ON TOUR
FLW TOUR
FLW TOUR | LAKE LANIER
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Bradley hallman
norman, okla.
Winning Weight:
68-04 (20 fish)
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March 8-11, 2018
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WINNING ANGLER
By Sean Ostruszka
B
eing able to adapt is often what separates good anglers from great anglers, but what
Bradley Hallman did at Lake Lanier went far beyond adapting.
The Norman, Okla., pro didn’t just scrap his Plan A. He ditched Plans B and C, too. By the
final day, Hallman was fishing an entirely different area of the lake. Yet, despite changing con-
ditions and changing patterns – sometimes in drastic fashion – on a daily basis, Hallman
seemed to make the right call every single time.
He sacked up a jaw-dropping 23 pounds, 11 ounces of spotted bass to set the pace on day
one, somehow extended his lead with a “fence panda” pattern (more on that momentarily) on
day two, and then scraped
and ground out the final two
days to hang on for his sec-
ond FLW Tour victory.
“I fished the best week of
my entire life,” says Hallman.
“I caught them four different
ways, changing every day.”
Because his patterns varied so much,
Hallman relied on several lures. On day one it
was a Megabass Vision 110+1 jerkbait and
a Keitech Swing Impact FAT swimbait on a 1/2-
ounce head. On day two, the swimbait did most
of the damage. But by day three he was skip-
ping a Zoom Trick Worm on a shaky head. The
final day he went with a spinnerbait.
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