Rojas will be fishing trial-and-error
Dean Rojas has been spending time breaking in his new boat and motor and getting his boat wrapped. Plus, he's getting all his tackle situated because when he leaves his home in Arizona for the Bassmaster Classic next week, his truck won't make it back home until the end of the season.
In this blog post, he told fans that he'll spend his practice perioddriving around Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, looking for fish. "If I see some, I'll stop and try a couple of things," wrote Rojas. "I fish completely on trial-and-error, from my bait selection to the types of structure I’ll key on. I’m just trying to eliminate water and find new water, hoping to come across the stuff that will let me do well in the tournament.
"I feel like I have a pretty good handle on Grand Lake and how it’s all laid out. I’m excited to get there and am really looking forward to it."
What is it?
A new color palette for Spro’s iconic bait, the Bronzeye Frog, made famous by topwater guru Dean Rojas.
What does it do?
Gives your topwater offerings a natural-looking flavor. With the addition of these four new tones, there are now 30 color options.
To give the fish something different to look at!
Rojas put the finishing touches on another rock-solid tournament by bouncing back from a so-so day 3 to hold onto a Top-5 finish. He’ll leave the upper Midwest with a pair Top-10s (he was 8th last week at the Miss. River) after never before fishing either body of water. The result also moved him into 10th place in the AOY standings, which virtually locked him into a Classic berth and put him well within reach of the Top 8, which would assure him a berth in the Elite Series postseason.
“I’m very happy with the way things turned out this week,” he said. “Not having seen this place before or La Crosse and coming out of here with two Top-10s and a ton of points, I feel really good.”
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Photo: B.A.S.S./Seigo Saito
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“I’d never seen it like it was this week,” he said. “We had maybe one bad day, but this morning and afternoon, I was running wide open 45 miles out and back in. That’s unheard of.”
His primary area was a little slow to produce today and that kept him on the move.
“With it being so flat and still, I went to the bank,” he said. “I could see them cruising around and I was able to catch them on a dropshot.”
On day 1, Aaron Martens was the lone Bassmaster Elite Series angler to bring 20 pounds of Lake Michigan bass to the scales. Today, it seemed like 18 pounds was the elusive number as only Takahiro Omori broke that threshold.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but it’s safe to say things slowed down a bit on day 2 of the Lake Michigan Elite Series. Both Dean Rojas and Martens, who sit 1-2 in the standings now, saw their weights drop off by 2 and 3 pounds, respectively.
But that was to be expected with the heavy pressure being put on the upper reaches of the fishable portion of the Bay of Green Bay, where the majority of the anglers were stationed. Read More
Photo: B.A.S.S./Seigo Saito
2nd: Rojas Played Pick and Choose
The day-1 weights didn’t shock Rojas, who mixed a shallow-water pattern with some deep-water stuff, taking advantage of the calm conditions in the morning.
“I’m not surprised at all,” he said. “This fishery’s got them. I figured with what I had, there’d be three or four guys with about the same thing.”
He had his weight by mid-morning and then backed off, hoping to preserve some areas for tomorrow and potentially the weekend.
