There was good news and bad news for Arizona tournament angler Gary Senft in 2007. The good news was that he qualified for the championship in a major tournament circuit. The bad news was that he was going to have to pre-fish Lake Pleasant over Labor Day weekend.
“The boat traffic was beyond incredible,” Senft says. “I tried everything I could think of, including drop-shotting, but I couldn’t get bit.”
What finally did produce for him was the humble split-shot rig.