Pierson, a regular on the northern California tournament scene, a full-time gun accessory sales executive and part-time high school soccer coach would hook and land a 10-pound, 1-ounce spotted bass; which would be certified as a New Melones Lake record. The fish weighed just three ounces short of Bryan Shashido's 2001 world record spotted bass taken at Pine Flat lake.
The fish was taken on River2Sea's popular and effective S-Waver 168, a jointed "s-action" swimbait in the Lite Trout color pattern.
