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Fall 2018
CTWROOW’SDA
angler battles on the water
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by Pete Robbins
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oday’s pro anglers have better technology than
ever before, allowing them to pre-fish from
their kitchen tables, dialing in key spots and eliminating water from out-of-state.
Top to bottom, they’re also more talented than their
predecessors, which means that once they arrive at the lake
– no matter how big it might be – they’re going to zero in on
the best places to fish.
In other words, there are no secrets anymore.
It used to be that anglers got into squabbles with one
another because they converged on “community holes.” That
still happens, but now they’re just as likely to battle for “the
juice” before it’s known to the community.
On the pro circuits, it happens at almost every event. It doesn’t matter whether it’s east or west, north or south, shallow or deep.
INFAMOUS SQUABBLES
Remember Aaron Martens and Byron Velvick virtually ending a long-term friendship while “sharing” a key spot at Falcon Lake in Texas? That was a decade ago, and it still stings.
More recently, Greg Hackney and Bill Lowen battled over a portion of a small canal during an Elite Series stop at the notoriously stingy Sabine River in Texas.