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SCOTT SUGGS | 43 LBS , 3 OZ
By Sean Ostruszka
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photo by joDy whIte
S
cott Suggs was on the same pro-
gram as Justin Atkins, Travis Fox
and Brandon Cobb, except for
one big difference.
“They were on 4-pounders, and I
was on 3-pounders,” Suggs says.
Known for his prowess with sus-
pended bass – he won the 2007 Forrest
Wood Cup targeting suspended fish at
Lake Ouachita – Suggs spent most of
pre-practice behind the steering wheel.
He found about 50 cane piles, and
when he cracked 18 pounds in an hour
on one of those pre-practice mornings,
he knew he didn’t have to worry about
going deeper during official practice.
Instead, Suggs focused shallow to “give
it an opportunity.” When the shallow
bite never materialized, though, he
decided to stay on the lower end, whit-
tling his targets to five cane piles he had
all to himself.
The first day his milk run produced
more than 15 keepers on crazy
chrome- and albino-colored Zoom
Super Flukes rigged on weighted
hooks.
“I tried double-Fluke rigs and a Front
Runner on my pencil popper, but I
seemed to catch them better when
they [the Flukes] were solo,” says
Suggs. “That first day I could just cast
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