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ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING MICHIGAN OPEN ON RIVER RAISIN

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ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING MICHIGAN OPEN ON RIVER RAISIN

 ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING MICHIGAN OPEN ON RIVER RAISIN

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MONROE, Mich. (June 12, 2017) – The Roosevelt High School duo of Nicolas Biundo and Joey Deichelbohrer, both of Wyandotte, Michigan, brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 15 pounds, 2 ounces to win the 2017 Bass Pro Shops FLW High School Fishing Michigan Open tournament on the River Raisin. The win advanced the team to the 2017 High School Fishing National championship, held June 27-July 1 at Pickwick Lake in Florence, Alabama.

According to post-tournament reports, the Roosevelt High duo caught their fish using a Ned rig in 13 feet of water.

A field of 32 teams competed in the no-entry fee, tournament which launched from Hellenberg Park in Monroe. In FLW/TBF High School Fishing competition, the top 10-percent of teams competing advance to the High School Fishing National Championship.

The top three teams on the River Raisin that advanced to the 2017 High School Fishing National Championship was:

1st:       Roosevelt High School, Wyandotte, Mich. – Nicolas Biundo and Joey Deichelbohrer, both of Wyandotte, Mich., five bass, 15-2

2nd:     Hartland High School, Hartland, Mich. – Zach Manneback, Howell, Mich., and Gunner Wilson, Fenton, Mich., five bass, 14-15

3rd:      Lumen Christi Catholic High School, Jackson, Mich. – Robert Lefere, Jackson, Mich., and Barry Kennedy, Clark Lake, Mich., five bass, 13-15

Rounding out the top 10 teams were:

4th:      Coloma High School, Coloma, Mich. – Ryley Watson and Matthew Davis, both of Coloma, Mich., five bass, 13-13

5th:      Blissfield High School, Blissfield, Mich. – Olivia Sheely, Brooklyn, Mich., and Garrett Brenke, Riga, Mich., five bass, 11-10

6th:      Fenton High School, Fenton, Mich. – Peyton Stapp, Linden, Mich., and Beau Turnblom, Fenton, Mich., five bass, 11-7

7th:      Fenton High School, Fenton, Mich. – Brennan Schroder and Kayden Van Houten, both of Fenton, Mich., five bass, 11-6

8th:      Roosevelt High School, Wyandotte, Mich. – Michael Burns and Brandon Fraser, both of Wyandotte, Mich., five bass, 10-14

9th:      Lumen Christi Catholic High School, Jackson, Mich – Branden Barton, Clark Lake, Mich., and Connor Girard, Jackson, Mich., four bass, 10-14

10th:    Blissfield High School, Blissfield, Mich. – Chase Collyer, Riga, Mich., and Gabe Wheeler, Blissfield, Mich., five bass, 10-10

Complete results from the event and photos of the top five teams can be found at FLWFishing.com.

The 2017 Bass Pro Shops FLW High School Fishing Michigan Open was a two-person (team) event for students in grades 7-12, open to any Student Angler Federation (SAF) affiliated high school club in the United States. The top 10 percent of each Challenge, Open, and state championship field will advance to the High School Fishing National Championship. The High School Fishing national champions will each receive a $5,000 college scholarship to the school of their choice.

In addition to the High School Fishing National Championship, all High School Fishing anglers nationwide automatically qualify for the world’s largest high school bass tournament, the 2017 High School Fishing World Finals, held in conjunction with the National Championship. At the 2016 World Finals more than $60,000 in scholarships and prizes were awarded.

Full schedules and the latest announcements are available at HighSchoolFishing.org and FLWFishing.com.

LOUISVILLE’S MING WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MISSISSIPPI DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON COLUMBUS POOL

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LOUISVILLE’S MING WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MISSISSIPPI DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON COLUMBUS POOL

LOUISVILLE’S MING WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MISSISSIPPI DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON COLUMBUS POOL

Carriere’s Stegall Grabs Co-angler Title

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (June 12, 2017) – Timmy Ming of Louisville, Mississippi, weighed five bass Saturday totaling 13 pounds, 3 ounces to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Mississippi Division tournament on the Columbus Pool. Ming took home $6,037 for his win.

