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Johnny Mayer & Chris Epting Win Carolina’s Bass Challenge SC Division May 14,2016

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May 23, 2016

Johnny Mayer & Chris Epting Win Carolina’s Bass Challenge SC Division May 14,2016

Lake Murray – Dreher Island, SC(May 14, 2016)

Johnny Mayer & Chris Epting came out on top Saturday at Lake Murray with 5 bass weighing 23.00 lbs! This is their 3rd CBC win and was good for $8,000.00!

Samuel Freeman & Scott Farmer took 2nd with a limit weighing 20.54 lbs and received $2,500.00. They also collected the 1st SKEETER Bonus worth another $4,000.00. They took home a total of $6,500.00.

Kevin Fulmer & Tim Sox weighed up a limit at 16.99 lbs good enough for 5th and 2nd SKEETER Bonus worth a total of $3,750.00.

Brad Smith & Joey Spradley finished 7th with 16.07 lbs and took home the 3rd SKEETER Bonus. They earned $2,450.00!

Derrick & Dustin Compton took 9th with 5 bass weighing 15.53 lbs and collected the 4th SKEETER Bonus good for $1,325.00. Derrick & Dustin also won the SC Points and will receive another $1,000.00 at the CBC Classic on Lake Norman in October.

Thanks to the High Schools teams who particpated!

Chadd Eriksen & Cullen Ports Win Cashion Fishing Rods’ May 21,2016 Event

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May 23, 2016

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Chadd Eriksen & Cullen Ports Win Cashion Fishing Rods’ May 21,2016 Event

CASHION FISHING RODS ‘FALLS LAKE OPEN’ Results
Falls Lake~~May 21, 2016 Ledge Rock Wildlife Ramp

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Matt Cashion, owner of Cashion Fishing Rods, sponsored the ‘Falls Lake Open, with 30 teams showing up, even with the weather forecast calling for heavy rains in the am. The day started off in the low 60’s and afternoon temps around 79. It did rain hard from about 5am to 6am then quit for the day!! The winds were 0 to 12 mph for he most of the day and the water level was right at normal pool. Water temps averaged 72 degrees and the water clarity was fairly good. 120 bass were weighed in for a total weight of 378 pounds for an average of 3.15
lbs. each. The fish have pretty much spawned out and are starting to work theirway back to deeper water. It was really a pretty day for bass fishing with a lot of 4 and 5 pounders caught!!!

Chadd Eriksen & Cullen Ports weighed in 5 bass at 25.03 lbs to take 1st Place, 1st Place TWT & Big Fish Award (7.40 lbs.) plus awarded with 2 Cashion Custom Rods & Trophies for a grand total of $2,350 in cash and prizes!

Losing to 1st Place by only .23 of a pound was the 2nd Place team of Robyn Cook & Owen Penhollow with 5 bass weighing 24.80 lbs. They also won the 2nd place Big Fish Award (6.46 lbs.) and 2 Cashion Custom Rods. Their
best finish ever with PBC taking home a total of $1,250 in cash and prizes. 3rd Place money and 2 Cashion Rods went to the team of Matt Harrison & Angela Bishop with 5 bass weighing 20.97 lbs. netting them $900 in cash
and prizes!!

Most bass were caught with crankbaits, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, WLS Shakey Heads and Carolina Rigs. Most were caught in 10′ or less waters. The topwater bite should be picking up with the summer temps coming in.

I want to thank all the anglers that participated and all our sponsors. Our next tournament will be the 2016 Piedmont Bass Classics $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Final Qualifier #7, Saturday June 4th also at Falls Lake
out of Ledge Rock Wildlife Ramp. This is also an open event for anyone not wanting to fish for the Championship. Our next Invitational tournament will be the 1st ever PBC Metal Mania Invitational on Falls Lake, June 11th,
for aluminum boats with 115 hp or less motors only!! Info on this event can be found at:
http://piedmontbassclassics.com/2016MetalManiaMainPage.html

All the information on all our tournaments can be found at: http://piedmontbassclassics.com/

Now here are the full results:
1st Place…Chadd Eriksen & Cullen Ports of Wake Forest…5 bass…25.03 lbs…$1,080
2nd Place…Robyn Cook & Owen Penhollow of Raleigh & Durham…5 bass…24.80 lbs…$630
3rd Place…Matt Harrison & Angela Bishop of Franklinton…5 bass…20.97 lbs…$450
4th Place…Chris & David Huffine of Raleigh & Wake Forest…5 bass…19.09 lbs…$330
5th Place…Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks of Fuquay Varina & Apex…5 bass…18.95 lbs…$270
6th Place…Zach Blalock & Kyle Albers of Winterville & Durham…5 bass…18.58 lbs…$240

1st Place Big Fish: 1st Place Team above…7.40 lbs…$420
2nd Place Big Fish: 2nd Place Team above…6.46 lbs…$180

1st Place TWT: 1st Place Team above: 25.03 lbs…$420
2nd Place TWT: 5th Place Team above: 18.95 lbs…$180

We are almost ready to end our Spring events and look forward to starting up the

Cashion Rods ‘End of Year’ Trail which begins July 9th at Kerr Lake. All the info for

this trail can be found on the PBC web page at:

http://piedmontbassclassics.com/2016EndOfYearMainPage.html

Enter early to get the best starting positions.

