Big Fred finds the smallies on Day 2 of Chevy Open in Detroit
July 15, 2007
After surviving ocean-like conditions and landing 2 bass for 6 pounds, 6 ounces on the first day of the FLW Tour’s Chevy Open on the Detroit River (in which 12 boats didn’t make it back and 2 sunk), our bassin’ man, Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers put together a nice sack on Day 2.
He landed 5 fat smallies for a total of 15 pounds, 2 ounces that day. Unfortunately, the effort was too little, too late and he missed the cut. His two-day total of 21 pounds, 8 ounces was about 1 good smalllmouth shy of earning him a paycheck.
And had Big Boy boated 15 pounds or so the first day as well, he would have gotten another $10,000 pay day.
“On this Tour, when they cut from 200 pros down to 10 after the first two days, you just can’t afford to have a bad day,” Fred said after the event.
The next tournament for Fred is the FLW Series event at Lake Champlain in New York in September. Between now and then, he’s got sponsor commitments to take care of and, maybe, just maybe he’ll get a day or two off — something that hasn’t happened much so far in 2007.
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