Bryan’s Vetter Wins Co-angler Title

CORTLAND, Ohio (Aug. 20, 2018) – Boater Steve Hatfield of Ashland, Ohio, brought a five-bass limit to the scale weighing 16 pounds, 15 ounces Saturday to win the 2018 T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Buckeye Division event at Mosquito Lake. Hatfield earned $3,426 for his victory.

According to post-tournament reports, Hatfield caught his fish near the dam, targeting grass lines in 4 to 8 feet of water with a green-pumpkin-colored Rat-L-Trap.

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1^st:           Steve Hatfield, Ashland, Ohio, five bass, 16-15, $3,426

2^nd:          Sean Wieda, Florence, Ky., five bass, 15-10, $1,713

3^rd:          Mark Dove, North Vernon, Ind., five bass, 15-4, $1,141

4^th:           Craig Burwell, North Baltimore, Ohio, five bass, 14-13, $799

5^th:           Brock Spencer, Waynesfield, Ohio, five bass, 14-7, $685

6^th:           Mervin Miller, Sugarcreek, Ohio, five bass, 14-2, $1,258

7^th:           Butch Dobransky, Canton, Ohio, five bass, 13-8, $671

8^th:           Mike Lockhart, Belpre, Ohio, five bass, 12-13, $514

9^th:           Kyle Weisenburger, Ottawa, Ohio, five bass, 12-10, $428

9^th:           Art Bailey, Twinsburg, Ohio, five bass, 12-10, $428

Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.

Miller caught a bass weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – to earn the Boater’s Big Bass award of $430.

Hans Vetter of Bryan, Ohio, won the Co-angler Division Saturday after catching a five-bass limit weighing 14 pounds, 10 ounces. Vetter earned $1,713 for his victory.

The top 10 co-anglers finished:

1^st:           Hans Vetter, Bryan, Ohio, five bass, 14-10, $1,713

2^nd:          Brian Short, Oxford, Ohio, five bass, 11-13, $1,056

3^rd:          Frank Aldridge, Wheelersburg, Ohio, five bass, 11-10, $621

4^th:           Brett Warrick, Westerville, Ohio, five bass, 11-9, $400

5^th:           Jordan Scales, Russells Point, Ohio, five bass, 10-13, $343

6^th:           Ryan Sykes, Hamilton, Ohio, five bass, 10-9, $314

7^th:           John Garrett, Orient, Ohio, five bass, 10-6, $271

7^th:           Darrell Carroll, Independence, Ky., five bass, 10-6, $271

9^th:           Hunter Fillmore, Waynesville, Ohio, five bass, 10-2, $228

10^th:        Bill Langille, Kent, Ohio, five bass, 9-14, $200

Billy French of Hamilton, Ohio, earned the Co-Angler Big Bass Award of $107 after bringing a bass weighing 3 pounds, 12 ounces to the scale.

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. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

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