Bowling Green’s Clark Takes Co-angler Title

SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (June 12, 2017) – Brent Anderson of Kingston Springs, Tennessee, won the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Mountain Division tournament on the Barren River Saturday with five bass totaling 18 pounds, 10 ounces. For his win, Anderson took home $4,252.

Anderson said he split his day between two different schools of bass – one in Skaggs Creek and the other on the main river. He said both schools were stationed in 14 to 18 feet of water, and that they were the only two he fished all day.

“I was the only one who even attempted to fish the first school in Skaggs Creek,” said Anderson, who earned his seventh career-victory in BFL competition. “They were located near a side of a point where the creek channel swung in and touched the side of it. I ended up catching most of my weight there using a 1-ounce (white) Tennessee River Tackle hair jig that had feathers tied in it.”

Anderson said he spent a little more than three hours in Skaggs Creek before moving on to his main-river area, another channel swing that bent away from the bank and ran down the side of a skinny point.

“The fish weren’t biting the hair jig so I switched to an 8-inch, chrome-colored (Nichols) Magnum Spoon,” said Anderson. “I was able to catch two good ones fairly quickly.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1^st:          Brent Anderson, Kingston Springs, Tenn., five bass, 18-10, $4,252

2^nd:         Casey O’Donnell, Langston, Ala., five bass, 15-0, $1,598

2^nd:         Brian Wilson, Somerset, Ky., five bass, 15-0, $1,898

4^th:          Ryan Coleman, Utica, Ky., five bass, 14-5, $838

5^th:          Drew Boggs, Lebanon, Tenn., five bass, 14-0, $718

6^th:          Rusty Smith, Somerset, Ky., five bass, 13-10, $659

7^th:          Gary Isgrigg, Mount Washington, Ky., five bass, 12-15, $599

8^th:          Michael Morrison, Georgetown, Ky., five bass, 12-12, $539

9^th:          John Daniel, Bowling Green, Ky., five bass, 12-11, $479

10^th:        Jason Cooper, Shelbyville, Tenn., five bass, 12-4, $419

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Anderson also caught a bass weighing 5 pounds, 10 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $460.

Pete Clark of Bowling Green, Kentucky, won the Co-angler Division and $1,796 Saturday after weighing five bass totaling 14 pounds, 2 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

1^st:          Pete Clark, Bowling Green, Ky., five bass, 14-2, $1,796

2^nd:         Blake Miller, Saint Albans, W. Va., five bass, 9-14, $1,098

3^rd:          Ray Hardwick, Burnside, Ky., three bass, 9-12, $598

4^th:          Jason Hackett, Bowling Green, Ky., four bass, 8-2, $419

5^th:          Dustin Jones, Stanford, Ky., three bass, 7-15, $359

6^th:          Todd Stopher, London, Ky., four bass, 7-10, $314

6^th:          Billy Hughes, Eubank, Ky., three bass, 7-10, $544

8^th:          Jeff Pergram, Richmond, Ky., four bass, 7-9, $269

9^th:          Taylor Wisniewski, Lexington, Ky., four bass, 7-4, $289

10^th:        Donnie Durbin, Somerset, Ky., three bass, 7-1, $210

Hughes caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division – a fish weighing 4 pounds, 7 ounces – which earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $230.

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. 5-7 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 2017 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.

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