Edwin Evers' Pattern, Baits & Gear
Evers spent the tournament flipping heavy cover about 10 miles up the Colorado River.
"It's a beautiful lake and really a neat place," he said. "Having never been there before and not knowing any better, I just started flipping up shallow (in practice) and got some bites."
The 20 1/2-pound stringer he brought to the scale on day 1 was the biggest of the tournament.
"I figure some of those fish were still spawning. I caught some in the slack water and some in the current from a foot to 4 feet of water. I caught a few on a frog when it was a little calmer or when I didn't have something to flip to.
"A lot of the fish I caught were ones I shook off in practice. I marked the waypoints, then I'd go back in the tournament and make that exact same flip and catch that fish."
Flipping gear: 7'6" extra-heavy or 7'3" heavy-action Carbonlite rod, Johnny Morris Signature Series casting reel (7:1 ratio), 55-pound XPS 8 braided or 25-pound XPS fluorocarbon line, 1 1/2- or 3/4-ounce tungsten weight, 4/0 Mustad flipping hook, Zoom Z-Hog (green-pumpkin).
Frog gear: 7' medium-heavy CarbonLite Rod, same reel, 50-pound XPS 8 braid, Snag Proof Bobby's Perfect Frog (black).
Main factor: "Just covering a lot of water, putting my head down and fishing what was in from of me."
Performance edge: "My Wiley X sunglasses - I saw a whole bunch of those fish before I caught them."
