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LAKE NORMAN – SEPT. 15-17
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Hosted by Visit Lake Norman, Visit Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation
Bryan Thrift’s run-and-gun system pays off again
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by Rob Newell
or Bryan Thrift, tournament bass fishing is a numbers
game, having far less to do with areas, patterns and
conditions and far more to do with making more pre-
sentations to more targets than anyone else.
As a youngster, Thrift learned this style of fishing at
Lake Norman in North Carolina. Norman’s innumerable
docks and brush piles provide more bass cover than can be
fished in a lifetime. And Thrift would know, because he has
spent a lifetime trying to fish it all.
So when Thrift gets to play his numbers game on his
home turf on Lake Norman, it does not bode well for his
competition. He earned his first Walmart FLW Tour win on
Lake Norman in 2010. In September, it was déjà vu all over
again as he claimed victory in the FLW Tour Invitational on
the very lake that has shaped his successful career.
An astute memory and years of local
experience helped Bryan Thrift win the
Invitational on his home lake.
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