Dean Wood gives the Bass Cast an Update on the F1 Tiger Bass project on SML May 22,2016

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May 23, 2016

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Dean Wood gives the Bass Cast an Update on the F1 Tiger Bass project on SML May 22,2016

The Bass Cast had the opportunity to catch up with Mr. Dean Wood on Smith Mountain Lake this weekend, Dean is one of the many men involved in the F1 Tiger Bass stocking that has been going on at Smith Mountain Lake. Take a listen as he gives us this update.

Chad Green & Dean Wood Win Angler’s Choice SML May 22,2016

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May 23, 2016

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Chad Green & Dean Wood Win Angler’s Choice SML May 22,2016

1st Place Chad Green & Dean Wood with five fish weighing 16.27lbs.

2nd Place Tim Goff & Larry Witt with five fish weighing 16.14lbs.

3rd Place Jerry Elder & John Bomar with five fish weighing 16.06lbs.

CLICK HERE TO SEE RESULTS

CLICK HERE TO SEE CURRENT STANDINGS

On this episode of “The Cull” with Ben Hudson – Post-spawn finesse fishing (Shakey head & Drop shot)

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May 22, 2016

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On this episode of “The Cull” with Ben Hudson – Post-spawn finesse fishing (Shakey head & Drop shot)

Take a listen to the new episode of The Cull as Ben Hudson gives us a look at one of the most versatile baits that every angler should have with him out on the water

CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING WESTERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON CALIFORNIA DELTA

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May 22, 2016

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CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING WESTERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON CALIFORNIA DELTA

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BETHEL ISLAND, Calif. (May 21, 2016) – The Chico State University duo of Sean Huber and Travis Strain, both of Chico, California, won the FLW College Fishing Western Conference event on the California Delta Saturday with five bass weighing 16 pounds, 3 ounces. The victory earned the club $2,000 and qualified the team for the 2017 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

“We had already qualified for the National Championship earlier this season at Clear Lake, so we came into this event just fishing for fun,” said Huber, a junior majoring in construction management. “To win is a really pleasant surprise. Even when Travis and I were standing in the weigh-in line we had no idea that we had enough to win.”

“This is our first season fishing FLW College Fishing and it has been a blast,” said Strain, also a junior majoring in construction management. “We had some trolling motor problems earlier this week and we weren’t really able to get in any time to practice so we decided to just go out and fish anything that looked good.”

The Chico State duo said that they managed 8 keeper bass throughout the day, throwing weedless soft-plastics near tules in the Piper Slough area. They caught fish on three baits – an unnamed 7-inch green-pumpkin stick bait, a Missile Baits D Bomb and a green-pumpkin Z-Man ChatterBait paired with a 3-inch Keitech swimbait.

“We tried to keep it pretty simple today,” Strain said. “A lot of other teams were trying to punch, but we knew that we could catch a solid limit with the soft plastics. We were not around many other boats at all, and I think doing something a little different was the key.”

The top 10 teams that advanced to the 2017 College Fishing National Championship are:

1^st: California State University-Chico – Sean Huber and Travis Strain, both of Chico, Calif., five bass, 16-3, $2,000

2^nd: California Polytechnic State University – Christopher LeClair, Santa Clarita, Calif., and Clayton Lauchland, Lodi, Calif., five bass, 16-3, $1,000

3^rd: University of California-Merced – Gregory Dooman, Merced, Calif., and Adan Arroyo, Napa, Calif., five bass, 15-7, $500

4^th: California State University-East Bay – Junjie Wang, Castro Valley, Calif., and Yuan Liu, Hayward, Calif, five bass, 14-3, $500

5^th: Oregon State University – Zach MacDonald, Willits, Calif., and Zach Martinez, Linden, Calif., five bass, 13-12, $500

6^th: Humboldt State University – Tristan Merlaud, Arcata, Calif., and Rudy Directo, Alpine, Calif., five bass, 13-12

7^th: Southwestern Oregon Community College – Christian Somerville, Allegany, Ore., and Shawn Cook, North Bend, Ore., five bass, 13-6

8^th: Sonoma State University – Tyler Owens, Orange, Calif., and Jake Davidson, Sebastopol, Calif., five bass, 13-3

9^th: Northern Arizona University – Gunnar Stanton, Boulder City, Nev., and Gunner Campbell, Winchester, Calif., five bass, 12-8

10^th: University of Oregon – Jacob Wall, Jacksonville, Ore., and Dalton Taylor, Eugene, Ore., five bass, 11-15

Complete results will be posted at FLWFishing.com.

This FLW College Fishing Western Conference event was hosted by Russo’s Marina and Sugar Barge RV Resort and was the third and final regular-season qualifying tournament in the Western conference. The next event for Western Conference anglers will be the FLW College Fishing National Championship, held early next spring on a lake yet to be announced.

