ROSELLE WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE SHENANDOAH DIVISION EVENT ON POTOMAC RIVER
ROSELLE WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE SHENANDOAH DIVISION EVENT ON POTOMAC RIVER
Forrest & Rachel Yoder Win HillCity Bassmasters event on Banister Lake May 16th 2015
We had a great day out on the water with the waether in the mid 90’s this fishing was slow and deep. But we had one team bring in a great sack of fish. The team oh Forrest & Rachel Yoder with 4 fish weighing 8.9 lbs.
2nd Place Kent Mills & Zane cooper with 2 Fish Weighing 3.9lbs

3rd Place Chris Kimbrough & Brian Carter with 1 fish weighing 1.5lbs

4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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2nd Place Kent Mills & Zane cooper with 2 Fish Weighing 3.9lbs

3rd Place Chris Kimbrough & Brian Carter with 1 fish weighing 1.5lbs

4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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3rd Place Chris Kimbrough & Brian Carter with 1 fish weighing 1.5lbs

4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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3rd Place Chris Kimbrough & Brian Carter with 1 fish weighing 1.5lbs

4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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4th Place Jacob Stephens & Justin Doss with 1 fish weighing 1.3lbs
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THRIFT WINS WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
THRIFT WINS WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
Shelby Pro Beats 149 Anglers, Wins $125,000 in Nationally Televised Event
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Illinois Team Earns High School Midwestern Title, Advances To National Championship
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May 17, 2015
Illinois Team Earns High School Midwestern Title, Advances To National Championship
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Zach Hingson and Tyler Benedict had only fished Lake Springfield one time prior to Sunday’s Costa Bassmaster High School Midwestern Open presented by TNT Fireworks.
So when they had a good five-fish limit just 35 minutes after takeoff, they were thrilled.
Maybe a little too thrilled.
With the anglers losing focus in all of the excitement, their boat captain Alan Hingson called one of the eight timeouts allotted by B.A.S.S. rules to calm them down. From there, the team members from Illinois’ Arthur Levington Atwood Hammond High School culled their way up to 18 pounds, 8 ounces and walked away with the victory.
Dailus Richardson and Trevor McKinney of Benton High School in Illinois placed second with 14-11 on a day when wind gusts reached 32 miles per hour.
“When they had a limit in just 35 or 40 minutes, I think they were shell-shocked a little bit,” Alan Hingson said. “They were almost wrapping fish up in the trolling motor and just going crazy. I called timeout and told them to put their rods down for a minute to settle down.”
Just a few minutes after the timeout, Hingson and Benedict caught one of their largest fish, a largemouth that weighed 4-2. Their bag also included a 5-2 that tied Richardson and McKinney for big fish of the tournament.
Hingson and Benedict said it was one of those days when everything just seemed to work right.
“It didn’t seem to matter what we used,” Zach Hingson said. “We caught them on a little bit of everything.”
Benedict listed a long line of baits that produced fish.
“Crankbaits, Chatterbaits, Carolina rigs, beavers — a little bit of everything,” he said. “We caught fish on everything we threw.”
All three participants had a feeling a win was meant to be when Benedict made his first cast with a Carolina Rig.
His reel backlashed, and the bait only traveled about 20 feet. But when he cleared the backlash and lifted his rod tip, he had a fish on his line.
“That’s when I knew somebody was looking out for us,” Benedict said. “That’s the kind of good luck we had today.”
The team’s catch of 18-8 was three pounds heavier than the winning weight of a tournament filled with adult anglers on Lake Springfield Saturday. It was enough to help them easily past a solid field that brought plenty of fish to the scales.
Of the 34 boats in the event, 33 weighed in at least one fish. The Top 10 teams all had at least 10-3, and the Top 5 had 12-9 or better.
Richardson and McKinney came in a distant second with 14-11. They said their catch, which was anchored by a 5-2 largemouth, came mostly by way of flipping a beaver.
Luke Jasper and Tommy Rimbo of Illinois’ Lemont High School placed third with 13-9. They used jigs and Texas rigged plastics to catch their fish.
The Top 3 teams earned berths into the Costa Bassmaster High School National Championship presented by TNT Fireworks. The tournament is scheduled for July 22-25 on Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tenn.
“I’ve never been to Kentucky Lake,” Zach Hingson said. “But I’m looking forward to see it. I can’t wait to get there.”
At every event on this year’s Costa Bassmaster High School Series, an act of courage, courtesy or sportsmanship is recognized as the “Costa Moment.” The honor for this event went to Anthony Fazio and Grant Olsen of Illinois’ Minooka Anglers Club for towing fellow tournament anglers Sean Cook and Tommy Zobel of Joliet Central High School back to the weigh-in site.
