Kingman resident Jimmy Herrero and his brother Johnny’s team put together a very impressive largemouth limit at a recent redneck bass tournament at Lake Alamo on the southern border of Mojave County.
25 teams entered the one-day event. The Herrero brothers weighed five of his largemouth bass, including the heaviest of the tournament. Lunkerbus weighed 5.85 pounds and was part of Herero’s bag, which weighed 20.97 pounds.
The Herrero’s narrowly defeated the second-place team of Phoenix’s Brandon Morton and Sean Coffey, who had a five-fish limit of 20.56 pounds, to take the win.
Third place was won by Frankie Muller and Ty Lauzon at 15.91 lbs, and fourth place was won by Kevin Burgess and Nate Pennington, with five fish limits weighing in at 15.87 lbs.
“It’s been a great trip. I’ve had a lot of good company and a lot of good fish,” said Jimmy Herrero.
The day before the tournament began, the brothers fished ahead of time to see if they could spot any patterns or where the better fish the Alamo Lake was known. It didn’t go very well. Herrero said he never had a hit in the first few hours. Finally they found the fish.
This was a one-day team tournament where teams of two people put just five fish on the scales. And all fish must be healthy and alive, otherwise there will be a penalty.
The Herrero team left the dock at 5:15 am. Check-in time is 2:00 PM.
Both anglers fish from the front deck of the bass boat, so you can find the best sport to cast your lures to the max.
It took a while, but finally around 6am the Herero boys started fishing for bass.
Herrero said he caught at least 50 bass between 6am and 9:30am.
“We caught them with just about anything we used,” Herrero said. “When Johnny watched him fish at one point, he caught his seven fish in his seven casts. It was unreal!
“We used topwaters, crankbaits, jigs and Senkos,” Jimmy said. These tournaments are determined by the weight of his five fish brought in, not the number of fish caught.
It was Johnny who brought the first heavyweight bass onto the boat. “Johnny missed a really big fish, but he was able to get a 4-pound bass on the boat.”
Mr. and Mrs. Herrero were catching some great fish, and at 9:30 a.m. they found their best five weighed about 18 pounds. This is a great bag for just about any lake in Arizona, but the Herero family knew they had a chance of winning the tournament, they had to catch the bigger fish.
From 11am to 2pm, things slowed down. I only caught about 10 bass, but I started fishing for heavy bass. Both anglers were able to catch big bass and improve their catch. Johnny upgrades his bag He got 4 lbs and he got 4 1/2 lbs bass and Jimmy got the biggest catch of the day.
As Jimmy threw a dark topwater bait behind a tree, a giant approached and sucked the lure. That bass will be the tournament’s largest bass at £5.85. This bass fixed the limit of the bass that the Herero brothers put on the scale, weighing 20.97 pounds. “It was a dream day,” said Jimmy.
The next tournament will be held at Temple Bar on Lake Mead in September.
