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WETUMPKA, Ala. -- The conversation at a Butcher/Evers family dinner is sure to include fishing, especially lately.
Both Terry Butcher and Edwin Evers, who married Butcher's sister, live on family cattle property alongside each other in Talala, Okla. Each qualified and are fishing this week in the Toyota Trucks Championship Week. Read Complete Story |
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Reese's nearest competitor heading into this week, Edwin Evers, rose 25 places in the standings today, all the way from 38th to 13th, and while he won't be fishing tomorrow, he's maintained his position in second entering the post-season. Evers' brother-in-law Terry Butcher will also make the drive back to Talala, Okla. without fishing another day of competition, but his 20th place finish this week assured him that he'll make the post-season a year after he qualified for his first Classic. He moved up from 6th to 5th this week, with one day left for a slight shuffling. Complete Story |
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"I just have got to go catch them, otherwise I won't be effective," Evers said. "It's a deal where you have to go out there and try to figure them out. I didn't catch anything in practice at Kentucky Lake and I did it again here, so maybe it works for me." Complete Story |
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3rd: Extended Practice for Evers |
| Photo: ESPN Outdoors/Seigo Saito | Evers came into the tournament without any of his waypoints from past events here – they disappeared from his GPS unit somehow. He's made do, and then some. "Today was one of those days when I couldn't do anything "I've just gone fishing, the same thing I did in practice," he said. "I keep idling around and I found another group of fish today. I'm basically just practicing every day." He caught between 20 and 30 keepers today and his bag was topped by a 6-pounder. His best action doesn't start until the latter part of the day. "I really don't have anything hidden – I'll just go looking again and see what I can find and hopefully I'll stumble into some. Anything's possible – (VanDam) could catch 20 pounds and I might catch 26." Complete Story |
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AOY Update: Evers easing up |
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PARIS, Tenn. — For the second straight tournament, Skeet Reese has missed the top-47 cut and, for the second straight tournament, Edwin Evers inches ever closer in the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year race. What looked like a Reese landslide just a month ago has now gotten interesting, especially with Evers heading home to Oklahoma with only the Muskogee event remaining. After Day Two, thanks to a jump to fourth place in the tournament, Evers has closed the gap to only 72 points. Keep in mind these points are calculated after each day of competition and remain unofficial until the completion of the tournament. As anglers move up and down in the standings at Kentucky Lake, the effects can be seen in the TTBAOY race as well. Complete Story |
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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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