The 2008 Angler of the Year said he was frustrated each of the last two years when he took a lead in the point standings into the last two bass club tournaments and squandered it away.
Bubbie Lopez prevented that from happening again this year by cashing in in nine of 11 tournaments he fished during the 12-tournament regular season.
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Lopez accumulated 885 points to finish ahead of Pete Bourgeois, who won the bass club’s title in 2005 and 2006. Timmy Theriot won the title in 2007.
Four first-place finishes, three runner-up showings and two third-place checks helped Lopez win the title in 2008, his 10th year in the LBA. He accomplished the feat after selling his high-performance bass boat in April and relying on the use of his stepfather Larry Sauce’s 17-foot long Express, an aluminum bass boat.
“I got a lot of help from guys in the club. My stepdad helped me out and let me use his little bass boat over the year,” he said.
Lopez’s victories were out of Amelia in February, Franklin Canal in July, Verdunville’s Bayou Teche Landing in August and the Bayou Teche at Patterson in October.
He fished with Dicky Fitzgerald in the “trailer anywhere” tournament that he won out of Verdunville. They had 15 pounds, a 3-pound average, he said.
“We were fishing in back of Black Crook. We had some nice fish,” Lopez said, noting the biggest fish busted a black bait all day, even around noon.
They caught a dozen keepers and culled to the five-fish limit, he said.
His most reliable artificial lures over the year were the black Lunker Lure and a 1/4-ounce chartreuse/white Cypress Hawg or Humdinger spinnerbait.
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