Eric Weir has been around the country for the past month or so, winning money on the FLW Series tournament trail.
So it was only fitting that when he returned to his home lake this past week, he had a winning day.
Weir, who operates Big E’s Guide Service on Lake Wylie, caught a largemouth bass on his first cast, while backing his boat into the lake at the Buster Boyd Bridge ramp, and he kept at it, proving to himself that his favorite pattern – topwaters and jigs – is pretty solid as long as the water temperature stays in the mid-50s.
“You know, I’m kind of hard-headed, and I try to fish the way I really like to fish,” said Weir (704-860-0356). “I like to fish topwater until the water temperature drops below 55, and I’ll stick with it until the fish tell me they don’t want it.”
Weir took a keeper at the boat ramp on a Pop-R, and within three hours, he had an easy limit on a combination of a buzzbait and a jig ‘n’ chunk. He fished the buzzbait over shallow flats with stumps, on rock veins and in between docks for two quality 3-pound fish. The jig finished out the limit around boat docks and especially when skipped under pontoon boats tethered to docks.
“I like to fish piers, rocks and wood with the buzzbait and flip the jig around docks in the fall,” Weir said. “You can fish a jig two ways: flipping it around docks, or fishing a football jig out on points. That tends to be better when the water gets colder.”
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