JT Kenney Wins the 2015 Walmart FLW Lake Toho Event with 76lbs!

Tiny final day limit made it scary for JT 
by Rob Newell
FLW Press Release
JT Kenney has caught a lot of memorable five-bass limits in his life. As a resident of Florida and a touring pro, he has caught plenty of limits greater than 25 and even 30 pounds. But it just might be the five-bass limit weighing 9 pounds, 4 ounces that he checked in on the final day of the Walmart FLW Tour event on Lake Toho presented by Mercury that he will never forget.

Kenney's vast knowledge helped seal the deal on Toho and Kissimmee. (Photo FLW)

Those five little scrappy buck bass were enough to hold off not one, but two valiant final-day charges from two of the FLW Tour’s best sticks: Wesley Strader and Quaker State pro Scott Canterbury.
Kenney entered the final day with a 12-8 lead and a seemingly bulletproof plan of combing through Kissimmee’s pad fields for big spawning females. As the day wore on, Strader and Canterbury, who were both fishing with no scripted plans and nothing-to-lose attitudes, began chopping big chunks out of Kenney’s lead. Strader and Canterbury were blowing up the FLW On The Water live feed and Twitter with bombs while Kenney’s little keepers seemed like sporadic gunfire in comparison.
By the time weigh-in started, fingernails from all three camps had been chewed to the quick. Human “scales” who stole a peek at each pro’s fish had recalculated the weights 100 times with no idea as to who might take home the hardware.
At first all eyes were on Strader as the show stealer. He weighed 21-5 on day three and started the final day with a huge bass on literally his second cast. Strader was all over the OTW feed after that fish, which he thought was a 9-pounder. Alas, it weighed less than 8. Strader took a swing at Kenney with 20-5 on the last day but came up 1-5 short.
As it turned out, Canterbury was actually a much truer threat to rain on Kenney’s parade, laying down his best effort of the week with 21-10 on the final day.
When Kenney laid the paltry 9-4 on the scale, he needed nearly every ounce of it to hang on to victory, giving him just 11 ounces to spare with a four-day total of 76 pounds even.
“That was the longest hour of my life,” said an elated Kenney when the weigh-in drama ended. “It’s been a long time since I’ve won a Tour event, and I put a lot of work into this one so this makes it all worth it.”