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Anglers |
Number of Fish |
Penalty |
Lunker Bass |
Weight |
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Jacob Stephens Chris Kimbrough |
5 |
2.72 |
11.5 |
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Jacob Krahenbill |
5 |
2.45 |
8.56 |
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Matt Thomas Tony Laem |
2 |
1.13 |
2.18 |
Jacob Stephens & Chris Kimbrough Win Hill City Bassmasters May 5,2018
Clay Samples and Tony Milam Win Bass Nation of VA Team Championship with 31.15 lbs – May 5&6 2018
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So How did they Catch them? I caught them the last hour on day two and the first and last hour on day two. Upper end on bushes and timber flipping brush hog , Taylor man jig and frog. The biggest fish each day came off the Taylor man football head jig. Green pumpkin scale color.
LEXINGTON’S WALSER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON JORDAN LAKE
LEXINGTON’S WALSER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON JORDAN LAKE
West Virginia’s Grose Grabs Co-angler Title
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NEW HILL, N.C. (May 7, 2018) – Boater Robert Walser of Lexington, North Carolina, caught a five-bass limit Saturday weighing 18 pounds, 11 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) North Carolina Division tournament on Jordan Lake. For his win, Walser was awarded $5,048.
Walser started his day fishing banks with rocks and wood on the lower end of the lake using a Rush Lures spinnerbait with a chartreuse-colored Zoom Swimmin’ Fluke Jr. He said he caught the bulk of his fish early, and was culling by 8 a.m.
“I figured out in practice on Tuesday that bass were trying to eat shad and when I returned Saturday, they were fairly close by,” said Walser, who earned his 10th career win in BFL competition. “I ran my Garmin Panoptix and could see the rocks and stumps out in front of me. In addition to helping me stay off them, it helped me cast my spinnerbait to the right depths. The bait was 2 to 3 feet down and I wanted to keep it there.”
Around 11 a.m., Walser ran to the upper end of the lake in search of a kicker. He said he flipped wood with a green-pumpkin Zoom Baby Brush Hog rigged on a Berkley Fusion 19 Offset Hook with Hi-Seas fluorocarbon line.
“The hook was a bit smaller and didn’t get hung up as much – it’s a strong little hook,” said Walser. “I caught two that helped – a 2¾- and a 4-pounder – and they turned out to be what I needed to win it all.”
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Robert Walser, Lexington, N.C., five bass, 18-11, $3,048 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus
2nd: James Blankenship, Siler City, N.C., five bass, 18-1, $1,374
3rd: Chad Poteat, Mount Airy, N.C., five bass, 18-0, $1,116
4th: Billy Bledsoe, Fayetteville, N.C., five bass, 17-12, $793
5th: Matt Stoupa, Colonial Heights, Va., five bass, 16-2, $650
6th: Ryan Deal, Indian Trail, N.C., four bass, 14-12, $504
7th: Neil Eckberg, Cary, N.C., five bass, 13-15, $458
8th: Russell Corry, Shelby, N.C., four bass, 12-11, $412
9th: Ralph Hollifield Jr., Winston-Salem, N.C., three bass, 10-14, $495
9th: Doug Dulin, Apex, N.C., three bass, 10-14, $343
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Bledsoe brought a 6-pound, 3-ounce bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $152.
Nathan Grose of Summersville, West Virginia, won the Co-angler Division and $1,574 Saturday after catching four bass weighing 11 pounds, 11 ounces.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: Nathan Grose, Summersville, W. Va., four bass, 11-11, $1,574
2nd: Zach Lyles, Charlotte, N.C., three bass, 10-8, $687
3rd: Brian Transon, Sherrills Ford, N.C., four bass, 10-3, $459
4th: Justin Johnson, Apex, N.C., two bass, 9-6, $473
5th: Robert Green, Sedalia, N.C., four bass, 8-3, $275
6th: Mark Whitman, Elon, N.C., two bass, 7-14, $302
7th: Frank Earnhardt, Troy, N.C., three bass, 6-12, $229
8th: Tristen Trull, Mount Holly, N.C., three bass, 6-10, $206
9th: Mathew Baker, Asheboro, N.C., two bass, 6-9, $183
10th: Robert Jarrett, Lexington, N.C., three bass, 6-7, $160
Johnson caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $152.
