Imagine you are heading off to college at Lehigh University in two weeks to play Division 1 soccer and enroll in Army ROTC. You have one weekend at home with your family left. What do you do with that weekend?
If you are Ciaran Nugent, you fish two open 40 boat tournaments back to back, cashing a check in one, and narrowing missing a check in the second. Ciaran, the son of my long-time tournament partner, fished one tournament with his father Mark, and the other with me. Fishing has been a part of Ciaran's life since he was small, but playing soccer is his passion. His position as goalie has taken him to the U15 and U18 National Championships, playing against the best players and teams in the country. Needless to say, Ciaran had his pick of schools and chose Lehigh.
Fukae caught all of his fish in the Inland Sea, where he was dropshotting a Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits Shad Shape Worm in a range of 30 to 40 feet, with 35 his most common depth. Click here for the story on FLW Outdoors.com. Check back for a detailed interview with Shin on how he utilized the Shad Shape Worm this weekend.
Okay, maybe walleye and smallmouth will like it too, but the new 3-inch Swim Senko was designed specifically for crappie. “We are very proud of our new bait,” says Chief George Braswell, promotions director with Yamamoto. “We needed a bigger bait because at Grenada, Mississippi and on the Alabama River the Crappie Masters tournament fishermen had over 30 pounds last year. This year 14 fish at Grenada set a new record at 35 pounds. We obviously know that crappie will hit a big bait because the same size Bandit I would use in a bass tournament is the same one crappie fishermen are using successfully. Putting all of that together we knew a big soft plastic bait would help the fishermen on these and other lakes.”
