The amount of exposure for an angler is tremendous. "It’s something like 850 hours of television coverage between the Cups, the Bass Pro Tour and the Redcrest from one year of fishing, where before we had like 40 hours of television coverage. "The trail I used to fish, they would put two tournaments in a one-hour show and now each tournament has its own two-hour show on the Discovery Channel and the championship being on CBS," Evers said. Then the new Bass Pro Tour formed with its increased television exposure, unique and exciting tournament format, no entry fees and larger payouts. It's his "getaway" place and he was ready to getaway from professional bass fishing for good at one point. He owns a pecan orchard on the Caney River just nine miles from his home in Talala. Retrieves: Crawling, hopping or swimming along specific targets such as wood cover and docks.Before joining the Tulsa-based Major League Fishing and its new Bass Pro Tour, Evers was ready to quit professional fishing and stick to growing and selling pecans. Situations: Any weather especially post-frontal situations. Model: 3/8- or 1/2-ounce black-and-blue Booyah Boo Jig with a Yum Money Craw in a river craw hue. Tackle: 7-foot medium Pro Qualifier rod, Pro Qualifier 6.4:1 reel with 50-pound braid. Retrieve: "I just try it slow and steady enough to make it bubble." "It's really good along rocky banks like riprap or chunk rock, and on points." Situations: Stained to dirty water on cloudy days with a "fairly calm" water surface around laydowns, logs and sides of docks from the bank to 7 feet deep. "If bass are feeding on big gizzard shad, I will throw a 1/2-ounce and if they are feeding on threadfin or smaller shad I will throw 3/8- or even 1/4-ounce in clear-water situations." Model: Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye Pro Series in white or black. Tackle: 7-foot medium-heavy Pro Qualifier rod and Pro Qualifier reel (5.2:1 gear ratio) and 20-pound XPS Fluorocarbon. Stained water in the backs of pockets around docks, logs and laydowns from the bank to 7 feet deep. At the time, I was sitting in ninth place, higher than Edwin, and he should have ceded me the water. Situations: Sunny or cloudy, calm or windy. the entire day before when Edwin Evers entered. He won on the Alabama River in May, has finished in the top 13 four out of six tournaments, and his worst finish so far is a very respectable 30th at West Point Lake. Model: 1/2-ounce chartreuse-and-white Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye Pro Series with tandem willowleaf blades. Three quarters of the way through the 2013 Bassmaster Elite Series season, there’s no denying that Edwin Evers has been the best angler on the water. He works the crankbait on a Bass Pro Shops Pro Qualifier 7-foot medium-heavy cranking rod and a Bass Pro Shops Pro Qualifier baitcasting reel (6.4:1 gear ratio) with 17- to 20-pound test Bass Pro Shops XPS Fluorocarbon line.Įvers' other favorite lures for fall fishing are the following: "I like to reel it pretty fast and then stop it when it gets past a piece of cover," says Evers. The five-time BASS winner likes to throw the crankbait in any weather conditions and especially in stained water around stumps and laydowns less than 4 feet deep. But a 4-pounder got the front hook, and I reeled both of them in." So it got back up to the stump and stopped, and I thought it was hooked on the stump. I was babying it because I could see it just had the back hook in the top of its mouth. "I fought the fish all the way around the boat and it was stripping drag trying to get back up to that stump. "A little one missed it, and as it was coming over the other side of the stump, about a 3 1/4-pounder caught it," he recalls. While fishing a stump during a tournament last weekend, Evers showed why the square-bill crankbait is his favorite lure in the fall. I can cover a lot of water with it and catch big ones on it." "It creates vicious strikes when the fish get up shallow on logs and stumps. The Oklahoma pro's top choice for fall fishing is a Bomber BB5 crankbait in citrus, black-chartreuse or root beer-chartreuse hues. The Talala resident won the 2016 Bassmaster Classic and last year was the season-points champion on the new Bass Pro Tour. Visit my website or follow me on Twitter: edwinevers2. He has become one of the most successful pro bass anglers Oklahoma has ever produced, arguably belonging on the state's Mount Rushmore of fishing. Facebook page of Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour Edwin Evers. The water has cooled off, and bass are feeding heavily in the shallows of your favorite fishery.ĭuring the fall, just about any lure in your tacklebox will catch these active bass, but there are certain baitfish imitators that produce best, so BASS Insider asked Elite Series pro Edwin Evers to pick his five favorite lures for tricking bass this time of year. Facebook page of Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour Edwin Evers.
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