POTEAT WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE SHENANDOAH DIVISION EVENT ON KERR LAKE

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Chad Poteat of Mount Airy, North Carolina, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 17 pounds, 13 ounces Saturday to win the Shenandoah Division tournament on Kerr Lake and a check for $5,889. (FLW)

POTEAT WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE SHENANDOAH DIVISION EVENT ON KERR LAKE

Lipari wins co-angler title

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HENDERSON, N.C. (April 27, 2015) – Chad Poteat of Mount Airy, North Carolina, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 17 pounds, 13 ounces Saturday to win the second Walmart Bass Fishing League Shenandoah Division tournament of 2015 on Kerr Lake. For his victory, Poteat earned $5,889.

“It feels awesome to win this tournament,” Poteat said. “To go out there and excel in a sport I love is truly a blessing.”

Poteat said that he flipped a green-pumpkin Zoom Brush Hog into button bushes for about 2½ hours before catching his first five-bass limit.

“I probably caught 10 or 11 keepers total,” said Poteat. “There’s always a full spawn in those bushes.”

Poteat switched his strategy in the afternoon as clouds and rain rolled into the area.

“The wind picked up so I began targeting main-lake points near Nutbush Creek with a white-colored Lunker Lure Hawg Caller spinnerbait,” said Poteat. “I was fortunate enough to bring in three more good ones.

“You have to fish the conditions,” continued Poteat. “Changing up my approach to the fish was key for me. I decided to fish the wind and it produced some notable weights.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1^st: Chad Poteat, Mount Airy, N.C., five bass, 17-13, $3,889 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus

2^nd: Wally Szuba, Cary, N.C., five bass, 17-10, $1,944

3^rd: Mike Miller, Trinity, N.C., five bass, 17-7, $1,297

4^th: Shane Burns, Durham, N.C., five bass, 17-2, $907

5^th: Josh Wagy, Dewitt, Va., five bass, 15-12, $778

6^th: Flash Butts, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., five bass, 15-10, $680

6^th: Steve Wagner, New Kent, Va., five bass, 15-10, $680

8^th: Dennis Burdette, Lindside, W.Va., five bass, 14-15, $583

9^th: Shawn Hammack, Gasburg, Va., five bass, 14-11, $519

10^th: Kendall Dail, Chinquapin, N.C., five bass, 14-8, $454

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

John Cary of Ruther Glen, Virginia, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the pro division, a fish weighing 5 pounds, 5 ounce and earned the day’s Big Bass award of $525.

Dave Lipari of Valley Cottage, New York, weighed in a five-bass limit totaling 12 pounds, 7 ounces Saturday to win $1,944 in the co-angler division.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1^st: Dave Lipari, Valley Cottage, N.Y., five bass, 12-7, $1,944

2^nd: Greg Ravitsky, Ashburn, Va., five bass, 12-1, $972

3^rd: Sergio Render, Christiansburg, Va., five bass, 11-13, $649

4^th: Andre Wynn, Windsor Mill, Md., five bass, 11-12, $454

5^th: Safulla Rana, Warrenton, Va., five bass, 11-11, $389

6^th: Nick Disabatino, Bristow, Va., five bass, 11-0, $356

7^th: Edward Honaker, Richmond, Va., five bass, 10-12, $324

8^th: David Everhart, Kearneysville, W. Va., three bass, 10-9, $292

9^th: Kevin Fore, Powhatan, Va., four bass, 10-4, $259

10^th: Lawrence Aucoin, Durham, N.C., five bass, 9-11, $215

10^th: Jerry Comperatore, Tarentum, Pa., three bass, 9-11, $215

Everhart caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the co-angler division and earned the day’s Big Bass award of $262.

The top 50 boaters and 50 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 15-17 Regional Championship on Lake Wateree in Camden, South Carolina. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.

The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 50 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and compete to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the Walmart BFL All-American. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the Rayovac FLW Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.

Qualifiers Chosen For Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Teams

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Qualifiers Chosen For Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Teams

High School students from around the country have been selected as this year’s Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Team based on tournament history, academics and conservation awareness.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — High school students excelling in angling, academics and conservation awareness are among dozens of young anglers chosen for the 2015 Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Team.

