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Paul Mueller on Moving on to the Final Day @ 2015 Bassmaster Classic

Paul Gives the Bass Cast an indepth look at what it took for hime to make it to final Day of the 2015 Bassmaster Classic.


A Look back at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic with John Crews

Take a listen as John Gives the Bass Cast a look at how his week went at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic

Takahiro Omori Takes Lead On Day 2 Of The Bassmaster Classic

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GREENVILLE, S.C. — The final day of the 2015 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro on Lake Hartwell is shaping up to be a free-for-all with a handful of former Classic champions sitting atop the standings with the coveted trophy and $300,000 first-place prize well within their grasp.

Takahiro Omori, an Elite Series pro from Japan who now makes his home in Emory, Texas, caught five fish that weighed 16 pounds, 11 ounces Saturday and claimed the lead going into Sunday’s final round with a two-day total of 31-11.

The 2004 Classic winner holds a razor-thin lead over Elite Series pro Dean Rojas of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. (31-9); 2003 Classic winner Michael Iaconelli of Pittsgrove, N.J. (31-0); 2014 Classic winner Randy Howell of Springville, Ala. (30-11); and Casey Ashley of Donalds, S.C. (29-14).

Omori got off to a slow start Saturday. But with years of experience and one Classic title already under his belt, he didn’t panic and managed enough weight to jump from seventh into first.

Yesterday, we were like two hours late starting — and when I got to my first spot, I caught five fish just like that,” Omori said. “We started at normal time today. So when I get to my spot, it was too dark. I was thinking there were no fish left out here.

“So I just hung around and stuck with it, and I caught most of my fish by noon. I ended up catching about 10 keepers today.”

Though he wouldn’t say much about how he’s catching his fish, Omori said every bass he’s brought to the scales this week has come from one 200-yard stretch of water. He added that he’s familiarized himself with every inch of the area, and he plans to give it a major workout Sunday.

Omori said he wants to avoid getting too excited about a chance to win a second Classic. But at the same time, he admitted it’s not just another day of fishing.

“I just want to do my things right,” he said. “I don’t want to jerk a hook set too hard and break my line or get too excited and miss something because I was being too crazy. I just want to enjoy the moment and have another great day.”

Omori can’t afford many mistakes with an angler like Rojas trailing him by just 2 ounces heading into the final round. Rojas, the Day 1 leader with 21-2 Friday, managed just 10-7 Saturday, but remained squarely in contention for his first Classic title.

“I’m having the time of my life, and I feel like I’m doing everything right,” Rojas said. “I’ve caught every single fish that has bit this week. So I’m just going to go out and do the same things tomorrow that I’ve done the first two days. If it happens, it happens. That’s the way I always approach it.”

Rojas’ Friday catch was anchored by a 5-11 largemouth that took GoPro Big Bass honors for the day. His Saturday catch was missing that kicker.

“I didn’t get the big bite today that I was hoping for,” Rojas said. “But I’ve got another day to go out and try to find it again.”

Iaconelli dealt with a frustrating moment Friday when a fish he estimated at more than 3 pounds struck short on a jerkbait, preventing him from weighing in a five-bass limit. But he said the moment encouraged him just enough to make him go back to his shallow pattern Saturday — and that’s where the foundation came for the Saturday limit of 16-9 that lifted him into the Top 3.

“The first hour of each day — which was mostly shot on Friday because of the late start — I’m fishing what I call the ‘weapon bite,’” Iaconelli said. “I’m fishing the backs of drains and pockets where the bluebacks are coming back out. They’ve been back there all night. They come back out, and the bass ambush them.

“The problem is finding the pocket with the bait because it only happens if you see the bait and the birds. So I run three or four pockets real quick. I buzz in there five or 10 minutes. If I don’t see anything, I go to the next pocket.”

Iaconelli said he finally identified the right area Saturday morning when he saw a loon flying out of a pocket.

“I caught two in there on a jerkbait, a deep Shadow Rap,” Iaconelli said. “One was a 2-pounder and one was a 4-pounder. That was a great way to start. Because when I go out deep, my biggest issue is I’m getting very few bites.

“I’m literally hitting 50 or 60 places a day, and I know I’m going to get maybe 10 bites. So if you can get out there and already have two, three or four in your livewell, that’s big.”

Rain is likely for Sunday’s final round, and Iaconelli said that could actually help his early morning pattern. Instead of moving deep at 9 a.m., he said he might be able to extend the pattern as late as 10:30.

The Top 25 remaining anglers will launch at 7 a.m. Sunday from Green Pond Landing in Anderson, S.C. The public is encouraged to attend the takeoff with shuttles from the Anderson Regional Airport.

