On Saturday March 1st, fisherman Todd Pearson, of Anderson, S.C., won the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Savannah River Division tournament on Clarks Hill Lake.

He won with a five-bass catch weighing a total of 19lbs, 13 oz. The win netted Pearson $4,270 plus a $753 Ranger contingency bonus and put him a step closer to qualifying for the Lake Seminole Regional Championship in Bainbridge, Ga., Oct. 16-18, where he could win a new 198VX Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

Pearson said he caught his bass on a deep-diving crankbait at the mouth of a cove on the main lake points.

“The fish were shallow early,” said Pearson. “I was using a stop-and-go retrieve and letting it fall down in the grass. Later in the day, I was catching pockets on a jerk bait where were suspended in 18- 20 feet of water in the tree tops.”

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