Interest in the team is influenced by exceptionally strong growth in the B.A.S.S. High School Nation.

“These qualifiers are helping shape the future of the sport, one high school at a time,” said Hank Weldon, manager for the B.A.S.S. High School program. “We are excited to showcase the academic and all-around attributes of our high school members through this new initiative.”

To be considered for inclusion on the Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Team, a student was nominated by a parent, coach, teacher or other school official. Students currently enrolled in grades 10-12 with a current-year grade point average of 2.5 or higher are eligible.

B.A.S.S. received more than 200 nominations from across the nation. From these, judges selected 57 anglers from 33 states to make the All-State Fishing Team.

Now, a second panel of judges is further narrowing the field to create the first Bassmaster High School All-American Fishing Team. The 12 All-Americans will be selected from the All-State team members . Criteria include success in high school fishing tournaments and involvement in conservation efforts and other community service activities.

The final team of 12 members will compete in a one-day Bassmaster All-American High School Bass Tournament held during the 2015 BASSfest event, a fan-favorite festival that is one of nine Bassmaster Elite Series bass tournaments underway this year.

Elite Series anglers will serve as “coaches” for the student anglers in the June 6 tournament on Lake Barkley, Tennessee. The high school standouts will be honored on the main BASSfest stage at the weigh-in. All will be profiled in Bassmaster Magazine, read monthly by 3.2 million people, as well as on Bassmaster.com.

Below is the list of the 57 All-State anglers, in order by state:

Zeke Gossett, Alabama
Laura Ann Foshee, Alabama
Reese Jones, Arkansas
Warren Basinger, Arkansas
Julius Mazy, Arizona
Mateo Gomez, California
Louie Marques, California
Josh Villa, Colorado
Ryan Wood, Colorado
Kyle Tomlinson, Florida
Conner Giella, Georgia
Jake Mims, Georgia
Hunter Reifschneider, Iowa
Austin Eiben, Iowa
Nathan Doty, Illinois
John Neubauer, Illinois
Remington Wagner, Kansas
Cameron Pappan, Kansas
Mason Shelton, Kentucky
Matt Brown, Kentucky
Spencer Lambert, Louisiana
Wesley Holt, Louisiana
Michael Duarte, Maryland
Joseph McClosky, Maryland
Nick Montilino, Minnesota
Matt Stearns, Minnesota
Joe Grafeman, Missouri
Kaleb Lewis, Missouri
Quincy Grupenhoff, Montana
Austin Johnson, Montana
Ty Cox, Mississippi
Kameron Johnson, Mississippi
Kannon Baker, North Carolina
Cole Leutkenhaus, Nebraska
Cameron Sterritt, New Hampshire
Tyler Spiers, New Hampshire
Michael Arndt, New York
Julian Sosa-Carver, New Mexico
Trevor Yates, Oklahoma
Nick Osman, Pennsylvania
Garrett Enders, Pennsylvania
Christopher Bensel, South Carolina
Carter McNeil, South Carolina
Adam Hutmacher, South Dakota
Jake Lee, Tennessee
Trevor St. John, Tennessee
Dillon Harrell, Texas
Jared Penton, Texas
Tyler Rollman, Utah
Connor Burn, Utah
James Graves III, Virginia
Dylan Berry, Virginia
Max Bellinghiri, Vermont
Rudd Rexford, Vermont
Brodie Trapp, Washington
Noah Caldwell, West Virginia
Zachary Horrocks, West Virginia

College Series Heading To Wisconsin For National Championship

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College Series Heading To Wisconsin For National Championship

The 2014 champions Andrew Helms (left) and Jake Whitaker of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte will defend their title at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops July 9-11, on Lake DuBay out of Stevens Point, Wis.

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College Series Heading To Wisconsin For National Championship

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Some of the nation’s best smallmouth fishing is on tap for collegiate anglers competing in the 2015 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops.

The championship is July 9-11 at Lake DuBay on the Wisconsin River. Event host is the Stevens Point Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

“We are excited to be the first Wisconsin location to host the national championship and to showcase the quality fishing within central Wisconsin to the participants and spectators,” said Sara Brish, executive director of the Stevens Point Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

“Our partnerships with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, UWSP Big Dawgs Fishing Club and the hospitality community will help us to roll out the red carpet for the upcoming event.”

