Cal Lane Wins MLF TW Pro Circuit Stop 6 -Lake Champlain
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For smallmouth, Lane used a 6-inch Deps Sakamata Shad on a 3/8oz Epic Baits Shine Ball. For the largemouth, he punched mats in 10 feet of water with a 2-ounce Epic Baits flipping weight, a Damiki Air Craw, and 55-pound Cortland MasterBraid.
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MLF TW Pro Circuit Stop 6 - Top 10
2nd Place - Matt Becker - 63lb - 6oz - $22,600
For the smallmouth, Becker used a Big Bite Baits Spotlight Minnow and a Yamamoto Uni Mas. For largemouth, he ran docks with a 5-inch Yamamoto Senko in watermelon and watermelon black flake. He spooled everything with 21-pound Seaguar PEX8 and rolled with a Seaguar Tatsu leader in both cases, using 20-pound for his Uni and Senko and 12-pound for the minnow.
3rd Place - Banks Shaw - 61lb - 13oz - $18,100
For his smallmouth, Shaw used a 4.5-inch Rapala CrushCity Mooch Minnow with a 1/8-ounce, 2/0 VMC Redline jighead. He hit up docks for largemouth and made some big culls using a 21 mm Rapala CrushCity The Ceo rigged on a treble.
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4th Place - Broderick Luckey - 60lb - 15oz - $16,500
Luckey's best baits were a Deps Sakamata Shad, and a 1/2-ounce Missile Baits Micro HD Football Jig and an Evergreen Shower Blows 105, all thrown on Kistler rods.
5th Place - Ryan Lachniet - 60lb - 1oz - $15,700
Lachniet did his best work with a drop-shot with a Megabass Hazedong Shad. He spooled it up on a 7-2, medium Phenix M1, a 3000 Shimano Vanquish, a No. 1 Ryugi Tasliman hook.
6th Place - Tyler Campbell - 59lb - 9oz - $14,900
Tyler Campbell put up strong smallmouth bags with forward-facing sonar and also added largemouth some days, flipping a jig on docks. One of his primary smallmouth baits was a Berkley Stunna 112+1. He threw everything with Abu Garcia rods and reels.
7th Place - Colby Miller - 59lb - 8oz - $14,100
For smallmouth, Miller 'Scoped in the Inland Sea, tempting the bass with a 3/8-ounce Epic Baits Shine Ball and a 5.25-inch Berkley Lab Series Minnow.
8th Place - Brett Carnright - 58lb - 15oz - $14,050
Carnright caught them on a 3/4-ounce ounce Beast Coast Lil' Magnum in dirtbag with a green pumpkin Strike King Menace trailer. For smallmouth he used a 5.25-inch Beast Coast Seduce in alewife and a Deps Sakamata Shad in silver shiner.
9th Place - Alec Morrison - 58lb - 13oz - $12,400
A local to Champlain, Morrison used a variety of minnow rigs to hit fish at different depths. He used a Megabass Destroyer Evoluzion Tsubamagaeshi for most of his minnow shaking.
10th Place - Spike Stoker - 58lb - 6oz - $11,600
For smallmouth, Stoker used a Hag's Tsunami Tungsten Micro Jig with a Berkley PowerBait MaxScent Lil' General trailer. For largemouth, he used a 1/2-ounce jig with a Berkley PowerBait MaxScent Creature Hawg trailer and a Strike King Rage Bug.