The championship weigh-in will be held at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C. Doors will open at 3 p.m. to B.A.S.S. Nation and Life Members and at 3:15 p.m. to the general public.

The local host for the 2015 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro are VisitGreenvileSC, Visit Anderson, Greenville County, Anderson County and the state of South Carolina.

2015 Bassmaster Classic Title Sponsor: GEICO

2015 Bassmaster Classic Presenting Sponsors: GoPro

2015 Bassmaster Classic Premier Sponsors: Toyota, Bass Pro Shops, Berkley, Evan Williams Bourbon, Humminbird, Mercury, Minn Kota, Nitro Boats, Skeeter Boats, Triton Boats, Yamaha

2015 GEICO Bassmaster Classic Presented By GoPro – Lake Hartwell 2/20-2/22
Greenville  SC.
(ANGLER) Standings Day 2
Angler                   Hometown              No./lbs-oz  Pts   Total $$$

1.  Takahiro Omori         Emory, TX               10  31-11    0
Day 1: 5   15-00     Day 2: 5   16-11
2.  Dean Rojas             Lake Havasu City, AZ    10  31-09    0
Day 1: 5   21-02     Day 2: 5   10-07
3.  Michael Iaconelli      Pitts Grove, NJ          9  31-00    0
Day 1: 4   14-07     Day 2: 5   16-09
4.  Randy Howell           Springville, AL         10  30-11    0
Day 1: 5   15-05     Day 2: 5   15-06
5.  Casey Ashley           Donalds, SC             10  29-14    0
Day 1: 5   15-03     Day 2: 5   14-11
6.  Brett Hite             Phoenix, AZ             10  29-07    0
Day 1: 5   15-07     Day 2: 5   14-00
7.  Coby Carden            Shelby, AL              10  29-00    0
Day 1: 5   09-03     Day 2: 5   19-13
8.  Paul Mueller           Naugatuck, CT           10  27-15    0
Day 1: 5   13-12     Day 2: 5   14-03
9.  Bobby Lane Jr.         Lakeland, FL             9  27-14    0
Day 1: 4   10-10     Day 2: 5   17-04
10. Skeet Reese            Auburn, CA               7  27-01    0
Day 1: 5   20-02     Day 2: 2   06-15
11. David Kilgore          Jasper, AL              10  26-11    0
Day 1: 5   14-01     Day 2: 5   12-10
12. Chris Lane             Guntersville, AL         9  26-01    0
Day 1: 5   14-00     Day 2: 4   12-01
13. Jacob Wheeler          Indianapolis, IN        10  25-08    0
Day 1: 5   12-10     Day 2: 5   12-14
14. Brandon Lester         Fayetteville, TN        10  25-06    0
Day 1: 5   11-00     Day 2: 5   14-06
15. Mike McClelland        Bella Vista, AR          9  25-06    0
Day 1: 5   12-02     Day 2: 4   13-04
16. Jared Lintner          Arroyo Grande, CA       10  25-03    0
Day 1: 5   10-09     Day 2: 5   14-10
17. Clifford Pirch         Payson, AZ               9  24-06    0
Day 1: 5   11-13     Day 2: 4   12-09
18. Justin Lucas           Guntersville, AL         8  24-02    0
Day 1: 3   08-04     Day 2: 5   15-14
19. Jacob Powroznik        Port Haywood, VA         9  24-02    0
Day 1: 4   09-02     Day 2: 5   15-00
20. Todd Faircloth         Jasper, TX              10  23-15    0
Day 1: 5   14-06     Day 2: 5   09-09
21. Jason Christie         Park Hill, OK            8  23-14    0
Day 1: 3   07-06     Day 2: 5   16-08
22. Ott DeFoe              Knoxville, TN           10  23-07    0
Day 1: 5   10-06     Day 2: 5   13-01
23. James Niggemeyer       Van, TX                  9  22-10    0
Day 1: 4   08-10     Day 2: 5   14-00
24. Keith Combs            Huntington, TX           7  22-06    0
Day 1: 5   18-08     Day 2: 2   03-14
25. Mark Davis             Mount Ida, AR           10  22-03    0
Day 1: 5   09-06     Day 2: 5   12-13
26. Greg Hackney           Gonzales, LA             7  21-14    0
