Major League Fishing angler Keith Poche compiled a 3-day total of 46-06 to win the Lake Seminole Southern Toyota Series in Georgia. His winning margin over 2nd-place Mikey Keyso Jr. of Florida was 13 ounces.
Poche traveled up the Flint River and caught his fish pitching a Berkley PowerBait Pit Boss to current breaks such as cuts, cypress trees, logs and rocks.
"I realized pretty quickly that because of the fast current, it was a total reaction bite,” Poche said. “The fish were holed up in the current breaks and they would bite as soon as it hit the water and started to fall. There was no need to work the bait, let it sit or swim it out. It was pitch, fall, one hop and pitch again.
"It became kind of a quick-pitch game, pitching to as many current breaks and eddies as I could as my boat zipped by with the current. I caught some shoal bass, but as it turned out that first day the largemouth I caught were a much better grade of fish.”
Here are the final totals for the Top 10:
1. Keith Poche: 46-06
2. Mikey Keyso Jr.: 45-09
3. Bryan New: 44-11
4. Jared McMillan: 44-07
5. Dillon McMillan: 43-00
6. Jim Murray Jr.: 42-09
7. Jason S. Smith: 35-14
8. Santos Solis: 34-03
9. Gary Milicevic: 32-14
10. Corey Smith: 29-02
