Guido wins Eufaula 4/4/2009
Talk about old-school: A legend won today on one of the country's most storied tournament waters. Guido Hibdon clobbered 24-01 and beat fellow veteran Tom Mann, Jr. by a little more than 5 pounds at the Eufaula Eastern FLW Series.
"Every fish I caught was spawned out," Hibdon noted. "I don't know when they spawned, but it was a good ways back. And what these fish were doing – they were coming out of the creeks, and they were coming to me. And every day there was more of them. The hardest part of the deal was being patient and making the same casts.
"You know, my camera guy this morning, I about ran him nuts," he added. "I sat and threw at one rock 40 times and caught a 5- or 6-pounder or whatever it was, and he said 'I can't believe it.'"
Hibdon added that he fished the entire tournament near the dam south of Eufaula, he caught every one of his fish on a Lucky Craft R.C. 2.5 in copper-perch. "You could have caught them on a black (crankbait)," he noted. "You just had to make a lot of casts."
His son Dion finished 10th.
The full details of Guido's winning pattern will be posted soon.
Talk about old-school: A legend won today on one of the country's most storied tournament waters. Guido Hibdon clobbered 24-01 and beat fellow veteran Tom Mann, Jr. by a little more than 5 pounds at the Eufaula Eastern FLW Series.
