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VIDA WINS FLW EVERSTART EVENT ON DETROIT RIVER
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SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa – With wins on Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River already to his credit, Berkley®, Abu Garcia® and Fenwick® Pro Kevin Vida is well versed in how to fish these northern waters. That experience paid off for him last weekend as seasoned pro won the FLW EverStart Series Northern Division event on Detroit River.
With a winning weight of 36 pounds, 11 ounces, Vida won the tournament by more than a pound thanks to a final day when he was one of only four anglers to catch a limit. Vida pocketed $8,400 plus contingency money and a fully rigged Ranger boat. The win was the third of his career on the EverStart series. Vida primarily used a Berkley Frenzy® Rattl’r lipless crankbait in blue chrome to search for bass in practice, fishing mostly in shallow water at the mouth of the Detroit River. “I found my fish with a Frenzy Rattl’r and a spinnerbait. On the first day of competition I caught all my fish on the Rattl’r,” Vida said. “On the second day I caught my first keeper on it. After an hour and a limit of about 14 pounds, I started moving around again to different areas with the Frenzy. I found a little hole and caught two nice keepers. It was the difference in how I finished as almost all my keepers the rest of the tournament came from that spot.”
Vida used a Fenwick TechnaAV 7-foot medium action rod with an Abu Garcia Torno 3006 reel and 14 pound sensation with the Frenzy Rattl’r. He also used a 6-foot-6-inch TechnaAV spinning medium heavy action with an Abu Garcia Cardinal 704 center drag reel with 10 pound Vanish Transition with tubes. Last week, FLW Outdoors announced that Pure Fishing® - with its leading portfolio of fishing brands including Berkley, Abu Garcia, Stren®, Spiderwire®, Fenwick, Sevenstrand®, Mitchell® and Johnson® - has signed the largest, most comprehensive endemic sponsorship agreement in FLW Outdoors history. The multiyear sponsorship agreement will commence in conjunction with the 2006 tournament season. Pure Fishing’s sponsorship will include participation in all of the FLW Outdoors tournament trails.
Pure Fishing’s Berkley brand will be the exclusive fishing line of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour. New in 2006, the Stren Series (formerly known as the EverStart Series) will showcase Pure Fishing’s premier Stren fishing line brand and will serve as bass fishing’s pathway to the FLW Tour. Additionally, Pure Fishing’s Abu Garcia brand of reels and rods will share title sponsorship of the successful Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail. Berkley is located in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Included in the Berkley brand are Trilene®, Vanish® and FireLine® fishing lines as well as Gulp!® and PowerBait® soft baits.
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