09-24-2003, 10:54 PM
This week in the Gary Yamamoto's WEEKLY NEWS on Fishing - Vol. 4 No. 36
He gave the following results and How the winner accomplished his task.
$46,850 top prize..... Kennewick is about a 8 to 9 hour drive from Salt Lake
Here is his report - [size 2]
CHRIS LAMBERT USES 9C SENKO TO WIN BASSMASTER OPEN
After sitting on the Western sidelines last season, the Bassmaster Opens returned to the starting line-up of major-league bass fishing on the West Coast this past weekend with the Western season-opener on Sept. 18-20 on the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington. The last time the Bassmaster trail pulled into Kennewick was two years ago in October, 2001.
This past weekend was the first of three Western Open events that will send the top-seeded Western anglers on to the inaugural Bassmaster Open Championship in December and ultimately to the world championship, the 2004 Bassmaster Classic next summer.
Team Yamamoto pros made a good showing on the Columbia River this weekend: John Murray 9th; Jarrett Edwards 17th; Ron Colby 25th; Gary Dobyns 28th; Rob VanderKooi 35th; and Roy Hawk 39th.
But it was Washington angler Chris Lambert who tied into
first place on Day One and never shook out of the leader position all three days.
Dropshotting the 3" Senko (9C) was key to helping Chris
Lambert rack up the $46,850 top prize and impressive first place trophy - his first from BASS. "I'm going to put this trophy in our living room which is decorated real froufrou. I think it will fit in great," joked Lambert.
In speaking with Chris Lambert today, he told me, "My
livewell was littered with crawdad pieces every day. I tried many different baits during prefish, but the 9C Senko was key. The spot I fished was a current break in 15 feet of water, a swift feeding lane, and I discovered that the 9C fit the perfect match for the crawfish profile that the bass here saw swirling past them in the strong current."
"I tried a lot of different colors during practice. I found three colors of 9C Senko that worked well and it was necessary that I alternated between them - watermelon; smoke with purple flake (157); and smoke blue pearl (240) in order to win the tournament," said Chris.
"I dropshot the 9C. I tried wacky rigging it on the dropshot but the bass would not eat that as much as simply nose-hooking the 9C. I tried a 1/4 oz dropshot sinker, but the lighter weight of a 3/16 oz dropshot sinker moved quicker in the current, which these bass clearly preferred over the 1/4 oz sinker," said Chris Lambert.
The winning lesson that Chris Lambert shares with us today
is that painstaking attention to all the little details - methodically discovering what bait profile, what colors, the necessity to alternate colors, what sinker size the bass did and did not want, what way they did or did not want it pinned on the hook - putting all this together helped Chris Lambert win one of the most coveted titles in our sport this past weekend - a Bassmaster win.[/size]
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He gave the following results and How the winner accomplished his task.
$46,850 top prize..... Kennewick is about a 8 to 9 hour drive from Salt Lake
Here is his report - [size 2]
CHRIS LAMBERT USES 9C SENKO TO WIN BASSMASTER OPEN
After sitting on the Western sidelines last season, the Bassmaster Opens returned to the starting line-up of major-league bass fishing on the West Coast this past weekend with the Western season-opener on Sept. 18-20 on the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington. The last time the Bassmaster trail pulled into Kennewick was two years ago in October, 2001.
This past weekend was the first of three Western Open events that will send the top-seeded Western anglers on to the inaugural Bassmaster Open Championship in December and ultimately to the world championship, the 2004 Bassmaster Classic next summer.
Team Yamamoto pros made a good showing on the Columbia River this weekend: John Murray 9th; Jarrett Edwards 17th; Ron Colby 25th; Gary Dobyns 28th; Rob VanderKooi 35th; and Roy Hawk 39th.
But it was Washington angler Chris Lambert who tied into
first place on Day One and never shook out of the leader position all three days.
Dropshotting the 3" Senko (9C) was key to helping Chris
Lambert rack up the $46,850 top prize and impressive first place trophy - his first from BASS. "I'm going to put this trophy in our living room which is decorated real froufrou. I think it will fit in great," joked Lambert.
In speaking with Chris Lambert today, he told me, "My
livewell was littered with crawdad pieces every day. I tried many different baits during prefish, but the 9C Senko was key. The spot I fished was a current break in 15 feet of water, a swift feeding lane, and I discovered that the 9C fit the perfect match for the crawfish profile that the bass here saw swirling past them in the strong current."
"I tried a lot of different colors during practice. I found three colors of 9C Senko that worked well and it was necessary that I alternated between them - watermelon; smoke with purple flake (157); and smoke blue pearl (240) in order to win the tournament," said Chris.
"I dropshot the 9C. I tried wacky rigging it on the dropshot but the bass would not eat that as much as simply nose-hooking the 9C. I tried a 1/4 oz dropshot sinker, but the lighter weight of a 3/16 oz dropshot sinker moved quicker in the current, which these bass clearly preferred over the 1/4 oz sinker," said Chris Lambert.
The winning lesson that Chris Lambert shares with us today
is that painstaking attention to all the little details - methodically discovering what bait profile, what colors, the necessity to alternate colors, what sinker size the bass did and did not want, what way they did or did not want it pinned on the hook - putting all this together helped Chris Lambert win one of the most coveted titles in our sport this past weekend - a Bassmaster win.[/size]
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