When all the fish had been weighed in at the Bassmaster Classic in Birmingham, Alabama, two YUM pros were in the Top 12, and a third was in the top 25.
Terry "Big Show" Scroggins finished second in the world championship of bass fishing place, Tim Horton finished in the No. 12 spot, and Alton Jones finished 22nd.
Tim Horton created one of the tournament's biggest highlights with a thrilling Day 2 start. On his second cast of the morning, two chunky spotted bass grabbed his XCalibur Xr50 Rattle Bait. Horton landed both fish and ended 
up bringing a 12-pound, 6-ounce limit to the scales to keep him in serious contention going into the final day of competition.
Horton, a former BASS Angler of the Year who rode an eight-year streak of Classic appearances into this year's event, used an Xr50 as his primary bait throughout the competition and fished over shell beds in the middle portion of Alabama’s Lay Lake.
While Horton caught mostly spotted bass and fished with a Rattle Bait, Scroggins spent the bulk of his time flipping grass with a YUM Wooly HawgCraw.
Scroggins, who cut his teeth on Florida’s St. John’s River and dominated northern Florida tournaments for many years before moving to the pro ranks, is best known for his prowess flippin’ vegetation, so it’s not surprising he made good use of a flippin’ stick for Lay Lake largemouths.
The Bassmaster Classic, commonly called the Super Bowl of bass fishing, pays $500,000 for first place, but conservative estimates value a Classic victory well over a million dollars because of the sponsor and endorsement value of being crowned Classic champ.