“I locked from the Columbus Pool down to Aliceville and started my day on a 100-yard stretch right outside of the lock,” said Ming, who earned his first career-victory in BFL competition. “There was some riprap with grass growing on it and bass were feeding on crawfish. I put together a limit there by 9:30 (a.m.)”

Ming said he used a Putty Black-colored Spro Dean Rojas Bronzeye Frog to catch his initial limit. After 9:30 a.m., he said he continued his day in an area he refers to as Pratt Creek.

“Pratt Creek is an old river run with four or five old lakes off of it,” said Ming. “I sat at the mouth of one of the lakes where there’s a flat littered with stumps. Bass were schooling on shad as they moved out of the lake and into the river. I used a (Lucky Craft LC Silent) square-billed crankbait to catch one that I ended up weighing in.”

At noon, Ming said he locked back into the Columbus Pool and made his way up Tibbee Creek. He said he switched to a Red Shad-colored Berkley Havoc Ike’s Devil Spear to finish out his day.

“The flat I hit was a lot like the previous area in Pratt Creek, but there were grass mats around the stumps,” said Ming. “I caught one more that culled, and then brought in what I had.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Timmy Ming, Louisville, Miss., five bass, 13-3, $4,037 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus

2nd:         Chris Quaintance, Muscle Shoals, Ala., three bass, 11-8, $2,019

3rd:          Taylor Ramey, Purvis, Miss., five bass, 11-6, $1,545

4th:          Tim Jaynes, Ethelsville, Ala., five bass, 11-5, $942

5th:          Wayne Foreman, Magnolia, Miss., five bass, 10-9, $807

6th:          Randy Craft, Seminary, Miss., five bass, 8-13, $840

7th:          Sawyer Woods, Caledonia, Miss., four bass, 8-7, $673

8th:          Jamie Long, Okolona, Miss., three bass, 8-3, $606

9th:          Charles Watts, Corinth, Miss., four bass, 8-1, $538

10th:        Steve Jones, Moss Point, Miss., four bass, 8-0, $471

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Gary Wright of Booneville, Mississippi, caught a bass weighing 5 pounds, 3 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – which earned him the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $545.

Jack Stegall of Carriere, Mississippi, won the Co-angler Division and $2,019 Saturday after weighing three bass totaling 4 pounds, 11 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:          Jack Stegall, Carriere, Miss., three bass, 4-11, $2,019

2nd:         Dylan Wooten, Vicksburg, Miss., two bass, 4-9, $842

2nd:         Daniel Sullivan, Guntown, Miss., one bass, 4-9, $1,114

4th:          Christian Sullivan, Florence, Miss., two bass, 4-8, $471

5th:          Chris Dye, Hickory Flat, Miss., one bass, 4-3, $604

6th:          Joseph Breeden, Brandon, Miss., two bass, 4-0, $370

7th:          Robert Keifer, Brandon, Miss., two bass, 3-11, $336

8th:          Jesse Steadham, Byram, Miss., two bass, 3-10, $303

9th:          Jimmy Tisdale, Ellisville, Miss., two bass, 3-9, $269

10th:        Lance Jackson, Starkville, Miss., two bass, 3-6, $273

10th:        Kenneth Amos, Greenville, Miss., one bass, 3-6, $223

Daniel Sullivan’s bass was the largest caught in the Co-angler Division and earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $272.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 12-14 BFL Regional Championship on the Red River in Bossier City, Louisiana. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

The 2017 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they 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 BFL All-American. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the BFL on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

BELL WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE PIEDMONT DIVISION EVENT ON HIGH ROCK LAKE PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS

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BELL WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE PIEDMONT DIVISION EVENT ON HIGH ROCK LAKE PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS

BELL WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE PIEDMONT DIVISION EVENT ON HIGH ROCK LAKE PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS

Wells and Howerton Tie For Co-angler Title

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SALISBURY, N.C. (June 12, 2017) – Local angler Rodney Bell of Salisbury, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 19 pounds, 11 ounces, Saturday to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Piedmont Division tournament on High Rock Lake presented by Navionics. For his win, Bell netted $6,963.

“I spent the day in Flat Swamp Creek,” said Bell, who earned his fourth career-win in BFL competition. “I caught four of my seven keepers of out of some bushes, and the other three from docks. The water was pretty high, so I had to take the cover off of my motor to get under a bridge and access the areas I fished.”

