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OKLAHOMA STUDENT ANGLER FEDERATION WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING GRAND LAKE OPEN PRESENTED BY YETI

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OKLAHOMA STUDENT ANGLER FEDERATION WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING GRAND LAKE OPEN PRESENTED BY YETI

OKLAHOMA STUDENT ANGLER FEDERATION WINS BASS PRO SHOPS FLW HIGH SCHOOL FISHING GRAND LAKE OPEN PRESENTED BY YETI

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GROVE, Okla. (Oct. 22, 2018) – The Oklahoma Student Angler Federation duo of Owen Williams, Afton, Oklahoma, and Easton Hitt, Bella Vista, Arkansas, brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 14 pounds, 5 ounces, to win the 2018 Bass Pro Shops FLW High School Fishing Grand Lake Open presented by YETI.

A field of 68 teams competed in the no-entry-fee tournament, which launched from Grove City Ramp at Wolf Creek Park. In FLW/TBF High School Fishing competition, the top 10 percent of teams competing advance to the High School Fishing National Championship.

According to the post-tournament report, Williams and Hitt caught their fish flipping ledges and docks on the lower end of the lake using green-pumpkin-colored, football-headed jigs.

The top six teams on Grand Lake that advanced to the 2019 High School Fishing National Championship were:

1st:     Oklahoma Student Angler Federation – Owen Williams, Afton, Okla., and Easton Hitt, Bella Vista, Ark. five bass, 14-5

2nd:    Ketchum High School, Ketchum, Okla. – Austin Chandler and Ty Bishop, both of Ketchum, Okla., five bass, 12-7, $600

3rd:     Vinita High School, Vinita, Okla. – Tyler Lake and Jesse Woodward, both of Vinita, Okla., five bass, 10-12

4th:     Rogers County Bass Anglers – James Cagle and Jordan Gotcher, both of Claremore, Okla., five bass, 10-8

5th:     Mannford High School, Mannford, Okla. – Charley Williams and Joseph Case, both of Mannford, Okla., five bass, 9-1

6th:     Jenks High School, Jenks, Okla. – Jake Peck, Tulsa, Okla., and Garrison Snedon, Jenks, Okla., four bass, 8-7

Rounding out the top 10 teams were:

7th:     Deer Creek High School, Oklahoma County, Okla. – Lane Whitsell and Davis Greaud, both of Edmond, Okla., five bass, 8-6

8th:     Branson High School, Branson, Mo. – Skyler McGrath, Branson, Mo., and Keegan Barber, Reed Spring, Mo., two bass, 7-10

9th:     Broken Arrow High School, Broken Arrow, Okla. – Michael Reiss and Max Klein, both of Broken Arrow, Okla., four bass, 7-9

10th:   Rogers County Bass Anglers – Dakota Page, Catoosa, Okla., and Bryce Page, Claremore, Okla., three bass, 7-2, $200

Complete results from the event can be found at FLWFishing.com.

The 2018 Bass Pro Shops FLW High School Fishing Grand Lake Open presented by YETI was a two-person (team) event for students in grades 7-12, open to any Student Angler Federation (SAF) affiliated high school club in the United States. The top 10 percent of each Challenge, Open, and state championship field will advance to the 2019 High School Fishing National Championship on a body of water that has yet to be revealed. The High School Fishing national champions will each receive a $5,000 college scholarship to the school of their choice.

In addition to the High School Fishing National Championship, all High School Fishing anglers nationwide automatically qualify for the world’s largest open high school bass tournament, the 2019 High School Fishing World Finals, held in conjunction with the National Championship. At the 2018 World Finals more than $150,000 in scholarships and prizes were awarded.

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

Bassmaster Opens Winners In 2019 Can Qualify For The 50th Bassmaster Classic

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Bassmaster Opens Winners In 2019 Can Qualify For The 50th Bassmaster Classic

Registration for the 2019 Bassmaster Opens Series began today with an early-entry period for current Bassmaster Elite Series pros and top performers from the 2018 Opens Series.

Photo by James Overstreet/B.A.S.S.

October 23, 2018

Bassmaster Opens Winners In 2019 Can Qualify For The 50th Bassmaster Classic

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After a one-year experiment with a Bassmaster Opens Championship, B.A.S.S. is returning to the popular “win-and-you’re-in” qualifying system from the Opens to the Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods.

