Arlington 2022

Columbia River

May 13-15, 2022

Presented by RomanMade + A1 Tactical

Old Blue Eyes would’ve been proud of Ken Mah. No question, Sinatra was the better singer, but the angler from Elk Grove, Calif. tackled a new fishery with an “I’ll do it my way” attitude and won the APEX Pro Tour event on the Columbia River presented by RomanMade Japan and A1 Tactical Outdoors with 21.79 pounds.

With smallmouth bass numerically dominating this impressive Pacific Northwest fishery, Mah took a page out of the playbook he’s used for years on West Coast powerhouses like the California Delta. He got out of the current, focused on prespawn habitat and targeted big largemouth bass like the 6.81-pounder anchoring his Day-3 bag.

“I shy away from smallmouth bass, but if there are green ones (largemouth), the water’s dirty and there’s grass, that’s where I’m going,” Mah said.

Often, the story’s in the stats and this event was no exception.

Final Top 10

Ken Mah

21.79 lbs

Scott Hellesen

16.33 lbs

Thomas Kanemoto

16.00 lbs

Ish Monroe

15.98 lbs

Hayden Lee

15.84 lbs

Christian Ostrander

15.54 lbs

Colby Pearson

15.09 lbs

Austin Bonjour

14.69 lbs

Matthew Nadeau

12.27 lbs

Nick Salvucci

9.44 lbs

Results

Place	Boat #	Apex Angler	Day 1 Weight	Day 2 Weight	Total Weight	Day 1 Keeper	Day 2 Keeper	Total Keeper
11	31	Luke Johns	12.95	14.08	27.03	27	31	58*
12	33	Nick Wood	16.79	14.67	31.46*	28	23	51
13	3	William Ponting	14.25	11.96	26.21	29	27	56*
14	38	Bill O’Shinn	14.61	16.12	30.73*	7	28	35
15	19	Greg Gutierrez	13.98	13.03	27.01	28	26	54*
16	20	Joe Uribe Jr	11.82	18.09	29.91*	8	25	33
17	8	Hunter Schlander	12.98	13.14	26.12	18	35	53*
18	23	Austin Wilson	13.37	15.92	29.29*	22	11	33
19	18	Randy Mcabee	12.76	14.2	26.96	18	31	49*
20	26	Nick Cloutier	15.76	13.41	29.17*	19	17	36
21	17	Juan Acosta	14.24	12.27	26.51	25	20	45*
22	1	John Pearl	14.08	14.1	28.18*	4	13	17
23	40	Marty Lawrence	11.42	12.82	24.24	17	14	31*
24	12	David Swendseid	16.17	11.89	28.06*	21	23	44
25	14	Jason Austin	4.85	15.98	20.83	2	29	31*
26	34	Johnny Johnson	13.81	12.89	26.7*	14	11	25
27	2	John Stewart	11.81	13.84	25.65	9	19	28*
28	7	Jeff Michels	14.84	10.58	25.42*	11	10	21
29	22	Joey Skym	10.2	11.27	21.47	12	15	27*
30	16	Tony Franceschi	11	13.45	24.45*	5	16	21
31	32	Vincent Bernal	13.23	10.79	24.02	16	9	25*
32	13	Gregory Troughton	11.78	12.59	24.37*	8	15	23
33	10	Paul Hodges	12.77	10.4	23.17	20	5	25*
34	6	Mark Lassagne	6.58	16.66	23.24*	4	15	19
35	25	Earl Dalton III	11.1	10.43	21.53	9	14	23*
36	4	Zack Thompson	10.5	10.81	21.31*	6	7	13
37	37	Stan Lafever	10.48	9	19.48	6	5	11*
38	9	Garrett Bradshaw	8.52	10.68	19.2*	7	4	11
39	21	Kerry Harris	4.89	11.21	16.1	2	9	11*
40	29	Kevin Johnson	8.22	7.25	15.47*	5	4	9
41	24	Ryan White	8.12	0	8.12	4	1	5*