Fortunately for some Top 5 continuity I was able to get on the water this weekend and find a bite that qualified for my creel.  Here’s the details.

Weight: 3-5
Angler: Troy Jackson
Date: May 13
Location: IRAP public strip pit – Knox Co. IL
Lure: 5” weighted Senko wacky rig (green pumpkin/black flake)
Structure: Dropoff/weed edge
Angler Comments: I was about to relocate from this small, prototype strip pit even though I had landed seven bass in ten minutes since they were all quite small.  Instead I made a cast a ways to the right of where I had been working them over and lucked into my only decent catch on the day.  Tried the lake for a few more minutes and a few more short fish before calling it good, happy with a bass that bumped me over the 20-pound mark, just what I was after.
Top 5 Weight: 20-7 (6-2,5-9,3-6,3-5,2-1) culls 1-15

Icing on the cake from here I suppose as my annual goal since kicking off this project back in 2014 is to hit the 20-pound mark.  The cool thing is that I’ve still got probably six months to surpass my all-time Top 5 best of 22-12 from 2015.

Email troy@troyjacksonoutdoors to join the fun.  Talk to you later.  Troy