“While those who competed in last week’s Opens Championship really enjoyed the event, most who compete in one of the Opens divisions let us know that the additional postseason event created time and travel constraints for most of the field,” said Chris Bowes, senior tournament manager for the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series. “We listened, and we decided to go back to win-and-you’re-in.”

Anglers who win one of the eight Opens tournaments in 2019 are eligible to compete in the 2020 Classic — which will mark the 50th world championship since its inception in 1971 — if they compete in all four Opens tournaments in the division in which they won. To reach the 2019 Classic, Opens anglers had to either win the Opens Championship on Table Rock Lake Oct. 18-20 or finish among the Top 3 in performance points on either the Central or Eastern Division.

The Opens Series also is the main pathway to the prestigious Bassmaster Elite Series. In 2019, the Top 5 in points from each division will be invited to compete in the 2020 Elites.

Bowes said entry fees have been held at 2018 levels: $1,500 per tournament for the pros and $425 per tournament for co-anglers. Registration for the Opens began today with an early-entry period for current Bassmaster Elite Series pros and top performers from the 2018 Opens Series.

Preference is given to anglers who sign up for all four events in a division. B.A.S.S. Nation members and B.A.S.S. Life Members may sign up online beginning Oct. 30 if they are “linked” to a co-angler. B.A.S.S. members linking to co-anglers can register online Nov. 1; non-linking Life and Nation members can register Nov. 6 online and Nov. 8 by phone; non-linking B.A.S.S. members can sign up online and by phone Nov. 13 and 15, respectively. Members signing up for single events may register online Nov. 27 or by phone Nov. 29.

Information is available at Bassmaster.com, where online registration also takes place. Those preferring to enter by phone can call 877-227-7872.

The 2019 season kicks off for the Eastern Opens Division with a visit to Florida’s Harris Chain of Lakes Jan. 24-26. Others in the division are Lake Chickamauga at Dayton, Tenn., May 23-25; James River, Richmond, Va., July 25-27; and Oneida Lake, Syracuse, N.Y., Sept. 5-7. Central Division tournaments include Toledo Bend, Many, La., Feb. 20-22 (a Wednesday-Friday schedule); Smith Lake, Jasper, Ala., April 25-27; Mississippi River, La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 1-3; and Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees, Grove, Okla., Sept. 12-14.

LEXINGTON’S WALSER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON LAKE NORMAN PRESENTED BY COSTA SUNGLASSES

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LEXINGTON’S WALSER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON LAKE NORMAN PRESENTED BY COSTA SUNGLASSES

LEXINGTON’S WALSER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON LAKE NORMAN PRESENTED BY COSTA SUNGLASSES

Virginia’s Smelser Grabs Co-angler Title

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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Oct. 22, 2018) – Boater Robert Walser of Lexington, North Carolina, caught a three-day cumulative total of 15 bass weighing 35 pounds, 8 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Regional championship on Lake Norman presented by Costa Sunglasses. Walser earned $66,000 for his efforts, including a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and automatic entry into the 2019 BFL All-American Championship.

Walser said he made a 20- to 25-minute run to the Buffalo Shoals Road bridge near Long Island, North Carolina, each morning of the tournament and fished his way back to the takeoff ramp. Along his route, he flipped docks using a Texas-rigged, green-pumpkin-colored Zoom Baby Brush Hog and a Zoom Z Craw Jr. with 5/16th-ounce Echo Pro tungsten weights and 3/0-sized Berkley Fusion19 offset hooks. He also caught some bass on the bank between docks with a Rush Lures spinnerbait.

“I probably hit 80 to 100 docks each day. I’d fish three or four in a stretch and then move on,” said Walser, the 2006 BFL All-American champion who logged his 11th career victory in BFL competition. “A lot of the docks I targeted had brush, which I could see on my Garmin Panoptix electronics, so that’s where I concentrated my casts. All of my fish came from less than 10 feet of water.

“I keyed in on docks that have had fish on them over the past couple of weeks. Depth- and structure-wise, there wasn’t really anything that made one dock better than the next, they just needed to have fish,” continued Walser. “You could have three or four bites at one dock, and then not have anything at any others in the area.”

