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He’s not just a power fisherman or a finesse fisherman.
He’s not a shallow or deep guy. He’s not a ledge guy or a river
guy or a specialist at fishing clear or dirty water. He doesn’t
dominate in the North, Southeast, Midwest or anywhere in
particular.
Morgan is none of those things and all of those things.
He’s Andy Morgan.
Probably the best way to sum up his skill is with the
phrase that FLW Tour Weighmaster Chris Jones uses to
describe Morgan and the rest of the small group of elite pros
who’ve never been considered specialists, but who are
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perennial AOY contenders: “He catches them everywhere we
go, all over the country.”
That’s Morgan. He’s a five-fish-per-day kind of guy, and
while he might not win very often at the Tour level, Morgan
almost never drives home from an event without a paycheck.
Morgan isn’t exactly the type who’ll do “whatever it
takes” to catch five fish. That suggests a tackle locker over-
flowing with Tackle Warehouse packages or 20 rods on the
front deck. He’s more the type who’ll fish hard enough to
sniff out five good bites. In fact, he’s a bit of a bass fishing
minimalist in an era when that’s unusual.
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