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Richard Boatright & Ken Morgan Win CATT Savannah River Aug 18,2018

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Richard Boatright & Ken Morgan Win CATT Savannah River Aug 18,2018
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All we have left for the Summer CATT Savannah River Edition is the Final coming up September 22 at Stokes Bluff! Entry fee is $120 or $130 at the ramp!

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Richard Boatright & Ken Morgan took the win Aug 18th on the Savannah River with 5 bass weighing 17.61 lbs! They took home $596.00 plus they won the Points and will fish the Final Free!

2nd went to Mel Long & Felix Stanley with 16.76 lbs!

Big Total Total
12 Teams Fish Weight Winnings Points
Richard Boatright – Ken Morgan  2nd BF & BONUS $ 5.19 17.61 $596.00 220
Mel Long – Felix Stanley              1st BF 5.93 16.76 $264.00 218
Chris Chavis – Nick Hager 0.00 8.43 216
Tim Roundtree – Al Pitman 0.00 7.14 214
Barry Descaro – Mike Markovic 0.00 6.73 212
Mac Sampey – Vonette Sampey 0.00 5.14 210
Joe Toth – Kyle Suddath 0.00 4.28 208
Buddy Wheeler – Bubba Bowers 0.00 3.64 206
Aaron Soucy – Ron Lewis 0.00 3.03 204
Anthony Joyner – Barry Conley 0.00 2.90 202
Matt Cantrell – Billy Orr 0.00 0.00 200
Barry Thames 0.00 0.00 200
Total Entrys $960.00
BONUS $ $200.00
Total Paid At Ramp $860.00
Savannah River 2018 Summer Final Fund $275.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund $25.00
2018 Savannah River Summer Final Fund Total $820.00
2019 CATT Championship Fund Total $915.00

LAKE ERIE READIES FOR YETI FLW COLLEGE FISHING EVENT PRESENTED BY BERKLEY

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LAKE ERIE READIES FOR YETI FLW COLLEGE FISHING EVENT PRESENTED BY BERKLEY

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SANDUSKY, Ohio (Aug. 28, 2018) – The YETI FLW College Fishing season will continue with an event next week, Sept. 8., at the YETI FLW College Fishing on Lake Erie presented by Berkley. The tournament, hosted by the City of Sandusky, is the third and final regular-season event for college anglers in the Northern Conference and will award a top prize of a $2,000 club scholarship and an invitation to compete in the 2019 College Fishing National Championship to the winners.

“It’s been an extraordinary summer fishing on Lake Erie and I think the college anglers are going to have a blast in this tournament,” said Power-Pole pro Cory Johnston of Cavan, Ontario, a two-time Forrest Wood Cup qualifier. “Erie is so fun because of the sheer number of fish that you can catch. I don’t expect largemouth to be a factor at all, but the smallmouth are plentiful and they’re big.”

Johnston said that the majority of anglers would be targeting deep isolated rocks with tubes, drop-shot rigs and ned rigs.

“The hardest part is finding the right isolated rock piles with the right sized fish,” Johnston said. “They’re going to really need to be comfortable with their electronics – fishing deep and video-gaming them up. Good electronics will be key.”

Johnston said that he expects the winning team to bring 23 to 25 pounds to the scale.

“We’re going to see multiple limits weighing more than 20 pounds,” Johnston said.

Competitors will take off from Shelby Street Public Boat Launch, located at 101 Shelby St. in Sandusky, at 7 a.m. EDT Saturday. Weigh-in will be held at the Boat Launch beginning at 3 p.m. Takeoff and weigh-in are free and open to the public.

Schools are allowed to register up until the morning of the tournament. Entries may be made either by phone or at CollegeFishing.com.

Schools currently registered to compete in the Lake Erie tournament include:

California University of Pennsylvania – Colton Higgins and Jakob Bissett, both of Waynesburg, Pa.

California University of Pennsylvania – Nick Fulks, Canonsburg, Pa., and David Blaker, Rices Landing, Pa.

Franklin & Marshall College – Collin Martin, Sykesville, Md., and Nicholas Brown, Manheim, Pa.

Kent State University – Andrew George, Canton, Ohio, and Rile Minerd, Rocky River, Ohio

Kent State University – Zachary Asher, Sunbury, Ohio, and Vala Zeinali, Cleveland, Ohio

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania – Joe Tini, Archibald, Pa., and Brandon Keenan, Townsend, Del.

