Pro Christopher Jones of Bokoshe, Oklahoma, won the Costa FLW Series at Grand Lake presented by Ranger Boats Saturday after bringing a limit of bass weighing 17 pounds, 10 ounces to the scale. Jones’ three-day total of 47-3 put him into a tie with FLW Tour pro Jeff Sprague of Point, Texas, however, according to tournament rules, ties on day three are resolved by Day-Two standings. Jones and Sprague placed fourth and fifth, respectively, on the tournament’s second day, so Jones was declared the winner and earned $88,700, including a brand new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.

Jones said that he spent the tournament fishing in the mid-lake area, running pockets and targeting secondary points and docks. He said his main bait throughout the week was a ½-ounce chartreuse and white-colored BOOYAH spinnerbait with a 3½-inch YUM Pulse swimbait trailer.

“My main deal was fishing areas where the bass were staging getting ready for the spawn,” said Jones, who earned his first career win in Costa FLW Series competition after three prior wins in the T-H Marine Bass Fishing League (BFL). “I was slow-rolling the bait behind the docks. The key was making precise casts – sometimes multiple casts to the same dock or cable.”

Jones said that he managed just four bites on Day One, but did put all of them in the boat. His best day was Day Two on Friday when he caught 13 keepers, and he added another 10 or 11 keepers on Saturday. Jones said that he also spent a little time each day on a stretch of main-lake riprap where he caught a couple of keepers on a YUM YUMbrella Flash Mob Jr., also with 3½-inch YUM Pulse Swimbaits.

“I had a couple of key bite on the umbrella rig off of a rocky point,” Jones said. “I had a lot of confidence in my areas. There were a lot of boats fishing around me, but the water was really dirty – only about 10-inches of clarity – and most people were fishing too fast.”

The top 10 pros on Grand Lake finished:

              1st:          Christopher Jones, Bokoshe, Okla., 14 bass, 47-3, $88,700
              2nd:         Jeff Sprague, Point, Texas, 12 bass, 47-3, $16,600
              3rd:         Troy O’Rourke, Natchitoches, La., 14 bass, 44-15, $12,500
              4th:         Toby Hartsell, Afton, Okla., 13 bass, 36-1, $10,800
              5th:         Blaine Covington, Fort Worth, Texas, 10 bass, 36-1, $9,500
              6th:         Sheldon Collings, Grove, Okla., 11 bass, 34-5, $8,550
              7th:         Kevin Ledoux, Choctaw, Okla., 11 bass, 33-6, $7,200
              8th:         Curt Warren, Rose, Okla., 10 bass, 33-5, $6,200
              9th:         Colby Miller, Elmer, La., nine bass, 32-15, $5,200
              10th:       Jeff Reynolds, Calera, Okla., eight bass, 28-7, $4,100

Full results for the entire field can be found at FlwFishing.com.