Crunch Time!!!

[bassNspear]

Fishing in a Tournament, two hours left, one fish short of a monster bag that you have all the thoughts in the world that your going to blow out the field, what bait do you to with and stick to to get that last fish.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Depends on what has been working for me so far that day?

If I already have a good bag, and can punt and only search big fish.. Slop with a scum frog or Jig...

[st.crioxfishin]

Couldn't have said it better..

[luckycrank]

I'M PROBALLY GONNA REGRET THIS BUT, ANYTHING, BLACK AND 10" LONG

[Stratosman]

Anyway,

Probably start with a jig and lizard or some other larger profiled bait fished on deep points or humps in clear water and fished in the slop in stained water.

[Fever]

If your one short of a monster bag... just keep doing what your doing. Sometimes I think we overthink. I do like the scum frog idea though. Weather conditions would be a big factor for my decision.

[EBass]

Hmm - I had this delimma a couple of weeks ago in a tourney on da river. So I went to a buzzbait and wham 18" but I still worked the area over with a senko. Skipped senko under tree and wham 18.5" Woo Hoo. Ended up with 2 18", 1 18.5", and 2 16.75" and got third that day. (caught about 14 bass but those were 5 the biggest)

That was my first tourney ever and first time being on that water. Not too shabby

However lake fishing is more difficult then river fishing. I fish both so that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[ikeslayer]

Spear maybe you are being vague on purpose but i would love to know more details. ike

[bassNspear]

not being vague, at least i dont know so. Just was wondering what people do when it comes to crunch time.

[JP Z]

And if you are at that crunch time what has been working previously? Or did you scratch together your other fish randomly throughout the day? Because if the fish you have are in your box because you culled through 30 fish all caught dropshotting a 3" Fluke lets say, they maybe don't do something to drastic like...."well I'm hitting docks for that big fish" Instead try upsizing what is currently working. Or just be happy your on the water catching fish.