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. 11-13 BFL Regional Championship on Chesapeake Bay in North East, Maryland. 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. The 2018 BFL All-American will be held May 31-June 2 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is hosted by the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. 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, Instagra
Spawning Bass Could Play A Major Role In Bassmaster Eastern Open On Lake Norman
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Andy Montgomery will be among more than 400 pro and co-anglers competing in the second Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open May 10-12 on Lake Norman out of Cornelius, N.C.
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May 8, 2018
Spawning Bass Could Play A Major Role In Bassmaster Eastern Open On Lake Norman
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CORNELIUS, N.C. — When a major bass tournament is held in the southern half of the United States in May, it’s a safe bet the spawn will a play big factor in how the first-place prize is earned.
The Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Eastern Open No. 2 on Lake Norman will be no different.
The tournament is scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, with daily takeoffs at 6:15 a.m. CT from Blythe Landing in Huntersville, N.C., and daily weigh-ins are set for 2:15 p.m. back at the landing on Days 1 and 2. The final-day weigh-in will be held at 3:15 p.m. at the Bass Pro Shops in Huntersville, N.C.
Andy Montgomery, a Bassmaster Elite Series pro from neighboring South Carolina, said determining the phase of the spawn will be job No. 1 for the anglers.
“We’ve had a late winter, so that leaves a lot of question marks,” said Montgomery, who won the most recent Open held on Lake Norman in 2014 with a three-day total of 37 pounds, 10 ounces. “If the bass are spawning, it is really hard to compete if you’re not sight fishing.”
That tactic could be tough, Montgomery said, due to the stained water conditions from recent heavy rains in the area. If visibility is a problem, he expects anglers to choose baits that will cover a lot of water to help them find spawning fish that they can’t actually see.
“The lake may be dirty,” he said. “You may see something like a big spinnerbait come into play — something that traditionally wouldn’t catch them on Lake Norman.
“Again, the biggest key, is whether or not they are spawning.”
If it turns out the spawn is over — or at least in its final stages — Montgomery said it could be a much tougher tournament. Anglers will be forced to turn to typical postspawn haunts and target fish that might not be in the mood to bite.
“There will be fish that have spawned out that will be on points and docks and things like that, but I don’t believe you can win on that pattern alone — especially if you still have some on the beds,” he said. “There will be a lot of fish caught, no matter what you like to do on Lake Norman.
“If they are finished spawning, docks and largemouth will become keys.”
In 2014, Montgomery weighed in 13 spotted bass and two largemouth to win with 37-10. He said he expects the largemouth to play a bigger role this time — and because of that, he believes the winning weight will be higher, even if the fishing is tougher.
“It will take around 45 pounds if the fish cooperate,” he said. “You could definitely see some 18- to 20-pound bags.”
The tournament will feature a full field of more than 200 boats — each with a pro division angler and a co-angler — for the first two days. Only the Top 12 pro and co-anglers will advance to Saturday’s final round.
The pros also will be trying to rack up enough performance points in this and three other Eastern Opens to qualify for the season-ending Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Championship to be held in October. The winner on Norman also gets a berth in the championship, which will qualify seven anglers for the 2019 Bassmaster Classic presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods in Knoxville, Tenn., and will earn 11 anglers invitations to compete in the 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series.
The winner in the pro division will earn $52,000 in cash and prizes, while the winning co-angler receives a $30,000 cash/prize combo.
Visit Lake Norman, Visit Cabarrus and Visit Charlotte are hosting the event.
2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series Title Sponsor: Bass Pro Shops
2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series Platinum Sponsor: Toyota
2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series Premier Sponsors: Berkley, Huk, Humminbird, Mercury, Minn Kota, Nitro Boats, Power-Pole, Skeeter Boats, Triton Boats, Yamaha, Abu Garcia
2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series Supporting Sponsors: Livingston Lures, Lowrance, Phoenix Boats, T-H Marine, Carhartt
WAYNESFIELD’S LOGAN WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BUCKEYE DIVISION OPENER PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS ON OHIO RIVER
WAYNESFIELD’S LOGAN WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BUCKEYE DIVISION OPENER PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS ON OHIO RIVER
Kentucky’s Howard Wins Co-angler Title
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LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. (May 7, 2018) – Boater Bob Logan of Waynesfield, Ohio, caught five bass weighing 12 pounds, 4 ounces, Saturday to win the 2018 T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Buckeye Division opener on the Ohio River presented by Navionics. For his victory, Logan earned $6,000.