The event continues a tradition for holding the event on midsize bass fisheries surrounded by tourism and outdoor opportunities for the college anglers and fans. The recreationally rich Stevens Point area and 6,830-acre Lake DuBay are conveniently located in central Wisconsin.

“With the size of the event and the awareness it receives, not only is it the premier championship in the college ranks, it is a premier event in the sport of bass fishing as a whole,” said Hank Weldon, Carhartt Bassmaster College Series tournament manager.

Teams qualify for the championship through a series of conference regional tournaments that began in January. The final qualifier is the Wild Card event, June 3-5. That tournament will take place on Lake Barkley in Tennessee.

Up to 90 teams are expected to compete. At the national championship, the entire field competes on the first two days. On the third day, the field is trimmed to the Top 5 teams catching the heaviest cumulative five-bass daily limits.

Following the championship round, members of the Top 4 teams compete individually in the Carhartt College Series Classic Bracket presented by Bass Pro Shops for three more days. The top college angler in the Classic bracket competition earns an invitation to compete with the world’s top professional bass anglers in the 2016 Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake near Tulsa, Okla.

Weldon expects the new fishery and host venue to attract a large audience, thanks in part to a Bassmaster Elite Series-style fishing expo in Stevens Point.

“We have broken attendance records the past two years in Young Harris, Ga., with close to 10,000 attendees over the course of the week,” Weldon noted. “Stevens Point has the potential to break those records once again.”

Takeoffs will be held at Tiki Beach Bar and Grill (1126 County Road DB, Mosinee, Wis.). Weigh-ins will be at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus at Colman Field (2100 Maria Dr., Stevens Point, Wis.).

The championship, like all Carhartt Bassmaster College Series events, will be aired on the ESPNU network.

Set the Hook! with Pat Rose – Apr 18, 2015 Featuring – Byron Velvick,Marty “the Party” Robinson & the Nature boy Paul Lee

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Posted on April 18, 2015 by Webdude Kaminski

Our guests this week were Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Byron Velvick, Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Marty “the Party” Robinson, and from Wrestle Jam 3 the Nature boy Paul Lee.

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AREY WINS BACK-TO-BACK AT WALMART FLW TOUR ON BEAVER LAKE PRESENTED BY RAYOVAC

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AREY WINS BACK-TO-BACK AT WALMART FLW TOUR ON BEAVER LAKE PRESENTED BY RAYOVAC

North Carolina Pro Bags Largest Stringer of Tourney on Final Day to Clinch Victory

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ROGERS, Ark. (April 26, 2015) – Quaker State pro Matt Arey has been crowned the new “Mr. Beaver Lake.” After winning this same event in 2014, the Shelby, North Carolina, native caught a five-bass limit Sunday weighing 17 pounds, 13 ounces – the largest stringer weighed in the four-day tournament – to win the Walmart FLW Tour at Beaver Lake presented by Rayovac. Arey’s four-day total of 20 bass weighing 55 pounds, 6 ounces earned him the top prize of $125,000.

Arey became the third angler to win multiple events at Beaver Lake in the 17 visits the Walmart FLW Tour has made to the White River impoundment, as FLW Tour pro Clark Wendlandt won there in 1999 and 2001 while former pro Andre Moore won in 2002 and 2005. Arey became the first to win in consecutive years.

“This is an incredible feeling,” said Arey, who has won $250,000 on Beaver Lake in just the past 379 days. “To win two years in a row here is just unthinkable. Experience is everything as a professional angler. The more I do this, the more comfortable and confident I am becoming.”

Arey displayed that confidence Sunday when he dramatically boated his largest fish of the day, an estimated five-pounder. As he casted out and retrieved his swimbait, he noticed the huge fish following his bait all the way to the boat. Out of line, Arey had no choice but to kneel low and drag his bait along the side of the boat. The big bass hit, and Arey immediately boat-swung the fish in a dramatic fashion.

“First, that normally doesn’t happen,” Arey said. “But, back in the day when I was a rookie, I would have stayed standing and just kept winding my bait and the fish would have went back under the dock. Instead, I was able to keep my composure, knelt down and got the fish to bite and in the boat. It’s experience. You just have to block everything else out and fish against the fish.”

