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Pressure concerns Scroggins at TTBC

Pressure concerns Scroggins at TTBC

Terry Scroggins has had a successful history at the Toyota Texas Bass Classic when held on Lake Fork. He captained his team to victory at the inaugural TTBC in 2007, and more recently hauled a 34-pound limit to the scales on Day 1 of last year’s event.

But this year, he has a few concerns. Lethargically feeding bass, despite water being pulled through the Sabine River dam, and dingier water are on his list.

But nothing concerns Scroggins more than the huge increase of fishing pressure from recreational anglers on this 3-day holiday weekend.

“It’s one of the very best bass lakes in the country, most folks have 3 days off for Memorial Day, and they come from all over America to fish this lake,” said Scroggins, just moments before day 1 blast off Saturday morning.

“Fishing pressure has been bad already in practice, so you know the weekend traffic is going get even worse,” he added.

Scroggins said he plans to spend all of his time fishing deep-water schools away from the flooded shoreline, but even those harder-to-find fish away from the bank are receiving a ton of pressure.

“A lot of the weekend guys are educated on how to find and catch those deep-water fish these days – they know right where ‘the juice’ is, for sure,” he said.

His Toyota teammate, Kevin VanDam, had his boat parked right next to Scroggins and chimed-in to support Scroggins' thoughts.

“I noticed some of the deep fish I caught in practice looked pretty beat up from having already been caught,” said VanDam.

Holiday weekend fishing pressure aside, it’s still Lake Fork. Plenty of big bass still swim here and five bites can add up to 30 pounds in a hurry.

“I still think you’ll need to catch 30 pounds a day to win, but it isn't going to be anything like last year," Scroggins said. "You’ll not see near as many big stringers caught among the field overall.

“I’m guessing if you could average 23 pounds a day, you’ll be way high on the leaderboard when this thing is over."

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