“I was fishing down by the dam, near Craig’s Creek,” said Logan, who earned his second career win in BFL competition. “During practice on Thursday and Friday I worked my way down the river and caught a bunch of little males that were setting up on the nests. I knew the females would be coming in, so that’s where I concentrated my time during the tournament.
“I couldn’t sight fish, because the water wasn’t clean enough,” Logan continued. “So, I would just make blind casts to those areas where I knew the beds were and the females were setting up. I managed to catch six keepers.”
Five of Logan’s keepers came on a Zoom Brush Hog, green-pumpkin with a chartreuse-dyed tip, Texas-rigged with a 3/16 ounce weight. His sixth keeper came on a black-and-blue-colored Reaction Innovation’s Little Beaver, rigged the same as the Brush Hog.
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Bob Logan, Waynesfield, Ohio, five bass, 12-4, $4,000 + $2,000 Ranger Cup
2nd: Michael Powell Jr., Greendale, Ind., five bass, 11-6, $2,200
3rd: Dick Shaffer, Rockford, Ohio, five bass, 10-13, $1,334
4th: Pat White, Batavia, Ohio, five bass, 10-9, $933
5th: Ken Garbe, Wyoming, Ohio, five bass, 10-5, $800
6th: Cody Seeger, Bellefontaine, Ohio, five bass, 9-14, $833
7th: Douglas Lyon, Cincinnati, Ohio, five bass, 9-7, $667
8th: Mark Dove, North Vernon, Ind., five bass, 8-11, $600
9th: Chris Wilkinson, Farmersburg, Ind., five bass, 8-10, $533
10th: Sean Wieda, Florence, Ky., five bass, 8-5, $467
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Steve Hengehold of Cincinnati, Ohio, caught a bass weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $540.
Trevor Howard of Union, Kentucky, won the Co-angler Division and $2,228 Saturday after catching a five-bass limit weighing 11 pounds, 5 ounces. Howard earned $2,228 for his victory.
The top 10 co-anglers finished:
1st: Trevor Howard, Union, Ky., five bass, 11-5, $2,228
2nd: Dennis Hughes, Bethel, Ohio, three bass, 8-7, $981
3rd: Jonathan Fulton, Ray, Ohio, five bass, 8-0, $855
4th: Hunter Fillmore, Waynesville, Ohio, five bass, 7-12, $508
5th: Ryan Sykes, Hamilton, Ohio, five bass, 7-2, $393
6th: John Lane, Findlay, Ohio, five bass, 6-13, $360
7th: Remington Throckmorton, Otway, Ohio, five bass, 6-9, $327
8th: Clint Brodsky, Burlington, Ky., five bass, 6-6, $294
9th: Joshua Wright, Arcanum, Ohio, four bass, 5-10, $262
10th: Frank Aldridge, Wheelersburg, Ohio, five bass, 5-5, $229
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. 11-13 BFL Regional Championship on the Chesapeake Bay in North East, Maryland. 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. The 2018 BFL All-American will be held May 31-June 2 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is hosted by the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. 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, Instagra
GEORGIA’S JONES WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE CHOO CHOO DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON NEELY HENRY LAKE
GEORGIA’S JONES WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE CHOO CHOO DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON NEELY HENRY LAKE
Co-angler Title Goes to Tennessee’s White
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GADSDEN, Ala. (May 7, 2018) – Boater Bradley Jones of Aragon, Georgia, brought five bass to the scale Saturday weighing 17 pounds, 8 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Choo Choo Division event on Neely Henry Lake. Jones took home $5,224 for his efforts.
“I caught bedding fish that I’d found a couple weeks earlier and in practice,” said Jones, who logged his fourth win on Neely Henry Lake in BFL competition. “I never actually saw any of them during the tournament, but I made some long pitches into their general area and they bit on the first cast each time.”
Jones said he fished three larger creeks on the lower end of the lake. He caught around 15 fish throughout the event, citing a Texas-rigged green-pumpkin-colored V&M J-Bug as his bait of choice.
“I could tell where the beds were by the way the structure was,” said Jones. “I just pitched it in there and they bit it, there wasn’t really anything to it. I couldn’t have asked for a better scenario – everything just worked out.”
