Merritt Reservoir Valentine Nebraska | Tournament Practice

Merritt Reservoir Valentine Nebraska | Tournament Practice
My local Bass Club held a tournament on Merritt Reservoir in Western Nebraska. Merritt is a really interesting place, it's pretty much a lake in the middle of a bunch of sand dunes. Sand banks, sand bottom, barely any rock. Tons of reeds and timber but the water gets drawn down in the summer to fill an irrigation canal, so all of that sweet cover was out of the water. In fact the water was down about six feet over the last month. Hopefully we can figure it out.
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[@davidwilliams1805]

I really hope you can get on some good ones during the tournament! Thanks for sharing buddy!

[@MidwestBassHunter]

Thanks!

[@coryolson4271]

When water is low, fish the trees in boardman

[@MidwestBassHunter]

I tried that with a jig and dropshot but with no success, what do you recommend for tactic?

[@coryolson4271]

@MidwestBassHunter early morning we fish up the cove with a spinnerbait in the trees and wherever water was running in , lots of bait fish. Then we start at trees near mouth of boardman and fished plastic worms on the bottom, clear water nothing bigger than a 6 inch worm. When the water level drops those fish leave the vegetation and move to the brush for cover. Hope that helps next time.

[@MidwestBassHunter]

@@coryolson4271 that does help, thanks for the tip man!

[@harolmolina9844]

Believe it or not when I used to leave in Ne I used to fish the bigger stream lakes and they were ALWAYS biting on swim baits, and worms your larger fish will destroy the swim baits it’s hard to believe cause a lot of the pros hardly use them in my opinion you see w lot of jerkbaits and top waters but swim baits is where it’s at

[@MidwestBassHunter]

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[@chadlake3590]

Nobody calls it Merritt Lake just Merritt.

[@MidwestBassHunter]

I usually say reservoir but had a brain fart, but it is a lake…