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Juan Acosta
WEIGHT: 24.19


Greg Gutierrez
WEIGHT: 23.34


Ken Mah
WEIGHT: 22.56


Alex Klein
WEIGHT: 22.06


Austin Wilson
WEIGHT: 20.02


Bill O'Shinn
WEIGHT: 19.93


Mark Lassagne
WEIGHT: 19.87


Joe Uribe Jr.​
WEIGHT: 16.47


Nick Wood
WEIGHT: 16.20


John Stewart
WEIGHT: 16.13

TOP 10 CUTLINE
11 Mathew Saavedra 3.2 14.33 7*
12 Nick Salvucci 15.1* 6
13 Luke Johns 13.66 6*
14 Phil Dutra 4.93 12.41* 4
15 Paul Hodges 12.03 6*
16 Travis Huckaby 6.23 10.95* 3
17 Nick Cloutier 10.78 5*
18 Scooter Griffith 4.24 10.05* 5
19 Colby Pearson 9.12 5*
20 Vince Hurtado 7.65* 5
21 John Pearl 2.91 7.22 3*
22 Zack Thompson 6.61* 3
23 David Swendseid 6.22 3*
24 Ryan White 6.55* 2
25 Kevin Finley 4.96 2*
26 Tony Franceschi 4.12* 2
27 Vijay Malhotra 2.12 2*
28 Marty Lawrence 0* 0

OROVILLE, Calif. — A diversified strategy paid big dividends for Juan Acosta of Tracy, Calif., whose two-day total of 24.19 pounds leads Day 2 of the APEX Cup on Thermalito Afterbay presented by Garmin Fish & Hunt and DUO International.

Placing sixth on Day 1 with 11.82, Acosta surged ahead by adding a second-round limit of 12.37. Day 2 saw him returning to the same area on the south shore, but making an adjustment to find his fish.

“I started on the same stuff I fished on Day 1, but it didn’t pan out, so I literally went across the cove and found these fish,” Acosta said. “I’m kinda junk fishing a little bit; I’m catching them on tules and offshore grass in 3-12 feet.

“Everything’s all in the same area, so I have it all right there. So as I’m going, I’ll see a nice patch of (grass) and I’ll throw my frog and then I’ll flip the tules.”

Acosta caught his grass fish on a Spro Bronzeye Frog in the killer gill color. Day 2 saw the frog produce a single keeper, but it was his biggest — 3 1/2-pounder.

Acosta fished the tules with a 1/2-ounce Beast Coast tungsten jig with a Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver, a Texas-rigged Yamamoto Cowboy with a 1 1/2-ounce weight and a dropshot with a Roboworm in the margarita mutilator color.

Acosta noted that the lake’s full-pool status put a lot of water on the tules. He fared best by targeting tule clumps with 8 feet of water around them.

“The key was to stay out and pick apart the grass...
FULL STORY AT APEX: http://apexprotour.com/acosta-moves-int ... o-afterbay