Bass Fishing Aug - Sept 2016 | Page 12

Fishing exposed largemouths leaping Maybe it’s the current or the competition from other bass in their schools that makes Kentucky Lake’s large- mouths impressive jumpers. Whatever it is, the fish being caught by the top 10 pros on the final day of June’s Walmart FLW Tour event on Kentucky put on numerous aerial displays for FLW’s cameras. The partic- ular jumper in this photo so badly wanted to make the gallery that it launched up higher than Brandon Hunter’s gunwale from the backside of his boat to get in front of the lens. Hunter caught the fish in his net on its way down. He finished runner-up. photo by curtis niedermier