Big Fred enters Day 1 of $125,000 tourney at Lake Travis

So, today’s a big day for Orange County Choppers’ Big Fred Contaoi, who begins his quest for fame and fortune on the FLW Wal-Mart Pro Tour at Lake Travis in Austin, TX. In this event, the first tour stop of the season, he’s up against 199 other pros all vying for the $125K first prize.

It’s a 4-day deal…after 2 days, however, the field gets cut down to 10. Fred said that the weather’s been brutally cold (in the 20’s) and windy lately (see steelheaders aren’t the only masochistic anglers out there…what’s the wind chill when you’re going 70 mph in a bass boat in that kind of weather? -190 degrees?).

Anyway, I talked with him last night and he was in good spirits and was feeling really confident. Fred said that the bass in Travis are small and a couple 4 pounders like the one in the photo (caught a couple days back during practice) will put him in the $$.

Stay tuned, I’ll pass along his results later today as he hits the weigh-in stage…

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