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Bradley Jones, Aragon, Ga., five bass, 17-8, $5,224
2nd: Andrew Johnson, Glencoe, Ala., five bass, 16-10, $2,197
3rd: Blake Hall, Hartselle, Ala., five bass, 15-10, $1,564
4th: Landon Lomax, Owens Cross Roads, Ala., five bass, 15-6, $1,025
5th: Geoff McKnight, Rainbow City, Ala., five bass, 14-11, $879
6th: Brandon McGinnis, Pell City, Ala., four bass, 13-13, $805
7th: Scott Chatham, Kingston, Ga., five bass, 13-9, $732
8th: Brian Davenport, Attalla, Ala., five bass, 13-5, $659
9th: Terry Tucker, Gadsden, Ala., five bass, 13-2, $586
10th: Jeff Cannon, Douglasville, Ga., five bass, 12-6, $513
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Jones also brought a 6-pound, 3-ounce bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $630.
Truman White of Spring Hill, Tennessee, won the Co-angler Division and $2,612 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 16 pounds, 5 ounces.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: Truman White, Spring Hill, Tenn., five bass, 16-5, $2,612
2nd: Cameron Gatlin, Chattanooga, Tenn., five bass, 13-2, $1,148
3rd: Steven White, Ashville, Ala., five bass, 12-11, $733
4th: Kenny Pannell, Springville, Ala., five bass, 11-14, $513
5th: Davey Bailey, Warrior, Ala., five bass, 10-8, $439
6th: Marcus Corbett, Anniston, Ala., five bass, 10-2, $403
7th: Jason Risley, Cordova, Tenn., five bass, 9-14, $366
8th: David Blakely, Kingsport, Tenn., five bass, 9-13, $330
9th: Sal Pinto, Cumming, Ga., five bass, 9-2, $293
10th: Michael Corbett, Oxford, Ala., five bass, 8-13, $256
White also caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 5 pounds, 7 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $315.
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. 25-27 BFL Regional Championship on Lake Chickamauga in Dayton, Tennessee. 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. The 2018 BFL All-American will be held May 31-June 2 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is hosted by the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. 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, Instagra
Cole Drummond & Danny Shanz Win CATT Santee Cooper with 29.05 lbs
Tournament Results Santee Cooper May 5, 2018 29.05 WINS!
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Guys, we’ve had another huge Spring on Santee Cooper!
We have the May 12th Santee Cooper Spring Final left! This coming weekend at John C Land ! We have 139 teams eligible to enter! Remembers you only had to enter 1 Santee Qualifier to be eligible for the Santee Final! Derrick is planning a Summer and a Fall Trail and I’ll have the schedules posted soon!
Carolina Post Frame is awarding the 2018 CATT Santee Cooper Spring Point Winners $500.00! Support them guys as they are supporting us! Gary Elsey & Mark Hutson are our 2018 CATT Santee Cooper Spring Trail Point winners and they will earn the $500 Carolina Post Frame cash award! Great Job guys!
Cole Drummond & Danny Shanz take the win this past Saturday at Blacks Camp with 5 bass weighing 29.05 lbs and took home $1,680.00!
2nd went to Brandon Riley & Marc Deschenes with a limit weighing 25.78 lbs and they also took home the BONUS $! All total they received $1,525.00!
Lex Costas & Xan Costas took home the 1st Academy BF money with a 7.95 lbs bass! They collected a total of $308.00 and an Academy Gift card!
