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How Kevin Van Dam Called His Shot and Won the 2010 Bassmaster Classic
How Kevin Van Dam Called His Shot and Won the 2010 Bassmaster Classic
Kevin Van Dam claimed a third Bassmaster Classic title yesterday on Lay Lake in Alabama. KVD's $500,000 prize boosted his career earnings over $4 million, and further staked his spot as the most decorated professional bass angler on the planet. (He's also a five-time Toyota Tundra BASS Angler of the Year, and defending AOY champ.) This Classic performance was all about gut instinct; KVD didn't have a secret spot, a secret lure, or a secret technique. In fact, in the February 2010 issue of Field & Stream magazine (on page 61 of our "Bass Pro Clinic"), Van Dam detailed his strategy for fooling early season bass with a lipless crankbait, the same strategy he turned to this weekend when the big bucks were on the line.
Photo by Rick Adair
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Congrats Kevin! Well fished...
Congrats to KVD.
The story I heard is that he caught 7 keepers off of one stump and other fisherman could see he hit the mother load of fish but no one crowded him. It speaks volumns for the class of these guys and the respect they have for one another.
Great photos Deeter.
I can't wait to try one of them lipless red eye shad this spring.
Omori was crowding him. Zona and others say they have seen 15 guys hit a spot, nothing. KVD motors up, bam, nails a couple good fish! He just has the instinct and works hard that's why he's the best.
Congrats KVD! I'd love to go fishin' with that guy!
KVD is the man. Congrats fellow Kansan Brent Chapman on your 5th place spot.
cant wait to try my red eye shad this spring! i have 2 and havnt got to try them much.
He is the man!!!! I can't wait to start the season off.
And as it sounds so is everyone else is too. Be sure
to take a child with you to enjoy the outdoors
and to keep the tradition alive. because if we don't
who will?
i bought some of those lures before he won. they went out of stock after that because everyone was buying them. Congratulations KVD:)
I would love to go fishing with him.
he couldve won with anybody going against him but it really helped that Skeet Reese and Boyd Duckett got eliminated early on
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Congrats to KVD.
The story I heard is that he caught 7 keepers off of one stump and other fisherman could see he hit the mother load of fish but no one crowded him. It speaks volumns for the class of these guys and the respect they have for one another.
Great photos Deeter.
Congrats Kevin! Well fished...
I can't wait to try one of them lipless red eye shad this spring.
Omori was crowding him. Zona and others say they have seen 15 guys hit a spot, nothing. KVD motors up, bam, nails a couple good fish! He just has the instinct and works hard that's why he's the best.
KVD is the man. Congrats fellow Kansan Brent Chapman on your 5th place spot.
He is the man!!!! I can't wait to start the season off.
And as it sounds so is everyone else is too. Be sure
to take a child with you to enjoy the outdoors
and to keep the tradition alive. because if we don't
who will?
i bought some of those lures before he won. they went out of stock after that because everyone was buying them. Congratulations KVD:)
I would love to go fishing with him.
Congrats KVD! I'd love to go fishin' with that guy!
cant wait to try my red eye shad this spring! i have 2 and havnt got to try them much.
he couldve won with anybody going against him but it really helped that Skeet Reese and Boyd Duckett got eliminated early on
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