The Top 5 project is back for year number nine and our first submissions come courtesy of our 2022 champ, Jim Junk. My brother, Brent, is also back on board for another year with all the details on both anglers’ catches below.

Weight: 2-6
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 14
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait
Angler Comments: Managed one within the first five minutes. Thought it might be a great day. Not to be though. A few more hours and numerous spots with no more bites.

Weight: 2-15
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 14
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait
Angler Comments: Was going to head home and saw some gulls diving for bait fish at a spot on the way out. Hooked into three within twenty minutes. One was short, another flopped off as trying to pull over some reeds on the bank and landed the last one at 2-15.

Weight: 2-4
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 17
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait

Weight: 1-12
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 17
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait

Weight: 1-3
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 17
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait

Weight: 2-14
Angler: Jim Junk
Date: March 17
Location: Banner Marsh
Lure: Lipless Crankbait
Angler Comments: Out for a few hours, didn’t find them stacked but caught fish in three of the five lakes I fish at Banner. Couldn’t find a pattern, one was in a channel, one was on a flat and two hit on bank weed lines.
Top 5 Weight: 12-3 (2-15,2-14,2-6,2-4,1-12)

Weight: 1-11
Angler: Brent Jackson
Date: March 16
Location: Snakeden Hollow
Lure: Strike King Red Eye Shad lipless crankbait
Top 5 Weight: 1-11 (1-11)

Great to see some fish and stay tuned next Monday as a few more late submissions will hit the blog. Talk to you later. Troy