Long Leads at Guntersville FLW Tour
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6/24/2010 8:10:07 PM |
Brent Long of North Carolina leads all with big limits of bass
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 Brent Long of Cornelius, N.C., caught a five-bass limit weighing 25 pounds, 8 ounces Thursday to capture the lead on day two of the FLW Tour event presented by Ranger on Lake Guntersville. His two-day catch of 10 bass weighing 51 pounds, 3 ounces gives him a lead in the tournament featuring anglers from across the United States.
“Yesterday where it took me six casts … this morning it took me an hour to get my limit on my little spot,” said Long, who has never led an FLW Tour event. “Of course, I ended up culling them again, luckily. I fished my deep spot from 9 o’clock until 2:30 and I only caught like eight fish. Yesterday I caught 10 keepers there in three hours.”
Long said his first spot was an underwater point holding a school of baitfish in 15 feet of water. Long said he found the spot in practice and caught his first limit of the second day of competition there on a soft-plastic worm. Long said his deep spot is a 100-yard horseshoe-shaped underwater hump next to a river ledge. Long said he concentrated on fishing the deep bend of the hump and caught one of his weigh fish on a Norman DD22 crankbait, one on an Ernest Langley jig and the rest on a Strike King Shadalicious swim bait. Long said three of his weigh fish came over a five-minute span on the Shadalicious.
“Where I’ve caught my big fish … that’s where I’m going again tomorrow,” Long said. “I’ll either catch them or I won’t. But if I don’t go there, I’ll regret not going there, so I’ve got to go.”
Mark Rose of Marion, Ark., is in the No. 2 spot with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 49-15.
“I tried to hit a different spot first thing this morning and it didn’t really work out for me,” said Vic Vatalaro of Kent, Ohio, who led the first day of competition, but sat in 20th place after the second day of competition. “I hit all of the spots at the same time as I did yesterday, but they just weren’t there. So, I think it’s a timing thing for what I’m doing and I know there’s lots of 5-pounders out there, because yesterday I had five of them. So hopefully I can go get them tomorrow.
“Hopefully I can duplicate what I did yesterday and get the big ones to bite,” Vatalaro added.
Rounding out the top-10 pros after day two on Lake Guntersville are:
3rd: Jim Moynagh, Carver, Minn., 10 bass, 44-6
4th: Keith Combs, Del Rio, Texas, 10 bass, 44-1
5th: Damiki pro Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., 10 bass, 43-3
6th: Jason Reyes, Huffman, Texas, 10 bass, 41-9
7th: David Walker, Sevierville, Tenn., 10 bass, 41-8
8th: Chevy pro Luke Clausen, Gainesville, Ga., 10 bass, 41-5
9th: Chevy pro Jay Yelas, Corvallis, Ore., 10 bass, 41-2
10th: Chevy pro Jimmy Houston, Cookson, Okla., 10 bass, 40-15
Overall there were 650 bass weighing 2,206 pounds, 5 ounces caught by 135 pros Thursday. The catch included 121 five-bass limits.
Pros are competing for a top award of up to $125,000 this week plus valuable points in the hope of qualifying for the Forrest Wood Cup which will be held Aug. 5-8 at Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Ga., where they could win as much as $600,000 – the sport’s biggest award.
John Jacobs of Birmingham, Ala., leads the Co-angler Division with an opening-round total of 10 bass weighing 39 pounds, 9 ounces, followed by Mike Devere of Berea, Ky., in second place with 10 bass weighing 36-0.
Rounding out the top-10 co-anglers are:
3rd: Moo Bae, West Friendship, Md., 10 bass, 34-9
4th: Chad Hillis, McMinnville, Tenn., 10 bass, 34-4
5th: Chuck Bellerby, Croydon, Penn., 10 bass, 33-14
6th: Keith Honeycutt, Temple, Texas, 10 bass, 33-2
7th: Van Roy Foster, Dalton, Ga., 10 bass, 32-0
8th: National Guard co-angler Adam Lock, Metropolis, Ill., 10 bass, 31-15
9th: Eric Schultz, Minnetonka, Minn., 10 bass, 31-9
10th: Billy Brindle, Calhoun, Ga., 10 bass, 31-9
Overall there were 529 bass weighing 1,441 pounds, 5 ounces caught by 133 co-anglers Thursday. The catch included 72 five-bass limits.
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