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Maryland angler wins FLW Series at Potomac

Maryland angler wins FLW Series at Potomac

Marvin Reese of Randallstown, Md. caught four bass weighing 8-05 on Saturday to win the Potomac River Northern FLW Series with a three-day total of 38-15. The victory netted him a cash prize of $38,026.

“This is my first win as a boater – it feels pretty special,” said Reese, who earned his fifth career victory in FLW competition and third on the Potomac. “I’ve been in this position [to win] before as a co-angler and it always seems like things don’t go right the last day and you fall short. I had two fish break off today and two other fish hooked up. I had the bites and I’m like ‘I blew it.’ It shouldn’t have been this close, but I’ll tell you what, this win feels great.”

Reese caught a fish or two in grass on days 1 and 2 and caught a couple on shallower hard cover up near Washington, D.C., but the vast bulk of his weight came from one particular structure.

“It was a pier in 20 feet of water in D.C., and I just fished simple. I threw up on the side of it, and they would hit the bait on the fall,” said Reese. “I was feeding the lure line so it could get down to the bottom – it was nothing more complicated than that.

“It had two key spots on it that accounted for 12 of the 14 bass I weighed-in. The two corners are the sweet spots and I had stuff pretty dialed in on that dock. That structure is hollow underneath, and once that tide gets to a certain level they sit under there and they’d come out and hit it on the fall. Not a fish we caught there all week hit it on the bottom.”

Reese cited a jig and a shaky-head rig as key lures this week. He preferred a 1/2-ounce handmade green-pumpkin-colored jig with a Strike King Rage Tail Craw trailer of the same color and a green-pumpkin/green-flake Zoom Trick Worm on a 3/16-ounce Spot Remover shaky-head hook. He said he caught six keepers Thursday and Friday, with each lure catching an equal amount of fish.

On Saturday, Reese struggled a bit, but managed to scrape up three late in the day, with his third fish coming from an area called the Spoils. He added that the shaky-head rig was what produced for him on the final day of the tournament.

“I thought if I could get one more fish I would run back up there to that dock to try and get a kicker,” said Reese. “I fished and fished and didn’t catch one, so with 15 minutes left I ran back up there anyway. With three fish in the boat and 15 or 20 minutes to fish I pulled up on it and caught one, and that ended up being the difference.”

Here are the final totals for the top 10:

1. Marvin Reese: 38-15
2. Troy Morrow: 37-09
3. Justin Atkins: 37-03
4. Ryan Davidson: 36-03
5. Adrian Avena: 36-03
6. Robert Grike: 36-00
7. Jordan Thompkins: 33-10
8. Dylan Hays: 31-12
9. Casey Smith: 30-09
10. Wil Dieffenbauch: 30-01

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