“We ran out of juice,” Zobel said. “Our trolling motor battery and our cranking battery were both dead, and they took their last 20 minutes of fishing time to bring us in. It was pretty cool of them.”
5/17/2015 – 5/17/2015
Lake Springfield – Lindsay Bridge Ramp – Springfield, IL
STANDINGS BOATER DAY 1
# Fish Lbs – Oz
Accumulative
Name # Live # Fish # Live Lbs – Oz
1 Zach Hingson – Tyler Benedict Arthur Levington Atwood Hammond 5 5 18- 8 5 5 18- 8
2 Dailus Richardson – Trevor McKinney Benton High School 5 5 14-11 5 5 14-11
3 Luke Jasper – Tommy Rimbo Lemont High School 5 5 13- 9 5 5 13- 9
4 Blake Albertson – Dylan White Southside Anglers 5 5 12-14 5 5 12-14
5 Joey Gorham – Logan Earlywine Martinsville Artesians 5 5 12- 9 5 5 12- 9
6 Anthony Fazio – Grant Olsen Minooka Anglers Club 5 5 11-12 5 5 11-12
6 Matt Runge – Alex Peric A.M. Enterprise 5 5 11-12 5 5 11-12
8 Sean Cook – Tommy Zobel Joliet Central High School 5 5 10-12 5 5 10-12
9 Joshua O’Donnell – Ethan Goldstein Fishing Fanatics 5 5 10- 9 5 5 10- 9
10 Caleb Peck – Mitchell Bernius Arthur Levington Atwood Hammond 5 5 10- 3 5 5 10- 3
11 Ethan Shaw – Brayden Zagel NHE Strykers 5 5 9-12 5 5 9-12
12 Matt Brown – Marcus Davis Corbin High School 5 5 9- 3 5 5 9- 3
13 John VanDevender – Henry Moore Benet Academy 5 5 8-14 5 5 8-14
14 Andrew Flair – Ethan Mally Omaha Bass Assassins 5 5 8- 8 5 5 8- 8
15 Jack Lawless – Nick Mishos West Auroria High School 5 5 8- 5 5 5 8- 5
16 Tate BlackKetter – Jacob Coryea Southside Anglers 4 4 7- 9 4 4 7- 9
16 Tyler Lubbat – Hunter Lubbat Buffalo Grove Bass Fishing 4 4 7- 9 4 4 7- 9
18 George Schaffer – Jarid Tomnitz A.M. Enterprise 5 5 7- 8 5 5 7- 8
19 Jordan Mullis – Tyler Moscrip Southside Anglers 5 5 7- 7 5 5 7- 7
20 Tanner Ward – Justin DeMoss Coshocton Bass Club 4 4 7- 6 4 4 7- 6
21 Tyler Nelson – Bruno Siegel Batavia High School 5 5 7- 4 5 5 7- 4
22 Michael Hannon – Nolan Feeney A.M. Enterprise 4 4 6-15 4 4 6-15
23 Adam Puckett – Keaton Greenawald Bloomington High School North 4 4 6- 7 4 4 6- 7
24 AJ Wojtowicz – Brent Beckwith Minooka Anglers Club 5 5 6- 5 5 5 6- 5
25 Alex Ellerbrock – Steve Hall Aurora Christian Eagles 3 3 6- 5 3 3 6- 5
26 Nick Denham – Clay Evans Jefferson County High School 5 4 6- 2 5 4 6- 2
27 Jon Hoekstra – Gary Langkamp A.M. Enterprise 5 5 5-15 5 5 5-15
28 Jacob Doster – Zachary Petersen Minooka Anglers Club 4 4 5-14 4 4 5-14
29 Graeme Stewart – Jon Bialeschki Arthur Levington Atwood Hammond 4 4 5- 5 4 4 5- 5
30 Chase Mundhenke – Patrick Rotherham Chatham Glenwood 2 2 3- 9 2 2 3- 9
31 Lane Eubank – Casey Williams Western School Corp 2 2 3- 4 2 2 3- 4
32 Steven Callahan – Daniel Lin Marmion Academy 2 2 2-10 2 2 2-10
33 Wally Bloomer – Hunter Litchfield Macomb High School 1 1 1-13 1 1 1-13
34 Cody Warren – Sandiwch High School 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0- 0
Name City,State Lbs-Oz
BIG BASS
Day
1 Dailus Richardson – Trevor MBceKnintonne,y IL 5- 2
1 Zach Hingson – Tyler BenediActtwood, IL 5- 2
Day # Live Lbs-Oz # Limits
TOTALS
# Fish
MORROW RETAINS LEAD AT WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
MORROW RETAINS LEAD AT WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
2010 BFL All-American Champion Hopes To Fend Off Hard-Charging Bryan Thrift
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New Species Data Added to Fishidy – Fishidy.com
We’re on a roll this week folks! We just released a new set of species centered updates to the Fishidy website, with the mobile app to follow in the next week!
