Pro Who Knows Predicts Rayovac Flw Series Will Be Won In The Chickahominy

2003 Forrest Wood Cup winner David Dudley

The Rayovac FLW Series tournament out of Osborne boat Landing on the James River this week will be won in the Chickahominy River, a tributary of the James, predicted a professional angler who knows a thing or two about winning a James River tournament.

However, said David Dudley, winner of the 2003 Forrest Wood Cup on the James, if he were fishing the Rayovac Series he’d be heading to the backs of the creeks and looking for grass, wood and other types of cover.

.”A lot of them will go to the Chickahominy and I think it will be won on the Chickahominy, for sure,” said Dudley who pocketed a $500,000 paycheck for winning what was then called the Jacobs Cup. “But, if I were fishing the tournament, I’d go as far back in the creeks off the James as I could go and fish any type of cover I could find.”

Those fishing the Chickahominy will have several excellent ways to catch fish this week, Dudley said, because there are a lot of lily pads, isolated docks, trees, wood piles and other structures that hold bass.

“There will be a real strong topwater bite with frogs over those lily pads in the Chickahominy. This time of year topwater frogging comes in really strong,” he said. “Of course when you have lily pads and grass frogs are always going to be a player.”

Flipping will also play a major role, he said. “You can flip in those areas, too, and you can flip the wood cover with your bait of choice.”

Dudley, who won an unprecedented $1.2 million in two tournaments in 2003, including $700,000 in the Ranger M1 tournament that year, is back home in Lynchburg, Va., after finishing 15th in the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray in South Carolina. He led the Cup the first day with 17 pounds 14 ounces, but only caught three fish the second day and one the third day, and did not advance to the 10-man championship round on Sunday.

 

Rayovac FLW Series

Aug 21-23, 2014

James River

Osborne Landing

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