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MLF 2022 Builders FirstSource Patriot Cup Filmed in Dallas Set to Premiere Saturday on Outdoor Channel

Twenty-Four MLF Anglers Compete on Lewisville Lake, Eagle Mountain Lake and Lavon Lake over Six Days for Prestigious Patriot Cup

DALLAS, Texas (April 7, 2022) – The Major League Fishing (MLF) 2022 Builders FirstSource Patriot Cup Presented by Guaranteed Rate, filmed over six days in November in the Dallas area, is set to premiere this Saturday, April 9, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET on the Outdoor Channel and on-demand on the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) streaming app. The event showcases 24 of the top pro anglers in the world competing in the third MLF Cup event of the 2022 season.

“We were very excited to welcome Major League Fishing to Dallas,” said Dallas Sports Commission Executive Director Monica Paul. “Major League Fishing choosing us to host the Patriot Cup is indicative of how truly diverse our portfolio of sporting events is and how much opportunity there is for fishing events specifically in our market. We appreciate our partnership with Major League Fishing and hope to continue working together for years to come.”

The first episode, set to premiere Saturday, features the eight anglers in Group 1 competing in their opening Elimination Round. Episode two features the eight anglers in Group 2; Episode three will feature the eight anglers in Group 3. The top six finishers from each group’s Elimination Round advance to the two-day Sudden Death Round – episodes four and five – where nine anglers compete each day and try to finish in the top four. The sixth and final episode will feature the final eight anglers competing in the Championship Round to catch the most weight that they can to be crowned the 2022 Patriot Cup Champion.

The 24 Anglers that compete in the 2022 Builders FirstSource Patriot Cup Presented by Guaranteed Rate in Dallas are:

Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz.
Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark.
Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn.
John Cox, DeBary, Fla.
Ott DeFoe, Blaine, Tenn.
Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif.
James Elam, Tulsa, Okla.
Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla.
Shin Fukae, Osaka, Japan
Alton Jones, Lorena, Texas
Alton Jones, Jr., Waco, Texas
Matt Lee, Cullman, Ala.
Cody Meyer, Star, Idaho
Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C.
Britt Myers, Lake Wylie, S.C.
Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn.
Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif.
Fred Roumbanis, Russellville, Ark.
Terry Scroggins, San Mateo, Fla.
Gerald Spohrer, Gonzales, La.
Jeff Sprague, Wills Point, Texas
Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn.
Scott Suggs, Alexander, Ark.
Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C.

The 2022 Builders FirstSource Patriot Cup Presented by Guaranteed Rate was hosted by the Dallas Sports Commission. The event will air on the Outdoor Channel as six, two-hour original episodes each Saturday afternoon starting April 9, 2022, and running through May 14, airing from 2 to 4 p.m. ET. Each episode is available for viewing on the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) streaming app on the Monday morning following each episode’s Saturday premiere.

The 2022 Builders FirstSource Patriot Cup Presented by Guaranteed Rate features 24 MLF pro anglers visiting the Dallas area to compete on either Lewisville Lake, Eagle Mountain Lake or Lavon Lake on each day of competition. The fisheries are unknown to the anglers – they do not learn where they are competing until they arrive to the launch ramp each morning of competition.

The full television schedule can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

For complete details and updated information on Major League Fishing and the MLF Cup events, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

by AnglersChannel

BERKLEY BAITS DOMINATE MLF REDCREST

Berkley Pros open up about the juice in their Plano EDGE boxes from the 2022 Major League Fishing’s REDCREST on Grand Lake in Oklahoma.

TULSA, OK. (April 6, 2022) – After an impressive comeback performance on the final day of the 2022 Major League Fishing’s REDCREST, Berkley and Plano pro Bobby Lane reigns king of Grand Lake. But he didn’t do it alone. The Berkley Frittside was the difference needed to put him above the competition. In addition, numerous anglers including Berkley pros Edwin Evers and Jordan Lee found success using a proven championship-winning bait, the Berkley Stunna.

Diving into each Berkley pro’s Plano EDGE box, it was clear that flat sided crankbaits and jerkbaits were the presentations of choice for those who found success on Grand Lake. With water temperatures hovering in the high forties to low fifties, Berkley baits designed to trigger bites from pre-spawn largemouth played a role for both the champion and a wide spectrum of anglers participating in this year’s event.

