![]() The top 10 pros from the General Tire Heavy Hitters Championship Round on Bussey Brake finished:ġ st: Alton Jones, Jr., Waco, Texas, 19 bass, 81-15, $100,000Ģ nd: Dakota Ebare, Brookeland, Texas, five bass, 22-15, $50,000ģ rd: Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., four bass, 15-0, $20,000Ĥ th: Randy Howell, Guntersville, Ala., three bass, 13-9, $68,000ĥ th: Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz., two bass, 11-2, $15,000Ħ th: Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky., two bass, 10-11, $14,500ħ th: Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., one bass, 9-6, $113,500Ĩ th: Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla., two bass, 7-3, $12,500ĩ th: Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif., one bass, 3-10, $36,000ġ0 th: Ryan Salzman, Huntsville, Ala., one bass, 3-2, $8,000įull results can be found at. We didn’t get many bites, but we got the right one.” I was throwing 25-pound P-Line (Tactical) 100% fluorocarbon line, flipping a ¾ ounce weight with a punch skirt to get that one big bite. I was flipping a 7-foot, 6-inch (Original) Hydrilla (Grass Flippin’) rod from Fitzgerald Fishing with a Fitzgerald Fishing VLD10 reel. So I have to give credit to my equipment. I caught it flipping, and I’m not a very good flipper. “I had one bite all day long, and it was for 100 grand,” Thrift said in his post-game interview. Thrift caught a 9-pound, 6-once giant in Period 2 flipping a jig to win the Heavy Hitters $100,000 Championship Round Berkley Big Bass. Although Thrift boated just one scorable bass Saturday, it was the right one. ![]() This week has just been a magical, magical experience.”Īlso adding to his trophy case this week, and his bank account, is reigning MLF REDCREST Champion Bryan Thrift of Shelby, North Carolina. To trick those bass on Caney to get here, then catching them the way I like to catch them. “It was such a grind, so difficult just to make it to Bussey Brake. I used 20-pound Gamma (fluorocarbon line). I caught them on my signature series Kistler Chungus rod – it’s just appropriate, catching chungus’ on the Chungus. “I was flipping it in the willows, and when I got around those cypress trees I was throwing it on the back of a spinnerbait as a trailer. “I did several things today, but the main staple – every bass I caught today came in some way, shape, or form on the Geecrack Bellows Shad,” Jones said. The key techniques for Jones was flipping the Geecrack Bellows Shad and also throwing a spinnerbait with the Bellow Shad as a trailer. Jones boated 19 scorable bass – for comparison, the other nine competitors only caught 21 bass combined. After the fifth or sixth bite I figured okay, maybe I’m not going to be leaving this today. I kept making these marks for myself as I’m moving down the bank – I’m going to fish 10 more trees and if I don’t get a bite, I’m out – and then I’d catch one. “Then I caught a short, and then lost one. “I was going to fish that one stretch for just a little bit, but then I caught one,” Jones continued. After spending the first period in another area I decided to roll over there and fish it. I had one little stretch of cypress trees that I really wanted to fish. I felt really good about my chances when I got to Bussey, flipping the willows with a white Geecrack Bellows Shad. “Man, what a day,” Jones said in his post-game interview. The victory was the second major MLF win of the younger Jones’ career. Link to Video of Fish-Catch Highlights from Championship Round on Bussey Brake Link to Photo Gallery of Championship Round Afternoon Highlights Link to Hi-Res Photo of Bryan Thrift’s Championship Round $100,000 Big Bass – 9 Pounds, 6 Ounces Link to Hi-Res Photo of General Tire Heavy Hitters 2023 Champion Alton Jones, Jr. Jones weighed in 19 scorable bass Saturday weighing 81 pounds, 15 ounces – a whopping 59 pounds higher than his closest competitor – to run away with the 2023 title and win the General Tire Heavy Hitters Presented by Bass Pro Shops. At Heavy Hitters 2022, his son Alton Jones, Jr., didn’t win the title belt, but he was the big winner at the event, as the Waco, Texas pro weighed the biggest bass in both the Knockout and Championship Rounds to earn the $50,000 and $100,000 Big Bass Bonuses and walk away from the event with $165,000 in winnings. Two years ago, at Heavy Hitters 2021, Alton Jones, Sr., of Lorena, Texas, put on a sight-fishing clinic at North Carolina’s Shearon Harris Reservoir to earn the Heavy Hitters title belt and the top payout of $100,000. MONROE-WEST MONROE, La.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-It’s safe to say that the Jones’ love the Major League Fishing (MLF) General Tire Heavy Hitters Presented by Bass Pro Shops all-star event.
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