Marshall University – Caleb McComas, Hurricane, W. Va., and Chase Sansom, Salt Rock, W. Va.

Ohio State University – Gardon Wycoff, Delaware, Ohio, and Patrick Henry, Stanhope, N.J.

Pennsylvania State University – Derek Horner and Matthew Huggler, both of State College, Pa.

Pennsylvania State University – Stephen Jesso, Plymouth, Pa., and Ryan Fox, Thornhurst, Pa.

Pennsylvania State University – George Gendler, Mountaintop, Pa., and Chad Burkholder, Palmyra, Pa.

Pennsylvania State University – Jonathan Dietz, Corry, Pa., and Shane Rolle, Hanover, Pa.

Slippery Rock University – Jason Frontino, Cranberry Township, Pa., and Cody Neal, Evans City, Pa.

Slippery Rock University – Nathan Quince, Imperial, Pa., and Samuel Jenesky, Pittsburgh, Pa.

University of Pittsburgh – Henry Colberg, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Dominic Vitale, Shickshinny, Pa.

University of Rio Grande – Evan Bowman, Gallipolis, Ohio, and Matt Joyce, Minford, Ohio

Virginia Highlands Community College – Clay Winebarger and Dustin Murray, both of Abingdon, Va.

Virginia Highlands Community College – Ryan Strong, Bristol, Va., and Dylan Blake, Abingdon, Va.

YETI FLW College Fishing teams compete in three regular-season qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top ten teams from each division’s three regular-season tournaments and the top 20 teams from the annual FLW College Fishing Open will advance to the 2019 FLW College Fishing National Championship. Additional teams will qualify for the National Championship if the field size in regular-season events exceeds 100 boats. The location of the 2019 FLW College Fishing National Championship will be revealed in early fall.

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

For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow YETI FLW College Fishing on FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.

Thomas Sheffer & Ken McNeill Win PBC Cashion Rods ‘End of Year’ T.T. August 25,2018

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Thomas Sheffer & Ken McNeill Win PBC Cashion Rods ‘End of Year’ T.T. August 25,2018

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

QUALIFIER #4 RESULTS
Saturday August 25th, 2018 ~ Jordan Lake ~ Farrington Point Wildlife Ramp

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Wow!! What a beautiful Summer day!! The PBC Cashion Fishing Rods ‘End of Year’ Trail Qualifier #4 at Jordan Lake welcomed 42 boats to a cool morning with hardly no wind and am temps at around 60. Air temps rose to about 87 at the 2:30pm weighin and the winds were still light. Water temps averaged about 82 degrees. The bite was again typical for Summer but the top 3 teams were almost within 1 lb. of each other! Real close at the top. We also had 2 beautiful bass ove 8 lbs. weighed in by the same angler! 34 of the 42 boat field weighed in fish. Not bad.


The veteran team of Thomas Sheffer & Ken McNeill, won 1st Place weighing in 5 bass at 21.64 lbs. and also won 1st
Place TWT for a total of $1,830 in winnings. 

  Sheffer on left…McNeill on right

Todd Massey & Brandon Gray came in 2nd place with 5 fish weighing
20.74 lbs. & also won 2nd Place TWT to pocket a total of $933. 3rd place team, Billy Bledsoe & Brian McDonald won $470 with 5 weighing 20.28 lbs. The 1st Place Big Fish weighed 8.52 lbs. and was caught by the 7th Place team of Lee Williams (fishing without his regular partner Scott Smith) netting him a total of $762 in cash!! Lee only weighed 2
bass in and both were 8 pounders caught back to back!! The other weighed 8.11 lbs.

105 fish were weighed in for a total of 326 pounds for an average of 3.11 lbs. each. Most of the larger fish were caught on Jigs, Carolina rigs, and Crankbaits in 10‘ of water 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 Trail Qualifier will be September 8th 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: Thomas Sheffer & Ken McNeill of Cary & Raleigh…5 bass…21.64 lbs…$1,025
2nd Place: Todd Massey & Brandon Gray of Chapel Hill & Bullock...5 bass…20.74 lbs…$588
3rd Place: Billy Bledsoe & Brian McDonald of Gray’s Creek & Hope Mills…5 bass…20.28 lbs…$470
4th Place: Jay Fogleman & Robert Perkins of Durham & Rougemont…5 bass…18.77 lbs…$370
5th Place: Chase Owens & Logan Anderson of Snow Camp & Catawba…5 bass…18.72 lbs…$302
6th Place: Chad Fara & Stephen Lasher of Durham & Bahama…5 bass…18.66 lbs…$235
7th Place: Lee Williams & Scott Smith of Durham & Apex…2 bass…16.64 lbs…$202
8th Place: Jaime Fajardo & Josh Hooks of Fuquay Varina & Apex...5 bass…16.54 lbs…$168

