YANKEE
BUCKETMOUTH
Wesley Strader lives
a long way from Lake
Champlain in Upstate
New York, but he’ll tell
you that a bass is a bass,
wherever it lives. That
applies to this bucket-
mouthed, slop-dwelling
largemouth that he
fooled on day four of the
2016 FLW Tour event at
Champlain, which was
also the final day of the
2016 Tour season. It was
another great year for
Strader, who finished
14th in the AOY stand-
ings for his eighth con-
secutive finish in the top
25. He took ninth at
Champlain.
PHOTO BY JOE HOLLAND
February-MarCH 2017 I FLWFISHING.COM
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