Day 1: 4   14-15     Day 2: 3   06-15
27. Gerald Swindle         Warrior, AL             10  21-10    0
Day 1: 5   08-13     Day 2: 5   12-13
28. Bill Lowen             Brookville, IN           9  21-04    0
Day 1: 4   07-11     Day 2: 5   13-09
29. Randall Tharp          Port St. Joe, FL         6  20-11    0
Day 1: 2   04-08     Day 2: 4   16-03
30. Aaron Martens          Leeds, AL                8  20-11    0
Day 1: 3   07-09     Day 2: 5   13-02
31. Matt Herren            Ashville, AL             9  19-10    0
Day 1: 4   08-01     Day 2: 5   11-09
32. Edwin Evers            Talala, OK              10  19-04    0
Day 1: 5   07-04     Day 2: 5   12-00
33. John Crews Jr          Salem, VA                7  17-12    0
Day 1: 2   07-08     Day 2: 5   10-04
34. Cliff Prince           Palatka, FL              7  17-11    0
Day 1: 2   03-09     Day 2: 5   14-02
35. Cliff Pace             Petal, MS                7  16-14    0
Day 1: 2   04-05     Day 2: 5   12-09
36. Andy Young             Mound, MN                7  16-09    0
Day 1: 2   03-08     Day 2: 5   13-01
37. Brandon Gray           Bullock, NC              8  15-10    0
Day 1: 3   06-07     Day 2: 5   09-03
38. David Walker           Sevierville, TN          5  14-15    0
Day 1: 4   12-03     Day 2: 1   02-12
39. Scott Rook             Little Rock, AR          8  14-12    0
Day 1: 3   04-13     Day 2: 5   09-15
40. Stephen Browning       Hot Springs, AR          5  14-02    0
Day 1: 1   02-13     Day 2: 4   11-05
41. Chad Pipkens           Holt, MI                 6  13-14    0
Day 1: 3   07-09     Day 2: 3   06-05
42. Shin Fukae             Palestine, TX            8  13-03    0
Day 1: 5   06-14     Day 2: 3   06-05
43. Andy Montgomery        Blacksburg, SC           5  11-08    0
Day 1: 5   11-08     Day 2: 0   00-00
44. Kevin Short            Mayflower, AR            7  10-08    0
Day 1: 5   08-04     Day 2: 2   02-04
45. Chad Morgenthaler      Coulterville, IL         5  10-00    0
Day 1: 2   03-04     Day 2: 3   06-12
46. Cliff Crochet          Pierre Part, LA          3  09-14    0
Day 1: 1   02-12     Day 2: 2   07-02
47. Brian Snowden          Reeds Spring, MO         5  09-06    0
Day 1: 4   08-08     Day 2: 1   00-14
48. Jeff Lugar             Cross Junction, VA       4  09-02    0
Day 1: 1   02-04     Day 2: 3   06-14
49. Paul Elias             Laurel, MS               3  08-08    0
Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 3   08-08
50. Brett Preuett          Monroe, LA               2  07-11    0
Day 1: 1   03-00     Day 2: 1   04-11
51. Teb Jones              Hattiesburg, MS          3  07-09    0
Day 1: 3   07-09     Day 2: 0   00-00
52. Morizo Shimizu         Suita, Osaka JAPAN       2  05-13    0
Day 1: 1   01-05     Day 2: 1   04-08
53. Brandon Palaniuk       Rathdrum, ID             3  05-04    0
Day 1: 1   01-07     Day 2: 2   03-13
54. Steve Lund             Glendale, AZ             1  04-15    0
Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 1   04-15
55. Troy Diede             Sioux Falls, SD          0  00-00    0
Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 0   00-00
55. Van Soles              Haines City, FL          0  00-00    0
Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 0   00-00
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Totals
Day   #Limits    #Fish      Weight
1        24       195       490-09
2        31       208       571-05
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55       403      1061-14

