DUVALL WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL TOURNAMENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE

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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (Oct. 12, 2015) – John Duvall of Madison, Georgia, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 10 pounds, 13 ounces Saturday to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League (BFL) Regional on Lake Sinclair presented by Quaker State with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 36 pounds, 13 ounces. For his win, Duvall earned $20,000, a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a berth into the 2016 BFL All-American Championship.

John Duvall of Madison, Georgia, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League (BFL) Regional on Lake Sinclair presented by Quaker State with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 36 pounds, 13 ounces. Duvall earned $20,000, a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a berth into the 2016 BFL All-American Championship. (FLW)

Duvall won the tournament by flipping boat docks in the northern part of the Little River arm using a green pumpkin Katch-Her Lures jig rigged with a green pumpkin Zoom Super Speed Craw. He also mixed in a Picasso buzzbait to catch his stringers.

“The jig was my primary bait, but the topwater definitely was important,” said Duvall, who now has two career wins in FLW competition.

The Georgia angler said that there wasn’t anything unique about the docks that were holding active fish.

“I figure fish live around docks, so I just kept fishing them and figured I would eventually get a bite,” said Duvall. “I’d hit around 60 docks and then turn around and start fishing back the other way.”

Duvall said he struggled the most on day three to catch his limit.

“The weather conditions changed immensely overnight,” said Duvall. “There was rain in the morning and it was overcast. I thought I might have blown it when I didn’t adjust my pattern, but I was committed to the docks. Luckily it worked out in the end.”

The top six boaters that qualified for the 2016 BFL All-American were:

               1^st:          John Duvall, Madison, Ga., 15 bass, 36-13, $20,000 + Ranger Z518C w/ 200-horsepower outboard

               2^nd:         Tony Couch, Buckhead, Ga., 15 bass, 36-3, $5,000

               3^rd:          Raymond Trudeau, Saint Cloud, Fla., 15 bass, 35-15, $4,000

               4^th:          Kip Carter, Social Circle, Ga., 15 bass, 35-12, $3,000

               5^th:          Kyle Welcher, Opelika, Ala., 13 bass, 33-7, $2,000

               6^th:          Clabion Johns, Covington, Ga., 14 bass, 32-5, $1,800

Rounding out the top-10 boaters were:

               7^th:          Willie McMullen, Oxford, Ga., 15 bass, 30-13, $1,600

               8^th:          Cole Huskins, Mount Holly, N.C., 15 bass, 29-3, $1,400

               9^th:          Adam Wagner, Cookeville, Tenn., 14 bass, 27-5, $1,200

               10^th:        Robert Beatty, Clermont, Fla., 15 bass, 27-2, $1,000

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Randy Smith of Fayetteville, Georgia, won the co-angler division and a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower outboard with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 26 pounds, 3 ounces.

The top six co-angers that qualified for the 2016 BFL All-American were:

               1^st:          Randy Smith, Fayetteville, Ga., 15 bass, 26-3, Ranger Z518C w/ 200 horsepower outboard

               2^nd:         Radney Atchison, Prattville, Ala., 13 bass, 21-2, $2,500

               3^rd:          Ronald Harrell, Mitchell, Ga., 13 bass, 20-15, $2,000

               4^th:          Ernest Stephens, Orrum, N.C., 10 bass, 18-8, $1,500

               5^th:          Gerald Williams, Scottsville, Ky., 10 bass, 17-6, $1,000

               6^th:          John Wilkerson, Nashville, Tenn., 11 bass, 17-0, $900

Rounding out the top-10 co-anglers were:

               7^th:          Justin Kimmel, Athens, Ga., 13 bass, 16-15, $800

               8^th:          A.J. Schuh, Mulberry, Fla., 10 bass, 16-6, $700

               9^th:          Roy Beneteau, Swainsboro, Ga., seven bass, 15-0, $600

               10^th:        Richie Dixon, Camden, S.C., 11 bass, 13-8, $500

The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 50 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and are competing to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the Walmart BFL All-American. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the Rayovac FLW Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.

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