Rick Ohlson & Randy Parker Win PBC ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOORS Saturday April 28th, 2018 ~ Jordan Lake with 26.43lbs

The 2018 PBC Academy Sports & Outdoors $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Qualifier #5 at Jordan Lake got off with a great start with light winds and morning temps at 52 degrees. It then warmed up to around 70 in the pm. Water temps averaged about 63 degrees. Winds were light at the 6:30 blastoff and then picked up to 8 to 12 for the afternoon! 90 teams duked it out and between a full moon, cool night and the lake rising 4 feet almost overnight it was tough!

Randy Parker & Rick Ohlson topped the field weighing in 5 bass at 26.34 lbs. plus they won the 1st Place TWT for a total of $3,120 in winnings. The team found the fish in shallow wate r around trees & bushes while flipping plastic worms & jigs!!! They had 1 r eally good fish (6.13) that helped weight the sack!!

Scott Mooneyham & Buster Seabolt took 2nd place with 5 fish weighing 22.54 lbs. to take home $864 in winnings. The 3rd Place  Team of Bud Whitt & Spencer Moody weighed in 5 at 20.62 lbs., took 2nd Place TWT and won the 1st Place
Big Fish (7.75 lbs.) for a whopping total of $2,635!! The 2nd Place Big Fish (6.77 lbs.) was won by Tyler Faggart & Paul Owens netting them $534!!    The prize money got spread around pretty good today!Only 225 fish were weighed in (which is really low for Jordan this time of year) for a total of 691 pounds for an ave rage of 3.07 lbs. each. Most of the fish were caught on  plastic worms, jigs, chatterbaits and spinnerbaits in anywhere from 1 to 5 feet of water. We still need for the water to warm up a little to get that hot bite we all want! Going to Falls in 2 weeks and  hopefully it will warm up a bit! Falls is always a great lake just about any time of year!!

I want to thank all the anglers that participated and all our sponsors that support this trail. Our next tournament is Saturday May 5th, the PBC 115 Team Bass Shootout Invitational at Jordan Lake our of Farrington Point Ramp which is just for boats with 115 horsepowered motors or less. All the info can be found at this link:
http://piedmontbassclassics.com/2018Invite115MainPage.html
Following that will be the PBC Academy Sports & Outdoors $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Qualifier #6, Saturday May 12th at Falls Lake out of Ledge Rock Ramp.
All the information on our tournaments can be found http://piedmontbassclassics.com/

 

Now here are the full results: 

1st Place:  Rick Ohlson & Randy Parker of Garner & Clayton…5 bass…26.34 lbs…$1,415
2nd Place:  Scott Mooneyham & Buster Seabolt of Fayetteville & Dunn…5 bass…22.54 lbs…$864
3rd Place:  Bud Whitt & Spencer Moody of Staley & Siler City…5 bass…20.62 lbs…$684
4th Place:  Clay Ausley & Allen Parker of Fuquay Varina & Sanford…5 bass…20.08 lbs…$612
5th Place:  Josh Whitford & Jesse Wise of Linden & Ervin…5 bass…19.91 lbs…$540
6th Place:  Ben Cannon & Chad Craven of Apex & Willow Springs…5 bass…19.26 lbs…$468
7th Place:  Chase & Gary Johnson of Four Oaks…5 bass…19.15 lbs…$396
8th Place:  Tyler Faggart & Paul Owens of Raleigh…5 bass…17.00 lbs…$324
9th Place:  Tom & James Saywell of Fuquay Varina & Chardon, OH…5 bass…16.25 lbs…$288
10th Place:  Todd Sumner & Rich Sczcerbala of Southern Pines & Apex…5 bass…15.84 lbs…$252
11th Place:  Corey Linton & Marc Peck of Pikeville…4 bass..15.53 lbs…$220
12th Place:  Stump Bledsoe & Glenn Elliott of Hope Mills & Fayetteville…5 bass…15.50 lbs…$215
13th Place:  Mark Herndon & Jay Garrard of Bahama & Durham…5 bass…15.25 lbs…$210
14th Place:  Eric & Jim Massey of Raleigh …5 bass…14.66 lbs…$150
15th Place:  Chris Inscoe & Danny Lyons of Clayton…5 bass…14.43 lbs…$145
16th Place:  Jim & Trey Nichols of Chapel Hill & Snow Camp…5 bass…14.33 lbs…$137
17th Place:  Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks of Fuquay Varina & Apex…5 bass…14.11 lbs…$120
18th Place: Chris & H.T. Eakins of Selma & Angier…4 bass…13.94 lbs…$1001st Place Big Fish..

3rd Place Team above…7.75 lbs…$1,246
2nd Place Big Fish..8th Place Team above…6.77 lbs…$5341st Place TWT..1st Place Team above…

26.34 lbs…$1,645
2nd Place TWT..3rd Place Team above: 20.62 lbs…$705