| 42 Teams | Big | Total | ||
| Team | Fish | Weight | Winnings | Points |
| Cole Drummond – Danny Shanz | 6.88 | 29.05 | $1,680.00 | 220 |
| Brandon Riley – Marc Deschenes BONUS $ | 6.99 | 25.78 | $1,525.00 | 218 |
| Bryan Cook – Steve Harmon | 6.15 | 21.46 | $525.00 | 216 |
| Freddie Gibbs – Clark Gibbs | 6.85 | 20.33 | $400.00 | 214 |
| Lex Costas – Xan Costas 1st BF | 7.95 | 19.18 | $308.00 | 212 |
| Chad Cook – Allen Williams | 5.56 | 20.08 | $300.00 | 210 |
| Ray Walsh – Wayne Frierson | 6.08 | 19.80 | $225.00 | 208 |
| Brent Waynick – Emment McCauley | 5.39 | 19.37 | $180.00 | 206 |
| Mark Hutson – Gary Elsey | 6.14 | 19.35 | $140.00 | 204 |
| Jesse Williams – Ryan Steen 2nd BF | 7.49 | 18.86 | $132.00 | 202 |
| Sid Fowler – Todd Smith | 0.00 | 19.10 | 200 | |
| Robert Clarke – Lonnie Jones | 0.00 | 18.93 | 198 | |
| Wade Grooms | 0.00 | 18.91 | 196 | |
| Chuck Howard – Ken Ellis | 4.78 | 18.75 | 194 | |
| Mike Watson – Craig McFadden | 5.34 | 18.58 | 192 | |
| Ryan Bowles – Jason Barrett | 0.00 | 18.37 | 190 | |
| Horace Scott – Horace Scott Jr | 4.60 | 18.14 | 188 | |
| Randall Miller – Mac Altman | 0.00 | 17.95 | 186 | |
| David Benenhaley – Michael Cox | 0.00 | 16.63 | 184 | |
| Johnny Player – John Gardenhire | 0.00 | 15.66 | 182 | |
| Brett Mitchell – Jerry Montjoy | 0.00 | 14.47 | 180 | |
| Elvis Peagler – Brian Peagler | 0.00 | 14.42 | 178 | |
| Ed Paul – Eddie Paul | 0.00 | 14.29 | 176 | |
| Shai Haley – TJ Anderson | 0.00 | 13.70 | 174 | |
| Jamie Glasscock | 6.50 | 13.52 | 172 | |
| Ted Urquhart – John Ford | 5.53 | 12.48 | 170 | |
| Max Terry – Bugzy Terry | 0.00 | 11.88 | 168 | |
| Perry Holloway – Cash Holloway | 0.00 | 9.41 | 166 | |
| Ron Brown – Buddy Robertson | 0.00 | 9.32 | 164 | |
| Hugh McCutchen – Jamie Blackburn | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Brad Swartz – Brad Miller | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Todd Olds – jason Riley | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Mark Curry – Glenn Curry | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Winkey Watford – Scott Mixon | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Randall Drew – Brett Fields | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Mitch Drew – Kenny Drew | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Cooper Hopkins | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Donnie McCord – Sean Collins | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Jason Miles – Andy Rutledge | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Hunter Hoffmeyer – Thomas Hoffmeyer | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Jason Morse – Calton Holloway | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Danny Lowery – Ava Lowery | 0.00 | 0.00 | 162 | |
| Total Entrys | $5,040.00 | |||
| BONUS $ | $700.00 | |||
| Total Paid At Ramp | $5,415.00 | |||
| Santee Cooper 2018 Spring Final Fund | $325.00 | |||
| 2018 CATT Championship Fund | $25.00 | |||
| 2018 Santee Cooper Spring Final Fund Total | $3,265.00 | |||
| 2018 CATT Championship Fund Total | $4,430.00 |
Strader Notches First Bassmaster Elite Series Victory On Kentucky Lake
Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tenn., won the 2018 Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Kentucky Lake presented by Abu Garcia out of Paris, Tenn., with a four-day total weight of 80 pounds, 4 ounces.
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May 7, 2018
Strader Notches First Bassmaster Elite Series Victory On Kentucky Lake
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PARIS, Tenn. — The final day of the Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Kentucky Lake presented by Abu Garcia threw Wesley Strader the right pitch, and he knocked it out of the park.
Strader, a first-year Elite Series pro from Spring City, Tenn., caught a final-day limit of five bass that weighed 20 pounds, 11 ounces and earned his first Elite Series victory with a four-day total of 80-4
After sitting in 16th place on Day 1 with 19-6, Strader added 17-13 Saturday and improved to 11th, before taking over the Day 3 lead with 22-6 — the biggest catch of Sunday’s semifinal round.
His final-day catch cemented a $100,000 payday.
“Yesterday, I figured out that the fish were positioning under the walkways on the docks,” he said. “Today, that went away; they got out under the floats. It seemed like, as the sun got higher, the shade got tighter to the docks and you could pretty much pinpoint where they’d bite.
“I didn’t think the shad spawn was that big of a deal for me today. But I pulled up on a stretch of docks that I had not fished early in the morning and just about every cast, when I’d reel my bait out from underneath the floats, there would be two or three threadfin shad following my spinnerbait.”
