Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

The whole premise behind being a successful co-angler is to fish the spots that the guy in the front of the boat hasn't already hit. Here on Lake Toho and connected lakes - with their miles of lily pad fields and vast mats of various types of aquatic vegetation - finding such targets of opportunity is never a problem, though some co-anglers are better than others at mining the ones that actually have bass in them.

Chad Randles of Elkhorn, Neb., proved he had what it takes to pry bass out of their Toho cubby holes as he won the co-angler title here in the Walmart FLW Tour season-opener presented by Mercury. Randles weighed in a pair of limits over two days that totaled 29 pounds, 15 ounces. Mark Holman of Cornelius, N.C., was second with 27-11, while John Hunter of Shelbyville, Ky., placed third with 27-7.