Arey credited two key baits for the majority of his catch this week – a hand-poured homemade swimbait rigged on a 7/0 Gamakatsu EWG Monster hook and a wacky-rigged Lunkerhunt Lunker Stick.

“Each day I would start in Prairie Creek and work my way six to eight miles up the river,” Arey said. “On the third day I went all the way to the Rocky Branch and Van Hollow areas and caught some key bed fish that really saved my tournament.

“Momentum is huge in this sport, and I really hope that I can carry some of it over into our next event in two weeks on Lake Eufaula.”

The top 10 pros finished the tournament:

1^st: Quaker State pro Matt Arey, Shelby, N.C., 20 bass, 55-6

2^nd: Tracy Adams, Wilkesboro, N.C., 20 bass, 49-12

3^rd: Livingston Lures pro Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., 20 bass, 48-10

4^th: Rayovac pro Cody Meyer, Auburn, Calif., 20 bass, 48-10

5^th: Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., 20 bass, 46-13

6^th: John Cox, Debary, Fla., 18 bass, 46-4

7^th: Peter Thliveros, Saint Augustine, Fla., 20 bass, 44-8

8^th Livingston Lures pro Stetson Blaylock, Benton, Ark., 19 bass, 44-4

9^th: Vic Vatalaro, Kent, Ohio, 20 bass, 43-11

10^th: Mike Surman, Boca Raton, Fla., 20 bass, 43-7

A complete list of results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Overall there were 47 bass weighing 110 pounds, 3 ounces caught by pros Sunday. Eight professionals weighed in five-bass limits.

Luke Dunkin of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, won the co-angler division and $20,000 Friday with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 18 pounds, 2 ounces, followed by Todd Lee of Jasper, Alabama, who finished in second place for the second consecutive tournament with 10 bass weighing 17 pounds, 15 ounces worth $7,500.

In addition to casting for top awards of up to $125,000 cash in the pro division and up to $25,000 cash in the co-angler division, anglers are also competing for valuable points in hopes of qualifying for the 2015 Forrest Wood Cup, the world championship of bass fishing. The 2015 Forrest Wood Cup will be in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Aug. 20-23 on Lake Ouachita and is hosted by Visit Hot Springs. The Forrest Wood Cup Champion could win as much as $500,000 – professional bass-fishing’s richest prize.

Coverage of the Beaver Lake tournament will be broadcast in high-definition (HD) on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) October 12 from 7 p.m.-8 p.m. ET. when Season 20 of “FLW” returns this fall. The Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show airs on NBCSN, the Pursuit Channel and the World Fishing Network and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world.

The Walmart FLW Tour stop on Beaver Lake presented by Evinrude was hosted by the Rogers Convention & Visitors Bureau. It was the third of six regular-season events in the FLW Tour’s 2015 season. The fourth Walmart FLW Tour event of 2015 will be held at Lake Eufaula, May 14-17 in Eufaula, Alabama, and is presented by Quaker State. The event will be hosted by the Eufaula Barbour County Chamber of Commerce. Boats will launch from Lakepoint Resort State Park Marina in Eufaula. 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 us on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.

BANDYS HIGH SCHOOL WINS 2015 TBF/FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON GRAND LAKE

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BANDYS HIGH SCHOOL WINS 2015 TBF/FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON GRAND LAKE

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ROGERS, Ark. (April 26, 2015) – The duo of Kristopher Queen and Tyler Black of Bandys High School in Catawba, North Carolina, brought five bass to the Walmart FLW Tour scale Sunday weighing 17 pounds, 15 ounces, to win the 2015 FLW/TBF High School Fishing National Championship on Grand Lake. The win earned the team the title of National Champions and a $5,000 scholarship for each of the anglers to a school of their choosing.

“It’s unbelievable to have won this tournament,” said Queen, now a freshman at Bethel University who qualified as a senior while attending Bandys High School. “We won our state tournament and regional tournament last year, and then carried a little luck to the national championship.”

“We’ve worked hard for this all year and it paid off,” said Black, a junior at Bandys High.

