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Weighing in on FLW Co-angler departure..... My 5 cents....lol #flwfishing #bassnation #bassfishing #largemouthbass #coanglers #flwtour #5oz

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#FLWTour rookie #JustinAtkins of Florence, #Alabama , brought a five-bass limit to the scale Sunday weighing 22 pounds, 1 ounce – the second-heaviest limit ever weighed in the 22-year history of the /#ForrestWoodCup – to earn the win at the 2017 Forrest Wood Cup on #LakeMurray and the $300,000 top cash prize. COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLW Tour rookie Justin Atkins of Florence, Alabama, brought a five-bass limit to the scale Sunday weighing 22 pounds, 1 ounce – the second-heaviest limit ever weighed in the 22-year history of the Forrest Wood Cup – to earn the win at the 2017 Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray. Over three days, Atkins weighed in 15 fish totaling 59 pounds, 4 ounces to edge out second-place pro Travis Fox of Rogers, Arkansas, by 2 pounds, 9 ounces and win the $300,000 top cash prize. The tournament featured 53 of the top bass-fishing anglers in the world competing for professional bass-fishing’s world championship. “When I say I feel like this is what I’m meant to do I don’t mean that in any kind of arrogant way,” said Atkins, who became just the third angler to win the Forrest Wood Cup in their rookie season. “I just went out on a limb of faith this year. I didn’t have the money to fish the full Tour when I started. I had enough money to fish about four events, and I was hoping I would make it. I felt like God had a plan, and that’s what I was supposed to be doing. I just went out there and fished, and today signed off that I was supposed to be there.” Atkins targeted cane piles throughout the week and the fat blueback herring-eating largemouths that hung around them. He estimated that he had about 60 to 80 waypoints on cane piles he liked, and most of the piles topped out about 8 to 10 feet below the surface, rising up from about 20 or 22 feet deep. The fresher and “bushier” the pile was, the more fish were in it. “I caught every fish that I weighed in this week on an Ima Little Stick 135 in chrome,” Atkins said. “I fished them on a 7:1 gear ratio Abu Garcia reel with 30-pound-test braid and a 7-foot, 5-inch medium-heavy composite rod. I think the key was being consistent and sticking with the topwater bait.

Mark Howard of the Lunkercatch.com Pro Staff and FLW Tour fooling around on Lake Fork #lunkercatch #lunkercatchmovement #bassin #bassfishing #fish #fishing #flw #flwtour #beastmode @esp_bassfishing @mhowardc @mark_bass_connection @richard_hoitinga_fishing @richard_the_bass_connection @the_bass_connection @jeremy_the_bass_connection @realfireman @clifton.jackson @pigpatrol