He’s executed it once more, of us. Coming off of his 2020 triumph on the 50th annual Bassmaster Traditional, Garmin professional angler Hank Cherry circled and claimed the 51st annual Bassmaster Traditional champion title for himself as effectively.
Hosted at Lake Ray Roberts in Texas June 11-13, Cherry racked up a three-day weight complete of fifty kilos, 15 ounces — making him considered one of solely 4 anglers to ever win the Traditional in consecutive years. And naturally, he did it with Garmin merchandise on board. Cherry’s boat was completely outfitted with the Panoptix LiveScope™ live-scanning sonar, a Garmin ECHOMAP™ Extremely chartplotter and the Garmin Drive™ trolling motor.
He says the tech performed a big function in his win.
“Having confidence in your gear is a large a part of event fishing, and I fish so confidently with my Garmin models,” Cherry says. “I imagine in my Garmin electronics, and I belief the knowledge they supply. I would get confused, however they by no means are. And I mentioned it final yr, however I’ll say it once more — in the event you don’t have LiveScope, you might be undoubtedly lacking out. It continues to be an enormous key to my success.”
Cherry isn’t the one angler to sing the praises of LiveScope. The primary-ever live-scanning sonar expertise for leisure fishing, LiveScope offers an angler a reside view of construction and fish swimming close by — you’ll be able to even see how fish reply to your lure and distinguish between several types of fish, permitting you to make game-time selections about what’s going to work finest to extend that weight complete.
Collectively, Garmin and Navionics® sponsored 14 of the anglers fishing on this yr’s Bassmaster Traditional. Garmin professional Chris Jones took dwelling third place with a complete weight of 49 kilos, 1 ounce, and Brock Mosley gained fifth with 42 kilos even.
An enormous congratulations to Cherry and the remainder of the workforce on their hard-earned victories. To fish like the professionals, view the Garmin lineup of fishing and marine merchandise right here.
