HomeNewsWells Wins EverStart at Sam Rayburn Reservoir JASPER, Texas – Jason Wells of Center, Texas, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 18 pounds, 3 ounces Saturday to win the EverStart Series Texas Division event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir presented by Power-Pole. Wells’ three-day total of 15 bass weighing 57 pounds, 14 ounces earned him $24,881. “I’m speechless,” said Wells, whose previous career best was a seventh-place finish when the FLW Tour visited Sam Rayburn in October of 2012 “The key to this victory for me was Jesus Christ. Several things happened for me out there that shouldn’t have happened, and I believe I owe the credit to him.” Wells caught the majority of his fish this week cranking brush piles in 10 to 15 feet of water. In the weeks leading up to the event, Wells estimated that he had 20 to 25 different areas that were producing fish for him. By tournament time, it had narrowed to only eight. “The fish seemed to bite better when the sun was out,” said Wells. “The shallow-water guys liked the overcast skies, but I caught them better in the afternoon. My six-pounder today came around 2:30. “I fished my eight different areas, but none were consistent,” Wells said. “One spot was hot one day, then another was hot the next. I caught 10 fish on the first day, eight on day two, and only had six keepers today. It was an extremely hard tournament.” Wells said that most of the fish that he weighed in this week came via cranking Tennessee-shad-colored Norman DD22 Series and Strike King 6XD crankbaits. Two of his keepers came Texas-rigging red-bug-colored soft plastics. “I fished 12-pound fluorocarbon line on my Lews Reels, kept my head down, and just kept cranking.” The top 10 pros at Sam Rayburn Reservoir were: 1st: Jason Wells, Center, Texas, 15 bass, 57-14, $24,881 2nd: Kris Wilson, Montgomery, Texas, 15 bass, 50-4, $9,330 3rd: Ray Hanselman, Del Rio, Texas, 14 bass, 50-0, $6,220 4th: Philip Crelia, Center, Texas, 15 bass, 49-1, $5,598 5th: Todd Castledine, Nacogdoches, Texas, 15 bass, 46-7, $4,976 6th: Tommy Dickerson, Orange, Texas, 14 bass, 41-9, $4,354 7th: Chris McCall, Brookeland, Texas, 14 bass, 41-9, $3,732 8th: Neal Gilmore, Magnolia, Texas, 15 bass, 41-1, $3,110 9th: James Niggemeyer, Van, Texas, 15 bass, 40-11, $2,488 10th: Wade Hudgens, Longview, Texas, 11 bass, 38-1, $1,866 Complete results can be found at FLWOutdoors.com. Ed Klobas of Arlington, Texas caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the pro division on Friday – a 9-pound, 14-ounce – bass that earned him the day’s EverStart Series Big Bass award of $158. Brandon Bray of Marble Falls, Texas, won the co-angler division and a Ranger Z117 with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard motor with a three-day total of 12 bass weighing 26 pounds, 6 ounces. The top 10 co-anglers on Sam Rayburn Reservoir were: 1st: Brandon Bray, Marble Falls, Texas, 12 bass, 26-6, Ranger Z117 with 90-horsepower outboard 2nd: Kevin Burks, Kountze, Texas, 11 bass, 25-7, $3,434 3rd: Bill Fussell, Thibodaux, La., 12 bass, 25-3, $2,747 4th: Cary Walker, Nacogdoches, Texas, 11 bass, 22-0, $2,404 5th: Dan Wilson, Pilot Point, Texas, seven bass, 20-6, $2,061 6th: Robert Hill, Fort Worth, Texas, six bass, 19-10, $1,717 7th: Mike Power, Conroe, Texas, nine bass, 19-9, $1,374 8th: Ralph Logan Sr., Magnolia, Texas, eight bass, 18-7, $1,030 9th: Ron Knight, San Angelo, Texas, six bass, 15-9, $687 10th: Michael Greer Jr., Deridder, La., six bass, 15-3, $549 Brent Cutrer of Natchez, Miss., and Jack Knox Jr., of Seymour, Texas tied for the EverStart Series Big Bass co-angler award after both brought a bass to the scales weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces on Thursday. They split the day’s award of $104. The EverStart Series consists of five divisions – Central, Northern, Southeast, Texas and Western. Each division consists of four tournaments and competitors will be vying for valuable points in each division that could earn them the Strike King Angler of the Year title, which allows them to fish the 2014 Forrest Wood Cup. For complete details and updated information visit FLWOutdoors.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the EverStart Series on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.