- Newly designed “My Fishidy” items for easier eye scanning
- Pop-up species info with descriptions, images and common names to help you identify and learn more about the fish in your area
- New species tab added to waterway pages with fully interactive list of species on a particular waterway
- Species autocomplete added to the catch form – no more typing the full species name to add your catch!
Login to your Fishidy account now to see these updates and let us know what you think in the comments below!
MORROW TAKES LEAD AT WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
Humminbird® Pro Aaron Martens Steals Cliff’s Perch On Blackbird Pattern
Humminbird® Pro Aaron Martens
Steals Cliff’s Perch On Blackbird Pattern
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EUFAULA, AL (May 14, 2015) – Bass Elite pro Aaron Martens is one happy man after breaking a seemingly unending streak of second place finishes. Even better that it happened on Mother’s Day with mom at his side during the final day weigh-in.
“I told my wife Lesley, ‘I’ll need 13 second places before I get another first place – and that is exactly what happened. All I have to say is it’s fun to win again,’” says Martens.
Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.
Prior to this recent win at the Bassmaster Elite on Lake Havasu, it had been three years since Martens took first, the last at Illinois’ Lake Decatur in 2012. Since, he’s finished second 13 times, most recently on the Sacramento River.
It’s not really superstitious, just something I felt in my gut. Now I have to offset all those second places with firsts!”
What’s even cooler is how Martens won the tournament, showing what a fantastically well-rounded angler Martens really is.
Although known as a finesse fishing guru, a guy who knows light line, dainty baits and fishing electronics inside out, Martens is also a student of the natural world – and bass fishing history.
Case in point, a tournament-winning pattern that harkens back decades to a time when fishing magazine cover art routinely featured leaping bass smashing feathers amidst bulrushes and cattails. And when lure companies marketed hard baits that mimicked birds, specifically the red- and yellow-winged blackbirds that make their homes in bassy waters.
Fast-forward to 2015: Aaron Martens steals Cliff’s perch on a blackbird pattern.
Photo by TJ DeVoe
“I’ve known about the blackbird thing since I was a kid. It’s helped me in tournaments on the Delta, some smaller California lakes and now, Havasu. But it happens all over the country. Bass attack birds like sharks when they drop in the water. It can be pretty easy. And I’m pretty sure they’ll jump out of the water to eat birds, too,” says Martens
But Martens says he wasn’t necessarily matching the hatch, although he had fish spit up feathers in his livewell. “They were eating birds, crawdads, anything they could get their mouths on.”
He alternated between a ½- and ¾-ounce weight with a 4/0 Heavy Cover Gamakatsu hook with a green pumpkin skirt and either a Strike King Rage Craw or Zoom Speed Craw, flipping areas of the thick tule-lined banks of the Colorado River inhabited by blackbirds.
Although he found most of his fish by simply watching for the presence of birds, he also glanced down at the ‘birds on his boat – specifically, ONIX 10ci SI units.
“I used the ONIX Side Imaging to run the reed lines and look for fish, although the majority were way back in the thick stuff. But I also used SI to find the best manmade habitat in the lake. I also weighed three fish caught deeper off habitat,” says Martens
Martens has been running two Humminbird ONIX 10ci SI units this season and calls the imagery “stunning.”
“What I really like best about ONIX is the imagery … the incredible detail of both the Side- and Down Imaging. Both are fantastic tools for finding structure and fish, shallow or deep. Even really shallow. I can find cover and fish with Side Imaging in two feet of water.”
He continues: “I use Side Imaging a lot … it’s the best tool I have. It’s like my eyes underwater. The ONIX SI draws a really true image, shows a lot of detail; really clear.”
Martens says running Side Imaging is a huge part of his pre-fishing program anywhere in the country.
“First thing I do is set the color palette to blue, which I can see the best. Then I idle around with the range set to 100-150 feet. If I’m fishing shallow I may bring it in a little bit, but the detail is so good that I can cover water faster, looking for cover and fish with the range set pretty far out.”
Martens is also optimistic about tournaments later in the year that will put him back on deep water.
“The new ONIX transducer changes everything about Humminbird Down Imaging. It’s so clear now you can see the heads and tails of fish.”
Martens has been using the new version 2.300 software, which he says has improved ONIX functionality.
“I’m always using a combination of touch screen and buttons. And the new updates have made operation much easier. Like zooming in quick on the map with the track wheel. It’s also made it much easier to turn off the sonar when I’m fishing. That’s one thing I do in super-clear waters like Havasu. If fish are spooky, I turn the pinging off. I don’t want any extra noise in the water.”