Bell said he caught six fish on a D&L Lures Flipping Jig with a green-pumpkin Zoom Super Chunk Jr. trailer, and one on a War Eagle spinnerbait.

“The bushes were in the back of the creek and I caught my four early, within the first two hours,” said Bell. “Later on, after the bite died, I switched to docks. I was still in Flat Swamp, just closer to the mouth. The sun got up high and positioned bass under the docks in the shade and that’s where I caught them from.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Rodney Bell, Salisbury, N.C., five bass, 19-11, $4,963 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus

2nd:         James Funk, Portsmouth, Va., five bass, 18-13, $2,381

3rd:          David Wright, Lexington, N.C., five bass, 16-10, $2,295

4th:          Chris Baldwin, Lexington, N.C., five bass, 16-6, $1,111

5th:          Shawn Hammack, Gasburg, Va., four bass, 15-1, $913

5th:          Scott Henley, Randleman, N.C., five bass, 15-1, $913

7th:          Kevin Chandler, New London, N.C., five bass, 14-15, $894

8th:          Jackson Pleasant, Raleigh, N.C., four bass, 14-2, $714

9th:          Michael Belter, Reidsville, N.C., five bass, 14-0, $635

10th:        Bryan Elrod, Mechanicsville, Va., five bass, 13-6, $556

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Wright caught a bass weighing 7 pounds, 6 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – which earned him the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $710.

Robert Wells of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, and James Howerton of Danville, Virginia, tied for the Co-angler Division title after each weighing bass totaling 9 pounds, 14 ounces. For their efforts, each angler was awarded $1,786.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:          Robert Wells, Kill Devil Hills, N.C., three bass, 9-14, $1,786

1st:          James Howerton, Danville, Va., four bass, 9-14, $1,786

3rd:          Chip Crews, Trinity, N.C., three bass, 9-9, $791

4th:          Greg Deal, China Grove, N.C., four bass, 8-5, $556

5th:          Robert Tysinger, Coats, N.C., two bass, 8-3, $676

6th:          Mark Davis, Bear Creek, N.C., three bass, 7-11, $487

7th:          Chris Napier, Virginia Beach, Va., two bass, 7-7, $752

8th:          Scott Spencer, Raleigh, N.C., four bass, 7-0, $357

9th:          Anthony Rife, Max Meadows, Va., three bass, 6-15, $318

10th:        Alden Patterson, Mebane, N.C., two bass, 6-13, $278

Napier caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing 5 pounds, 13 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $355.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 12-14 BFL Regional Championship on the James River in Williamsburg, Virginia. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

The 2017 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they 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 BFL All-American. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the BFL on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

Scott Faulkner & Tony Brewer Win Angler’s Choice Team Tournament Trail Buggs Island June 11th 2017

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Scott Faulkner & Tony Brewer Win Angler’s Choice Team Tournament Trail Buggs Island June 11th 2017

1st Place Scott Faulkner & Tony Brewer with five fish weighing 20.34 lbs.

2nd Place Monte Aleman & Emmitt Whitby with five fish weighing 17.78 lbs.

3rd Place Ryan Harrell & Danny Moss with five fish weighing 16.79l lbs.

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Jerry Marshburn & Kevin Woodall Win Cashio Fishing Rods Spring Team Tournament Saturday June 10th 2017 Falls Lake

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Jerry Marshburn & Kevin Woodall Win Cashio Fishing Rods Spring Team Tournament Saturday June 10th 2017 Falls Lake

CASHION FISHING RODS SPRING TEAM TOURNAMENT BASS TRAIL CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday Jun 10th, 2017 ~  ~ Falls Lake ~ ~ Ledge Rock Wildlife Ramp

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Only 28 out of the 41 teams qualified to fish showed up to fish the Cashion Fishing Rods Spring Team Tournament Bass Trail Championship at Falls Lake making the attending teams chances a little better to win! The weather was
great with winds very light most of the day, the air temps ranged from 60 to 87 and the water level was about normal. Surface water temps averaged 85 degrees and the water was a little dingy on the I-85 end but clearer towards the dam.
The bite was not really that bad with the smaller fish being caught shallow near grass and the larger fish caught on the river channels in about 10′ of water.