1st Place Big Fish..7th Place Team above...8.52 lbs…$560
2nd Place Big Fish..6th Place Team above…6.96 lbs…$240

         1st Place TWT..1st Place Team above…21.64 lbs…$805
2nd Place TWT..2nd Place Team above…20.74 lbs…$345

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/

COSTA FLW SERIES SET TO VISIT 1000 ISLANDS FOR TOURNAMENT PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS

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COSTA FLW SERIES SET TO VISIT 1000 ISLANDS FOR TOURNAMENT PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS

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CLAYTON, N.Y. (Aug. 28, 2018) – More than 340 pros and co-anglers are set to close the Costa FLW Series Northern Division regular season next week, Sept. 6-8, at the Costa FLW Series at 1000 Islands presented by Navionics. The tournament, hosted by the Clayton Chamber of Commerce, is the third and final regular-season event scheduled in the FLW Series Northern Division. The event will feature anglers competing for a top award of up to $90,000, including a brand new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.

“This is one of my favorite tournaments of the year,” said the 2018 FLW Tour Rookie of the Year Matt Becker of Finleyville, Pennsylvania, who won this event in 2017. “It’s an extremely beautiful and scenic fishery. The weather is great – the wind can get blowing, but temperature-wise there are not too many places in the country that you can go right now and not be sweating. And the fishing is so great. We’re going to see a lot of big smallmouth in this one.”

Becker said that he expects a drop-shot rig will likely dominate the top of the leaderboard, but also mentioned swimbaits, tubes and spybaits as baits that could play a role.

“A drop-shot is going to dominate like it always does – I throw a 3-inch Keitech Shad Impact soft jerkbait – but you can always catch them on a Keitech swimbait or a tube as well,” Becker said. “You can never rule out a spybait, though. It won here a couple of years ago.”

In the 2017 tournament, nine of the final 10 pros spent the majority of their time fishing offshore in Lake Ontario. Although he said that he expects the tournament to most likely be won there, Becker said that many more anglers would be spending their fishing time in the St. Lawrence River.

“The river is fishing a lot better right now than it was last year,” Becker said. “I think we’ll see a much bigger split this year – half of the competitors in the river, half in the lake. Especially if the wind is blowing.

“Barring any crazy weather, I think we’ll see bigger weights than last year,” Becker went on to say. “I think it’ll take a three-day total between 72 to 75 pounds to win this one.”

Anglers will take off and weigh-in at the Clayton Harbor Municipal Marina, located at 301 Web St., in Clayton. Takeoff will be held at 6:30 a.m. EDT each day of competition and weigh-ins will start at 2:30 p.m. All takeoffs and weigh-ins are free to attend and open to the public.

In Costa FLW Series regular-season competition, payouts are based on the number of participants competing in the event. At the 1000 Islands event, pros will fish for a top prize of $90,000, including a brand new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard if Ranger Cup qualified. Co-anglers will cast for a brand new Ranger Z175 boat with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard, and $5,000 if Ranger Cup qualified.

The Costa FLW Series consists of five U.S. divisions – Central, Northern, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western – along with the International division. Each U.S. division consists of three regular-season tournaments with competitors vying for valuable points that could earn them the opportunity to compete in the season-ending Costa FLW Series Championship. The 2018 Costa FLW Series Championship is being held Nov. 1-3 on Lake Guntersville in Guntersville, Alabama, and is hosted by the Marshall County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the Costa FLW Series on FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.

INDIANAPOLIS’ MOYER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE HOOSIER DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE MONROE

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INDIANAPOLIS’ MOYER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE HOOSIER DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE MONROE

INDIANAPOLIS’ MOYER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE HOOSIER DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE MONROE

Co-angler Title Goes to Madison’s Bennett

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Aug. 27, 2018) – Boater Stu Moyer of Indianapolis, Indiana, caught four bass Saturday weighing 15 pounds, 14 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Hoosier Division tournament on Lake Monroe. For his win, Moyer earned $6,311.