The duo said they won the tournament by targeting docks in 4 to 8 feet of water using a green-pumpkin Yamamoto Senko Worm.

The top five teams on Grand Lake finished:

1^st: Kristopher Queen and Tyler Black, both of Bandys High School, Catawba, N.C., 10 bass, 35-1

2^nd: Trevor Yates, Little Axe High School, Norman, Okla., and Jacob Keenum, Meeker High School, Meeker, Okla. 10 bass, 30-11

3^rd: Jake Lee and Corey Brooks, both of Karns High School, Knoxville, Tenn., nine bass, 25-9

4^th: Zeke Gossett, Hazel Green High School, Hazel Green, Ala., and Ryan Shields, Pell City High School, Pell City, Ala., five bass, 16-3

5^th: Chase Myers, Central Arkansas Christian, North Little Rock, Ark., and Cole Swede, Cabot High School, Cabot, Ark., eight bass, 17-8

Rounding out the top 10 teams were:

6^th: Colorado Student Angler Federation – Josh Cundiff and Bradley Czosnyka, three bass, 7-13

7^th: New Jersey Student Angler Federation – Matt Christopulos and Kyle Hamack, three bass, 6-15

8^th: Kansas Student Angler Federation – Cameron Pappan and Dayne McNutt, two bass, 5-10

9^th: Michigan Student Angler Federation – Chase Serafin and Anthony Gilmore, one bass, 2-8

10^th: Tennessee Student Angler Federation – Saxton Long and Triston Crowder, zero bass, 0-0

Complete results will be posted at HighSchoolFishing.org.

The 2015 TBF/FLW High School Fishing National Championship was a two-person (team) event for students in grades 9-12. The top 10 percent from each TBF/FLW state championship field advanced to a High School Fishing conference championship tournament along with the top three teams from each of the seven TBF/FLW High School Fishing Opens held last season. The top 10 percent of each conference championship field then advanced to the High School Fishing National Championship, coinciding with the TBF National Championship on Grand Lake and the Walmart FLW Tour at Beaver Lake. The High School Fishing national champions 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 2015 High School Fishing World Finals, held on Pickwick Lake in Florence, Alabama, on July 8-11. At the 2014 World Finals more than $40,000 in scholarships and prizes were awarded. Visit HighSchoolFishing.org for details.

Rick Backer with his 6.33lb Bass Wins the 2015 Blue Ridge Bass Classic on SML – April 26th 2015

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Rick Backer with his 6.33lb Bass Wins the 2015 Blue Ridge Bass Classic on SML – April 26th 2015

What a great way to end the 2015 Blue Ridge Bass Classic event on SML with Birthday Boy Rick Baker taking home a brand new Nitro on this special day after a long and wet two days on Smith Mountain Lake. Rick finished the day catching the largest bass over a 2 day period weighing 6.33lbs out of hundreds of anglers that flooded to SML. Special thanks to the guys with Oakley for bringing this great event back to SML.

