You know a lake is fishing pretty strong when a five-bass limit averaging seven pounds apiece earns the second- place trophy in an eight hour fishing derby.

Shift to February 12 on Toledo Bend, a 183,000-acre reservoir that divides Texas from Louisiana.

Louisiana anglers Tater Reynolds and Josey Thibodeaux weighed in 35.50 pounds in a Game Changer Outdoors team event. Amazingly, they finished nearly seven pounds off the winning mark posted by Cody Pitt and Lane Masters.

Pitt/Masters weighed 42.36 p...