Our man Big Fred Contaoi helped lead the Orange County Choppers Team to a strong 4th place finish in the PAA Corporate Cup in Florence, Alabama last week.
The event featured 42 teams picked from the cream of the crop of the FLW Tour and Bass Elite anglers, so Contaoi’s gang beat out some of the biggest names in the sport of bass fishing!
“The PAA Corporate Cup was the first tournament of its kind and will go down in the history of great tournaments in professional bass fishing,” says Contaoi. “The tournament focus was to showcase angling talent along with corporations that are critical to the success of the professional angler. The four man team format was the brain child of PAA president Tim Horton and his staff.”
Big Fred says that each team was given the freedom to choose who they wanted to fish with to increase the odds of winning the grand prize of $100,000.00. The teams could have no more than 2 top level pros and two anglers from either corporations or local fishermen of their choice. The entire field of 84 boats fished for two days then the top twelve teams fished the final cut day on Saturday.
“The pros who did not make the final day spent the day greeting the public, talking fishing and showcasing their sponsors at Mc Farland Park,” he said.