FLW College Fishing teams compete in regular-season qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top ten teams from each division’s three regular-season tournaments and the top 15 teams from the annual FLW College Fishing Open will advance to the 2017 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

College Fishing is free to enter. All participants must be registered, full-time students at a college, university or community college and members of a college fishing club.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow College Fishing on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing. Visit CollegeFishing.com to sign up or to start a club at your school.

OAKLEY’S ALMASSEY WINS COSTA FLW SERIES TOURNEY ON CAL DELTA PRESENTED BY POWER-POLE

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May 22, 2016

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OAKLEY’S ALMASSEY WINS COSTA FLW SERIES TOURNEY ON CAL DELTA PRESENTED BY POWER-POLE

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BETHEL ISLAND, Calif. (May 21, 2016) – Charley Almassey of Oakley, California, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 15 pounds, 1 ounce Saturday to win the Costa FLW Series Western Division event on the California Delta presented by Power-Pole with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 60 pounds, 1 ounce. For his win, Almassey earned $32,880.

“I was totally taken by surprise when I had enough to win today,” said Almassey, who pushed his FLW career earnings to more than $130,000. “I consider the Delta my home waters and know what a great fishery it is. To come away with the win this week is really unbelievable.”

Almassey said he caught his fish throughout the week by targeting spawning flats where bass and bluegill were spawning. Each day he would run the tide, following the low tide south to Discovery Bay, a run which he estimated between 20 to 25 miles. He targeted weed clumps that looked ‘good’ – sparse patches with tules that had limited amounts of angel hair grass.

“I was throwing at patches that had the wind blowing into it,” Almassey said. “I’m a reaction bait fisherman; the nastier conditions the better.”

Almassey credited three baits for his success this week – a bluegill-colored Bobby D’s Custom Baits Grinder paired with a watermelon-candy-colored Assault Lures Ringer paddle-tail swimbait, an ABT Lures Glide Bait and a 3/8-ounce Blade-Runner Weedless Paddle Head Swim Jig with a 4.8-inch green-pumpkin Keitech Swing Impact FAT.

“I was only catching 8 or 9 keepers a day,” Almassey said. “I was not messing with little fish this week and was on a big-fish-only pattern. I think that was the key for me this week. My local knowledge definitely helped as well – I knew where the big fish were.”

The top 10 pros on the California Delta were:

1^st: Charley Almassey, Oakley, Calif., 15 bass, 60-1, $32,880

2^nd: Mike Birch, Oakley, Calif., 15 bass, 58-8, $12,959

3^rd: Roy Hawk, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., 15 bass, 56-13, $9,864

4^th: Robert Lee, Angels Camp, Calif., 15 bass, 55-0, $8,220

5^th: Michael Caruso, Peoria, Ariz., 15 bass, 53-5, $7,398

6^th: Bobby Barrack, Oakley, Calif., 15 bass, 52-8, $6,576

7^th: Harvey Pulliam, Brentwood, Calif., 15 bass, 50-1, $5,754

8^th: Bryant Smith, Castro Valley, Calif., 15 bass, 49-1, $4,932

9^th: Benjamin Byrd, Moab, Utah, 15 bass, 48-6, $4,110

10^th: Dane Mitchell, Lake Charles, La., 15 bass, 48-5, $3,288

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Birch caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the pro division Thursday – a largemouth weighing 10 pounds, 11 ounces to earn him the day’s Big Bass award of $300.

Aaron Agner of Redding, California, won the co-angler division and a Ranger Z117 with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard motor, with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 43 pounds, 8 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers on the California Delta were:

1^st: Aaron Agner, Redding, Calif., 15 bass, 43-8, Ranger Z117 w/90-horsepower outboard

2^nd: Justin Bolen, Paradise, Calif., 15 bass, 38-5, $4,150

3^rd: Blake Leonard, Elk Grove, Calif., 14 bass, 36-4, $3,320

4^th: Jack Farage, Discovery Bay, Calif., 15 bass, 36-2, $2,905

5^th: Kevin Gross, Claremont, Calif., 15 bass, 34-14, $2,490

6^th: George Edes, Boise, Idaho, 14 bass, 33-7, $2,075

7^th: Rob Larrabee, Livermore, Calif., 14 bass, 32-10, $1,660

8^th: Troy Diatte, Salinas, Calif., 13 bass, 32-4, $1,452

9^th: Jake Stephens, Carmel, Calif., 15 bass, 32-0, $1,390

10^th: James Tate, Calabasas, Calif., 14 bass, 31-2, $1,037

David Marroquin of San Leandro, California, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the co-angler division Friday weighing 8 pounds, 14 ounces to earn him the day’s Big Bass award of $145.

The Costa FLW Series consists of five divisions – Central, Northern, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western. Each division consists of three tournaments with competitors vying for valuable points that could earn them the opportunity to fish in the Costa FLW Series Championship. The 2016 Costa FLW Series Championship is being held Nov. 3-5 on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri.

The Costa FLW Series on the California Delta was hosted by Russo’s Marina and Sugar Barge RV Resort and Marina. It was the third Western Division tournament of 2016.

The next Costa FLW Series tournament will be the Northern Division opener, held June 16-18, on the Potomac River in Marbury, Maryland, and is hosted by the Charles County Board of Commissioners and Office of Tourism. For a complete schedule, visit FLWFishing.com.

