I’ve only got like five of those good ones left, and they’re all so shredded and faded. “I don’t have any more of the best colors. “I got 300 baits originally,” Kennedy said. Roumbanis suspects that Omori is bypassing the harness system in the lure with a direct line tie to the treble hook in order to try and preserve the swimbaits he has left. If you noticed on Bassmaster LIVE, the swimbait had often slipped several feet up Omori’s line from the treble hook as he reeled a bass to the boat. After I had a big bag on Day 2, I thought I might catch some big ones on that swimbait, and sure enough!” “I’ve caught so many fish on that bait at Lake Fork,” Omori said. Omori didn’t break out the swimbait until the third day, but it was a major component in him weighing 22-9 on Day 3 and the tournament’s big bag of 25-3 on Day 4. Kennedy said he weighed two bass caught on it at Wheeler, where he finished fourth.
TAKAHIRO OMORI HOW TO
You’ve just got to know what to do with it.”Īnd once you learn how to work it, the old Bass Pro Shops XPS swimbait stays atop your list of possible lures in any tournament. It’s kind of like a crankbait that hunts. If you reel it slow, the way it rolls, you can speed it up just a little bit and make it look just like a shad. Kennedy concurs, saying, “It swims slower than everything else. And thanks to Roumbanis, it might finally boil to the top in the form of a new lure with a new name by a different company – the Optimum Baits Boom Boom swimbait. The story of the discontinued Bass Pro Shops XPS 6-inch soft plastic swimbait has been simmering under the surface for over a decade now.
TAKAHIRO OMORI SERIES
Steve Kennedy might not have won the Elite Series tournament at California’s Clear Lake in 2007 or the Elite Series tournament at Georgia’s West Point Lake in 2011.Ī key lure in those three $100,000 titles was found in the bargain bins at Bass Pro Shops stores. Takahiro Omori might not have won the recent Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Wheeler Lake. If Fred Roumbanis hadn’t shared some information then with a couple of his fellow anglers, there’s no telling how Elite Series history might have been altered. The legend of this swimbait was born before the Bassmaster Elite Series began in March 2006 at Texas’ Lake Amistad. Its roots run deep and have spread throughout the history of the Bassmaster Elite Series. This is the latest chapter in the continuing saga entitled, “The Last Secret Bait Of The Pros.” It’s the story of the discontinued Bass Pro Shops XPS swimbait.
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