Unlike the previous days, Strader was unable to leverage the early-morning shad spawn. But he put several keepers in the boat by alternating between a 5/8-ounce Stan Sloan Bango Blade spinnerbait with a white swimbait trailer, a buzzbait, a popping frog and a white Zoom Z-Craw that he swam through shallow bushes.
He still found some early productivity. But it was a magical, one-hour midday flurry that vaulted Strader into the unofficial BASSTrakk lead.
Flipping shallow bushes in a small pocket off Big Sandy Creek, Strader added three solid keepers — all 4-plus pounds — to his livewell. That left him releasing fish he normally would would not cull.
“That’s a good problem to have — catching 3-pounders and they can’t help you,” said Strader, as he chuckled during a BASS Live segment.
Strader caught his flipping fish on a Texas-rigged Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver with a 5/16-ounce Reins Tungsten sinker and a 5/0 Trokar hook fished on 20-pound Gamma Edge fluorocarbon. The Tramp Stamp color, he said, has proven productive in all his previous Kentucky Lake events. Trusting that pattern Monday proved to be a winning decision.
“For some reason, in this tea-colored water, they like that color,” he said.
Strader said his fish were probably postspawners. Targeting likely staging areas with vertical falls was key.
“I think I was just on a hot pocket where they were either coming out or guarding fry; I don’t think they were spawning,” he said. “They were just in those bushes chilling, and it was all on the initial fall of the bait.”
Auburn, Calif., superstar Skeet Reese missed his limit by one fish. But his four bass weighed 17-10 and he still finished second with 76-6. Reese spent much of his final day throwing a 7-inch line-through swimbait, but some of his key bites during the tournament came on a a Lucky Craft Magnum SKT squarebill.
“That’s a giant squarebill,” Reese said. “These fish aren’t eating little threadfin shad. They’re eating gizzard shad. They’re eating carp. So I did key in on the big baits this week. I caught some 4s, 5s and 6s on it.
Kelly Jaye of Dadeville, Ala., added a solid limit of 18-7 on the final day and improved two spots to third place with 73-6. Jaye caught all of his fish on a Megabass Vision 110 jerkbait in the matte shad color.
Jason Christie of Park Hill, Okla., placed fourth with 71-8, and Fred Roumbanis of Russellville, Ark., placed fifth with 70-5.
Bradley Roy was awarded $1,000 for the leading the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year points race at the end of the event.
Strader also earned the Power-Pole Captain’s Cash Award of $1,000 for being the highest-placing angler who is registered and eligible and uses a client-approved product on his boat.
Shaw Grigsby Jr. was awarded $1,500 dollars as the winner of the Phoenix Boats Big Bass award. He had the largest bass of the tournament with a 7 -11 on Day 2.
Christie was awarded the Toyota Bonus Bucks Award of $3,000 for being the highest-placing eligible entrant in the program. The second-highest-placing eligible entrant, Josh Bertrand , received $2,000.
2018 Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Kentucky Lake presented by Abu Garcia 5/4-5/7
Kentucky Lake, Paris TN.
(PROFESSIONAL) Standings Day 4
Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$
1. Wesley Strader Spring City, TN 20 80-04 110 $101,000.00
Day 1: 5 19-06 Day 2: 5 17-13 Day 3: 5 22-06 Day 4: 5 20-11
2. Skeet Reese Auburn, CA 18 76-06 109 $25,000.00
Day 1: 5 23-11 Day 2: 5 21-10 Day 3: 4 13-07 Day 4: 4 17-10
3. Kelley Jaye Dadeville, AL 20 73-06 108 $20,000.00
Day 1: 5 22-00 Day 2: 5 11-14 Day 3: 5 21-01 Day 4: 5 18-07
4. Jason Christie Park Hill, OK 20 71-08 107 $15,000.00