Looking into Lane’s Plano EDGE box, it was chock full of Berkley Frittsides – more specifically the Berkley Frittside 5. Being a plastic flat-sided crankbait, the Frittside delivers proven balsa action but also features the durability and casting performance of a plastic bait. The tight balsa-like thumping action proves to be effective during tough conditions like those seen on Grand Lake during REDCREST.

“The Berkley Frittside was the key to putting 99% of my fish in the boat this week. It’s an amazing bait to crank shallow rock and certainly saved the day for me on Grand Lake.” Mentioned Lane after becoming the 2022 MLF REDCREST Champion.

Opening up Evers and Lee’s Plano EDGE boxes, we find a different but championship-proven Berkley bait – the Stunna. Designed by Berkley pro and Bassmaster Classic Champion Hank Cherry, the Stunna was critical to bringing Cherry his second Bassmaster Classic trophy and almost brought an MLF Redcrest Championship title to several anglers on championship Sunday. The Stunna delivers a unique slow sink triggering bites from the finickiest of fish and the tungsten weight transfer system allows for long casts getting the bait to depths where fish typically don’t see a jerkbait.

“We spend countless hours here at the Berkley Lab using a scientific approach to building our baits,” says Dan Spengler, Berkley’s Senior Project Manager of Bait Development. “To watch the Frittside and the Stunna be such an imperative aspect of the equation for anglers to win big time championship events really reflects what our team here at Berkley strives for.”

To learn more about Berkley fishing, click here. To learn more about tackle storage from Plano, click here.

by AnglersChannel

AC Insider Podcast - "Canadian Invasion"

This week Chris & the boys welcome in Bassmaster Open Cherokee Champ Coop Gallant to the show to talk about his win, his path and his goals to qualify for the Elites. An old familiar voice rejoins the show to talk about Redcrest and more!!

by AnglersChannel

Montevallo Ranked Number One College Bass Fishing Team Entering Barnett Reservoir Rumble

Auburn University just over 600 points behind in 2^nd, and Carson-Newman University is in 3^rd

SAN ANTONIO, TX (APRIL 5, 2022) – The race for 2021-22 Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia is reaching a fever pitch as the chase enters the final two months of the season. The next nationally televised major event on the schedule is the Association of Collegiate Anglers’ Barnett Reservoir Rumble, which is set to take place on Barnett Reservoir in Ridgeland, MS. This ACA double points major event will be a key tournament in determining who will finish the season ranked number one. 15 of the top 20 teams in the nation are entered in the Barnett Reservoir Rumble, so this event will likely shape which teams are highly ranked at the end of the season. The University of Montevallo is in 1^st place with a more than 600-point lead over Auburn University in 2^nd, and Carson-Newman University rounds out the top three.

The latest update to the standings in the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia features tournament results and points awarded at the following events:

MLF Southern Regional at Sam Rayburn
BASS College Series at Lake Norman
MLF Championship at Fort Gibson Lake
Missouri BASS State Qualifier at Lake of the Ozarks

With the addition of these events to the overall points standings, here is a look at the teams moving up in the Top 25 in the National Rankings:

6) Drury University – Previously Ranked 7^th

8) Bryan College – Previously Ranked 12^th

15) Wabash Valley College – Previously Ranked 19^th

19) Campbellsville University – Previously Ranked 22^nd

24) Kentucky Christian University – Previously Ranked 31^st

View the complete updated rankings.

The spring of the year is one of the busiest times of the year on the schedule for collegiate anglers. This latest stretch for the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia awarded over 78,000 points across four different events to approximately 50 different bass fishing teams. Numerous teams earned over 2,000 points during this stretch, expanding their team points earnings for the year.

Taking a look at the top of the standings, Auburn University closed the gap slightly between themselves and number one ranked University of Montevallo. Entering the first ACA event of the spring semester, Auburn is within striking distance of the defending School of the Year winners.

15 of the Top 20 teams, including eight of the Top 10, in the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia are set to compete in the Barnett Reservoir Rumble this upcoming weekend. 1^st place will earn 1,250 points for their respective school, and college bass fishing teams will be awarded points for their two highest-finishing boats inside of the Top 125.

As the final ACA major regular season event of the 2021-22 season before the year-end Championship at Pickwick Lake, the Barnett Reservoir Rumble is one of the most important events of the season to this point. Double points open up the possibility for a team to shoot up the standings with two good finishes. Two Top 10 finishes would net a given school over 2,000 points leaving Barnett Reservoir. That gives teams ranked roughly 2^nd– 14^th with a very realistic shot at supplanting themselves down the stretch as a true contender to finish the year ranked in the Top 5 for the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia.

