Monday, November 30, 2009

Card Cast Cumberland Pro for Back to Back State Titles


Brandon Card won the 2008 Kentucky BASS Federation Nation State Championship on Barren River by probing points with Cumberland Pro Lures Football Heads, Pro Casters, and Shakey heads. In 2009 he repeated with a win on the Ohio River at Carrollton. Cumberland Pro is the Champions Choice.

Jeff and John Carman Capitalize with Cumberland Pro to Win the Midwest/Central Lake Wheeler Regional Championship


Oct. 3, 2009 Decatur, AL…Although bluebird skies and fierce southwesterly winds confronted the anglers on Day-2 of the Fishers of Men Lake Wheeler Midwest - Central Regional Championship, it still proved to be remarkably productive for Jeff and John Carman (Kentucky South-central), as they brought in another 15 plus pound bag of bass to secure the win by more than a four pound margin. Jeff and John hauled in 15.10 lbs to join the 15.98 from Day-1 and capture the 2009 Midwest – Central Regional Championship with 31.08 lbs overall. The talented pair’s consistent performance throughout the two days of competition earned them championship plaques to commemorate their victory and a certificate for a fully rigged, $30,000.00, 2010 TR-18 Triton bass boat, powered by a 150hp Mercury Optimax, Motorguide trolling motor, and Lowrance electronics. John and Jeff concentrated their efforts within view of the Lake Guntersville dam. By tossing Cumberland Pro Lures black jigs tipped with green-pumpkin Paca Craws®, the talented duo flipped and tossed this productive bait in and around current breaks in six to ten feet of water and caught so many fish that they were culling them by mere ounces. Yet another CAST,CATCH,CULL,CASH.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Denney and Morgan get cullin for a win!

Mark Denney and Mark Morgan win the Back Waters Fall Open Tournament Saturday by catching keepers all day on a 3/8 Pro Caster Bass Jig in Naked Craw color and a Cumberland Pro Shakey head. The team reported catching 18 keepers during the day.

Denney also got a bonus fish for the table of a 20 pound striper caught in the jumps.

Saddler and the Pro Caster on a Streak!

Drew Saddler is getting some double takes when he walks to the scales these days as he has won the last three tournaments he has fished in. Drew reports that he is catching his fish on a 1/2 Pro Caster in the Cumberland Craw color. Drew is catching smallmouth and KY's with a few large mouth mixed in.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Lake Cumberland Striper Report

11/8/09 Striper trip with my son and father started fishing about 2:00 in the mouth of a creek on the upper end of the lake. Water temp 62, weather high blue bird skies with 0 wind. Began trolling with 4 Cumberland Pro Umbrella rigs dressed with 9 CPL striper spinnners each. All 1 oz 2rigs blue chart 2 rigs chart chart.

Began trolling the bank in 30 feet of water, not much shad or fish. After about 20 minutes marked a school of 6 fish ran over them and two rods went off with two non keepers put in the boat. Moved over a point that dropped off into the channel and began marking bait fish at 30 feet and below. Trolled the area for an additional 20 minutes and did not mark any good sized stripers, so we moved farther up the creek.

Mid to upper section of the creek revealed much more bait on the graph but all still below 30 feet. A little odd for this time of year when often fish are found busting surface. I continued to S curve troll the bank switching depths. 8 more non keepers come to the boat. As I was switching sides of the creek I increased the trolling speed up to 3.5 mph and moved over the channel noticed a lot of bait showing up. Suddenly the #1 rod went off and strained with the weight of the fish. As Kellen grabbed the rod and began to battle the fish, the #4 rod went off and gave Dad some action as well. Three fish on that pass with 2 for the cooler.

Well that's how they want it so that's how we decided to give it to them. Repeated trips zig zagging back and forth over the main channel breaks at higher speeds we ended the day with 5 in the box by 5:00. Ran into a guide buddy that was fishing live bait in the area. Reported a slow day with only 1 keeper in the box.

Check out the Urigs at our store and catch em on your next trip.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Moberly wins point championship with Cumberland Pro Lures

Brandon Moberly won the 2009 mountain division co angler title and misses an All American birth by ounces.

Here is what Brandon had to say:

"This year has by far been one of my best years of fishing so far. First off, before any tournaments even started, dad won that $100,000 as we all know and that just started the year off great, not only for the family but also for myself in that it enabled me to fish more tournaments this year, and we also bought the new boat which boosted my confidence dramatically in fishing because i didnt have to worry about anything breaking down on me. I could just focus on catching that next fish.

The first BFL at Laurel was a grinder in that I only landed one fish all day but it was a good 3lb fish. I caught that fish on a Lucky Craft Pointer and it kept me close to the top in points.

At Dale Hollow unfortunately we had engine problems so we stayed in around the Star Point area. I knew there were fish in the area so I picked up a 3/8oz BLK/BLUE Pro Caster with a Green Pumkin big salty chunk and caught fish all day including a 4lber. I only had 3 keepers but they weighed 8lbs and put me in 6th that tourney.