Moyer said he began his day close to the dam in the Fairfax area, fishing docks in the back of a creek.

“I couldn’t catch anything from under the docks likely due to the overcast conditions,” said Moyer, who earned his second career win in BFL competition on Lake Monroe. “I pitched a worm out into the open near a grassline in 8 feet of water, worked the outside edge, and caught my first one where it came close to the docks. It was a 6½-pounder and I got it just after 8 (a.m.).”

Moyer said he used a Texas-rigged 10-inch Red Shad-colored Berkley Power Worm on a 5/0 Gamakatsu hook with a 5/16-ounce weight. The bait was attached to 20-pound-test P-Line, spooled on a Lew’s reel and rigged on a 7-foot, 3-inch Phoenix MBX rod.

“I think the cloudy weather pulled them out from the cover,” said Moyer. “The grassline was far enough away from the docks that I knew they weren’t relating to them.”

Moyer proceeded on to a “duplicate” area in Moore’s Creek where he was able to put a couple more good fish in the boat around 11 a.m.

“I knew there was a grassline about 50 yards off the docks – it’s a breakline and it’s full of grass. I pitched in there and missed the first one. I moved 10 yards down, threw in again and caught two 4-pounders in two casts.”

Moyer said he had a couple more bites running back through his route, but couldn’t get anything in the boat until the end of the day.

“I caught my last fish with 15 minutes to go from under a dock in the Paynetown area with the same worm. It was in 3 feet of water and turned out to be the fish I needed to win.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Stu Moyer, Indianapolis, Ind., four bass, 15-14, $4,311 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus

2nd:         Eric Hardesty, Nineveh, Ind., five bass, 14-2, $1,693

3rd:          Aaron Sisk, Evansville, Ind., five bass, 13-3, $1,229

4th:          Jim Pickett, Franklin, Ind., five bass, 11-4, $790

5th:          Christopher Lemon, Mooresville, Ind., four bass, 9-6, $677

6th:          Marty Sisk, Evansville, Ind., four bass, 9-5, $621

7th:          Lee Mill, Columbus, Ind., four bass, 9-4, $564

8th:          James White, Martinsville, Ind., three bass, 8-15, $508

9th:          Bob Drake, Noblesville, Ind., three bass, 8-8, $451

10th:        Steve Sendelweck, Ramsey, Ind., four bass, 8-7, $395

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Moyer’s 6-pound, 8-ounce bass was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned him the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $425.

Brent Bennett of Madison, Indiana, won the Co-angler Division and $1,905 Saturday after catching three bass weighing 12 pounds, 6 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:          Brent Bennett, Madison, Ind., three bass, 12-6, $1,905

2nd:         Kyle Lambeck, Santa Claus, Ind., three bass, 11-3, $846

3rd:          Spencer Clark, Maryland Heights, Mo., five bass, 10-5, $564

4th:          Greg Roberts, Columbus, Ind., three bass, 9-5, $395

5th:          James Mullanix, Anderson, Ind., three bass, 6-11, $339

6th:          Scottie Davis, Martinsville, Ind., three bass, 6-7, $310

7th:          Jeff Turner, Plainfield, Ill., three bass, 6-0, $282

8th:          Brian Short, Oxford, Ohio, two bass, 5-8, $454

9th:          Rodney Johnson, Franklin, Ind., two bass, 5-4, $212

9th:          James Rockhill, Anderson, Ind., two bass, 5-4, $212

Bennett also caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 5 pounds, 6 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $212.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 18-20 BFL Regional Championship on Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

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. 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.

Tim Gardner & Nate Sullivan Win Wet Line Productions Stop #8 LKA 8-25-18

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Bass Fishing Pressure: Finding The Right Angle For Pressured Bass

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Bass Fishing Pressure: Finding The Right Angle For Pressured Bass

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While others try to avoid lakes with heavy bass fishing pressure, some savvy anglers thrive in crowds.

While waiting for their turn to fish certain spots in a highly pressured area, veteran anglers analyze what their competitors are doing.  You have to use everything to your advantage when fishing a spot like that. A lot of times that includes really paying close attention to how other anglers are fishing the water and then approach the same water not only with different techniques but at different angles.

Bass Fishing Pressure: Look For Cover

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When fishing an area with heavy cover and deep water nearby, you should thoroughly cover the spot because it usually holds quality bass.  Some anglers fish these areas too fast and make the mistake of making one pass through the area and leave when they don’t catch anything.

