That pushed the fish into shallow water, and when he landed a 4-pounder Saturday morning, first thing, he knew he was onto something. He found 61-degree water that had dropped to 57 degrees when the cold front moved in. Vinson put his second-place finish in perspective in a hurry. “He was only 9 days old when I left to come to the Classic, but those pictures and the note every day on the phone kind of kept me grounded, kept me going,” Vinson said. The baby pattern almost worked for Vinson. 6, and when an angler fishes shortly after the birth of a child, that’s what’s known on tour as fishing “the baby pattern,“ and it usually translates to a win for the angler and his new family.Īfter keeping track of his baby boy’s early growth through daily pictures on the cell phone and texts from his wife, Vinson got to see mamma and baby Gaige Sunday after finishing second to Guntersville, Ala.’s Chris Lane in the 42nd Bassmaster Classic. Greg Vinson, 34, of Wetumpka, Ala., and his wife, Stephanie, had a baby boy, Gaige, on Feb.
But one angler came here loaded with the best pattern of all, “the baby pattern.” All week here at the 42nd Bassmaster Classic, anglers talked of trying to find a pattern to fish, a consistent way to fool these hearty, stump-livin,’ hyacinth-lovin’ bass that run the muddy Red River.
