Championship Sunday found the BPT pros on the Shearon Harris Resevoir in North Carolina.
One of the exciting things about the BPT format is the introduction of new water as the tournament goes on. The pros have to analyze and make decisions on the fly.
That’s exactly what Virginia pro Jacob Powroznik did.
He noticed a fish in a pocket boil on a plastic worm. From there, he made the connection that the largemouth were in shallow water and they were spawning.
That’s all the information he needed to key in on an approach. He reached for a soft-plastic and wacky rigged it targeting spawners.
The result was 20 fish weighing in at 63 pounds, 4 ounces.
“They were really shallow – I picked that wacky-worm up right then and didn’t take it out of my hand the rest of the day.”
Jacob Powroznik
A Mixed Approach
Early in the day, Powroznik attacked the sight-fishing tactic. As clouds rolled over and changed the visibility though, he started making casts to shallow water.
This actually turned out to be a very fortunate turn of events. With fish hunkered down in only a foot of water, they were easy to spook.
With clouds making visibility tougher and the subtle approach of the wacky worm, he was able to get in front of fish without spooking them.
These heads up decisions made all the difference, and earned Powroznik the trophy and $100,000 check for the BPT win.