Knowing these areas produce big fish, you should commit to the area and adjust your techniques and the angles you fish there especially when other anglers are present.

The process of trying different angles should start on your initial approach to a popular area. When you shut down your motor, ask yourself if this is how most everybody else sets up to fish the spot. Then try to figure out what you can do differently to generate a different presentation that bass have never seen.

Bass Fishing Pressure: Get In The Crowd

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Since you will be fishing in a crowd, you have to slow down your approach and study your surroundings. Some subtleties you should look for when fishing a pressured area include intensity of sunlight, current, wind shifts, changes in water clarity and cloud conditions.  Key on these subtle variables that others overlook and then analyze how the subtleties affect bass.

Bass Fishing Pressure: Look For Current

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Current from power generation in the summer often provides a subtle difference that can help you catch more bass from a pressured area.  Before power generation starts, bass will be scattered in the area, but when the current begins, the flow positions bass in specific spots. Pay close attention to spots where current creates eddies and position your boat at an angle where you can cast up current and bring your lure down to where it swims alongside any cover and drifts to the down-current side of the cover.

Multiple casts to the same cover is another trick to beat the crowds.  Try a series of casts to the same cover at multiple angles and with different lures before moving on to another target.

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ILLINOIS’ HAAKE WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MICHIGAN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON DETROIT RIVER

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ILLINOIS’ HAAKE WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MICHIGAN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON DETROIT RIVER

Ohio’s Stahley Earns Co-angler Title

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TRENTON, Mich. (Aug. 27, 2018) – Boater Brett Haake of Shorewood, Illinois, caught five bass Sunday weighing 23 pounds, 11 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Michigan Division tournament on the Detroit River. Haake took home $3,956 for his win.

Haake said he fished rocky humps and ridges in 12 to 20 feet of water on the north shore of Lake Erie. He said he wasn’t able to practice for the event due to inclement weather, but was able to use prior knowledge of the fishery to help piece together his day.

“I ran to some areas in the morning that I knew had fish this time of year. At the first stop, I had some suspended fish marked but they wouldn’t bite,” said Haake, who earned his first win in BFL competition. “There were a lot of wind and waves, and the water was pretty stirred up.”

Haake said he made his way farther east, but ended up returning to his initial area between 11:30 a.m. and noon with only two small fish in the livewell. He said the wind and waves were much calmer by that time, and that the bite picked up considerably.

“It was pretty much cast after cast when I got back,” said Haake. “I caught a lot of the bigger ones at first and then they seemed to get smaller. I didn’t mark any more fish because they were tight to the bottom. There were probably around 10 spots in there that they held on. They move around hourly – it’s like I was chasing them.”

Haake said he caught his fish on a drop-shot rig using an Arkansas Shiner-colored Strike King 3X ElazTech Z Too Soft Jerkbait. He also had some hit a medium-diving crankbait, but wasn’t able to keep them hooked. He said he caught around 15 fish throughout the day, with 90-percent of them being keepers.

“The Spot Lock feature on my Minnkota Ultrex trolling motor really helped me out there as well,” said Haake. “Being able to move over in 5-foot increments, especially with the waves, was important.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:          Brett Haake, Shorewood, Ill., five bass, 23-11, $3,956

2nd:         Michael Sitko, Pinckney, Mich., five bass, 23-6, $2,278

3rd:          Mike Trombly, Belleville, Mich., five bass, 22-12, $1,253

4th:          John Devries, Fishers, Ind., five bass, 22-9, $876

5th:          Heath Wagner, Angola, Ind., five bass, 22-2, $751

6th:          Andrew Gaul, Port Huron, Mich., five bass, 22-0, $689

7th:          Jason Root, Fostoria, Ohio, five bass, 21-12, $626

8th:          David Reault, Livonia, Mich., five bass, 21-11, $563

9th:          Mark Peiser, Pittsboro, Ind., five bass, 20-4, $501

10th:        Scott Dobson, Clarkston, Mich., five bass, 20-2, $438

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Bret Holling of Lansing, Michigan, brought a 5-pound, 15-ounce, bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $490.

