Curtis Niedermier
FLW PRESS RELEASE
We’ve seen some incredible bags weighed in through three days of competition at the FLW Tour event presented by Ranger Boats at Lake Toho, but it seems like every angler who’s weighed a mega-bag has also had at least one mediocre day.
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| Consistency key to Buddy Gross's success! (Photo: FLW) |
Consistency has eluded everyone except Buddy Gross. While the Georgia pro hasn’t landed the kind of Florida hawg that it takes to weigh in a mid-20s bag, he’s stacked together quality limits of 21-7, 20-13 and 19-12 to put himself in the lead going into the final day.
With 62 pounds, Gross is up on Florida’s
Darrell Davis by just 1 pound, 1 ounce.
Of the 15 fish the leader has brought to the
scale so far, 14 have come from one spot on the outside edge of the grass in
Lake Toho.
“It’s very precise,” he says. “It’s almost
like a little funnel where the wind’s blowing the bait and stuff up in, and it
just goes up there and dead ends. They’re just sitting there, kind of
hovering.”
Gross figures both prespawn and postspawn bass
are moving through this spot. He hit the spot five or six times today, mixing
in some other holes and hard spots in the grass in between. No other area
produced anything of value until, on the way in, Gross swung by a secondary
area he’s been checking on all week. There, he caught a 4-pounder to cap his
limit.
“I’ve fished it every day on the way back in,
and I’ve been having bites,” he says of the final spot. “They just ain’t been
takin’ it. They’ve been knocking it. Today, I didn’t fish it 10 minutes and
caught a 4-pounder. I’m hoping there might be some fish that are pulling out to
that one.”
