Fort Gibson Lake: How They Did It

Elite anglers talk about fishing the 2010 Sooner Run tournament. Tommy Biffle, Pat Golden and Matt Herren give specifics on how to Fort Gibson Lake.

How-To

Flipping and pitching tips for the heat of summer

In the next two lessons we'll cover a couple of the more popular warm weather flipping and pitching patterns that we encounter as bass anglers. The first one we'll talk about is pitching to suspended bass in standing timber on channels. The second will be flipping and pitching summertime docks.

Competitors divided: Fort Gibson

Due to the flood waters that engulfed Oklahoma City impacting the fast-rising Arkansas River, the AutoZone Sooner Run was moved 16 miles north to Fort Gibson Lake beginning on Wednesday's final day of practice.

The race begins

As anglers launched at Fort Gibson's Sequoyah Bay for the first day of the AutoZone Sooner Run on Thursday morning, Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year points leader Skeet Reese was concerned with finding the fish needed to win the tournament.

Biffle uses homefield advantage

, 92 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers scoured Fort Gibson Lake, looking to glean any bit of knowledge from the Oklahoma fishery during the truncated one-day practice period.

Off to a fast start

Without any prior knowledge of Fort Gibson Lake, Mike McClelland found the fish on Day One of the AutoZone Sooner Run to secure third place and has high hopes of duplicating that feat on Day Two.

Tommy Biffle holds onto lead

With the final day of the AutoZone Sooner Run looming, Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla., is finally ready to dig deep into his bag of tricks and unlock his much-discussed secret spots on Fort Gibson Lake.

Father’s Day: Fort Gibson Lake

Tommy Biffle knows that he needs 20 pounds to stay in front of a charging top-12 field of Bassmaster Elite Series anglers on the final day of the AutoZone Sooner Run on his home lake.

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