Mammoth Win for Wooley!
by Rob Newell
FLW PRESS RELEASE
One spot plus two lures plus 92 pounds, 4 ounces of Lake
Chickamauga bass equals a $125,000 Walmart FLW Tour win for Michael Wooley.
Wooley, a second-year pro on the FLW Tour who hails from
Collierville, Tenn., spends most of his fishing time somewhere on the Tennessee
River, mostly on either Pickwick or Kentucky Lake.
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| Deep bite allowed Michael win as others moved shallow (Photo FLW) |
Despite his deep knowledge of Tennessee River bass, Wooley’s win
on Lake Chickamauga was about as straightforward as it gets. There were no big
flashy spoons, secret hair jigs or new must-have crankbaits involved in his
victory. There were no mega-schools or timing of tricky rotations.
Instead, Wooley dragged just two lures – a Zoom Magnum Trick
Worm on a 1/2-ounce hand-poured shaky head and a 3/4-ounce Strike King
football-head jig teamed with a Strike King Rage Lobster trailer – across a
shell bar located in Dallas Bay for the win in the Tour event presented by
Igloo Coolers on Lake Chickamauga.
Wooley found the fish on Sunday afternoon, the first official
day of practice.
“I was idling along in Dallas Bay looking with the Lowrance
DownScan when I found them,” Wooley says of the winning fish. “It was by no
means a mega-school, but the size of the dots [sonar returns] was thick, which
told me they were better quality fish.”
Another pass with regular sonar confirmed his suspicions.
