ON TOUR
COSTA FLW SERIES
COSTA FLW SERIES | LAKE CHAMPLAIN
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.
By Jody White
photoS by ChARLES WALdoRF
WINNING ANGLER
ron nelson
berrien Springs, Mich.
Winning Weight:
60-00 (15 fish)
details:
June 21-23, 2018
presented by power-pole
hosted by City of
plattsburgh and
Adirondack Coast
Visitors bureau
northern divison
WINNING CO-ANGLER
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on Nelson won the
2017 Costa FLW
Series Northern
Division event on Lake
Champlain with a large-
mouth-and-smallmouth mix
worth 54 pounds, 9 ounces.
This year, he weighed all
smallmouths for another
win with 60 pounds, and
almost everyone in the
2018 top 10 handily sur-
passed Nelson’s 2017 win-
ning weight.
Nelson tried to add
largemouths, but the only
big one he hooked he lost,
and he says the conditions
overall were not as good for
targeting them as they were
in