Walser said he caught 8 or 10 keepers each day Thursday and Friday, and at least three or four limits on Saturday. He used an 8-foot Lamiglas 806 flipping rod with a Pflueger 7:1 Supreme reel and 20-pound-test Berkley Trilene 100-percent fluorocarbon line.

“I think the south wind pushing the cold front toward us made them bite better Saturday,” said Walser. “There was also less fishing pressure [since only the top 12 anglers fish on Saturday].”

Walser went on to say that in addition to catching fish, he also had to deal with various mechanical issues. The North Carolina boater said he ended up needing to use a different boat each day of the event.

“An employee at Angler’s Choice Marine brought me the other boat I own on Thursday, which I used until a gasket failed on Friday. I’d like to give them a special thanks for helping me,” said Walser. “The mental strain of having all that stuff fail was a lot, but I got through it and it all worked it out.”

The top six boaters that qualified for the 2019 BFL All-American were:

1st:           Robert Walser, Lexington, N.C., 15 bass, 35-8, $66,000

2nd:         Scott Beattie, Lincolnton, N.C., 15 bass, 32-1, $10,000

3rd:          Dylan Fulk, Concord, N.C., 15 bass, 30-10, $5,200

4th:          Bryan New, Belmont, N.C., 15 bass, 29-14, $3,100

5th:          Michael Fox, Statesville, N.C., 15 bass, 29-11, $2,000

6th:          Travis Young, Charlotte, N.C., 15 bass, 29-9, $1,800

Rounding out the top-10 boaters were:

7th:          Jack Dice, Lynchburg, Va., 15 bass, 29-4, $1,600

8th:          Jake Frye, Charlotte, N.C., 13 bass, 27-7, $1,400

9th:          Chad Poteat, Mount Airy, N.C., 15 bass, 27-1, $1,200

10th:        Cole Huskins, Mt. Holly, N.C., 12 bass, 25-8, $1,000

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Wayne Smelser of Rural Retreat, Virginia, won the Co-angler Division and a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard with a three-day cumulative catch of 15 bass weighing 28 pounds, 12 ounces.

The top six co-anglers that qualified for the 2019 BFL All-American were:

1st:           Wayne Smelser, Rural Retreat, Va., 15 bass, 28-12, $45,200

2nd:         Larry Freeman Jr., La Crosse, Va., 13 bass, 27-11, $5,000

3rd:          Tristen Trull, Mt. Holly, N.C., 13 bass, 25-13, $2,500

4th:          Ben Dacey, Chesterfield, Va., 15 bass, 25-3, $1,550

5th:          Jeff Rikard, Leesville, S.C., 12 bass, 23-7, $1,000

6th:          Khris Williams, Mount Holly, N.C., 13 bass, 21-3, $900

Rounding out the top-10 co-anglers were:

7th:          Ronnie Cutshall, Piedmont, S.C., 12 bass, 18-15, $800

8th:          Darren Kelly, Wartburg, Tenn., 10 bass, 18-8, $700

9th:          David Blakely, Kingsport, Tenn., 10 bass, 18-6, $600

10th:        Bart Beasley, Mount Pleasant, S.C., eight bass, 16-13, $500

The T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Lake Norman presented by Costa Sunglasses was hosted by Visit Lake Norman, Visit Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation.

The 2018 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they are competing to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the BFL All-American. The 2019 BFL All-American will take place May 30-June 1 on the Potomac River in Marbury, Maryland, and is hosted by the Charles County Board of Commissioners and the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League on FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.

Nick Miller & Brandon Brickweg win CATT Lake Norman Oct 20th 2018

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Nick Miller & Brandon Brickweg win CATT Lake Norman Oct 20th 2018
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Next Lake Norman Fall/Winter CATT Qualifier is November 17th at Pinnacle!

Remember guys at the January 12th Final 1st Place is $5,000.00!

This is the remaining Lake Norman FALL/WINTER schedule!

Qualifier 4 November 17- Regular Pinnacle Access
Qualifier 5 November 24 – CATT GOLD McCrary Creek
Qualifier 6 December 8 – Open/Cage McCrary Creek
Qualifier 7 December 22 – Regular Pinnacle Access
Qualifier 8 December 29 – Regular Pinnacle Access
Final January 12 $5,000 1st Place Pinnacle Access

 

Nick Miller & Brandon Brickweg win Lake Norman with 12.69 lbs!