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Sundays Results

Sunday 8-9
Rank Angler Weight
1 SCOTT STILTNER 5.77
2 MARK EDWARDS 5.17
3 JAMES MILLER 4.86
4 RYAN BOGGS 4.77
5 CARSON REJZER 4.67
6 MAURICE OAKS 4.31
6 JARED WARD 4.31
8 KEITH KRAFFT 4.12
Sunday 9-10
Rank Angler Weight
1 CHARLES WHITMAN 5.70
2 GEOFF HILL 5.30
3 MARK CLINGINPEEL 5.16
4 ROXFORD GIBSON 5.11
5 DAVID TRUSLOW 5.00
6 DONNIE WYATT 4.71
7 JAMES MILLER 4.35
8 JIMMY LANGFORD 4.08
Sunday 10-11
Rank Angler Weight
1 BILLY GAYLE 5.77
2 JACOB PERKINS 5.73
3 LUKE NICHOLS 5.61
4 SHAWN CHUMLEY 4.80
5 TOM WHITMORE 4.74
6 BRAD JORDAN 4.41
7 PAUL MCDOWELL 4.40
8 CLAY ROSS 4.30
Sunday 11-12
Rank Angler Weight
1 LUKE NICHOLS 5.43
2 BROCK ANDERSON 5.04
3 ERIC CATLETT 4.99
4 LEONARD LAW 4.69
4 THOMAS DEWITT 4.69
6 JASON OBRYANT 4.47
7 PETER GARD 4.34
8 TIM GOFF 4.23
Sunday 12-1
Rank Angler Weight
1 RICK BAKER 6.33
2 JAY NICELY 5.72
3 BRAD JORDAN 5.62
4 RANDY MITCHELL 5.53
5 ALLEN BURNS 4.82
6 JODY BELCHER 4.73
7 MICHAEL ALDHIZER 4.68
8 BILLY ORR 4.42
Sunday 1-2
Rank Angler Weight
1 CHUCK CREGGER 6.21
2 PAUL NEWMAN 5.67
3 RANDY MITCHELL 5.46
4 ALLEN BURNS 5.34
5 DONALD SHEFFEY JR 4.85
6 RONNIE HALL 4.38
6 JAMES DICKENS 4.38
8 BOBBY COOK 4.37
Sunday 2-3
Rank Angler Weight
1 MICHAEL LECHLEIDNER 5.59
2 NATHAN WOOD 5.30
3 JOSH BAILEY 5.14
4 KEITH CONLEY 5.00
5 JOE YOUNG 4.65
6 MARK BRADSHAW 4.54
7 KEN THOMPSON 4.51
7 ZACH MAB
RY 4.51

Beaver Lake Day 4 Coverage

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Day 4 Takeoff Gallery –

7:00 a.m.: Cool, overcast conditions greet the field, and the bite is on in Prairie Creek

It’s about 54 degrees right now in Rogers, Ark., with overcast skies and a light wind. Apparently those are the perfect conditions to spark a good bite in Prairie Creek.

For those who don’t know, takeoff is in Prairie Creek, but the marina is situated a little bit closer than halfway to the mouth of the creek. There’s an off limits area around the marina. Anglers can either idle toward the mouth and run to the main lake or idle back and then run into the creek. Every year, the back of Prairie Creek is one of the most popular community holes on the lake.

This year has been no different. Today, Cody Meyer, Matt Arey, Bryan Thrift and Tracy Adams all went into Prairie Creek to start the morning. Thrift caught one on his first cast. Adams already has three, including one fish that he thinks weighs 3 1/4 pounds. Meyer has a 2-pounder in the boat.

Most years, a few of the top pros use Prairie Creek to get a few fish in the livewell before hunting bigger bites. It looks like that program is in play again right now.

GORDON WINS TBF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, $100,000 “LIVING THE DREAM” PACKAGE

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GORDON WINS TBF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, $100,000 “LIVING THE DREAM” PACKAGE

Gagner Claims Co-Angler Championship

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ROGERS, Ark. (April 25, 2015) – Shawn Gordon of Russellville, Arkansas, weighed a five-bass limit on the Walmart FLW Tour stage totaling 18 pounds, 10 ounces Saturday to win the TBF National Championship on Grand Lake with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 50 pounds, 2 ounces. For his victory, Gordon earned the $100,000 “Living The Dream” prize package and a new Ranger Z518 boat.

“All of the feelings are a lot to take in right now,” said Gordon. “This win means I can fish in the Forrest Wood Cup, which is really special.

“The first two days of the tournament I targeted shallow pockets of the lake. I also explored rocks as long as they weren’t too deep,” said Gordon. “I found a lot of fish firing along rocky points. I’d focus on those areas for about two hours and then make a run to another one of my four or five spots. After that I’d head down the lake and sight-fish to finish out the day.”

Gordon said he used an unnamed off-white-colored square-bill crankbait in the pockets and along the points, and switched to a green pumpkin-colored YUM Christie Craw for sight-fishing.

Gordon said he followed a similar pattern today, but wasn’t able to sight-fish due to the weather.

“I started in the same pockets and caught one on the crankbait, but ended up losing two. The wind was blowing like crazy where I was targeting so I couldn’t go sight-fishing. Instead I stuck to three flat points next to the creek channel where the bass were pulled up eating shad.”

Gordon said he caught around 23 keepers over the course of the three-day tournament.

