Pro Wayne Breazeale of Kelseyville, California, won the Costa FLW Series at Clear Lake presented by Evinrude Saturday after bringing a limit of bass weighing 14 pounds, 6 ounces to the scale. Breazeale’s three-day total of 15 bass weighing 60-7 gave him the win by a 2-pound, 15-ounce margin and earned him the top prize of $82,338, including a brand new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.

“This is the biggest win of my career,” Breazeale said about his first career victory in FLW competition. “I live on the lake and have been fishing it for 40 years. I had to pull a few tricks out of my hat this week, but I had a phenomenal tournament and I really needed this win.”

Breazeale estimated that he caught around 100 keepers throughout the week, with the majority coming on Thursday and Friday and around 20 keepers on Saturday. He targeted docks and the thick tule shorelines on the south end of the lake with a Margarita Mutilator-colored Roboworm on a drop-shot rig, a wacky-rigged watermelon and purple flake-colored Yamamoto Senko and a white Yamamoto Grub on a dart head jig.

“About half of my fish came from the tules, half from the docks,” Breazeale said. “I was catching a couple of sight fish as well – I caught two on each of the first two days and one on Saturday on the Senko.

“I really think that there were two keys to my win this week,” Breazeale went on to say. “First was my experience on the lake. I had to try some tricks – real light line. The 6-pound (Seaguar InvisX) fluorocarbon was key. Also, I was fishing the new Powell Endurance rods along with the Max 3D series and they were crucial to feeling those light bites and keeping them buttoned up.”

The top 10 pros on Clear Lake finished:

              1st:          Wayne Breazeale, Kelseyville, Calif., 15 bass, 60-7, $82,338
              2nd:         Nick Nourot, Benicia, Calif., 15 bass, 57-8, $13,810
              3rd:         Joe Uribe Jr., Surprise, Ariz., 15 bass, 56-8, $10,792
              4th:         Richard Dobyns, Marysville, Calif., 15 bass, 51-14, $9,158
              5th:         Benjamin Byrd, Moab, Utah, 15 bass, 51-14, $8,019
              6th:         Scott MacKenzie, Hercules, Calif., 15 bass, 51-0, $7,128
              7th:         Vince Hurtado, Turlock, Calif., 15 bass, 49-3, $6,237
              8th:         Matt Dal Porto, Sutter, Calif., 15 bass, 45-12, $5,346
              9th:         Paul Bailey, Kelseyville, Calif., 15 bass, 45-2, $4,455
              10th:       Stephen Tosh Jr., Modesto, Calif., 15 bass, 43-2, $3,564

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