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Several Elite Series anglers spent much of this week's tournament in what anglers call a community hole, which can be defined as any well-known fishing spot that's used extensively by numerous anglers. Typically, community holes are spots where anglers can go and fish with a reasonable expectation of catching a couple of fish in a spot that's no secret to anyone. But during the Alabama Charge, one productive community hole supported five anglers who made Sunday's final: Cliff Pace (2nd) Steve Kennedy (3rd), Aaron Martens (6th), Shaw Grigsby (8th) and Edwin Evers (9th). The area, a backwater on the backside of an island that creates an eddy in the current, is well-known as a productive smallmouth hole just downstream from Wilson Dam. But this week it produced largemouth, too. And despite the number of anglers fishing the same general area of Pickwick Lake, which is an impoundment of the Tennessee River, there were no problems with anglers fighting over the same water. "It was a great week up there," Evers said. "There was no animosity between anybody." But it wasn't always easy to concentrate on fishing. "It was really hard not to see everybody catching fish," Evers said. "That made it really hard to focus, really hard to stay focused on what you were doing." The area consists of a large flat with water depths between four and 10 feet. Kennedy said it's a well-known spawning area for Pickwick's smallmouth bass, but that this week it held more largemouth than usual. The area has multiple rock piles and plays host to fish in various stages of the spawning cycle. |
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Edwin Evers had a strong practice and carried it over into day 1. "I thought I could catch that and I actually thought I had a little bit more," he said. "I might've overestimated a little bit, but I thought I was around 19 or 20 pounds. As always, he was extremely tight-lipped about what he's doing, although he revealed that he stayed on Pickwick instead of locking down to Lake Wilson. He went through a couple dozen fish on the day and his bag was topped by a 4-pounder.Read More |
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Evers 4th On Fort Loudoun-Tellico Lakes |
 Bassmaster Elite Series pro Edwin Evers has had a pretty quiet 2010 FLW Tour season. That all changed this afternoon when he brought 16 pounds, 13 ounces to the scale, bringing his total weight to 29 pounds, 5 ounces.
“I’m basically targeting prespawn and spawn fish,” said the Talala, Okla., native. “I’m working one area slowly, and I’m not sight-fishing.”
Evers weighed four smallmouths and one largemouth yesterday. Today that reversed to four largemouths and one smallmouth.
“I caught about eight or nine keepers today; I figured something out late yesterday that really helped me.”
Anchoring Evers’ limit was a 5-pound-plus largemouth. Amazingly, Evers said he lost two fish that were in the same class.
“I really like my chances. I think it actually might get better for me with the weather tomorrow.” Complete Story |
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4th: Evers Spotted Something |
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Both Evers and Ish Monroe fished Sunday at Smith Mt., so both had just 1 day of practice. In Evers' case, he caught two keepers that practice day, ran there yesterday, spotted something else on his electronics ad voila! a pattern was born. "I did need this," Evers said, in regard to his current FLW points standing. "And it feels good. I've had a lot of problems over here (on the FLW Tour) and I'm finally getting a little redemption. "My hat's off to my electronics," he added. "When I was fishing down a bank, I saw some stuff out off the bank. I turned around and caught some fish there and that really clued me in to what I needed to do and what to go look for." He said he's been able to replicate that pattern in "multiple spots," but only one or two of them "are really good." And he thinks the weather tomorrow can only help him if it affects the sight-fishermen. "I feel really good about tomorrow. I could be wrong, but I really do. "With the exception of Table Rock, I've made really good decisions this year," he added. "I fished almost perfect at Smith Mt. – one fish I made a mistake on. And out there in California I made some mistakes but I fished well. And at Norman I made some really good decisions, but my lower unit went out on me the first day so I was kind of behind from the get-go. Other than that, I feel like I'm fishing really well." Complete Story |
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| BASS Communications / Seigo Saito |
MORGAN CITY, La. — Louisiana's Mark Smith worried about putting together a limit after learning he would be fishing an extra day against Bassmaster Elite Series pro Edwin Evers after the two anglers weighed in identical weights of 35 pounds, 9 ounces Saturday. Those worries became reality when Smith was only compile 10 ½ pounds, while Evers showed up at the scales with 14-7.
"I only caught six fish today," Smith lamented, noting overcast conditions that moved in ahead of a front, spreading out the few fish left in his area. "I caught my fifth (weigh) fish with five minutes left to fish.
Evers, on the other hand, boated the heaviest sack of the tournament by making a more than 2-hour run east and working his lures in and around vegetation.
"In the mornings, the fish were roaming on the outsides of that grass, and I'd catch them on a spinnerbait," he said. "But my better fish came from undercut banks with vegetation."
Once the bite on the Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait turned off, usually less than an hour after he started fishing, Evers began punching water hyacinths on the undercut banks with a combination of a Yum Money Craw under a 1-ounce weight and a Yum Craw Papi topped with a 3/16-ounce weight.
The key to the entire tournament for Evers, however, came less than an hour into the first day of competition. Read More
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| BASS Communications / Seigo Saito |
MORGAN CITY, La. — Fish-offs are a rare thing in Bassmaster events. However, for the second time in a single season, two Bassmaster Central Open anglers will face off against each other after tying for the final-day lead.
"Can you believe this?" Louisiana's Mark Smith asked, after learning he would be fishing an extra day against Bassmater Elite Series pro Edwin Evers in the circuit's final stop in the Atchafalaya Basin.
Smith held the first two days' lead, but Evers jumped from third to the first-place tie when the scales settled on identical weights of 35 pounds, 9 ounces.
The anglers will fish a full day tomorrow because each is making a run of more than an hour. They will meet back at the dock at 3:20 p.m. ET, at which time the winner will be decided.
At stake in the competition is a top prize of $45,000 (based on a full field).
The two anglers' confidence going into the extended tournament was polar opposites.
"My bite is severely used up," Smith said. "This is the first time (in the tournament) I don't have any confidence." Read More
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8th: Evers Haunted By Lost Fish |
"I feel real fortunate to have what I have," Evers said. "But I should have had a better day than what I had. There's on that's really haunting me. It had my bait, I didn't set the hook. And she politely spit it out. I think it was a great big one. And I dumped two more – both 3 1/2-pounders.
"It is what it is," he added. "I'm definitely a little disappointed, but I'm still in the hunt."
Notable too is he didn't get bit this morning, but things picked up a little later and he caught fish throughout that day. He's got boats around him too, but he said he'll be able to get back on his stuff tomorrow." Read More
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