For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the Costa FLW Series on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

Mullins Earns First Win At Southern Open On Douglas Lake

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May 22, 2016

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Mullins Earns First Win At Southern Open On Douglas Lake

David Mullins of Mount Carmel, Tenn., wins the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Open #3 held on Douglas Lake out of Dandridge, Tenn. Mullins brought 19 pounds, 5 ounces to Saturday’s weigh-in, giving him a three-day total of 62-12.

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May 21, 2016

Mullins Earns First Win At Southern Open On Douglas Lake

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — After consecutive runner-up finishes at Douglas Lake, David Mullins now knows what it feels like to be a champion. Mullins stayed in first place all three days to win the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Open.

Mullins had a five-bass limit weighing 19 pounds, 5 ounces, Saturday to give him a three-day total of 62-12. Scott Canterbury of Springville, Ala., was second with 56-10, and Britt Myers of Lake Wylie, S.C., finished third with 52-2.

Mullins, who competes on the Bassmaster Elite Series, lives in Mount Carmel, Tenn., and has extensive knowledge of Douglas Lake. He finished second in Bassmaster Open tournaments here in 2013 and 2014 before taking the title Saturday.

“It’s a little bit of sweet redemption,” Mullins said. “I didn’t lose the last two. Somebody just caught ’em better than me. It feels good to come out on top.”

Mullins took the lead Thursday with 21-5, and built his margin to more than 7 pounds by weighing in 22-2 on Friday. Canterbury was the only angler in the Top 12 who managed a 20-pound bag Saturday. His five-bass limit weighed 21-7, but that still left Mullins with a 6-pound margin of victory.

“Every time I have a good finish here, I never catch ’em off the same place two days in a row,” Mullins said. “I think that’s the biggest key to fishing Douglas Lake — having enough places where you know they live, so you can keep moving and have a good rotation. The places I fished today, I haven’t fished all week. I just ran history.”

In recent years, there have been two constant factors in a winning formula at Douglas: concentrating on deep schools of bass and catching more than 20 pounds per day. Mullins followed that pattern. His shallowest bass came in 8- to 12-foot depths and his deepest came from almost 30 feet.

Mullins’ primary lures were Strike King 10XD and 6XD crankbaits in Tennessee shad and green gizzard shad colors. He also caught a key bass Saturday on a Scottsboro Tackle Company 6-inch swimbait in a shad pattern that was specially made for Mullins at Douglas.

“I picked it up this morning and caught one on my first cast,” he said. “I didn’t have a fish until about 9:15. And that one was one of my best of the day.”

Mullins didn’t fish the other two Southern Opens, so he will not receive an automatic qualifying spot in the 2017 GEICO Bassmaster Classic.

“We’ve been going so hard on the Elite Series, I’m tired as it is,” he said. “Scheduling and the extra money it was going to cost to fish those other two Opens is why I didn’t do it. But I’m not even thinking about that now. I don’t regret it one bit.”

For the victory, Mullins won a package valued at $45,000, which includes a Skeeter ZX200 boat and, Yamaha VF200LA outboard motor, Minn Kota Fortrex trolling motor and a pair of Lowrance HDS 7 graphing units.

Matt Justice of Fair Play, S.C., won the co-angler division with a three-day total of 29-6. Don Bible II of Knoxville, Tenn., finished second with 26-13, and Rodney Tapp of Inman, S.C., was third with 26-7.

Justice is a 22-year-old recent graduate of Greenville Technical College. He lives on Lake Hartwell. Justice wants to fish professionally, and he said Saturday’s victory will enable him to do that next year. The co-angler prize, valued at $30,000, includes a Triton 179 TrX boat powered by a Mercury 115 ELPT outboard motor, outfitted with Triton standard equipment.

Elite Series angler Brandon Card, who finished seventh on the pro side, was Justice’s partner Saturday.

“Brandon was completely selfless,” Justice said. “He’s as nice as they come. When he found out I was in contention, he was like, ‘Throw right here at this waypoint. Throw right there where I just cast.’ As a co-angler, you don’t hear that a lot. He’s the reason I won, I think.”

Justice used a variety of baits over the course of the three days, but he said a Strike King 8XD crankbait in green gizzard shad produced most of his weight.

“I’d burn it as fast as I could,” Justice said. “I was using a reel with an 8.3:1 gear ratio. I think that made the difference in being able to reel it faster than anybody through a school and get a reaction bite.”

Wiggins earned the $750 Phoenix Boats Big Bass Award on the pro side for his 6-15 largemouth caught on Friday. Ledell Wade Jr., Clarksville, Tenn., weighed in an 5-9 bass to earn the $250 Phoenix Boats Big Bass Award on the co-angler side.

Mullins received the Livingston Lures Leader Award of $250 for finishing as the top pro on Day 2. Finishing as the Day 2 leader on the co-angler side, Rodney Tapp of Inman, S.C., received a Livingston Lures gift pack worth $250.

Myers of Lake Wylie, S.C., also earner the A.R.E. Top Angler Award of $500 for being the highest-finishing angler using A.R.E. products.

Canterbury of Springville, Ala., earned the Power-Pole Captain’s Cash award of $500.

