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Those brush piles were mostly on offshore humps in 25 to 30 feet of water from the mid-lake area all the way to the dam , which he plied with a Zoom Magnum Swamp Crawler on a 1 / 2-ounce shaky head .
When the sun was out , Nelson had his most productive windows on those brush piles , weighing 17-13 and 17-1 on days one and two , respectively . Day three was cloudier , which resulted in a smaller 15-15 limit , but it was enough to secure the victory over Randy Dover by just 7 ounces .
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11 . TOYOTA SERIES CENTRAL DIVISION Dale Hollow Lake
October 29-31 , 2020
Local hammer Adam Wagner credits sheer happenstance for finding the massive school of big largemouth that ensured his victory on Dale Hollow . On day two , as he was idling between spots , the Cookeville , Tennessee pro says his graph “ lit up .” He was able to catch a few keepers from that school to close out the day and make the top 10 , and from there , it was game on .
On day three , Wagner returned to that school , which was hanging out in 50 feet of water at the intersection of two long , flat points , and put on a clinic , weighing in the
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largest bag of the tournament ( 16-1 ) with a local staple : a 5 / 8-ounce Silver Buddy blade bait .
Between days two and three , the shad around that school had grouped up better , and the bass followed suit . As the day wore on , Wagner wore them out and managed to add enough weight to his livewell to overtake fellow Dale Hollow local Blake Smith by just 5 ounces for the win .
12 . TOYOTA SERIES SOUTHERN DIVISION Lake Seminole November 5-7 , 2020
MLF Bass Pro Tour pro Keith Poche got to break out his 17-foot aluminum rig for the Southern Division finale on Lake Seminole , which is really one of the main reasons he fished the event in the first place . Undecided on fishing it until Tuesday leading up to the event , Poche ultimately opted for what he considered some fun-fishing and an opportunity to run up the Flint River to target some shoal bass .
Run up the river he did , and Poche had 17-14 to show for it on day one . He drifted the strong current pitching a Berkley PowerBait Pit Boss to current breaks and random cover for his bites . That fizzled a bit
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on day two , but Poche went back to work on day three to tally 15-6 up the river for the win .
When Poche went a few hours without a bite on the creature bait on day two , he switched over to a Humdinger spinnerbait for a couple keeper shoal bass to keep his tournament hopes alive .
13 . TOYOTA SERIES PLAINS DIVISION Table Rock Lake November 5-7 , 2020
Cody Huff has two FLW wins and both came in 2020 in Toyota Series competition . The second of those wins – to close out the Plains Division season on Table Rock – almost didn ’ t happen . Huff , living just 45 minutes from the lake , already filled out his deer tag and figured he may as well fish the event after initially planning on missing it .
What followed was an impressive victory that began with a dayone-leading bag of 16-15 and ended with 15-6 for a winning margin of 3 pounds , 2 ounces .
With limited practice , Huff settled on a pattern he expected many other anglers wouldn ’ t find : targeting suspended fish in the middle of creeks . Huff looked for creeks with deep ditches and plenty of bait and then
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went to work with a blue No . 9 Rapala Jigging Rap , catching fish he suspects were following the bait from the backs of creeks back out into the main lake .
14 . PHOENIX BASS FISHING LEAGUE PRESENTED BY T-H MARINE ALL-AMERICAN PRESENTED BY TINCUP Lake Hartwell November 11-13 , 2020
With a 13-pound , 1-ounce limit on the final day of competition at Hartwell , Chris Macy jumped from fifth to first and found himself holding the All- American trophy and a $ 100,000 check . Macy , who qualified out of the Ozark Division and fishes team tournaments with Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit pro Jeremy Lawyer back home in Missouri , was in unfamiliar territory on Hartwell . To level the playing field , he leaned on his electronics to identify spotted bass suspended over brush piles and got them in the boat with either a dropshot or a 2.8-inch Keitech Swing Impact FAT swimbait on jig heads from 1 / 4 to 3 / 8 ounce .
On the final day , Macy had to coax his fish out of their heavy cover to attack his swimbait , but once he did that – winding and killing the bait just past the piles – he put a lot of weight in the boat in a hurry .
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