“After you’d hook a smallmouth they’d shoot straight up, so I had to have a spinning reel setup with a very fast gear ratio. “Another big key was fishing deeper than everyone else,” Avena continued. Also, I used a very small leader – getting my bait close to the bottom really mimicked those perch that were getting into their beds.
“The chartreuse color was a big player this week. “The Gulp minnow was the deal, but the key was the chartreuse top,” Avena said. He threw the setup on an Abu Garcia Fantasista rod with a Abu Garcia Revo Rocket spinning reel. Throughout the week Avena targeted bedding smallmouth, using a flogger to locate the bass and then drop-shotting a Berkley PowerBait MaxScent Flat Worm or a 4-inch Berkley Gulp! Alive Minnow. But watching them boys win trophy after trophy… I’m just so glad that now I’ve got mine.” “I love them guys, and when you surround yourself with a house full of guys that are straight hammers it rubs off a little bit. “I travel and room with three of the best guys in the world, and I ain’t going to say that I got tired of them winning all the time, but man, it was starting to take a toll on me. “You have no idea what this win means to me,” Avena said on stage in his post-game interview. It was an incredible week of fishing that will likely be looked back on as the greatest smallmouth event in Bass Pro Tour history. Also breaking the 100-pound mark over four days were five other pros – Shuffield (106-10), Jacob Wheeler (100-8), Alton Jones Jr. Over his four days of competition, Avena weighed in 20 smallmouth bass totaling 105 pounds even. Link to Photo Gallery of Adrian Avena’s Championship Round Afternoon HighlightsĪvena’s two-day Knockout and Championship Round total of 10 bass weighing 58 pounds even earned him the victory by a 2-pound margin over second-place finisher Spencer Shuffield of Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finished with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 56 pounds even, good for $45,000. Link to HD Video – Fish-Catch Highlights of Championship Round on Cayuga Lake Link to Hi-Res Photo of Favorite Fishing Stage Five at Cayuga Lake Winner Adrian Avena Avena caught eight scorable smallmouth bass Sunday, with his best five weighing 28 pounds, 10 ounces to win the Major League Fishing (MLF) Bass Pro Tour Favorite Fishing Stage Five on Cayuga Lake Presented by ATG by Wrangler and earn the top payout of $100,000. After numerous seasons of watching his roommates and travel partners earn multiple wins and championship victories, the 12-year veteran finally earned his own red trophy. UNION SPRINGS, N.Y.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-It was an emotional afternoon for Vineland, New Jersey pro Adrian Avena.
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