2016 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Open Douglas Lake 5/19-5/21
Douglas Lake, Dandridge TN.
(BOATER) Standings Day 3

Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$

1. David Mullins Mt Carmel, TN 15 62-12 200 $51,650.00
Day 1: 5 21-05 Day 2: 5 22-02 Day 3: 5 19-05
2. Scott Canterbury Springville, AL 15 56-10 199 $15,700.00
Day 1: 5 17-03 Day 2: 5 18-00 Day 3: 5 21-07
3. Britt Myers Lake Wylie, SC 15 52-02 198 $11,900.00
Day 1: 5 14-01 Day 2: 5 20-07 Day 3: 5 17-10
4. Sam George Athens, AL 15 48-12 197 $10,200.00
Day 1: 5 17-06 Day 2: 5 16-10 Day 3: 5 14-12
5. Mark Daniels Jr. Tuskegee, AL 15 47-10 196 $8,900.00
Day 1: 5 18-15 Day 2: 5 13-12 Day 3: 5 14-15
6. Mark Rose West Memphis, AR 15 47-09 195 $7,600.00
Day 1: 5 15-12 Day 2: 5 16-01 Day 3: 5 15-12
7. Brandon Card Caryville, TN 15 47-06 194 $6,400.00
Day 1: 5 19-02 Day 2: 5 13-02 Day 3: 5 15-02
8. Kyle Glasgow Jr Guin, AL 15 46-15 193 $5,100.00
Day 1: 5 19-10 Day 2: 5 16-06 Day 3: 5 10-15
9. Joey Nania Cropwell, AL 15 46-03 192 $3,800.00
Day 1: 5 18-06 Day 2: 5 15-06 Day 3: 5 12-07
10. Ott DeFoe Knoxville, TN 15 45-15 191 $3,500.00
Day 1: 5 18-03 Day 2: 5 15-08 Day 3: 5 12-04
11. Jesse Wiggins Cullman, AL 15 45-03 190 $3,950.00
Day 1: 5 13-06 Day 2: 5 22-07 Day 3: 5 09-06
12. Michael Murphy Lexington, SC 15 43-14 189 $3,000.00
Day 1: 5 18-08 Day 2: 5 13-14 Day 3: 5 11-08
PHOENIX BOATS BIG BASS
Jesse Wiggins Cullman, AL 06-15 $750.00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 118 679 1585-10
2 113 620 1475-10
3 12 60 175-07
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243 1359 3236-11

2016 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Open Douglas Lake 5/19-5/21
Douglas Lake, Dandridge TN.
(NON_BOATER) Standings Day 3

Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$

1. Matt Justice Fair Play, SC 9 29-06 200 $30,000.00
Day 1: 3 08-03 Day 2: 3 11-11 Day 3: 3 09-08
2. Don Bible II Knoxville, TN 9 26-13 199 $4,900.00
Day 1: 3 09-04 Day 2: 3 08-11 Day 3: 3 08-14
3. Rodney Tapp Inman, SC 9 26-07 198 $3,700.00
Day 1: 3 11-00 Day 2: 3 09-03 Day 3: 3 06-04
4. Carlton Tipp Jr Grand Bay, AL 9 25-00 197 $2,500.00
Day 1: 3 05-05 Day 2: 3 09-08 Day 3: 3 10-03
5. Marlon Crowder Tampa, FL 9 24-01 196 $2,300.00
Day 1: 3 06-08 Day 2: 3 08-10 Day 3: 3 08-15
6. Wayne Hauser Mooresville, NC 9 23-09 195 $2,200.00
Day 1: 3 10-00 Day 2: 3 05-04 Day 3: 3 08-05
7. Daniel Beebe Jr Niota, TN 9 22-07 194 $2,100.00
Day 1: 3 06-10 Day 2: 3 08-07 Day 3: 3 07-06
8. Andy Simm Piney Flats, TN 8 20-04 193 $2,000.00
Day 1: 3 10-14 Day 2: 3 07-05 Day 3: 2 02-01
9. Stephen Davis Blacksburg, VA 9 19-07 192 $1,900.00
Day 1: 3 07-06 Day 2: 3 07-10 Day 3: 3 04-07
10. Darrell Pons II Gainesville, FL 9 19-04 191 $1,700.00
Day 1: 3 07-00 Day 2: 3 07-12 Day 3: 3 04-08
11. Teb Jones Hattiesburg, MS 9 19-03 190 $1,500.00
Day 1: 3 08-00 Day 2: 3 07-04 Day 3: 3 03-15
12. Charles Fochtman Moneta, VA 7 17-05 189 $1,400.00
Day 1: 3 06-10 Day 2: 3 08-04 Day 3: 1 02-07
PHOENIX BOATS BIG BASS
Ledell Wade Jr Clarksville, TN 05-09 $250.00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 78 310 619-14
2 97 327 662-01
3 10 33 76-13
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185 670 1358-12

Penn State Leads Wire-To-Wire To Take Title In Bassmaster College Event On James River

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May 22, 2016

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Penn State Leads Wire-To-Wire To Take Title In Bassmaster College Event On James River

Sean Cummins (left) and Maurice Hudson of Penn State University win the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Eastern Regional presented by Bass Pro Shops on the James River out of Richmond, Va., with a three-day total weight of 42 pounds, 14 ounces.