The team of Jerry Marshburn & Kevin Woodall finally got the win they wanted and it come at the right time to stack up the money!! They weighed in 5 nice bass weighing a total of 24.10 lbs to take 1st Place, 1st Place Tournament
Within A Tournament (TWT), Big Fish Award (7.48 lbs.), thePointsChampionship and also 4 custom rods courtesy of Cashion Fishing Rods,  for a total of $4,590 in cash & prizes!!! A great win for these great tournament anglers!

 Marshburn on left…Woodall on right..1st Place


The 2nd Place team of Paul Owens & Tyler Faggart caught 5 bass weighing 21.25 lbs. and took home $835 in winnings. The 3rd Place team of Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks brought to the scales 5 bass weighing 20.07 lbs. taking home $490
in winnings.

91 bass were brought to the scales for a total of 273 pounds averaging 3.00 lbs. each! All the fish looked healthy and strong as the post spawn feeding continues!! Spinnerbaits, topwater lures, jig & pigs, chatterbaits and small crankbaits
in the more shallow water worked well and as the sun rose the fish went deeper and large swim baits & worm rigs seemed to be the lures of choice.

I want to thank Cashion Fishing Rods and all the anglers that participated. Our next tournament will be the 2017 Piedmont Bass Classics $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Championship (for Qualified Teams Only!) Saturday June 17th at Kerr Lake out of Flemingtown Landing Wildlife Ramp. Spectators are welcome!!
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 and dates can be found  http://piedmontbassclassics.com/


Now here are the full results:
1st Place: Jerry Marshburn & Kevin Woodall of Sanford & Angier…5 bass…24.10 lbs…$2,000
2nd Place: Paul Owens & Tyler Faggart of Raleigh…5 bass…21.25…$835
3rd Place: Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks of Fuquay Varina & Apex…5 bass…20.07 lbs…$490
4th Place:  Matt Harrison & Angela Bishop of Franklinton…5 bass…19.18 lbs...$350
5th Place: Travis Pomp & Eddie Harris of Youngsville & Snow Camp…5 bass…17.95 lbs…$260
6th Place: Johnny Wood & Mike Harris of Angier & Pell City, AL …4 bass…14.91 lbs…$205
7th Place: Larry Hipps & Patrick Arzonico of Cary & Raleigh…5 bass…14.85lbs…$100

1st Place Big Fish: 1st Place Team above…7.48 lbs…$280

1st Place TWT: 1st Place Team above: 24.10 lbs…$510

Thanks to all our anglers for making this years Cashion Rods Spring Trail the bestnever! We averaged 50 boats in the qualifiers and that’s a record for us!! Keep an eye open for the 2018 Cashion Rods Trail schedule!!! Coming Soon!!!


Contact Information:
Phil McCarson…Tournament Director—922 Valetta Rd.—Durham, NC   27712
Home: 919-471-1571     Cell: 919-971-5042
email: [email protected]            website: http://piedmontbassclassics.com/

TENNESSEE’S ANDERSON WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MOUNTAIN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON BARREN RIVER

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TENNESSEE’S ANDERSON WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MOUNTAIN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON BARREN RIVER

TENNESSEE’S ANDERSON WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MOUNTAIN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON BARREN RIVER

Bowling Green’s Clark Takes Co-angler Title

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SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (June 12, 2017) – Brent Anderson of Kingston Springs, Tennessee, won the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Mountain Division tournament on the Barren River Saturday with five bass totaling 18 pounds, 10 ounces. For his win, Anderson took home $4,252.

Anderson said he split his day between two different schools of bass – one in Skaggs Creek and the other on the main river. He said both schools were stationed in 14 to 18 feet of water, and that they were the only two he fished all day.

“I was the only one who even attempted to fish the first school in Skaggs Creek,” said Anderson, who earned his seventh career-victory in BFL competition. “They were located near a side of a point where the creek channel swung in and touched the side of it. I ended up catching most of my weight there using a 1-ounce (white) Tennessee River Tackle hair jig that had feathers tied in it.”

Anderson said he spent a little more than three hours in Skaggs Creek before moving on to his main-river area, another channel swing that bent away from the bank and ran down the side of a skinny point.

