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Mossy Oak Fishing Pro Brandon Cobb of Greenwood, South Carolina, fished for five years on the FLW circuit and 2019 on the Bassmaster Elite Series. The 30-year-old began fishing solo when he was 12 years old, and his dad always has been his mentor. At Clemson University, Cobb was a member of the fishing team. In 2019, Cobb won two Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments at Lake Hartwell and Lake Fork and took home $100,000 for each win. You can keep up with Brandon Cobb on his Facebook page.
When I come across dirty water in May, I’ll use a Texas-rigged Baby Brush Hog or Z-Craw. Both of those lures are made by the Zoom Bait Company. I’ll use a 3/8-ounce slip sinker with 20-pound-test fluorocarbon line on a bait-casting rod and reel. I like a 7’ 3” medium heavy rod with an Abu Garcia Revo STX spinning reel. Not only do I fish these two lures during the first weeks of May, but I also fish them all year long.
I always keep those lures within arm’s reach to pitch to stumps, submerged trees and any type of isolated cover that I find by the shoreline. My favorite color for both of these lures is green pumpkin. Many people use green pumpkin for just about all of the soft-plastic lures they fish because that color most resembles a crawfish or a bluegill, which is what a bass may be eating.
