Bass Fishing News

This past week, the Major League fishing pros competed in their biggest tournament of the year. The top 40 anglers from the past year qualify to fish the Redcrest event that takes place once a year. Every angler’s goal each year is to make it to Redcrest because of two reasons. First, It shows how consistent you are and how you are able to compete against all of the rest of the best anglers in the world. Second, they get a chance at 300 thousand dollars! This year, the event was held at Grand lake O’ the Cherokees in Tulsa Oklahoma. Each angler competed from March 23rd to the 27th. Throughout that time, each day, the anglers tried to catch the most fish possible over the two-pound minimum so that they could add as much weight as they could to their score. After each day, the field was cut into smaller portions, and eventually, the last day consisted of ten anglers battling it out one on one for the trophy and top prize. The anglers that made it to Sunday consisted of Bobby Lane, Luke Clausen, Jacob Wheeler, Dustin Connell, Andy Montgomery, Zack Birge, Edwin Evers, Jordan Lee, Bryan Thrift, and Michael Neal. On that last day, fishing started out tough due to the cold morning temperatures but once the water was able to warm up a bit the anglers were able to start catching a few. Since the morning was so slow, it created lots of drama toward the end of the day because all of the weights were so tight and any angler had a shot to win. With about five minutes left, Luke Clausen was at the top of the leaderboard with Bobby Lane right behind him. However, with under two minutes to go, Bobby Lane hooked up with largemouth bass and was able to land it. He weighed it the first time and the scale read 1-15 so he weighed the fish again. This time the scale read 2-0 which then gave Bobby the lead. As time expired, Bobby was still at the top and took home 300 thousand dollars and a story to tell for the rest of his life. Bobby hasn’t had a high tour-level win in quite some time so he was overcome with many emotions when he heard the official tell him he was the 2022 Redcrest champion!