CENTRAL OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON LAKE TEXOMA

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CENTRAL OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY WINS FLW COLLEGE FISHING SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EVENT ON LAKE TEXOMA
DENISON, Texas (Feb. 21, 2015) – The Central Oklahoma University team of Colten Hutson of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Brock Enmeier of Enid, Oklahoma, won the FLW College Fishing Southern Conference event on Lake Texoma Saturday with a five-bass limit weighing 13 pounds, 15 ounces. The victory earned the club $2,000 and advanced the team to the FLW College Fishing Southern Conference Championship tournament.
“This is unbelievable,” said Hutson, a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering. “To go out there today and represent Central Oklahoma and get the win feels awesome.”
“Our whole goal coming in to this tournament was to qualify for the Conference Championship on our home waters of Grand Lake,” said Enmeier, a senior majoring in Industrial Safety. “Today was pretty sweet.”
The duo won handily, as they were the only team to bring a limit to the scales on the finicky Texoma. A strong morning wind forced the team to scrap their early plans and change their strategy. They found success targeting one specific brush pile near the back of Buncombe Creek.
“We moved to the brush pile around 8:30 a.m. and we ended up not leaving it all day,” Enmeier said. “It was about a 100-yard long stretch, and we fished it from 4- to 14-feet deep. We ended up catching seven keepers throughout the day.”
The club said that they managed to catch one fish on a green pumpkin-colored jig, but the other six keepers came on a Texas-rigged Big Bite Baits Yomama, in both green pumpkin and watermelon red flake.
The top 15 teams that advanced to the Southern Conference Championship tournament on Grand Lake are:
  1st:       Central Oklahoma University – Colten Hutson, Edmond, Okla., and Brock Enmeier, Enid, Okla. (five bass, 13-15, $2,000)
  2nd:      Southwestern Oklahoma State University – Mitchell Decker, Coweta, Okla., and Dalton Warrington, Thomas, Okla. (two bass, 11-4, $1,000)
  3rd:       Tarleton State University – Marshall Hughes, Port Neches, Texas, and Tanner Crim, Devine, Texas (four bass, 11-2, $500)
  4th:       Southeastern Oklahoma State University – Dwight Camp, Talihina, Okla., and Jonathan Furlong, Bixby, Okla. (four bass, 10-7, $500)
  5th:       Angelo State University – Logan Clark and Blake Turner, both of San Angelo, Texas (two bass, 6-13, $500)
  6th:       University of Arkansas – Drew Porto and Zachary Pickle, both of Fayetteville, Ark. (three bass, 5-12)
  7th:       Texas A&M University – Josh Bensema, Willis, Texas, and Matthew McArdle, College Station, Texas (three bass, 5-7)
  8th:       Texas A&M University-Galveston – Garrett Goettee, Tomball, Texas, and Hugh Keller, Houston, Texas (one bass, 5-3)
  9th:       Stephen F. Austin State University – Easton Heigley, Brookeland, Texas, and Hunter Price, Nacogdoches, Texas (one bass, 4-13)
  10th:     Henderson State University – Michael Gross, Gurdon, Ark., and Cobey Wingfield, Malvern, Ark. (one bass, 4-10)
  11th:     Texas A&M University – Garrett Nance, Pearland, Texas, and James Wittenborn, Haskell, Texas (two bass, 3-7)
  12th:     Northeastern State University – Cody Metzger and Michael King, both of Wagoner, Okla. (two bass, 3-6)
  13th:     Stephen F. Austin State University – Jay Lawson, Corrigan, Texas, and Matthew Anthony, Colleyville, Texas (two bass, 3-0)
  14th:     Colorado Mesa University – Josh Worth, Grand Junction, Colo., and Kennedy Kinkade, Midvale, Utah (one bass, 2-13)
  15th:     Texas A&M University-Texarkana – Josh Cole and Logan Byrd, both of Texarkana, Texas (one bass, 2-8)
Complete results can be found at CollegeFishing.com.
This FLW College Fishing Southern Conference tournament was hosted by the Denison Area Chamber of Commerce and was the second regular-season qualifying tournament. The next event for Southern Conference anglers is scheduled for September 19 at the Red River in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and is hosted by the City of Natchitoches.
FLW College Fishing teams compete in qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top fifteen teams from each regular-season tournament will qualify for one of five Conference Championship tournaments. The top ten teams from each of the five Conference Championship tournaments will advance to the 2016 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 fishing club recognized by their college or university.
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.

Mid Atlantic Angler’s Fall short in making the final day of the 2015 Bassmaster Classic

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Well the second day here at the Bassmaster Classic has concluded. The top twenty five anglers are getting things all buttoned up to make a run at the top standings and it all ends tomorrow.
Jeff Lugar and Brandon Gray both ended up having more success on the second day of competition. It was much warmer today and most of the pros stated that it helped the fishing improve. Brandon told us that during practice the water he was targeting was how he liked it for this time of year. His practice days were very successful; averaging fourteen to sixteen pounds a day back before the cut off. The arctic blast of freezing air this week changed the water temperature drastically. That changing water temperature made him seek out additional water to target. That was the story for many fishermen fishing this week.
These Virginia fishermen managed to find fish while battling the freezing temperatures this weekend. Both tried to find something on Lake Hartwell to help remind them of some of their home bodies of water. It might not have gone the way they wanted it too because every angler that comes here has one thing in mind; that thing is winning. Sometimes you just fall short. You could tell in both of the anglers attitudes that they were excited to make the classic and enjoying their time here at the classic. The Virginia Federation guys will be hanging around the classic expo on the third day of competition so come by and say hello!

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Jacob Wheeler Continues his quest in the 2015 Bassmaster Classic

Taka listen as Jacob gives the Bass Cast a look at his day 2 at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic


A look Back at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic with Jeff Lugar

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Ted Jones Gives The Bass Cast his final thoughts on the 2015 Bassmaster Classic

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Day 2 with Jacob Powroznik @ The 2015 Bassmaster Classic

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A look Back at Day 1 weigh-in at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic

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