LE GRANGE, Calif – Most would agree that the best part of opening season in any sport, is the relief that comes from having the opportunity to shake off the cobwebs and rust of a long cold winter. Win, lose, or draw, most competitors on “opening day” are just glad to get back on the water to regroup and start working on improvements that will help make the new season their best ever.
And after fishing a tough season opener on Don Pedro, one of the largest impoundments in the central valley, you can best believe that Future Pro Tour competitors are glad that the season is underway and that the Tour’s first central valley event is securely tucked away in the books.
With a significant change in the weather just one day before the event, so typical of northern California during the early spring, many of the teams that found a good bite in pre-fish, ended up with either a small limit or no limit at all, on a day that started out with “blue-bird” skies, followed by 15-20 mph chilly winds.
“It was pretty brutal out there today,” noted Travis Huckaby a central valley resident that is always a perennial favorite in just about any central valley event he participates in. We had em’ going good in practice on Friday, but this cold and wind today shutdown our pattern significantly and we had to settle for making a good show and grabbing some decent points,” he added.
Other teams, many dead set on coaxing Pedro’s early spring bass into accepting swimbait offerings, also found the bass none to cooperative and many weighed only three fish. But the team of Jim and Jerry Clawson “Team Bait Barn” played the weather and the changing bite just right using jigs and dropshots, to capture their first Future Pro Tour title as well as the Dobyns Rods “Monster BASS” award for biggest fish of the event.
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