At Cumberland it was rainy all day but the fish were spawning, so i picked up a Cumberland Pro 3/8oz White Buzzbait and worked stumps and shallow flats all day and caught 5 that weighed 8.6lbs and put me in 12 for the day.

On Barren I started out early with a 1/2oz Cumberland Pro Barren Craw FB head jig with a Alabama Craw Paca casting to deeper stumps on a long point in the 15-22ft range and caught 3 good keeper LMs. We left there and ran up in the river so i picked up a 1/2 oz BLK/Blue Barbed HD Flippin jig with a flippin blue big salty and caught a keeper slot and another 15 1/2 incher so that gave me my limit for the day and I ended up with 11.15 lbs which put me in 8th.

At the Super Tournament, the first day I started out throwing a 1/2 oz Barren Craw Football Head tipped with a Strike King baby rage craw chunk. Within an hour, I landed my 3 keepers on it and lost another. We were fishing stumps and rocks on a channel break in the 15ft range. I made the cut and the second day I knew I had to at least catch a couple keepers so I picked up ole faithful -- 3/8oz Naked Craw Pro Caster tipped with the Baby Rage Craw and ended up catching 2 keepers for the day which got me 3rd place and also won the points for me which was my ultimate goal.

At Norman the first day I caught 2 really good keepers on a 3/8oz Naked Craw Pro Caster tipped with a green pumpkin chigger craw casting around the outsides of the docks and the stucture on the banks,not the docks like my boater was focusing on. The other 2 keepers were caught on a 4 inch Smoke Purple tube,just throwing it out in the current and letting it bounce along the bottom looking like a dieing baitfish and the fish would grab it,I ended up in 7th going into day 2 with those four fish.

The second day I only caught one keeper,I caught it on an 1/8 CP Pro Shaky Head with a Reaction Innovations 6 1/2inch Flirt Worm in Magic Craw Red color,I came in 14th with that fish and had a 2 day total of 9.10lbs missing the cut by 5 ounces.

I have to say I was very proud of myself this year in that I didnt finish any lower than 20th place all year in the BFLs and won the points by I think 37. Luke Devere and I also had a great year in the USA Bassins. We drew 2 checks through 5 of the regular season tournaments on Barren River and also qualified for the regional. We had 19lbs in one tournament throwing 3/4 and 1oz Long Arm Double Willow Cumberland Pro Spinnerbaits in White and White/Charteuse. We targeted shallower bluff walls with a break on them to catch those fish. The other one we flipped BLK/Blue and Blk/charteuse 1/2oz jigs in less of 5ft of water in the brush and had 15lbs.

Our big win came a week before the BFL Super Tournament when we won the USA Bassin Regional on Rough River which earned us $4,000. Every fish we caught came on BLK/Blue or BLK/Chartuese 3/8oz Pro Casters tipped with Green Pumkin Big saltys. We caught 3 keepers early close to the takoff area,then went to another spot were we thought we could maybe catch a slot or maybe another keeper.

We ended up catching a 3.12, 3.8 and another 15-inch keeper off that one spot which gave us our limit that weighed 11.86lbs. It was the only limit weighed in out of 98 boats, and this was my first time and Lukes 2nd time to ever fish Rough River.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Cobb and Moberly of Eastern Kentucky U fishing team finish 2nd.


The Eastern Kentucky University fishing team of Richard Cobb and Tyler Moberly finished 2nd at the National Guard FLW College Fishing central regional championship. The team was catching Kentucky Lake Bass on Cumberland Pro Lures Shakey heads. The lead the event after day two but struggled to catch keepers the final day. The posted the big limit on day two caught flippin shaky heads around shallow brush.

Morgan All-American bound thanks to Cumberland Pro Spinner Bait and Buzz Bait.

Mark Morgan in his first season as a boater in the BFL qualifies for the 2010 All American by qualifying at the Old Hickory Lake Chevy Trucks Wild Card.

Morgan stated he caught fish all day long the first day of competition by burning the Cumberland Pro 1/8 oz buzz bait in a black with silver blade. He stated that he used the tiny buzz due to the high fishing pressure that the lake was experiencing.

The second day of competition Morgan adjusted to the changing conditions due to the heavy rains by up sizing to a 3/8 black buzz bait with gold blade. "I reeled it as slow as I could" He stated that the water colored more and he felt the larger profile bait with gold blade helped the fish find it better. Morgan also used the Cumberland Pro 3/8 long arm tandem spinner bait in white/chartreuse barbed shad with silver blades to get key bites. He used a slow roll pause technique to trigger strikes. The fish would slam it when he paused and let the blades flutter.

Watkins All-American Bound Thanks to Pro Caster Jig.

Tee Watkins is heading to the 2010 All-American by qualifying at the North Carolina Lake Norman Regional. Tee fished the Cumberland Pro Lures 3/8 oz Pro Caster jig in the Oops color with a big salty green pumpkin chunk. Tee used the jig by casting and pitching around docks catching a mixed bag of large mouth and spots each day.

Tee stated that the design of the pro caster jig imitates a craw fish to perfection. He was able to cull several times each day and never lost a fish all week.