Brian Huskins and David Winters won the last Lake Wylie Fall Qualifier Dec. 13 to tie with Gene and Payton Webster for the Carolina Anglers Team Trail Fall Points title and both teams will fish free in the Wylie Fall Final Saturday.

“I’ve won the points the last two or three years in the Fall series,” said Winters, who also won the points in the CATT Spring Trail this year. “This fall we were a little bit slow in starting, but we cleaned it up towards the end of the series.”

In fact, Winters and Huskins had finished no higher than 4^th in the previous three tournaments in the Fall Series, but they turned it around when it mattered to claim the points title again, weighing 20.92 pounds in the last qualifier last Saturday.

“Fishing has been a little different this year,” Winters said. “It took us a little time to figure it out, but I think we are on top of it now. We’ve been catching fish a number of different ways.”

One of those ways, he said, involves a new bait that will not be on the market until after the Bassmaster Classic on Lake Hartwell in February.

“Brian owns Brian’s Bee’s Crankbaits and a couple of nice fish came off his new Glide Shad,” Winters said. “Of course we also caught them on the Alabama Rig, a jerkbait and a swimming minnow.”
Winters said the front moving across the region this week could have an effect on the bite in Lake Wylie Saturday.

“Fishing is going to be questionable because of the weather pattern. I won’t know until Friday exactly what we will do on Saturday. We’ll probably stick with the same game plan, but we’ve just had a couple of warmer days and fish tend to pull up shallow when that happens so we may have to make some small adjustments.”

Brett Collins, CATT owner/director, said he plans to start the Wylie fall schedule a little earlier in 2015, possibly running a series from July through November.

 

Carolina Anglers Team Trail Fall Final

Saturday, Dec. 20

Lake Wylie

Buster Boyd Bridge

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