Ohio's Vic Vatalaro weighed just one fish Saturday, but it didn't matter: he could've zeroed on the final day and still easily won the Dardanelle Eastern FLW Series in Arkansas. His 4-day total of 39-04 gave him his sixth FLW Outdoors triumph, but first outside his home region (the Upper Midwest).
His winning margin over runner-up Nate Wellman of Michigan was 6-06.
“It was a lot of work,” he said. “I had to look around a lot. This was my first time ever being here and I ended up looking for current breaks and ended up finding the fish.”
His primary baits were a Texas-rigged Berkley Power Worm with a 1/8-ounce weight and a 3–inch Berkley Powerbait Chigger Craw on the back of a 1/2-ounce War Eagle jig. Full details of his winning pattern will be posted soon.