“Since I wasn’t able to sight fish on the final day, the key for me was finding those fish along those three points,” Gordon said. “Luckily, they were right where I needed them to be.”

The top seven boaters on Grand Lake were:

1^st: Shawn Gordon, Russellville, Ark., 15 bass, 50-2, $100,000 Living the Dream package + Ranger Z518 Boat

2^nd: Sam Heckman, Fountain, Colo., 14 bass, 45-10, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

3^rd: Brian LaClair, Denton, Md., 15 bass, 40-9, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

4^th: Mark Lundgren, Cocoa, Fla., 12 bass, 36-14, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

5^th: Curtis Richardson, Belleville, Ontario, 13 bass, 34-0, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

6^th: Nicholas Smyers, Franksville, Wis., 11 bass, 27-4, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

7^th: Mark Maderos, Maple Valley, Wash., nine bass, 25-14, $1,500 + BFL All-American Package

Complete results will be posted at BassFederation.com.

Overall there were 25 bass weighing 70 pounds, 10 ounces caught by boaters Saturday. Three of the final seven boaters weighed in five-bass limits.

Gilbert Gagner of Highgate Springs, Vt., won the co-angler championship and “Living The Dream” co-angler prize package, with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 43 pounds, 4 ounces.

The top seven co-anglers on Grand Lake were:

1^st: Gilbert Gagner, Highgate Springs, Vt., 15 bass, 43-4, “Living The Dream” package + $2,500

2^nd: Wes Logan, Springville, Ala., 12 bass, 39-11, $750 + BFL All-American Package

3^rd: Phillip Duracz, Chesterton, Ind., 10 bass, 27-9, $750 + BFL All-American Package

4^th: Steven Wiseman, Bryans Road, Md., 10 bass, 23-4, $750 + BFL All-American Package

5^th: Johnny Babb, Holdenville, Okla., 10 bass, 23-3, $750 + BFL All-American Package

6^th: Will Treadwell, Buford, Ga., 10 bass, 22-11, $750 + BFL All-American Package

7^th: Brian Merlini, Maple Valley, Wash., eight bass, 19-14, $750 + BFL All-American Package

Overall there were 13 bass weighing 32 pounds, 14 ounces caught by co-anglers Saturday. Only one of the final seven co-anglers weighed in five-bass limits.

The winning boater received a $100,000 “Living the Dream” prize package which includes use of a wrapped Ranger boat powered by Evinrude as well as a tow vehicle, fully paid entry fees into the 2016 Walmart FLW Tour, a cash award, an automatic berth into the 2015 Walmart BFL All-American and the 2015 Forrest Wood Cup. First place on the co-anglers side is a “Living The Dream” prize package including paid entry fees into the FLW Rayovac series division of their choice, a cash award, and an automatic berth into the 2015 Walmart BFL All-American and the 2015 Forrest Wood Cup. Each of the seven Division Champions (boaters and co-anglers) will advance to the 2015 Walmart BFL All-American.

The 2015 TBF National Championship, hosted by the Grand Lake Association, is the ultimate dream goal for all TBF members. The boater and co-angler with the heaviest cumulative weight from all three days of competition will be crowned TBF National Champions. The tournament featured 48 Boaters and 48 Co-anglers, representing seven TBF divisions nationwide, who qualified through a series of TBF club, TBF state and TBF divisional championship series tournaments to compete in the TBF National Championship

Coverage of the TBF National Championship will be broadcast in high-definition (HD) on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) November 9 from 7 p.m.-8 p.m. ET. when Season 20 of “FLW” returns this fall. The Emmy-nominated “FLW” television show airs on NBCSN, the Pursuit Channel and the World Fishing Network and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world.

For complete details and updated information visit BassFederation.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the TBF on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheBassFederation and on Twitter at Twitter.com/BassFederation.

Bass Edge’s The Edge – Episode 206 – JT Kenney

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Bass Edge’s The Edge – Episode 206 – JT Kenney
April 15, 2015 at 1:00 AM
Bass Edge Radio presented by MegaWare KeelGuard welcomes 2015 FLW Tour Lake Toho Champion JT Kenney! This episodes discussion includes JT’s spawn and post spawn fishing tactics.

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