“The fish weren’t biting the hair jig so I switched to an 8-inch, chrome-colored (Nichols) Magnum Spoon,” said Anderson. “I was able to catch two good ones fairly quickly.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Brent Anderson, Kingston Springs, Tenn., five bass, 18-10, $4,252

2nd:         Casey O’Donnell, Langston, Ala., five bass, 15-0, $1,598

2nd:         Brian Wilson, Somerset, Ky., five bass, 15-0, $1,898

4th:          Ryan Coleman, Utica, Ky., five bass, 14-5, $838

5th:          Drew Boggs, Lebanon, Tenn., five bass, 14-0, $718

6th:          Rusty Smith, Somerset, Ky., five bass, 13-10, $659

7th:          Gary Isgrigg, Mount Washington, Ky., five bass, 12-15, $599

8th:          Michael Morrison, Georgetown, Ky., five bass, 12-12, $539

9th:          John Daniel, Bowling Green, Ky., five bass, 12-11, $479

10th:        Jason Cooper, Shelbyville, Tenn., five bass, 12-4, $419

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Anderson also caught a bass weighing 5 pounds, 10 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $460.

Pete Clark of Bowling Green, Kentucky, won the Co-angler Division and $1,796 Saturday after weighing five bass totaling 14 pounds, 2 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:          Pete Clark, Bowling Green, Ky., five bass, 14-2, $1,796

2nd:         Blake Miller, Saint Albans, W. Va., five bass, 9-14, $1,098

3rd:          Ray Hardwick, Burnside, Ky., three bass, 9-12, $598

4th:          Jason Hackett, Bowling Green, Ky., four bass, 8-2, $419

5th:          Dustin Jones, Stanford, Ky., three bass, 7-15, $359

6th:          Todd Stopher, London, Ky., four bass, 7-10, $314

6th:          Billy Hughes, Eubank, Ky., three bass, 7-10, $544

8th:          Jeff Pergram, Richmond, Ky., four bass, 7-9, $269

9th:          Taylor Wisniewski, Lexington, Ky., four bass, 7-4, $289

10th:        Donnie Durbin, Somerset, Ky., three bass, 7-1, $210

Hughes caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division – a fish weighing 4 pounds, 7 ounces – which earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $230.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 5-7 BFL Regional Championship on Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

The 2017 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they 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 BFL All-American. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the BFL on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

MCDONOUGH’S STEVENS WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BULLDOG DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR

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MCDONOUGH’S STEVENS WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BULLDOG DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR

MCDONOUGH’S STEVENS WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BULLDOG DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR

Pelham’s Griffin Grabs Co-angler Title

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EATONTON, Ga. (June 12, 2017) – Garrett Stevens of McDonough, Georgia, weighed five bass Saturday totaling 16 pounds, 11 ounces to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Bulldog Division tournament on Lake Sinclair. For his victory, Stevens was awarded $4,009.

“I caught every one of my fish on a (June Bug-colored) Zoom Magnum Shakey Head Worm,” said Stevens, who earned the win in his first career tournament as a boater after competing as a Co-angler for three and a half seasons. “I targeted docks in less than 5 feet of water, especially ones that may have had some brush or were near depth changes. I probably fished 30 to 50 of them, but only a couple held really good fish.”

Stevens said his docks were located on the Oconee River, and that he caught 10 to 12 keepers throughout the day.

“I only had one fish come from under a dock, and the rest came from the sides or front,” said Stevens. “I flipped the worm, let it hit the bottom and then I would hop it a couple of times. Soon, you couldn’t feel the weight of the worm anymore, and the line would just start moving.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Garrett Stevens, McDonough, Ga., five bass, 16-11, $4,009

2nd:         Buster Slocumb, Juliette, Ga., five bass, 13-2, $2,005

3rd:          David Milsaps, Ranger, Ga., five bass, 12-12, $1,536

4th:          Stephen Jones, Macon, Ga., five bass, 12-11, $1,035

5th:          Tony Couch, Buckhead, Ga., five bass, 12-9, $802

6th:          Kyle Welcher, Opelika, Ala., five bass, 12-4, $735

7th:          Kim Carver, Milledgeville, Ga., five bass, 12-0, $668

8th:          Dylan Peppers, Good Hope, Ga., five bass, 11-11, $601

9th:          Tyler Morgan, Columbus, Ga., five bass, 11-5, $535

10th:        Kip Carter, Social Circle, Ga., five bass, 11-1, $468

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Scott Huff of Madison, Georgia, caught a bass weighing 6 pounds, 10 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – which earned him the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $550.

