Dyer Just Looking For A Limit In North Carolina Bws Tournament On Lake Wylie
Steve Dyer is clinging to a one-point lead in the Bassmaster Weekend Series North Carolina Division points race heading to Lake Wylie July 27 for the fourth tournament in the series, but his primary goal at Wylie will be just to catch a limit of bass.
Dyer, of Mt. Pleasant, N.C., and Mike Miller of Archdale, N.C., are in a neck-and-neck race for the points championship with just Wylie and the two-day divisional championship on High Rock in September left on the schedule. But this is not the first time Dyer has been in this boat.
“I was in the heat of the chase last year. I kind of messed up on Lake Norman, then wrestled my way back and ended up on top of the points, but lost the title in a tiebreaker,” Dyer said.
He might have sewed up the 2013 points title in May on Kerr if not for boat trouble, he said.
“I started the season by winning at High Rock (in April), then we went down to Kerr and I had boat problems. I was on a really good pattern, but I could not get to the fish. I ended up having to fish around some places I could get to and he got ahead of me in points there.”
Dyer finished 8th at Kerr, then rebounded in the third tournament of the season on Lake Norman, finishing 4th.
“The bream bite was on there and I think a lot of the guys did not realize that. The fish were up shallow and I got back in front of him again.”
Miller, who had started the season with a second place at High Rock, finished 3rd at Kerr less than a pound and a half ahead of Dyer, but dropped to 12th at Lake Norman.
“Now we go to Lake Wylie, which is not my favorite place to fish in the summer,” Dyer said. “My goal there is to get a limit in the boat, then try to get some bigger fish, and then get on to that last tournament. I really like High Rock in September.”
Dyer said that with the full moon coming early in the week there is an excellent chance the Wylie tournament will be won on the bream beds, or possibly on a mayfly bite up the rivers.
“There’s going to be a pretty good bream bite. A couple of years ago in the B.A.S.S. Super Tournament I got to be in the photo boat for several days and got to see a lot of bream beds. I’m going to be looking real close for them a couple of evenings before the tournament.”
Bassmaster Weekend Series – North Carolina Division
Sat, Jul 27, 2013
Lake Wylie
Ebenezer Access Area
Call Gary Conner 256-230-5627