Day 1: 5 20-13 Day 2: 5 18-15 Day 3: 5 16-09 Day 4: 5 15-03
5. Fred Roumbanis Russellville, AR 18 70-05 106 $14,000.00
Day 1: 5 17-15 Day 2: 5 22-11 Day 3: 3 13-03 Day 4: 5 16-08
6. Josh Bertrand San Tan Valley, AZ 20 69-08 105 $13,500.00
Day 1: 5 20-02 Day 2: 5 13-15 Day 3: 5 18-06 Day 4: 5 17-01
7. Bobby Lane Jr. Lakeland, FL 20 68-08 104 $13,000.00
Day 1: 5 20-07 Day 2: 5 18-02 Day 3: 5 15-03 Day 4: 5 14-12
8. Greg Hackney Gonzales, LA 20 66-10 103 $12,500.00
Day 1: 5 16-14 Day 2: 5 19-09 Day 3: 5 16-02 Day 4: 5 14-01
9. Brent Chapman Lake Quivira, KS 19 65-14 102 $12,000.00
Day 1: 5 17-04 Day 2: 5 18-04 Day 3: 5 19-05 Day 4: 4 11-01
10. Boyd Duckett Guntersville, AL 17 64-09 101 $11,500.00
Day 1: 4 14-02 Day 2: 5 24-00 Day 3: 5 17-15 Day 4: 3 08-08
11. Shaw Grigsby Jr. Gainesville, FL 17 60-12 100 $12,500.00
Day 1: 5 19-12 Day 2: 5 20-13 Day 3: 4 13-07 Day 4: 3 06-12
12. Mark Menendez Paducah, KY 16 56-02 99 $10,500.00
Day 1: 5 16-00 Day 2: 5 20-09 Day 3: 5 16-01 Day 4: 1 03-08
PHOENIX BOATS BIG BASS
Shaw Grigsby Jr. Gainesville, FL 07-11 $1,500.00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 82 493 1589-05
2 70 473 1482-06
3 32 208 645-08
4 7 50 164-02
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191 1224 3881-05
MCKEE’S AKEMON WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MOUNTAIN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE CUMBERLAND
MCKEE’S AKEMON WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE MOUNTAIN DIVISION TOURNAMENT ON LAKE CUMBERLAND
Michigan’s Wathen Grabs Co-angler Title
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BURNSIDE, Ky. (May 7, 2018) – Boater Jason Akemon of McKee, Kentucky, won the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Mountain Division event on Lake Cumberland Saturday with five bass weighing 18 pounds, 15 ounces. For his efforts, Akemon took home $4,271.
Akemon said he spent his day sight-fishing toward the dam, and that his fish were scattered along a 5-mile stretch.
“I found 11 fish in practice that were worth going after and were fairly protected,” said Akemon, who notched his first career win in FLW competition. “I knew it was going to be windy and rainy, so I needed to have fish I could get to.”
Akemon said he originally planned on targeting smallmouth out deep, but decided to stick with bed-fishing.
“I was afraid the smallmouth bite would fall off with the front coming in, and it did. I fished for them in practice Thursday and by Friday it had already started falling off,” said Akemon. “I knew I could get 18 or 19 pounds bed-fishing and it ended up being the right decision. I had my limit by 7:45 a.m.”
Akemon ended up bringing two smallmouth and three largemouth to the scale. He used two baits – a Z-Man ChatterBait with a Strike King Rage Tail Craw trailer for smallmouth, and a white Texas-rigged Zoom Baby Brush Hog for largemouth.
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Jason Akemon, McKee, Ky., five bass, 18-15, $4,271
2nd: Ryan Coleman, Utica, Ky., five bass, 17-10, $2,136
3rd: Michael Morrison, Georgetown, Ky., five bass, 16-2, $1,424
4th: Dwight Fox, Gainesboro, Tenn., five bass, 15-4, $1,125
4th: Jason Barr, Fort Campbell, Ky., five bass, 15-4, $925
6th: Brian Wilson, Somerset, Ky., five bass, 15-2, $1,183
7th: James Copeland, Bowling Green, Ky., five bass, 13-15, $712
8th: Robert Reagan, Byrdstown, Tenn., five bass, 13-14, $641
9th: Jeff Carman, Liberty, Ky., five bass, 13-13, $569
10th: Billy Hall, Florence, Ky., five bass, 13-12, $498
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Curtis Hall of Florence, Kentucky, brought a 5-pound, 4-ounce bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $595.