Big Total Total
25 Teams Fish Weight Winnings Points
Nick Miller – Brandon Brickweg  BONUS $ 2.92 12.69 $970.00 110
Aric Dwyer – Robbie Anderson  2nd BF 3.16 11.71 $408.00 109
Kenny Beard – David Beard 2.72 11.36 $210.00 108
Luke Helms – Jordan Baker  1st BF 3.18 11.09 $317.00 107
Derrick Cummings – Josh Sanders 2.55 10.94 $100.00 106
Kelly Logan 2.79 10.04 105
Steve Addington – Matt Stout 2.43 9.67 104
Rick Poplin 0.00 9.66 103
Aaron Jordon – Adan Locklear 0.00 9.45 102
Mike Clark – Chris Anderson 2.01 9.11 101
Matt Stanley – Matt Caroten 2.22 8.37 100
Josh Beasley – Shawn Smith 2.83 7.45 99
Michael Mathews – Vance Mathews 3.10 7.37 98
Jody & Jay Wright 2.32 7.05 97
Wayne Houser – Greg Mathis 0.00 6.80 96
Tony Nelson – Jeff Fulbright 0.00 6.53 95
Jesse Smith – Patrick Houpe 0.00 6.05 94
Dylan Smith 2.12 5.77 93
Keith Westrick – Jonathan Fsoter 2.49 5.49 92
George Lauster 0.00 5.28 91
Dale Phillips 2.86 5.19 90
Jake & Doug Monti 0.00 4.61 89
Josh Donegan – Derrick Bristle 1.34 3.70 88
Morris Elliot – Chris Tarbush 0.00 0.00 87
Andy Brode – Herb Brammel 0.00 0.00 87
Allen Tuttle 0.00 0.00 87
Total Entrys $2,080.00
BONUS $ $420.00
Total Paid At Ramp $2,005.00
Norman Fall 2018 Final Fund $420.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $50.00
2018 Norman Fall Final Fund Total $1,045.00
2019  CATT Championship Fund Total $1,680.00

So, You Want To Be a College Angler by Caleb Luzader

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So, You Want To Be a College Angler by Caleb Luzader

Caleb Luzader
Cleveland,TN
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So, You Want To Be a College Angler

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Bass fishing has grown exponentially in the last 15 years. I remember when Casting Kids and the Jr. Bass Clubs were the pulse of kids coming into fishing. You started at the Federation level and dreamed of winning your state championship to compete in the Junior World Championship held in conjunction with a higher profile Federation Championship with BASS or the Forrest Wood Cup if you won on the FLW side. In current times Middle, High School, and College Fishing are now the pulse of the future of fishing and the new ladder if you are wanting to advance to the highest levels of competitive angling. Being a former college angler, I hope that I can give you some great insights to be “discovered” and fulfill your dreams of fishing the collegiate level.

It all starts at your high school, if you don’t have a team, make one. Find anyone who loves to fish, get with your faculty, and start a club. That was what I did. High school fishing had just begun, and clubs were popping up everywhere. Today, my school’s club has one of the largest membership rosters in the state. Who knows what you can begin when you stick your neck out, and begin something new. Remember, it isn’t just your fishing ability that will catch the eyes of college teams offering scholarships, but your character, scholastics, and community involvement. Who you are in many cases is much more valuable than what you can do. You can teach someone to fish, but it is much harder to teach someone character.

Don’t just pick a school strictly because they have a fishing team, get an idea of what you want to do. If you want to be an engineer, a liberal arts school that doesn’t offer engineering probably isn’t your best pick. I recommend that you look at what you want from a college, check a few out. If they don’t have a fishing program, make one. If they do, awesome! If you are banking on a scholarship, go visit the school you are wanting to attend and introduce yourself to the coach. Make good eye contact, firm handshake, and give them a reason to want you on their team.