James Griffin of Pelham, Georgia, won the Co-angler Division and $2,005 Saturday after weighing four bass totaling 9 pounds, 6 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:         James Griffin, Pelham, Ga., four bass, 9-6, $2,005

2nd:         Dustin Rhoades, Eatonton, Ga., four bass, 8-12, $1,002

3rd:          Mark Denney, Bonaire, Ga., five bass, 8-2, $868

4th:          Matthew O’Connell, Brooks, Ga., five bass, 7-12, $468

5th:          Andrew Nickeson, Valdosta, Ga., two bass, 7-9, $676

6th:          Jason Yawn, La Grange, Ga., five bass, 7-7, $401

6th:          Ken Smith, Lula, Ga., four bass, 7-7, $401

8th:          Ronald Harris, Jefferson, Ga., five bass, 7-6, $301

9th:          Jerry Bryant, Douglas, Ga., five bass, 7-4, $267

10th:        Robert Holliday, Greensboro, Ga., five bass, 6-12, $234

Nickeson caught the biggest bass among Co-angler Division anglers, a fish weighing 5 pounds, 3 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $275.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 12-14 BFL Regional Championship on Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

The 2017 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they 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 BFL All-American. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the BFL on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

 

Darien Craig and Houston Calvert Win 2017 Alabama Bass Trail Lake Guntersville

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Darien Craig and Houston Calvert Win 2017 Alabama Bass Trail Lake Guntersville

Darien Craig and Houston Calvert Win 2017 Alabama Bass Trail Lake Guntersville


Mitch Mitchell and Candler McCollum Claim North Division and Overall AOY Title
by Dan O’Sullivan

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June 10, 2017 – Guntersville, Ala. – While takeoff of the final event of the 2017 Alabama Bass Trail Northern Division schedule was happening, there were a lot of questions to be answered.  Not only would there be a tournament winning team, but also, the Northern Division and overall Alabama Bass Trail Anglers of the Year would be decided.

While those are always dominant questions, Lake Guntersville was the source of a lot of head scratching as well.  Normally one of the most anticipated stops of the year, Guntersville has been giving anglers fits as the fish have taken on a new and unpredictable role, thanks to changing conditions on the fishery.

While there have been some befuddled teams, Lake Guntersville showed what it is capable of as the team of Darien Craig and Houston Calvert produced a 30.45-pound limit to narrowly eke out a win over the team of Hadley Coan and Scott Keeling, who weighed an equally impressive 30.06 pounds.

Craig and Calvert were amazed and shocked at their day; Craig especially.  The young angler had been a part of the promotional film crew at ABT for the first two years of the trail before deciding to turn his attention to competing.  “I’d seen this a bunch of times while filming where anglers wouldn’t know what to say when they won, and now we can relate,” said Craig.  “We’re standing here right now with my team partner, having weighed the biggest bag of our lives, and we won by doing it – this is unbelievable.”

The pair reported running upstream to the Waterfront Bay area and fishing a rockpile in 10-foot of water with brown 1/2-ounce Buckeye Football Head Mop Jigs tipped with matching Rage Craws, and Texas Rigged big worms in green pumpkin with the tail dipped chartreuse.  Their final six-pound cull fish came on a light line wacky rigged red bug Zoom Finesse worm around 12:30 in the afternoon.

All of the fish came by making the same cast over and over again. “There was a specific angle of cast that we had to make to in order to get the bigger bites,” they said.  “We did everything we could to try and duplicate that cast over and over again, and everything just worked out, it hasn’t sunk in yet, this is unbelievable.  Their efforts resulted in an automatic berth into the 2017 ABT Championship at Logan Martin in October and a $10,000 payday.

Finishing second, with an equally impressive performance was the team of Hadley Coan and Scott Keeling.  Coan threw 1/2-ounce Guntersville Craw colored Mean Mouth Jigs with a green pumpkin Rage Craw as a trailer and Keeling tossed 6th Sense Cloud 9 Series C15 and C20 crankbaits to shallow offshore structure.

They offered congratulations to the winners while understandably being in shock with the results.  “Any time you put a 30-pound bag on the scales, you think you have a really good shot at winning, so we are a little disappointed at that,” they said.   “Darien and Houston did a really good job, and had a great day.  Congratulations to them, but we’re also a little bit stunned at the moment.”