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May 21, 2016

Penn State Leads Wire-To-Wire To Take Title In Bassmaster College Event On James River

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RICHMOND, Va. — Maurice Hudson and Sean Cummins of Penn State University lead wire-to-wire to win the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Eastern Regional presented by Bass Pro Shops on the James River with a four-day total of 42 pounds, 14 ounces.

The Nittany Lions teammates only brought four fish to the scales for the second consecutive day, and it was enough to overcome a hard charging Ohio State.

“After Thursday, we thought we had something figured out,” Hudson said. “Then we found out we had a cameraman and media coverage following us around, and we got nervous. We were a little camera shy and didn’t fish clean (flawlessly) at all. Coming in with four fish today had us worried.”

The duo relied heavily on a crankbait bite and ran the changing tides to stay around the quality fish they needed to do well. Hudson, who fishes the Potomac River and Upper Chesapeake Bay, knows how the tides change and the impact they have on the fish so timing was the most critical thing in this event.

“Running with the tide is key,” Hudson said. “Once you figure out a pattern, you have to stick with it on that specific tide. We knew our key bites would come an hour later every day, so we had to stay patient and not fish a spot too early.”

Throughout the transition of the tide they would throw crankbaits that varied in depth. When it was high tide, they could catch fish on deeper-running crankbaits, but with less water on their cover at low tide, they could lean on a shallow squarebill bite. They also added important bass on a jig over the last two days.

Hudson and Cummins rotated multiple main river spots throughout the event and think their bite wasn’t affected by the changing weather, which threw three different conditions at the teams this week.

The Ohio State team of Jacob Miller and Kyle Waller stayed consistent over the three-day event and cashed in with a second-place finish for the week. They weighed a final-day limit of 14-2 and pushed their total to 42-5, just 9 ounces behind Hudson and Cummins.

Miller and Waller had two key areas and patterns they could rely on throughout the tournament. Every morning the duo ran down river and fished a stretch of cypress trees adjacent to a spawning pocket to fill their limit. After catching numerous keepers, they would run a grass pattern in the Chickahominy River when the tide started to get low.

“We didn’t plan on our spots holding up as well as they did this week,” Miller said. “We would lay off of our cypress trees after getting a limit, so we could conserve it throughout the tournament because we would catch a limit in the first 15 minutes of our day.”

Their one-two punch helped them stay around the 13 to 14-pound range each day, but on the final day, they couldn’t get that big bite they so desperately needed.

The rest of the Top 5 rounded out with Carson Orellana of Strayer Univeristy in third, Tyler Woolcott and Cody Wilson of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in fourth and Sam Glenn and Cameron Baker of UNC Charlotte in fifth.

The Top 13 teams after the final weigh-in earned a berth to the 2016 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship on Green River Lake in Campbellsville, Ky., on July 28-30.

Hudson and Cummins were also awarded the Bass Pro Shops Nitro Big Bag Award after catching 17-2 on Thursday. They also won the Livingston Lures Day 2 leader award.

Jay Emmert and Logan Brewster of the University of Tennessee won the Carhartt Big Bass Award after hauling in a 7-pound, 8-ounce largemouth on the first day of the competition.

Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Eastern Regional

Presented by Bass Pro Shops
5/19/2016 – 5/21/2016
James River – Osborne Park & Boat Landing – Richmond, VA
STANDINGS BOATER DAY 3

