks and rivers are clear with the lake is
near 8.17 ft below pool.
Our website will be updated shortly with the complete tournament results, pictures, and club info @ www.
duluthbass.com Thx, Joe
