Rodriguez and the Delaware state team have led it from start to finish at the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Division Championship presented by Lowrance on the Potomac River. Two days ago, 84 TBF anglers launched out of Small Wood State Park in Marbury, Md., with hopes of becoming this year’s Mid-Atlantic Division Champions. But, for most, the goal was earning a piece of the pie, a slot at the 2013 Federation National Championship. 14 TBF anglers advanced today. They will meet next spring at the national event to compete for their share of over $200,000 in cash and prizes and the “Living the Dream” prize package.
Dan Rodriguez from Monkton, Md., had a five bass limit weighing 12lbs 5ounces making his tournament total 40lbs 10ounces. “I started off in low water working my homemade jig with a red havoc pitboss as a trailer,” Rodriguez said. “The crawfish had a lot of red in their claws, and so I put on that red trailer and worked with it.” Rodriguez has fished with the homemade jig for 10 years, and this year it’s won him back to back tournaments out of the Chesapeake Bay and now the division championship. “It has a lifelike fall; when it lifts up off the bottom it just glides like a crawfish. I’m telling you it’s a deadly jig.” Continue reading