Today’s Activity
# Fish Lbs – Oz
Accumulative
Name # Live # Fish # Live Lbs – Oz
1 Maurice Hudson – Sean Cummins Penn State University 4 4 14- 4 13 13 42-14
2 Jacob Miller – Kyle Waller Ohio State University 5 5 14- 2 15 15 42- 5
3 Carson Orellana – Strayer University 5 5 13- 2 15 15 40-10
4 Tyler Woolcott – Cody Wilson Embry-Riddle Aeronoautical University 5 5 13-13 15 15 38-10
5 Sam Glenn – Cameron Baker UNC Charlotte 5 5 13-13 15 15 37- 9
6 Jordan Wise – Chris Phinney East Carolina University 5 5 14- 2 15 15 37- 5
7 Chase Johnson – Eric Leifheit East Carolina University 5 5 12-12 15 15 36-14
8 Garrett Paquette – Zak Fadden Schoolcraft College 5 5 9- 5 15 15 36- 0
9 Josh Cannon – Alex Frazier Western Carolina University 5 5 12- 5 13 13 35-14
10 Zachary Castano – Aaron Sollenberger UNC Charlotte 5 5 12-12 13 13 35-11
11 Hunter Whitman – Alec Lower NC State University 5 5 11-14 15 15 35- 9
12 Justin St Onge – Ryan McLaughlin Haywood Community College 5 5 9- 8 15 15 34-11
13 Zander Monk – Kolton Hawks UNC Charlotte 5 5 10- 5 15 15 34- 0
14 Michael Corbishley – Austin Warmus East Carolina University 5 5 9-10 14 14 33-15
15 Nick Schultz – Zachary McGeehan UNC Charlotte 5 5 11- 3 15 15 33- 7
16 Mark Adams – Kile Quick Virginia Tech 5 5 11- 3 15 15 33- 5
17 John Teare – Christopher Campo Virginia Commonwealth University 4 4 9- 8 12 12 32- 1
18 Pete Kenny – Taylor Godsey Christopher Newport University 3 3 8- 0 13 13 30- 5
19 Matt Allen – Daniel Bray Tennessee Tech University 3 3 6- 2 13 13 29-14
20 Weston Chandler – Chase Nye East Carolina University 2 2 3-11 10 10 27-11
21 Seth Winslow – Galen Creekmore Christopher Newport University 10 10 21-12
22 Josh Cook – Rob Hendrick Western Carolina University 9 9 21- 8
23 Jason Ashe – Justin McClure Western Carolina University 10 10 21- 5
24 Sam Carris – Elliot Lee Tennessee Tech University 9 9 20-14
25 Joshua Fletcher – Bryson Peed East Carolina University 10 10 20-14
26 Jay Emmert – Logan Brewster U. of Tennessee 8 8 20- 8
27 Blaine Atkins – Hunter Altice Patrick Henry Comm College 9 9 20- 7
28 Mack Hicks – Aaron Creech Alice Lloyd College 8 8 20- 5
29 Hunter Fulcher – Andrew Day U. of Kentucky 10 10 18- 8
30 Andrew Annuzzi – Zachary Orsino Ramapo College 6 6 18- 7
31 Andrew Helms – Taylor Thomas UNC Charlotte 10 10 18- 5
32 Kelly Johnson – Matt Reid Appalachian State University 9 9 17- 9
33 Wesley Fox – Cody Pack UNC Charlotte 6 6 16-14
34 Bryce Owen – Greg Burchfield NC State University 10 10 16- 8
35 William Ray IV – Michael Resor Western Carolina University 7 7 16- 4
36 Jacob Crowe – Zachary Tallent Western Carolina University 6 6 15-13
37 Benjamin Hager – Christohper Cordova UNC Charlotte 9 9 15-12
38 Tyler Dixon – Hunter Hatcher Virginia Tech 8 8 15- 8
39 Dylan Jackson – Erik Struder Virginia Commonwealth University 7 7 15- 7
40 Corey Smith – Cantley Krafft Virginia Tech 7 7 15- 5
41 Kyle McHenry – Tyler Barnes West Virginia University 10 9 15- 5
42 Darrell Pease – Justin Anderson Virginia Commonwealth University 7 7 15- 3
43 Nathan Adams – Mason Grabowski Murray State University 5 5 14-14
44 Trevor Lewis – Lucas Harrison Georgetown College 7 7 14-11
45 Nick White – Sean Coast The Apprentice School 7 7 14- 0
46 Matt Pastino – Michael Manning East Carolina University 8 8 13-12
47 Skye Riggleman – Alex Williamson Liberty University 9 9 13-10
48 Dylan Whitmore – Gary Nix The Apprentice School 5 5 13- 3
49 Tripp Norris – Spence Hutcheson NC State University 6 6 13- 0
50 Jacob Osborne – Hunter Massie West Virginia University 7 7 11-12
51 Zachary Bodford – Alex Hinkle NC State University 5 5 10-11
52 Parker Dixon – Nicholas Newberry UNC Charlotte 4 4 10- 4
53 James Shank – Clayton Frey Penn State University 4 4 9-10
54 Brian Travers – Caleb Unger Liberty University 5 5 8- 8
55 Bentley Manning – John Berry Tennessee Tech University 5 5 8- 7
56 JR Little – Sam McLamb NC State University 4 4 8- 7
57 Jackob Leonard – Daniel Smathers Liberty University 4 4 8- 5
58 Jerris Bush – Jake Powell East Carolina University 5 5 8- 5
59 Mark Moran – Zach Browning Glenville State College 5 5 7-13
60 Gerald Ramsey – Kolby Kindley Haywood Community College 5 5 7- 9
61 Andrew Green – Anne Arundel Comm College 4 4 7- 3
62 Tate Clements – Gavin Draper Eastern Kentucky University 3 3 6- 2
63 Jake Thompson – Tyler Maschal Virginia Tech 3 3 6- 0
64 Charlie Sipe – Ethan Howell Appalachian State University 3 3 5- 0
65 Kain Fadeley – Sid Hoover Ohio State University 4 4 4- 9
66 Branden Newcome – Michael Shughart West Virginia University 2 2 4- 2
67 Christian Chavez – Western Carolina University 2 2 3- 9
68 Joe Mullins – David Maples Virginia Tech 2 2 3- 6
69 Qiurun Chen – Johns Hopkins University 2 2 3- 4
70 Andre Vicari – Ryan Worth Ramapo College 2 2 2-15
71 Ryan Rainey – Austin Frazier UNC Greensboro 2 2 2-12
72 Shawn Combs – Hans Mikellsoo Georgetown College 2 2 2- 8
73 Lee Blackmon – Trey Sweeting UNC Greensboro 0 0 0- 0
73 Matthew Combs – West Virginia University 0 0 0- 0
73 Kevin Deley – Tommy Arena West Chester University of PA 0 0 0- 0
73 Ian Hardesty – Milton Sheesley Virginia Tech 0 0 0- 0
73 Elliott Roberson – William Adams Virginia Tech 0 0 0- 0
73 RC Sutton – Andrew Davis Virginia Tech 0 0 0- 0
Name City,State Lbs-Oz
BIG BASS
Day
1 Jay Emmert – Logan BrewsterKnoxville, TN 7- 8
2 Mack Hicks – Aaron Creech London, KY 7- 5
Day # Live Lbs-Oz # Limits
TOTALS
# Fish
1 284 284 637-13 43
2 222 221 495-15 26
3 91 91 221- 6 15

