PIEDMONT BASS CLASSICS $10,000 SPRING TEAM BASS TRAIL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
Saturday June 17th, 2017 ~ Kerr Lake ~ Flemingtown Landing Wildlife Ramp
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The 2017 Piedmont Bass Classics $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Championship at Kerr Lake had everything a great Bass Championship should have: Tension, Nervousness, Anxiety, Hopefulness, Happiness, Sadness, Great Weather, Rain, Lightning, Thunder, Food and Mud!!! What a great day with a great turnout, with 82 of the 85 qualified teams attending!!! A great end to the best Piedmont Bass Classics Spring Trail we have ever had. Our sponsors are the BEST!!! and there is no way I can thank them enough for their support thru cash and prize donations the give us! I also want to thank Mark Nelson of Triangle Trolling Motors for furnishing the pizza & drinks after this event!!
The weather was nice for Saturday with air temps around 70 degrees in the am on up to 87 in the pm. We did have a little shower around noon but the ‘storm’ hit at 3pm just in time for the weighin. Let me tell you, it was rough!! All we could do is batten down the hatches and keep weighing fish! Water temps averaged about 79 degrees. Winds were nonexistent in the am up to about 7 mph in the afternoon. There were a lot of bass weighed in but most were small. We did have 5 bass over 5 pounds which is a good sign that Kerr is getting well.
The team of Kevin Woodall and Jerry Marshburn won the top honors in the Championship, weighing in 5 bass at 19.78 lbs. and also won the 2nd Place Big Fish Award (5.53 lbs.) for a total of $10,492 in cash & prizes. The team said most of their bass were caught off channel points using rigs with plastics.
Marshburn on left-Woodall on right.
Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks won the Trail Points Championship & won $1,000 in cash & Prizes for their efforts. They also won 11th Place in the event bringing the total winnings to $1,250
Hooks on left-Fajardo on right.
Billy Bledsoe and Brian McDonald came in 2nd place with 5 fish weighing 16.88 lbs. & also won 1st Place TWT to pocket a total of $3,440. 3rd place team, Jonathan Jones & Bryson Peed, had their best tournament this year and won $850 with 15.86 lbs. plus they took the 2nd Place TWT and 1st Place Big Fish (6.01 lbs.) to bring their total winning to $2,883. Erik Ross & Les Walters had their best finish of the year taking 4th Place with 15.26 lbs pocketing $655 for the day!
260 fish were weighed in for a total of 622 pounds for an average of 2.39 lbs. each. Most of the larger fish were caught on Texas rigs, Carolina rigs, WLS shaky heads, Jig combos, Spinnerbaits and Crankbaits in 10-12′ of
water off main point dropoffs. The bass are in Kerr, but the bite can be strange at times.
I want to thank all the anglers that participated and all our sponsors that supported this trail. The Cashion
Fishing Rods ‘End of Year’ Tournament Trail will begin July 15th at Falls Lake. Go to this webpage for the info
on the ‘End of Year’ Trail: http://piedmontbassclassics.com/2017CashionEOYTrailMainPage.html
All the information on our tournaments can be found http://piedmontbassclassics.com/
Now here are the full results:
1st Place: Jerry Marshburn & Kevin Woodall of Sanford & Angier…5 bass…19.78 lbs…$10,000
2nd Place: Billy Bledsoe & Brian McDonald of Grays Creek & Hope Mills...5 bass…16.88 lbs…$1,375
3rd Place: Jonathan Jones & Bryson Peed of Oxford…5 bass…15.86 lbs…$850
4th Place: Erik Ross & Les Walters of Fayetteville…5 bass…15.26 lbs…$655
5th Place: Todd Sumner & Rich Szczerbala of Southern Pines & Apex…5 bass…15.15 lbs…$590
6th Place: Mark Inman & Bryan Welch of Greensboro…5 bass…14.75 lbs…$520
7th Place: Vern Fleming & Mike Dinterman of Raleigh & Oxford…5 bass…13.52 lbs…$455
8th Place: Doug Stallings & Seth Ellis of Durham & Charlotte…5 bass…13.39 lbs…$390
9th Place: Robert Perkins & Brandon Gray of Rougemont & Bullock…5 bass…13.16 lbs…$325
10th Place: Stump Bledsoe & Glenn Elliott of Hope Mills & Fayetteville…5 bass…13.14 lbs…$270
11th Place: Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks of Fuquay Varina & Apex…5 bass…13.12 lbs…$250
12th Place: Brian & Jake Carden of Durham…5 bass…13.08 lbs…$210
13th Place: Ronnie Hart & Danny Woodell of Bunn Level & Erwin…5 bass…13.06 lbs…$175
14th Place: Todd Massey & Tim Parker of Chapel Hill & New Hill…5 bass…12.72 lbs…$150
15th Place: Mike Stephenson & Thanos Tsoumbos of Bahama & Oxford…5 bass…12.58 lbs…$130
16th Place: Mike Cole & Vinston Nettles of Siler City & Pittsboro…5 bass…12.57 lbs…$115
17th Place: Tommy Marrow & Dennis Reedy of Oxford & Siler City…5 bass…12.42 lbs…$100
1st Place Big Fish..3rd Place Team above...6.01 lbs…$1,148
2nd Place Big Fish..1st Place Team above…5.53 lbs…$492
1st Place TWT..2nd Place Team above…16.88 lbs…$2,065
2nd Place TWT..3rd Place Team above…15.86 lbs…$885
Thanks to all our anglers for making this years Piedmont Bass Classics $10K Spring Trail the best
ever! We averaged 83 boats in the qualifiers and that’s a record for us!!
I want to thank all our media outlets for carrying our results. Thank you so much!!
Contact Information:
Phil McCarson…Tournament Director—922 Valetta Rd.—Durham, NC 27712
Home: 919-471-1571 Cell: 919-971-5042
email: philsflags@msn.com website: http://piedmontbassclassics.com/