PROFILE :
EDWIN
EVERS
TALALA , OKLAHOMA
Does a professional angler who ’ s already collected two major championships , an Angler of the Year ( AOY ) title , and stockpiled 13 wins and 120-plus Top 20s still get excited when it ’ s time to fish for big bucks and a championship ?
If that angler is Oklahoma pro Edwin Evers and the championship is REDCREST 2022 on Grand Lake , you bet he does .
Evers is one of the all-time best to ever compete for bass money and titles . He ’ s won over $ 3.7 million in his 20-year professional career and has a good shot to close in on the $ 4 million mark in 2022 . And with RED- CREST taking place on a fishery he ’ s intimately familiar with , come March 23-27 , it ’ s a safe bet that Evers is itching to cross the $ 4 million threshold in front of a home crowd .
Evers already has championship history on Grand – he won the Bassmaster Classic there in 2016 – and he already knows what it takes to win REDCREST ( he won the very first of them , REDCREST 2019 ). Safe to say that a second red-and-silver REDCREST trophy would likely be welcomed on his mantle in Talala .
But Evers is a big fan of Grand Lake regardless of his accomplishments there . Here ’ s what Edwin had to say about the upcoming REDCREST event and a lake that he holds near and dear to his heart .
QA &
Bass fishing fans know you ’ re an Oklahoma resident and a previous winner of the Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake O ’ the Cherokees . What does fishing for the 2022 REDCREST championship mean to you on your home lake ?
It amps everything up an awful lot more . Whether it ’ s all the family or friends or the local media and industry media magnifying it , there ’ s quite a bit of pressure . But anytime you can fish a tournament like this close to your house , it ’ s really nice . I really want to win again on my home lake .
By Dave Landahl
PHOTO BY PHOENIX MOORE
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