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LAMBERT’S KENTUCKY LAKE SMACKDOWN
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by Colin Moore
The number of times
Lambert’s name appears on
the list of the top 50 all-time
heaviest Kentucky Lake Tour
single-day stringers. Brandon
Hunter and Jim Moynagh are
tied for second in the top-50
group with three each.
ach tournament season brings a
fresh record or two to the annals
of the Walmart FLW Tour. This
year, records fell at Kentucky Lake in
early June, mainly to winner Jason
Lambert of Pickwick Dam, Tenn. See
what we mean:
twenty-nine
The number of pounds that Lambert
brought to the scale on the tourna-
ment’s last day. It’s the single-day record
for a Kentucky Lake Tour event now.
Who’s in second? It’s Lambert, with 25-
05 on the third day of his incredible
2016 performance.
97-02
2
The number of
Kentucky Lake FLW
Tour events in which
Lambert has managed
to average more than
20 pounds per day all
four rounds. He’s the only Tour
angler to do it so far. To break
that down, Lambert has actually
caught seven 20-pound-plus lim-
its in the pair of tournaments he’s
fished there since joining the Tour
in 2014.
14
For the Record
To put Lambert’s records in
perspective, there have
been 11 Walmart FLW Tour
events on Kentucky Lake,
dating back to 1996.
In pounds and ounces, Lambert’s four-day weight. It
broke the record set in 2014 by Skip Johnson of Michigan
(88-10). Lambert was runner-up that year with 87-08.
EIGHT
Where Lambert’s 97-02 four-day total
ranks all time among heaviest four-day
weights brought in on the FLW Tour.
89-06
Runner-up Brandon Hunter’s haul, which is now second place
among the heaviest four-day stringers from Kentucky Lake.
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