Gary Yamamoto at Guntersville

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Gary Yamamoto Lands Sixth on Lake Guntersville
Team Yamamoto's Takahiro Omori 9th, Lendell Martin, Jr. solid in 17th
Story & Photos by Satoshi Ito

April 10-13, 2002

2001/02 BASSMASTER Alabama Pro Tour - Lake Guntersville, Guntersville, Alabama

Photo 1: Gary Yamamoto proudly displays his sixth place plaque, and he will always remember the exciting events of the 2001/02 BASSMASTER Alabama Pro Tour on Lake Guntersville.	Click for larger photos Click Photo 1 Click Photo 2 Click Photo 3 Click Photo 4 Click Photo 5 Click Photo 6 Click Photo 7 Click Photo 8 Click Photo 9 Click Photo 10 Click Photo 11 Click Photo 12 Click Photo 13 Click Photo 14
Photo 2: The top ten finalists stand tall at the end of Day Three before going into the final fish-off round on Day Four. Gary Yamamoto is third from left and Takahiro Omori is first on the right.
Photo 3: Gary weighed 15-11 for the final round on Day Four, settling into a highly-respectable sixth place finish among the Top Ten finalists. Gary's catch included a nice 4 pounder on the left. At his weigh-in interview, Fish Fishburne asked Gary how people fish with Senkos? Since many pros had mentioned using Senkos on stage, the audience hushed to hear Gary's explanation.
Photo 4: Gary says, "The fish I caught on Lake Guntersville were in one to two feet of water. Some fish were moving up obviously trying to get up on to the beds, other fish were already established on beds, and it appeared as if various stages of spring spawning activity were overlapping at once."
Photo 5: Five minutes before blast-off on Day Four. Starting time was 6 AM, and each of the Top Ten finalists on Day Four fished with a film crewman on the boat.

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