Aaron Stahley of Batavia, Ohio, won the Co-angler Division and $1,978 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 22 pounds, 1 ounce.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1st:          Aaron Stahley, Batavia, Ohio, five bass, 22-1, $1,978

2nd:         Andy White, Canton, Mich., five bass, 20-8, $939

3rd:          Michael Kokoska, Findlay, Ohio, five bass, 20-2, $627

4th:          Robert Hernandez, Canton, Mich., five bass, 19-13, $457

4th:          Beau Bickford, Findlay, Ohio, five bass, 19-13, $457

6th:          Larry Thomas, Lambertville, Mich., five bass, 19-12, $344

7th:          Eric Polenz, Maybee, Mich., five bass, 19-1, $313

8th:          Derwin Thomas, Little Rock, Ark., five bass, 19-0, $282

9th:          Brian Kich, Berea, Ohio, five bass, 18-9, $250

10th:        Rich Cialone, Dearborn, Mich., five bass, 18-3, $219

Darwin Griva of Hamilton, Indiana, caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 5 pounds, 11 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $122.

The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 18-20 BFL Regional Championship on Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.

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. 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.

Smith Mountain Lake September 2018 Fishing Report by Captain Dale Wilson

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Smith Mountain Lake September 2018 Fishing Report by Captain Dale Wilson

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE FISHING
SEPTEMBER 2018
DALE WILSON’S
SML GUIDE SERVICE
PHONE NO: 540-297-5650 / 540-874-4950
WWW.CAPTAINDALEWILSON.US

Picture: Captain Dale Wilson with a nice striper caught & released 8//25/18.

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OVERVIEW- Fishing has been good the past several weeks! Largemouth bass fishing has been good during the day and night time this past month! Water temperature will be in the upper 70’s to lower 80’s. Best times will be early morning & late afternoon. September is a good month to fish for stripers.

Largemouth Bass- Fishing for largemouth bass will be good this month. Best lures will be plastic worms, jigs, drop shots, crank baits, Carolina rigs and shaky heads. Points, brush piles, rocky areas, humps and docks will be the best areas to try your luck. Best depths will be from surface to 25 feet deep. Remember to take care of the bass and release them! Fishing will be fair at night.

Smallmouth Bass- Fishing will be fair. Best areas will be humps, ledges and rocky areas. Best lures will be tubes, jigs, jerk baits, top water lures, hair jigs and deep diving crank baits. Best areas will be in the mid to the lower sections of the lake. Cloudy days with light wind and at night are good times to try your luck! Look for areas with rocky ledges next to deep water. Smallmouth will feed on top some this month. Most smallmouth bass will suspend near schools of baitfish.

Striped Bass- Fishing will be good this month. Stripers will be caught in the mid sections of the lake, the lower sections towards the dam and in the large creeks. Best lures will be swim baits, buck tails and Zoom flukes fished on 3//8 to 3/4 oz. lead heads. Best time to fish is cloudy days, early morning and late afternoon. The best depths will be from the surface to 60 feet deep. Live bait fished on down lines and planner boards work this month. The stripers will constantly be on the move. Find the largest concentration of shad. Night fishing will be fair this month.

Crappie- Fishing for crappie will be fair this month. The best depths will be 10 to 20 ft. deep. Crappie will be found around deep docks, brush piles, and fallen trees. Docks with brush piles are usually good areas to hold crappie. Small live minnows and 1½ to 2 inch tubes or shad shaped plastic lures fished on 1/32 to 1/16 oz. lead heads will work best to catch crappie this month. Best areas are the main creeks and the upper section of the lake.

TIP OF THE Month- This month will be a transition time of the year. Look for fish to move shallow towards the end of the month. Try to find the areas with the largest concentration of bait fish. You can also hear reports about local fishing on the website: THE BASS CAST RADIO SHOW & WSLK radio each month. Make sure your running lights are on after dark & wear your life jackets! Remember to TAKE A KID FISHING!

Jeff & Clay Ross Win BassQuest 2018 Classic With 2 Day Total wight of 38.53lbs

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Jeff & Clay Ross Win BassQuest 2018 Classic With 2 Day Total wight of 38.53lbs

What a great weekend on Smith Mountain Lake for the Final BassQuest event. 29 Teams fish the regular season event of the 2018 season with the average two-day team weight of 16.71 lbs. The Team of Jeff & Clays Ross no strangers to winning on SML did not disappoint bringing in a total weight of 38.53lbs. Congratulations go out to Craig & Jimmy Blankenship on Winning a 2018 Nitro for their 6.47lb. What an awesome year. Please take the time to thank everyone that put this great event together & see you all next year.

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