Logan mainly fished the upper end of Lake Tenkiller, focusing on flooded bushes and cover in shallow water. One particular laydown, Logan said, produced 12 of his keeper bites and dozens of other bass that didn’t make his team. 

“It was on a straight bank. It was just a laydown with some limbs coming off of it,” he explained. “Every time I went to it, I caught one. It was just on a flat, nothing bank. I never saw any bream around it, but it seemed like there might be something like that going on. It’s a good tree. Best tree on the lake.”

A 1/2-ounce green pumpkin Ark Randall Tharp Signature Flipping Jig paired with a Zoom Salty Chunk produced several of his biggest bites around the flooded cover. On the final day, he received key bites around debris mats with a punch rig he built with a 1/2-ounce Ark tungsten weight, a green pumpkin punch skirt and a green pumpkin Zoom Z Hog. 

He pitched both of those baits with a 7-foot-6 heavy Ark Wes Logan Signature Series FAFO Flipping Stick and 22-pound Sunline Shooter fluorocarbon.

Each morning, however, Logan started in a marina where he fished around the remnants of a shad spawn. He filled in a limit using a 1/2-ounce Z-Man JackHammer in the spot remover color paired with a ghost shad colored Zoom Shimmer Shad.