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Langford pips Johnson for Glenmaggie title Reigning BASS Pro Angler of the Year, Queensland’s Matthew Langford, is never that far from the top of the leaderboard in a 13 Fishing BASS Pro Series event. He took his first win of 2023 at the Humminbird sponsored round of the season on Victoria’s Lake Glenmaggie, relegating good mate and winner of the previous event, Mick Johnson, into second place by less than 50g over two days of fishing. Here’s how he did it. “Glenmaggie finished way better this year than I did last year,” said Langford, “And it’s good to see the Victorian dams become great ABT arenas.” Matt’s technique was based on catching a limit of bass on crankbaits early on the edges and then moving
in the comps. I’d catch a small limit in close out early and then move out to look for bigger bass,” Matt explained. He used the twin Garmin LiveScope setup, with an LVS 34 transducer in Perspective mode on his Mick Johnson pole and a transducer in forward mode Scan the QR code to watch the Boater Winners Interview
on his trolling motor. “I would see either single or pairs of fish on Perspective mode and then head towards them with my electric,” said Matt, “I could tell immediately if the fish were interested or not. They were either
Matt focused on catching a limit of bass on crankbaits early on the edges and then moving out to the unpressured fish floating around the main basin each session. on the second day in the windy conditions, but good mate Mitchell Cone came to the rescue – swapping boats and giving Langford the chance for the win. Ultimately he ended
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Mick Johnson’s second place at Glenmaggie has done him no harm with his sights set on 2023 Angler of the Year. out to the unpressured fish floating around the main basin. “The edge fish are only available for a short time in the mornings and they’re pretty heavily pressured
spooked or they would spin on the bait and dance around it.” “Once they reacted positively there was a fair chance that they would bite.”
BOATER RESULTS Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 116 APRIL 2023
Angler Matthew Langford Mick Johnson Dane Pryce Steve Duff Mitchell Cone John Noble Graham Ford Tom Deer Braden Schuch Keeghan Painter
Fish 10/10 10/10 5/10 8/10 5/10 8/10 9/10 9/10 7/10 3/10
These bass were sitting only 5ft down in 30ft or more of water, so they escaped the pressure of other competitors. Langford flattened his trolling motor batteries
Victoria’s Nick Brown opted to do something a little different to his boaters each day, targeting suspending fish and getting the kickers he needed for the win.
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Weight(kg) 6.172 6.126 4.911 4.767 4.053 3.846 3.080 2.982 2.672 2.070
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up less than 50g ahead of Johnson. He used a cut down single tail grub on a Millerods Control Freak Jig Freak custom rod loaded with braid and leader. It was rigged on a 1/4oz Bassman jighead. JOHNSON LEADS AOY WITH SECOND PLACING Although separated by only grams, second placed Mick Johnson and