The pair took home $5,000 for their efforts, plus the Big Bass bonus of $500 for their 7.56-pound largemouth, an ABT Apparel bonus as other contingency awards.

Brian and Dakota Briggs claimed third with a 21.05-pound limit good for $4,000.  They were followed in fourth place by Chase Dorsett and Brandon Smith, who earned $3,000 with 21.02 pounds.  The teams of Daniel Puckett and Creig Poole and Rex Chambers and Eric Johnson finished tied for fifth place with 19.94 pounds; they split the fifth and sixth place prize money, each earning $1750.

The top 10 standings are below, for complete standings go to http://www.alabamabasstrail.org/tournament-series/lg-results/.

Place ANGLERS Weight Big Fish Winnings
1 Darien Craig / Houston Calvert 30.45 6.61 $10,000
2 Hadley Coan / Scott Keeling 30.06 7.56 $5,000
3 Brian Briggs / Dakota Briggs 21.05 5.84 $4,000
4 Chase Dorsett / Brandon Smith 21.02 6.80 $3,000
5 Daniel Puckett / Creig Poole 19.94 7.45 $1,750
5 Rex Chambers / Eric Johnson 19.94 $1,750
7 Mark McCaig / Tim Hurst 19.88 $1,100
8 Donny Beck / Tony Harvey 19.65 $1,100
9 Charlie Cummings / Greg Pugh 19.26 $1,100
10 Jason Whisonant / Wayne Whisonant 19.19 $1,100

 

The team of Mitch Mitchell and Candler McCollum wrapped up the Noethern Division and overall Anglers of the Year title after a spectacular year.  They pair won two events on the season; the season opener at Wheeler Lake and the fourth event on the schedule at Neely Henry, and earned a 27 point win in their division, and a 42 point margin in the overall.

The result had been their goal all along.  “We set this as our goal when the schedule came out last year,” they reported.  “We felt like the whole schedule really fit us and we thought we could challenge for it.  That being said, this is a really tough field, and to do things this way is something we would have never imagined; it feels really good to be able to say we accomplished this goal.”

For complete season’s standings, visit this link; http://www.alabamabasstrail.org/tournament-series/north-division-standings/.

The sponsors of the 2017 Alabama Bass Trail include; Bill Penney Toyota, Phoenix Bass Boats, GP8 Oxygen Water, Garmin, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Wind Creek Hospitality – Wetumpka, Wind Creek Hospitality – Montgomery, Alabama Tourism Department, SCA Performance,  T-H Marine Supplies, Wedowee Marine, AFTCO,  Fish Neely Henry Lake.com, Lew’s Fishing, Crossed Industries, YETI, E3 Apparel, TVA and Alabama Power.

For information about Alabama Bass Trail and for complete tournament standings visit www.alabamabasstrail.org.

Tyler Farmer & Lee White Win Leesville Lake Tournament Trail June 11th 2017

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Tyler Farmer & Lee White Win Leesville Lake Tournament Trail June 11th 2017

1st Place Tyler Farmer & Lee Wite with Five Fish weighing     15.61 lbs.

2nd Place Roger Dolan & Roger Dolan JR with five fish weighing 10.76 lbs.

3rd Place Kenneth Stern & Angela Sterne with Five fish weighing 10.43 lbs.

Lunker of the Day went to Tyler Farmer & Lee White a 5.43 Lb. Large Mouth

 

Strike King Magnum Rage Bug Review By Jason Sealock June 7th 2017

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Strike King Magnum Rage Bug Review By Jason Sealock June 7th 2017

Strike King Magnum Rage Bug Review

Jason Sealock

June 7th 2017

Strike King’s oversized bug bait is a keeper for flippers and pitchers in bass fishing.

The flipping and pitching bite was very good this spring on Kentucky Lake. For about two weeks you could just bounce around and load the boat with 3- to 7-pound bass flipping bushes, trees, vines, or any other flooded cover. That gave me a lot of time to play with hooks and plastics for flipping. One of my new favorites for bass fishing flipping plastics is the Strike King Magnum Rage Bug.

The Magnum Rage Bug is an oversized bug flipping bait that features a streamlined ribbed body with 4 appendages that swim easily on the lift and drop in and around heavy cover. So the bait has the profile you need to get into thick cover, but it also has a lot of action. It’s a large bait compared to most other bugs and beavers on the market. That was what initially attracted me to the bait this spring.

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