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PHOTO BY CHARLES WALDORF
PHOTO BY KYLE WOOD
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jerkbait , and which included a 6 1 / 2- and a 9-pounder .
While the jerkbait did all the heavy lifting on the final day , Stanley made the final 25 with a variety of baits and tactics , including a wackyrigged stick bait fished in water as shallow as 10 inches . Throughout the event , the Alexandria , Tennessee , pro never fished any deeper than about 8 feet .
With the win , Stanley added a sixth victory to his MLF resume and $ 60,000 to his career earnings .
14 . TACKLE WAREHOUSUE PRO CIRCUIT B & W TRAILER HITCHES STOP 4 PRESENTED BY A . R . E . Lake Guntersville May 12 – 15
Weighing in 22-15 on the final day of competition , Bossier City ,
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Louisiana ’ s Nick LeBrun took full advantage of zeroed weights on Championship Sunday to rally from sixth to first for a $ 101,000 check and his first major win since taking down the Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine All- American in 2018 .
LeBrun , who totaled 58-9 over three days before the final round , saved his best for last with 22-15 on Day 4 to top rookie Nick Hatfield by 2 pounds , 6 ounces . No one else in the Top 10 managed to crack the 20- pound mark on the final day .
LeBrun found his winning school on the final day of practice and went to work on that same school throughout the event with a 3 / 4- ounce V & M Mega Shakey Head tipped with a blue V & M J-Mag Worm – catching a 7-pounder on that setup to seal the deal on Championship Sunday .
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15 . TOYOTA SERIES PRESENTED BY A . R . E . SOUTHERN DIVISION Harris Chain of Lakes
May 19 – 21
Locking through to Lake Griffin all three days , local stick Jonathan Semento – who has five Top 10s in the Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on his resume – relied on his years of experience fishing the Harris Chain in identifying Griffin as the lake with the best chance to find the winning fish and relatively small crowds of competitors .
Semento got off to a slow start with 9-15 on Day 1 to find himself in 119th place . Instead of turning tail and salvaging some points elsewhere , he returned to Griffin on Day 2 to assemble a 24-pound , 15-ounce bag to vault into seventh before putting
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together the biggest bag of the event on Day 3 ( 25-3 ) for a winning margin of 3 pounds , 12 ounces and a paycheck worth $ 80,500 .
To catch his winning fish , Semento targeted eelgrass in 4 to 6 feet of water with a pair of ChatterBaits ( 3 / 8- and 1 / 2-ounce ) with Yamamoto Zako trailers . The problem wasn ’ t as much getting them to bite as it was finding the fish in the first place . A couple weeks prior , Semento won a local event on Griffin with a 24-pound stringer . That same school of winning bass was still roaming Griffin ' s offshore haunts – just a couple hundred yards from where he previously knew them to be . Lack of fishing pressure on Griffin allowed Semento to take his time and bounce around until he was able to relocate the school and milk it for as much as he needed to claim the victory .
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