Buddy Gross' Gargantuan Big-Bass Ledge Bait
You’ll find him beneath the umbrella wearing a floppy hat. In June, Buddy Gross can be spotted slowly idling across Tennessee River reservoirs like Chickamauga and Guntersville, taking cover from the summer sun beneath his secret weapon: an umbrella. “Don’t laugh,” he says. “All of my friends have started to adopt it.”
The scene on practice days before Elite Series tournaments may look like something out of a children’s book, but anglers have good reason for hanging out in the shade with their eyes on their sonar graphs: big fish like big ledges, and big fish win big money. Of course, that’s no secret these days. Chances
