Nick Wood and Justin Gordon win the Wild West Bass Trail California Teams event at Lake Shasta on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017 with a seven-fish limit weighing 18.41. (Photo Mindy Alvarez)
REDDING, Calif. – Nick Wood and Justin Gordon topped the leaderboard of the Wild West Bass Trail (WWBT) California Teams second stop of the 2017 season at Lake Shasta on Saturday, Feb. 18. With record-breaking attendance of 181 competing teams, Wood and Gordon bested the field with a seven-fish limit that weighed 18.57, claiming a $10,000 cash award of the nearly $60,000 event payout.
“We went to the back of a creek and started throwin’ an A-rig in the morning,” said Wood. “We knew there was good fish in there. We saw them last week in a tournament.”
The team added another lure to their arsenal for the day – one that was credited for the WWBT Pro/Am victory by Ryan Friend last month – the float-n-fly. Wood made the feat sound simple.
“Never in my life had I caught a fish on a float-n-fly and neither had Justin,” he said. “We always threw big swimbaits and stuff like that. Today was the first day we ever threw that thing and on the first cast I caught a good one and Justin caught a good one. We stayed in that whole area with a float-n-fly and we won. Nothing huge, just solid fish.”
The team’s biggest bass weighed in at 2.94. Their payout included contingency dollars from Ranger Cup, Lowrance and Yamamoto Baits.
2nd Peirson/Peirson
Shane Peirson and Tom Peirson took the runner-up position for their seven bass that went 18.41 and included a big fish contender at 5.08.
The Peirson team’s efforts earned $6,605, which included one of the five Yamamoto Toad of the Day awards of $905 and contingency dollars from Dobyns Rods and Costa Sunglasses.
3rd Letterman/Rains
Rounding out the top-3 was Jason Letterman and Chris Rains with 16.94. The earned $3,500 for the day.
The top-10 teams at WWBT Lake Shasta:
- 57 Wood/Gordan
- 41 Peirson/Peirson
- 94 Letterman/Rains
- 88 Wilder/Jimmerson
- 26 Doyle/Flanigan
- 24 Mello/Wright
- 09 Stone/Brown
- 07 Almassey/Saavedra
- 06 Borofka/Borofka
- 99 Shirley/Tencati
FULL RESULTS AND PAYOUT FOR WWBT SHASTA TEAMS
A total of $59,475 was paid for the WWBT Shasta event including the below listed contingency dollars.
WWBT Shasta Teams Yamamoto Toad of the Day Awards
$905 6.09 Wilder/Jimmerson (4th)
$905 5.48 Friedman/Friedman (62nd)
$905 5.08 Peirson/Peirson (2nd)
$905 4.75 Agner/Milligan (19th)
$905 4.54 Fiscus/Atkins (18th)
The following WWBT contingency payouts were also awarded:
$500 Evinrude Wilder\Jimmerson (4th)
$300 Evinrude Almassey/Saavedra (8th)
$200 Evinrude Gouvea/Gouvea (11th)
$150 Ben Green Insurance Fiscus/Atkins (18th)
$250 Run and Win with Lucas Oil Cline/Foor (24th)
$250 Run and Win with Lucas Oil Sanders/Lindsey (115th)
$250 Run and Win with Lucas Oil Caron/Thompson (153rd)
A special thanks to all of the WWBT sponsors – A & M Graphics, Dobyns Rods, Evinrude, Gator Guards, Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, General Tire, Guards, Hydro Force Marine, Lowrance Electronics, Lucas Oil, Power-Pole, Protect the Harvest and Ranger Boats, Super Clean.
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Offering professional-level competition throughout the west, the Wild West Bass Trail provides its anglers the opportunity to further develop and advance their fishing careers. Additionally, the WWBT offers its corporate partners the opportunity to expand sales through comprehensive national and regional television coverage, exclusive on-the-water demonstrations and various tournament incentive programs.
For 2017, the WWBT will conduct 16 events that include one Pro/Am circuit and two Teams circuits – one based in California and the other in Arizona. The Pro/Am circuit consists of five tournaments throughout California and Arizona and a year-end, qualifying championship event. Each Teams circuit includes four tournaments and a year-end, qualifying championship. For more information visit WildWestBassTrail.com and follow WWBT at Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram.
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