Martens is already strategizing for upcoming events on Lake Fork and Kentucky Lake. “I really think Humminbird 360 could come into play at these events. I’m also excited to play around with Humminbird SmartStrike and the new maps at some of the upcoming tournaments.”
Photo by TJ DeVoe
DAVIS LEADS DAY ONE OF WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
DAVIS LEADS DAY ONE OF WALMART FLW TOUR ON LAKE EUFAULA PRESENTED BY QUAKER STATE
Texan Honeycutt Leads Co-Anglers
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Keith Deal & Ricky Kenworthy Win Piedmont Bass Classic $10,000 Spring Team Bass Trail Qualifier #6 May 9th 2015
PIEDMONT BASS CLASSICS $10,000 SPRING TEAM BASS TRAIL QUALIFIER #6 RESULTS
Saturday May 9th, 2015 ~ Jordan Lake ~ Farrington Point Wildlife Ramp
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Even with the threat of high winds and rain, 67 teams came to fish the PBC Qualifer #6 at Jordan Lake. Temps in the am were around 67 and up to about 74 in the afternoon. The wind today was 5 to 10 in the am with some steady
15 to 20 mph winds the rest of the time. Water temps were anywhere from 71 to 79 depending on where they fished. Most of the teams said the bite was pretty shallow and most were targeting grassy areas in 2 to 4 feet.
Keith Deal & Ricky Kenworthy won their 1st ever PBC big trail event (and they’ve been trying for a long time) with 5 bass weighing 22.50 lbs. and took home $1,286 for 1st, $924 for 1st Place big fish (7.00 lbs.) & $945 for the 1st place TWT for a total of $3,155! Deal also won the Tow Boats US Member Bonus worth $50. Bubba Haywood & Steve Goodwin took 2nd Place and 2nd TWT with 22.07 lbs. and took home a total of $1,209. 2nd Place big fish (6.55 lbs.) worth $396 was won by the team of Dwight & Scott Hall. 241 fish were weighed in for a total of 698 pounds for an average of 2.90 lbs. each. The bite was fairly good with most all of the teams catching some bass. Most of the fish were caught on plastics, jig combos and spinnerbaits. The hot bait for they day seemed to be jigs.
I want to thank all the anglers that participated and all our sponsors that support this trail. Coming up May 16th will be the final Cashion Fishing Rods Spring Team Bass Mini Trail Q#5 also at Jordan Lake. The final $10,000 Piedmont Bass Classics Spring Team Trail Q#7 will be at Falls Lake on May 30th.
All the information on our tournaments can be found http://piedmontbassclassics.com/
Now here are the full results:
1st Place: Keith Deal & Ricky Kenworthy of Holly Springs & Cary…5 bass…22.50 lbs…$1,286
2nd Place: Bubba Haywood & Steve Goodwin of Roxboro & Durham…5 bass…22.07 lbs…$804
3rd Place: Chad Craven & Ben Cannon of Willow Springs & Apex…5 bass…20.99 lbs…$536
4th Place: Tony Fofi & Dave Murdock of Spring Lake & Sanford…5 bass…20.59 lbs…$482
5th Place: Johnny Wilder & Mike Harris of Butner & Oxford…5 bass…19.82 lbs…$429
6th Place: Jason Suggs & Britton O’Quinn of Fayetteville & Linden…5 bass…17.29 lbs…$375
7th Place: Randy Fisher & Donnie Lowe of Hillsborough & Mebane…5 bass…16.77 lbs…$322
8th Place: Erik Ross & Les Walters of Fayetteville…4 bass…16.63 lbs…$268
9th Place: Terry Collins & Jeff Poindexter of Sanford…5 bass…16.59 lbs…$241
10th Place: Chad Emory & Aaron Rockwell of Durham & Raleigh…5 bass…16.43 lbs…$215
11th Place: Bryce McClenney & Holden McClenney (sub) of Fuquay Varina & Cary…5 bass…15.94 lbs…$147-Tie
11th Place: Brandon Sykes of Apex…5 bass…15.94 lbs…$147-Tie
13th Place: Tim Penhollow & Greg Cima of Mebane & Raleigh…5 bass…15.58 lbs…$108
1st Place Big Fish..1st Place Team above…7.00 lbs…$924
2nd Place Big Fish..Dwight & Scott Hall of Fayetteville & Fuquay Varina…6.55 lbs…$396
1st Place TWT..1st Place Team above…22.50 lbs…$945
2nd Place TWT..2nd Place Team above: 22.07 lbs…$405
Tow Boats US Award: Keith Deal of Holly Springs : $50

