Kim Bain-Moore won the first bass fishing tournament of the season on the LBAA Tour on Lake Sam Rayburn, Texas.
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Known as the 'First Lady of Fishing', 30-year-old Kim Bain-Moore keeps adding to her list of “firsts”. Today she won the first ever-regular season Lady Bass Anglers Association tournament on Texas’ Sam Rayburn; it was the first ever LBAA event she had competed in.
Today Bain-Moore added 14 pounds even to her day one total of 20.94 pounds to give her 34.94 and the win.
“I felt like I could catch a limit today after the good day I had yesterday; yesterday, I set my goal at around 12-15 pounds," Bain-Moore said. [She caught 20 pounds plus on day one] "I figured that would keep me in it with a chance. I caught my five fish limit yesterday fairly quickly, and the big ones all bit in about a 30-minute window.
"I caught fish all day yesterday, but it was a totally different story today"
“Based on the good fishing I had yesterday, which was on a Revenge green pumpkin vibrating jig with a Reactions Innovations Dirty Sanchez Skinny Dipper as a trailer. Today I went back to the same spot intending to do the same thing and get my fish early before the wind blew.”
“I only caught one keeper in the morning and was beginning to get slightly worried. Finally the light bulb came on, it seemed the fish may have gone into the shallows.”
“I took my watermelon with red and black flake coloured Senko and drenched it with Smelly Jelly and was able to get my limit and then culled two fish.”
She took home $7,500 for the win plus the $500 big bass award for the pro angler side.
Bain won the then WBT championship and Angler-of-the-Year points title in 2008 for freshwater bass fishing and became the first lady ever to fish the Bassmaster Classic; 2008 was her first year on the WBT tour. In fact the first three times a lady ever qualified for an end of season BASS championship were all achieved by Bain-Moore. In 2009 Kim headed off to the saltwater to win the 2009 American SKA Pro-Ladies King Mackerel Championship (her first season on tour) and in 2010 wining the American Ladies Shoot-Out (her first shot at that title too). Returning to the bass tour this year, you can see she fitted back in with comfort, “This feels really wonderful. It is a tremendous honor to win this LBAA event and I love catching up with all the ladies and hanging out with them again,” she added.
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Reaction Innovations Lures, Oakley Sunglasses, Humminbird, Minn Kota, Pfleuger Reels, Legend Boats, Evinrude E-Tec, High Seas, Navionics, Powerpole and Gillna Rain Gear all sponsor Bain-Moore.
Behind Bain-Moore was Juanita Robinson in second with 30.57, Cheryl Bowden in third with 28.86, Patti Campbell in fourth with 28.69, and Pam Ridgle in fifth with 25.65. Rounding out the top ten on the pro side were Pam Martin-Wells in sixth with 22.87, seventh was Kay Pennington with 22.18, eighth was Diane Phillips with 20.98, Keri Schieber in ninth with 18.07, and tenth was Emily Shaffer with 17.48.
Over on the co-angler side of the LBAA Texas ProAm Diana Uebelhack just like Bain-Moore, took the day one lead and never looked back heading on to claim the title of 2011 LBAA Texas ProAm Co-Angler Champion. Second place co-angler was Pam Rodden with 17.77lbs. Pam was Bain-Moore's co-angler on day 2.
"This couldn’t have been any better," an emotional Uebelhack proclaimed after the event. “I’ve never won something like this so people cannot even have a clue as to how excited I am. I have to thank everybody that is around me -- my family, my daughter Erica, my husband – they all have been so supportive of this and of me.”
LBAA “Big Bass” honors for Rayburn were Bain-Moore on the pro side with a 6.17-pound bass and Diana Uebelhack on the co-angler side with a 7.17-pound bass and both lunkers were caught on day one.
