LIGHTNING
AND AWE
April 28, 2017
Though FLW never
sends anglers out into
lightning, storms do occa-
sionally pop up after take-
off and catch everyone a
little bit off guard. At
Beaver Lake, it happened
twice: the morning of day
two, shown here, and the
afternoon of day three.
The impressive light-
ning display in this image
cracked on the other side
of the mountain in the
background, but its pres-
ence was known across
the lower end of the lake.
Many anglers subse-
quently dropped the rods
and took shelter from the
storm.
PHOTO BY ANDY HAGEDON
THE SOGGY
CHAMP
April 29, 2017
Not even Forrest
Wood Cup champs could
escape the misery of the
rainy, stormy conditions
that seemed to track the
FLW Tour around this
spring. Here, a thoroughly
drenched John Cox pulls
the trolling motor to leave
the freshwater run-ins he
was fishing and head on
to other, equally drippy
haunts on Beaver Lake.
PHOTO BY SEAN OSTRUSZKA
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