March 22, 2007 at 7:48 a.m.
North Branch alum catches the big one$
North Branch alum catches the big one$
According to ESPN.com, the 24 year old Remitz, a 2000 graduate of North Branch High School, used a 3/4th-ounce brown Omega living rubber jig with a five-inch, green pumpkin Yamamoto Hula Grub to catch every one of the fish he caught in Amistad.
Remitz, who now makes his home in Huntsville, Alabama, led by three pounds going into the last day of the tournament over second place Mike Iocanelli, the 2006 BASS Angler of the Year. Iocanelli brought in a limit weighing 27 pounds, 12 ounces Sunday to put the pressure on Remitz.
The Harris, Minnesota native was the last to weigh in on the final day. His five bass totalled 31 pounds 7 ounces, to nail down the win. His four day total, 111 pounds, 7 ounces was almost eight pounds higher than Iocanelli's second-place total. It also bettered the 104-8 that won the event in 2006 and was very close to the four-day, five-fish BASS record (115-15) established in a 2006 South Carolina tournament.
Remitz told Basszone about how he fished the 67,000 acre reservoir on the Texas-Mexico Border in the southwestern part of the Lone Star State. "I was running a pretty solid pattern that consisted of more or less vertical bluffs that were lined with timber adjacent to spawning flats. It was just a typical pre-spawn set up. I only fished eight or nine different spots over the course of the week, but they were all within a couple miles of the ramp.
"I went back to my primary area Friday and got on the school that I'd found in practice and actually learned a little bit more about how they wanted the jig presented. From there, it really just fell into place
"I only lost two fish all week, so Sunday when I lost one that would've gone around six or seven pounds, I really got stressed out. I had a limit at the time, but I could've culled with him."
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