Once you get there, you have to earn your keep. Keep your head down, nose out of the stupid things that college students sometimes get into, and prepare yourself. Be committed to your studies. You don’t have to have a week of practice to do well. I have found that often times, that actually hurt me. I would get so stuck on something, I wouldn’t see the pattern going on right in front of me. Remember, if you can’t hang in the classroom you aren’t going to be able to fish. Most schools require a minimum GPA to be able to take part in sports. Keep your GPA up, something is going to have to pay your bills when you graduate! Even if you do make it pro, most have a secondary source of income.

Don’t buy into the lie that you must have a 60,000 dollar rig to make you a successful angler. One of the best College Anglers I have come to know fished out of an aluminum Bass Tracker most of his career. It also makes you fly under the radar when you pull into your spots! You don’t have to have the best, the latest, or the greatest to make the top five. You just have to have the skills and mental attitude that makes most fisherman successful. I fished out of an almost 20-year-old Ranger boat for most of my college career. It wasn’t my boat that ever kept me from catching fish.

I hope that this gives you a bit of insight into what you need to get into the world of college angling. Anyone can do it, and any school can do it. That is the beauty of fishing. No matter if you are at the smallest Junior College in your state or a big powerhouse college, the playing field is level on the water. Your passion for the sport is the only thing that separates anyone. Below I am listing a few colleges that offer scholarships that may help boost your search in taking your passion to the next level.
Schools with Scholarships
∙         Bethel University
∙         Bryan College
∙         Mckendree University
∙         Adrian College
∙         SCAD

Chris Scoot & Michael Barkley Win’s Catt Santee Cooper Oct 20th 2018

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Chris Scoot & Michael Barkley Win’s Catt Santee Cooper Oct 20th 2018

Tournament Results Santee Cooper Oct 20, 2018 Scott & Barkley Earn the Win!

 

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Next Catt Santee Cooper River Fall Qualifier is November 3rd at John C Land!

1st Place Chris Scoot & Michael Barkley with 19.88 lbs and 1st BF at 5.85!

2nd Place Bucky DeBerry & David Benenhaley with 17.16 lbs!  2nd BF 505.00 lbs!

Big Total Total
12 Teams Fish Weight Winnings Points
Chris Scott- Michael Barkley  BONUS $ 5.85 19.88 $576.00 110
David Benenhaley – Bucky DeBerry 5.05 17.16 $264.00 109
Cole Drummond – Danny Shanz 4.91 16.48 108
Ray Winans – Wendell Causey 3.69 14.00 107
Bo Chappell 3.48 13.21 106
Freddie Gamble 3.24 11.71 105
Steve Borton 0.00 6.47 104
Robert Clarke- Lonnie Jones 0.00 6.38 103
William Thigpen – Mark Creech 2.12 3.77 102
Ricky Irick-David Eargle 2.81 2.81 101
Justin Wood – Dave Murdock 0.00 0.00 100
Quionne York 0.00 0.00 100
Total Entrys $960.00
BONUS $ $180.00
Total Paid At Ramp $840.00
Santee Cooper 2018 Fall Final Fund $250.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $25.00
2018 Santee Cooper Fall Final Fund Total $1,120.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund Total $1,630.00

Jay Fogleman & Robert Perkins Win PBS Cashion Fishing Rods ‘End of Year” T.T. October 20th 2018

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Jay Fogleman & Robert Perkins Win PBS Cashion Fishing Rods ‘End of Year” T.T. October 20th 2018

PBC CASHION FISHING RODS ‘End of Year’ TEAM TOURNAMENT BASS FISHING TRAIL

QUALIFIER #8 RESULTS
Saturday October 20th, 2018 ~ Jordan Lake ~ Farrington Point Wildlife Ramp

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Well we finally got a little rain during the tournament! The Final PBC Cashion Fishing Rods ‘End of Year’ Trail Qualifier #8  at Jordan Lake was fished by 32 boats on a cool 57 degree morning with stiff 15 mph winds. The winds finally let up about  10 am then the rain moved in about 11:30 and kept up until weighin at 3 pm. when air temps were about 69. Water temps averaged about 68 degrees. The bite was wild with plenty of dinks caught everywhere! We did have a good  number of ‘fall weight’ bags brought in so it wasn’t too bad. We also had 4 bass over 7 lbs. and plenty of 5’s & 6’s weighed in! Actually the bite was pretty good considering how high Jordan got and how much water was released after the storm.

