DULUTH — After Jacob Wheeler won the 2011 Bass Fishing League All-American, the FLW Tour’s championship event for weekend anglers, he stated his goal was to someday win the Forrest Wood Cup, the world championship of bass fishing. In 2012 Wheeler made the leap to the FLW Tour to pursue his goal of hoisting the Cup. And in storybook fashion Sunday at the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Lanier, Wheeler’s five bass worth 11 pounds, 15 ounces gave him a total four-day weight of 60 pounds, 1 ounce as well as a wire-to-wire win and $500,000.
Wheeler goes wire-to-wire for Forrest Wood Cup win
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