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON LAKE GUNTERSVILLE

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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON LAKE GUNTERSVILLE

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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (May 21, 2016) – The University of North Alabama duo of Lake Blasingame of Killen, Alabama, and Triston Crowder of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, won the FLW College Fishing Southeastern Conference tournament on Lake Guntersville Saturday with five bass weighing 27 pounds, 6 ounces. The victory earned the club $2,000 and qualified the team for the 2017 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

“We had a pretty slow morning, but we found a school that was ready to eat and we got them fired up,” said Blasingame, a freshman. “Right around 11 a.m. we found them eating on a ledge and we must have caught around 40 fish. We cleaned up.”

“The key for us ended up being leaving fish that weren’t interested in eating,” said Crowder, a freshman majoring in business and marketing. “We found quite a few schools, but they just weren’t firing and we kept leaving them and moving to the next one. The school where we caught our fish wasn’t the biggest, but the fish were ready to eat.”

The duo said they caught an estimated 50 to 60 bass throughout the day, but the hour-long flurry at 11 a.m. was the highlight. They said they threw just two baits throughout the day – a ¾-ounce green-pumpkin Johnston’s Lures football-head jig with a Strike King Rage Craw and a 99 Problems-colored True Bass Big Head 7.5 swimbait.

“We would get the school fired up on the jig and then follow it up with the swimbait,” Blasingame said. “The fish were about 15 feet deep. We put our Lowrance graphs to work this week and had quite a few schools marked, but this one was the only one that fired for us.”

“Lake and I work very well together and fish great as a team,” Crowder said. “We are always encouraging each other and we never complain, even when fishing is tough. Today was just an awesome day to be on the water.”

The top 10 teams that advanced to the 2017 College Fishing National Championship are:

1^st: University of North Alabama – Lake Blasingame, Killen, Ala., and Triston Crowder, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., five bass, 27-6, $2,000

2^nd: Columbus State University – Michael Chambliss, Cataula, Ga., and Turner Carlisle, Fortson, Ga., five bass, 22-11, $1,000

3^rd: Mississippi State University – Joseph Marty, Starkville, Miss., and Kyle Alford, Brandon, Miss., five bass, 22-10, $500

4^th: University of North Alabama – Hunter Haney, Town Creek, Ala., and Andrew Tate, Florence, Ala., five bass, 22-4, $500

4^th: University of South Carolina – Shawn Callahan and Tom Brewbaker, both of Columbia, S.C., five bass, 22-4, $500

6^th: Middle Georgia State College – Spencer Sato, Warner Robins, Ga., and Mark Denney, Bonaire, Ga., five bass, 21-13

7^th: Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College – Taylor Thompson, Kennesaw, Ga., and Blake Yarbrough, Fitzgerald, Ga., five bass, 21-8

8^th: University of South Carolina – Patrick Walters, Summerville, S.C., and Gettys Brannon, Gaffney, S.C., five bass, 21-4

9^th: University of Alabama-Birmingham – Jacob Burns, Morris, Ala., and Chris Hiott, Trussville, Ala., five bass, 20-15

10^th: Auburn University – Mitchell Jennings, Auburn, Ala., and Christopher Knight, Jr., Sylacauga, Ala., five bass, 20-13

Complete results will be posted at FLWFishing.com.

This FLW College Fishing Southeastern Conference event was hosted by the Marshall County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and was the second of three regular-season qualifying tournament in the Southeastern conference. The next event for Southeastern Conference anglers will be held September 24 at Lake Chickamauga in Dayton, Tennessee.

FLW College Fishing teams compete in regular-season qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top ten teams from each division’s three regular-season tournaments and the top 15 teams from the annual FLW College Fishing Open will advance to the 2017 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

College Fishing is free to enter. All participants must be registered, full-time students at a college, university or community college and members of a college fishing club.

For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow College Fishing on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing. Visit CollegeFishing.com to sign up or to start a club at your school.

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3rd Place Jerry Elder & John Bomar with five fish weighing 16.06lbs.

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2nd Place Tim Goff & Larry Witt with five fish weighing 16.14lbs.

3rd Place Jerry Elder & John Bomar with five fish weighing 16.06lbs.

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2nd Place Tim Goff & Larry Witt with five fish weighing 16.14lbs.

3rd Place Jerry Elder & John Bomar with five fish weighing 16.06lbs.

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3rd Place Jerry Elder & John Bomar with five fish weighing 16.06lbs.

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