James Wathen of Royal Oak, Michigan, won the Co-angler Division and $2,346 Saturday after bringing four bass weighing 10 pounds, 14 ounces, to the scale.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: James Wathen, Royal Oak, Mich., four bass, 10-14, $2,346
2nd: Levi Neathery, Albany, Ky., five bass, 10-8, $1,050
3rd: Mark Major, Nicholasville, Ky., five bass, 9-7, $701
4th: Darren Kelly, Wartburg, Tenn., five bass, 9-5, $540
5th: Taylor Wisniewski, Lexington, Ky., five bass, 9-4, $420
6th: R.J. Anderson, Beaver Dam, Ky., five bass, 8-13, $385
7th: Brian Reed, Cookeville, Tenn., four bass, 8-7, $350
8th: Jeff Pergram, Richmond, Ky., four bass, 8-6, $297
8th: Michael Skaggs, Brownsville, Ky., four bass, 8-6, $297
10th: Doug Adkins, Gray Hawk, Ky., four bass, 8-4, $245
Wathen also caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 3 pounds, 14 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $146.
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. 25-27 BFL Regional Championship on Lake Chickamauga in Dayton, Tennessee. 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. The 2018 BFL All-American will be held May 31-June 2 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is hosted by the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. 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, Instagra
SOCIAL CIRCLE’S CARTER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BULLDOG DIVISION EVENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR
SOCIAL CIRCLE’S CARTER WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE BULLDOG DIVISION EVENT ON LAKE SINCLAIR
Athens’ Kimmel Grabs Co-angler Title
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (May 7, 2018) – Boater Kip Carter of Social Circle, Georgia, caught a five-bass limit weighing 18 pounds, 2 ounces, Saturday to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Bulldog Division event on Lake Sinclair. For his efforts, Carter netted $6,126.
“I caught the majority of my fish in the first two hours of the day during the shad spawn,” said Carter, who earned his second career win on Lake Sinclair in BFL competition. “I fished mid-lake, targeting grass and seawalls.”
Carter said he used three baits – a buzzbait, a Nasty Shad-colored Spro Dean Rojas 65 Bronzeye Frog and a custom chartreuse and white-colored spinnerbait with gold double-willow leaf blades and a white Zoom Split Tail trailer.
“The spinnerbait caught more in terms of the number of fish, but the topwaters got the bigger ones,” said Carter.
With around 15 pounds of fish in his livewell, Carter left the shad spawn and flipped docks for the remainder of his day with a Junebug-colored Zoom Trick Worm on a shaky-head rig.
“I stayed mid-lake and got a couple key bites that ended up anchoring my bag for the win,” said Carter.
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Kip Carter, Social Circle, Ga., five bass, 18-2, $4,126 + $2,000 Ranger Cup Bonus
2nd: Dylan Peppers, Good Hope, Ga., five bass, 15-13, $1,963
3rd: Mark Svendsen, Doraville, Ga., five bass, 14-2, $1,939
4th: Steve Phillips, Douglas, Ga., five bass, 12-12, $916
5th: John McKinney, Palatka, Fla., five bass, 12-6, $785
6th: Terry Adams, Mansfield, Ga., five bass, 11-7, $720
7th: Tony Couch, Buckhead, Ga., five bass, 11-5, $654
8th: David Milsaps, Ranger, Ga., five bass, 11-3, $856
8th: Pat Fisher, Colbert, Ga., five bass, 11-3, $556
10th: John Bitter, Maitland, Fla., five bass, 10-4, $458
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Svendsen brought a 5-pound, 12-ounce bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $530.
Justin Kimmel of Athens, Georgia, won the Co-angler Division and $2,228 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 11 pounds, 2 ounces.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: Justin Kimmel, Athens, Ga., five bass, 11-2, $2,228
2nd: Mike Thornton, Jonesboro, Ga., four bass, 8-11, $1,081
3rd: Matthew O’Connell, Brooks, Ga., five bass, 8-3, $705
4th: Brandon Padilla, Roswell, Ga., five bass, 8-0, $458
5th: Zachary Padilla, Roswell, Ga., three bass, 7-10, $393
6th: Daniel Bentley, Fayetteville, Ga., five bass, 7-9, $360
7th: Ariel Laria, Flowery Branch, Ga., four bass, 7-5, $294
7th: Ron Lee, Cumming, Ga., four bass, 7-5, $294
7th: Carlos Guzman, Fayetteville, Ga., four bass, 7-5, $294
10th: Christopher Wilder, Macon, Ga., four bass, 7-3, $229
Kimmel also caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 5 pounds, 8 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $265.
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. 11-13 BFL Regional Championship on St. Johns River in Palatka, Florida. 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. The 2018 BFL All-American will be held May 31-June 2 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is hosted by the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. 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, Instagra