First time winners this year, Jay Fogleman & Robert Perkins, took 1st Place weighing in 5 bass at 19.67 lbs. and also won 1st Place TWT for a total of $1,690 in winnings.  Fogleman on left, Perkins on right. Zach Hall & Ricky Parker came in 2nd place with 5 fish  weighing 17.64 lbs. & also won 2nd Place TWT to pocket a total of $867. 3rd place team, Dennis Reedy & Tommy
Marrow won $385 with 5 weighing 16.80 lbs. The 4th Place Team of Jerry Marshburn & his sub Randy Parker had 5  at 16.34 lbs. and the Big Fish for the day at 7.78 lbs. netting them $730. Money got spread around pretty good!

94 fish were weighed in for a total of 275 pounds for an average of 2.93 lbs. each. Most of the fish were caught on Wacky Worms, Carolina rigs, Rat-L-Traps, jerk baits and Crankbaits in 2 to 10′ of water way up in the woods &
bushes, off main point dropoffs, wood & rock ledges and creek channels.

I want to thank all the anglers that participated and all our sponsors that support this trail. The next Cashion Fishing Rods ‘End of Year’ Tournament will be the Championship for qualifiers only, October 27th at Falls Lake out of Ledge  Rock Wildlife Ramp. Go to this webpage for the info on the ‘End of Year’ Trail:
http://piedmontbassclassics.com/2018CashionEOYTrailMainPage.html
All the information on our tournaments can be found http://piedmontbassclassics.com/

Now here are the full results:

1st Place: Jay Fogleman & Robert Perkins of Durham & Rougemont…5 bass…19.67 lbs…$920
2nd Place: Zach Hall & Ricky Parker of Holly Springs & Pittsboro…5 bass…17.64 lbs…$537
3rd Place: Dennis Reedy & Tommy Marrow of Oxford & Siler City…5 bass…16.80 lbs…$385
4th Place: Jerry Marshburn & Tim Parker of Sanford & New Hill…5 bass…16.34 lbs…$282
5th Place: Keith Deal & Tony Miller of Holly Springs…5 bass…15.85 lbs…$231
6th Place: Clay Ausley & Allen Parker of Fuquay Varina & Sanford…5 bass…15.79 lbs…$205

1st Place Big Fish..4th Place Team above…7.78 lbs…$448
2nd Place Big Fish..Chuck Byrd & Gale Watson of Sanford…7.65 lbs…$192

1st Place TWT..1st Place Team above…19.67 lbs…$770
2nd Place TWT..2nd Place Team above…17.64 lbs…$330

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

Jacob & Carlton Thompkins Win’s Catt Waccamaw River Oct 20, 2018

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Jacob & Carlton Thompkins Win’s Catt Waccamaw River Oct 20, 2018

Tournament Results Waccamaw River Oct 20, 2018 Jordan & Carlton Thompkins 1st Place!

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The Nov 17th Waccamaw River Qualifier will launch from Carroll Campbell Landing in Georgetown! The Waccamaw River Fall Final will also be at Georgetown Carroll Campbell Landing!

The Oct 20th Waccamaw River Fall Qualifier was held at Blacks Camp on Lake Moultrie because of flooding conditions on the Waccamaw River.

Jacob & Carlton Thompkins take 1st Place Oct 20th with 5 bass weighing 15.38 lbns! They also took home the 1st BF at 7.72 lbs for a total of $777.00!

2nd Place went to River & Timmy Squires with a limit weighing 15.14 lbs worth $313.00!

Reid McDowell was 3rd with 14.96 lbs

Casey Warren with a nice bag!

 

Big Total Total
11 Teams Fish Weight Winnings Points
Carlton & Jacob Thompkins.  Bonus $ 7.72 15.38 $777.00 110
Timmy & River Squirers 5.81 15.14 $313.00 109
Reid McDowell 5.04 14.96 108
Chris Jones & Ed Owens 3.20 12.03 107
Casey warren 5.27 11.38 106
Cody Squires & Jess White 0.00 9.10 105
Lee Glover &  Joey Hewitt 3.82 8.66 104
Mike Edge 0.00 8.07 103
Danny Mclain 0.00 4.59 102
Don McLaud & Ray Inman 0.00 0.00 101
Mark & Kyle Johnson 0.00 0.00 101
Total Entrys $1,320.00
BONUS $ $140.00
Total Paid At Ramp $1,090.00
Waccamaw River 2018 Fall Final Fund $270.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $75.00
2018 Waccamaw River Fall Final Fund Total
$535.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund Total $1,605.00

