Competitive bass fishing can be a financially demanding endeavor, even at the high school level. And when good parents encounter challenging times, the cash strain intensifies.
Thankfully, generous support from their Mt. Pleasant High School fishing team, and a fifth-place finish, made it possible for the team of Spencer Lovett and Evan Word to earn the $5,000 Yamaha Power pay bonus at the recent Bassmaster High School Championship on Lake Hartwell in South Carolina.
“There’s probably no way we’d ever make the Championship on Hartwell without the incredible support of our Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., High School Bass Fishing team,” says Spencer’s dad and their boat captain, Alan, who runs a 19-foot Xpress aluminum boat powered by a 150-horsepower Yamaha V MAX SHO.
“Our high school team is a special group of generous people – and Spencer and Evan were absolutely ecstatic when they learned we’d won the $5,000 Power Pay bonus from Yamaha,” he added with a smile.
While Spencer and Evan actually won the very first Bassmaster High School event they ever fished together with a 19-pound limit of Pickwick smallmouth, their fifth-place finish at the High School Championship on Hartwell using a spinnerbait and a squarebill crankbait was good enough to collect the Power Pay contingency money.
Their earnings spotlight a big advantage of the Power Pay program – you don’t have to win the tournament to win the Power Pay money. You just have to be the highest finishing registered participant, and it’s free to sign up.
“Whether you’re fishing big tournaments or high school events, if you’re running a Yamaha purchased in the past 60 months, you’d be foolish not to sign up for Power Pay. I’m certainly grateful we did,” concluded Lovett.
Making sure you’re eligible for Power Pay bonuses is easy, just visit yamahapowerpay.com.
