Scott Martin participated in the final stop of the FLW Tour at Detroit River before heading off to Forrest Wood Cup.

Martin ended day 1 with a total of 5 bass at 13 pounds 3 ounces.   That showing put him in 138 place with the day 1 leader Vic Vatalaro topping out at 21 pounds 11 ounces.

On day 2, Scott was all business when came in with a total of 5 bass weighing 20 pounds 14 ounces.  His combined his 2 day total is 34 pounds 1 ounce…missing the top 10 by just 3 pounds 3 ounces.

He finishes in 32nd place, bringing home $11,000 in winnings.

Scott will stay in Detroit through the weekend when he will meet up with the film crew to shoot a couple of episodes of the Scott Martin Challenge on Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River area.   Scott’s slated opponents for the shows are Ranger and Evinrude Pro Kevin Long and Scott Dobson.

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by admin
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When day-three leader Art Ferguson left the door open with a paltry 7-pound, 11-ounce catch today, David Dudley was not the only one who took advantage of it.

National Guard pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., also crossed Ferguson’s threshold with a 14-pound, 13-ounce catch today to take the runner-up position with a two-day total of 28 pounds, 7 ounces worth $50,000.

Martin began his week shallow, fishing a Spro Little John crankbait around seawalls where he could see shad activity.

But as the water dropped on day two, Martin’s shallow-water program began to wane and he became much more reliant on deep shell mounds on river ledges in Fort Loudoun.

He caught his deepwater fish on two deep-running crankbaits, including a DD-22 and a Brian’s Bees B-18, but he actually found the areas with a football head jig.

“In practice, I kept a heavy football head jig rigged up so I could feel the bottom,” he said. “If the bottom was soft and mushy, I’d move on. But whenever I felt that rubble shelly bottom, I marked it.”

Martin also believes the color and cadence of his deep crankbaits over the shells were key. The shell mounds were 8 to 10 feet and top and he would dredge the bait into the shells hard and fast.

“I normally use chartreuse-blue-back patterns for crankbaits on TVA lakes, but the shad-colored patterns seemed to work much better this week,” Martin said. “Also, I was really cranking the bait fast and making it real erratic, which is one reason I think I caught so many smallmouth on it.”

“I know this sounds crazy,” he added. “But I really believe those smallmouth were spawning on the shell bars in about 8 feet of water. It seemed like the closer the full moon got during practice, the more smallmouth I started catching off those bars.”

* Courtesy of www.flwoutdoors.com

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by admin
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Story courtesy of FLWOutdoors.com

National Guard pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., weighed in all brown fish today – some smallmouth, some meanmouth – for 13 pounds, 10 ounces to take third place.

Martin’s shallow bite died today and he was forced to go deep. He is targeting shell mounds in about 14 feet of water to catch his fish.

“I fished shallow for a while this morning, but they dropped the water and I think that killed the shallow bite,” Martin said. “So I went deep and there’s something about those shell mounds on these TVA systems that the smallmouth really love. I’ve caught a smallmouth or two off these shell mounds each day, but today I caught everything I weighed in off those shelly type places.”

To catch his fish, Martin is relying on a two crankbaits on the shell mounds: a DD-22 and a Brian’s Bees B-18.

The Top 10 after day 3 looks like this:

1. Art Ferguson - 19-02 lbs
2. David Dudley - 14-09 lbs
3. Scott Martin - 13-10 lbs
4. Craig Powers - 11-05 lbs
5. Brandon Coulter - 8-09 lbs
6. Jerry Green - 8-07 lbs
7. Andy Montgomery - 8-04 lbs
8. Hank Cherry - 7-13 lbs
9. Andy Morgan 7-08 lbs
10. Ramie Coulson Jr. - 2-08 lbs

Posted on June 21st, 2008 by admin
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