TENNESSEE’S PICKETT GOES WIRE-TO-WIRE, WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON KENTUCKY LAKE PRESENTED BY EVINRUDE

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TENNESSEE’S PICKETT GOES WIRE-TO-WIRE, WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON KENTUCKY LAKE PRESENTED BY EVINRUDE

TENNESSEE’S PICKETT GOES WIRE-TO-WIRE, WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON KENTUCKY LAKE PRESENTED BY EVINRUDE

Mississippi’s Ladnier Takes Co-angler Title

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GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (Oct. 22, 2018) – Boater Lloyd Pickett Jr. of Bartlett, Tennessee, caught a three-day cumulative total of 10 bass weighing 32 pounds, 12 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Regional championship on Kentucky and Barkley lakes presented by Evinrude. Pickett earned $65,000 for his efforts, including a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and automatic entry into the 2019 BFL All-American Championship.

“The goal was to make the All-American. This makes No. 7 for me,” said Pickett, who earned his sixth win in FLW competition. “I’ve been second and third a couple times in these Regionals, and it’s always a back-breaker. So to win this, it feels real good.”

Pickett targeted bass on main-lake gravel bars, secondary points and secondary pockets to catch his fish.

“If you found the shad, you got bit, but if you found the skipjack, you caught big ones,” said Pickett. “I fished some gravel bars out on the main lake, and when that wasn’t happening, I fished secondary points in the creeks.”

The winning spots, all located around the Paris, Tenn., area, varied from about 1 to 7 feet deep.

“I had eight holes that had fish on them,” said Pickett. “I only hit two the first day, three yesterday [Friday], and I hit two today [Saturday]. I only re-fished one spot each day, but I didn’t really catch much on it.”

The speed at which he fished allowed Pickett to get by with so few spots while many of his competitors fished dozens of places a day. Limiting his travel between spots was also part of a strategy to make the most of his competition time after making the long run south and dealing with high winds.

“When you run that far down there, you burn two hours [round trip], and when you [use a] Carolina rig as slow as I do, I can burn three hours just like that,” said Pickett.

He dragged his Carolina rig about as slow as possible and milked each spot for all it had, not changing locations until he was no longer seeing any bass or bait.

Pickett’s Carolina rig was baited with a Zoom Brush Hog in green pumpkin, watermelon candy or blueberry (black with purple fleck) on a 4/0-sized Gamakatsu EWG hook. Occasionally, he mixed in another creature bait. Pickett used a 3- to 5-foot-long leader of 12-pound-test Bass Pro Shops XPS Fluorocarbon line connected to 15-pound-test XPS main line and added a couple of glass beads – for extra sound – between his swivel and either a 3/4- or 1-ounce weight. The Tennessean used a custom Muddy River Rods model 714.

Other than dragging painfully slow, the biggest key to Pickett’s presentation was to keep it natural.

“I like to get off the side of the point and throw over the end of the point,” said Pickett. “If there’s current, I’ll pull with the current. If I’m fishing a secondary pocket with wind blowing in, I come around and pull with the wind the way the shad would be coming. On gravel bars, I just throw as far as I can.”

The top six boaters that qualified for the 2019 BFL All-American were:

1st:           Lloyd Pickett Jr., Bartlett, Tenn., 10 bass, 32-12, $65,000

2nd:         John Devries, Fishers, Ind., seven bass, 30-1, $10,200

3rd:          Doug Ruster, New Palestine, Ind., nine bass, 29-1, $5,000

4th:          Nick Uebelhor, Jasper, Ind., 10 bass, 26-11, $3,100

5th:          Rich Fye, Galveston, Ind., eight bass, 25-10, $2,000

6th:          Ken Garbe, Wyoming, Ohio, seven bass, 23-5, $1,800

Rounding out the top-10 boaters were:

7th:          Frank McClain, Scottsburg, Ind., six bass, 22-1, $1,600

8th:          Daniel Houser, Washington Township, Mich., eight bass, 21-10, $1,400

9th:          Clayton Reitz, Morton, Ill., seven bass, 19-12, $1,200

10th:        Marcus Sykora, Osage Beach, Mo., seven bass, 19-1, $1,000

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Brent Ladnier of Wiggins, Mississippi, won the Co-angler Division and a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard with a three-day cumulative catch of six bass weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces.

The top six co-anglers that qualified for the 2019 BFL All-American were:

1st:           Brent Ladnier, Wiggins, Miss., six bass, 22-8, $45,000

2nd:         Carl Breeden, Valley Park, Mo., five bass, five bass, 14-10, $5,200

3rd:          Leroy Miller, Napoleon, Ohio, two bass, 8-2, $2,500

4th:          Jacob Sloan, Paola, Kan., two bass, 8-7, $1,550

5th:          Daniel Dumais, Trenton, Mich., three bass, 9-12, $1,000

6th:          Ryan Helbling, Martinsville, Ind., four bass, 10-8, $900

Rounding out the top-10 co-anglers were:

7th:          Joshua Shinault, Baldwyn, Miss., four bass, 10-6, $800

8th:          Steve Garman, Dayton, Ohio, three bass, 9-15, $700

9th:          Dan O’Neil, Canton, Mich., two bass, 9-2, $600

10th:        Justin Kivett, Indianapolis, Ind., three bass, 9-2, $500

The T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Kentucky Lake presented by Evinrude was hosted by the Kentucky Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The 2018 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they are competing to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the BFL All-American. The 2019 BFL All-American will take place May 30-June 1 on the Potomac River in Marbury, Maryland, and is hosted by the Charles County Board of Commissioners and the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League on FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.

Scott Perrine Win’s CATT Copper River Oct 20,2018

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Tournament Results Cooper River Oct 20, 2018 Scott Perrine Wins!

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Scott Perrine bested the 2nd place team by over 3 lbs with 5 bass weighing 16.50 lbs! Add in the BONUS $ and Scott took home $860.00!

2nd went to Justin Craven & Michael Craven with a limit weighing 13.08 lbs and they earned $235.00!

The 3rd place team was Bubba Dennis & Randy Gibson with 5 bass weighing 12.87 lbs! They collected $125.00!

John and Grace Campbell finished 4th with 12.21 lbs and received $70.00!

BF weighing 5.72 lbs was brought in by Justin Harvey & Terry Harvey worth $120.00!

Big Total
24 Teams Fish Weight Winnings Points
Scott Perrine  BONUS $ 4.39 16.50 $860.00 110
Justin Craven/Michael Craven 4.52 13.08 $235.00 109
Bubba Dennis/Randy Gibson 3.73 12.87 $125.00 108
John Campbell/Grace Campbell 5.62 12.21 $70.00 107
Justin Harvey/Terry Harvey 5.72 11.75 $120.00 106
Chris Peirano/Jim Butler 3.34 11.03 105
Tyler Cunningham/Matt Peterson 2.71 10.03 104
Jacob Cramer/Frank Forbes 0.00 9.50 103
Dave McConnell/Dillion McConnell 4.57 9.21 102
Matt Baker/Andrew Baker 0.00 8.76 101
Andy Rutledge 0.00 8.17 100
Adam Rodenhouse 0.00 7.63 99
Ben Smith/Brent Bartman 0.00 7.62 98
CJ Cannington/Nathan McPherson 0.00 6.95 97
Allen Boward/Leah Boward 0.00 6.86 96
Casey Leach/Charlene Leach 0.00 6.72 95
Matthew Brannon/Amanda Brannon 0.00 6.55 94
Quinton Jones/Clinton Jones 0.00 6.28 93
Bob Letizi/Derrick Nixon 0.00 6.19 92
James Ray Robinson Jr./William Gregory 0.00 0.00 91
Darrell Knies 0.00 0.00 91
Wayne Clifton/Kyle Welch 0.00 0.00 91
Corey Casey 0.00 0.00 91
Travis Gatlin/Grant Powell 0.00 0.00 91
Total Entrys $1,200.00
BONUS $ $360.00
Total Paid At Ramp $1,410.00
Cooper River 2018 Fall Final Fund $140.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $10.00
Cooper River 2018 Fall Final Fund Total $520.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $1,530.00

 

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