Following the completion of the Barnett Reservoir Rumble, be on the lookout for a complete video breakdown of the updated standings in the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia next week.

by AnglersChannel

Tidal Impacts Will Be Key For Bassmaster Northern Open On James River

Virginia's James River will host the St. Croix Bassmaster Northern Open presented by Mossy Oak Fishing April 14-16, 2022.

Photo by Brenden Kanies/B.A.S.S.

April 6, 2022

RICHMOND, Va. — Independent thinking is the cornerstone of competitive fishing. However, anglers may find that going with the flow leads to success at the St. Croix Bassmaster Northern Open at James River presented by Mossy Oak Fishing.

Competition days will be April 14-16 with daily takeoffs from Osborne Park & Boat Landing at 6:30 a.m. ET. Weigh-ins will take place back at the Landing at 2:30 p.m. The Top 10 boaters after Day 2 will advance to the championship round while the co-angler champion will be crowned at the conclusion of the Day 2 weigh-in. Full coverage can be found on Bassmaster.com.

Emptying into Chesapeake Bay, which meets the Atlantic Ocean, the James River experiences daily ebb and flow, but Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Jonathan Kelley knows well the seasonal tendencies. Moreover, the 2021 Bassmaster Opens Northern Division points champion, who placed eighth at last year’s James River Open, nods to the week’s lunar cycle.

“The main factor is the tide level, high or low, and then if you have a supertide where it floods or it does the opposite where it completely flows out (and drains shallow targets),” said Kelley, who makes his home in Old Forge, Pa. “Both of those can happen in the spring. You can’t predict it that far in advance, so it’s all going to come down to a couple of days before the tournament.

“This tournament is right around a full moon (April 16), so sometimes, that does bring an extreme tide. But it could be a good thing. If the weather stays consistent, it’s setting up to be a really good tournament.”

Notwithstanding this anticipation, Kelley notes the variables of seasonal volatility.

“It’s the perfect time to be there; we’ve gotten into those early warmups, and I know they’ve had decent weather there,” Kelley said. “But anything could change this time of year — you could have heavy rains, you could have a fall-out tide, you could have a cold front. We experienced that last year, we had a major cold front and a major blow-out.”

Tournament week will begin warm and sunny with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. The forecast calls for increasing clouds, with showers Thursday afternoon and Friday morning ushering cooler temperatures.

Day 1 should remain warm, but Days 2 and 3 will dip into the mid- to upper 60s. Overnight lows will only fall into the upper 40s, so the cooldown shouldn’t impact the bite too much.

Typically, even a mild cooling trend can slow or stall spawning migrations, but as Kelley points out, river fish typically live close to where they’ll spawn. When it’s time to go, they’ll dash into the nearest firm-bottom area — sandy spots, cypress knees, gravel pits, etc. — so a relatively mild shot of cooler weather shouldn’t drastically affect their positioning.

The James River is certainly not devoid of traditional sight fishing opportunities, but the proximity between prespawn and spawning areas creates a lot of overlap. Visibility is often limited on tidal rivers, so anglers typically target likely areas with blind fishing techniques.

“You won’t have to do a whole lot different to catch spawners or prespawners,” Kelley said. “Fish could be bedding, but either you won’t see them, or you’re not going to know when you catch one. There may be pockets of clearerRead more

by AnglersChannel

BASS FISHING HALL OF FAME TO AWARD GRANTS FOR CONSERVATION PROJECTS

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri – 4/6/22 – As part of its mission to celebrate, promote and preserve the sport of bass fishing, the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame will award conservation grants to worthy organizations and efforts for the third consecutive year. Applications must be submitted to BFHOF Conservation Committee Chairman Gene Gilliland by May 15, 2022, for review by a panel of BFHOF Board Members.

“We are thrilled to be able to contribute in this way,” said Hall of Fame President John Mazurkiewicz. “We’ve really gained momentum in the past several years. Our induction banquet and intermittent auctions have proven to be wildly successful. That increasingly gives us the means to give back to the fishing community. Conservation and youth projects are key ways of doing that.”

In 2020, the Hall awarded grants to four organizations: The Clarks Hill Youth Fishing Team; the Illinois B.A.S.S. Nation; the Indiana Bass Federation and the Virginia Bass Federation.

Last year, the Hall again provided grants to four projects spearheaded by the following groups: The Southwest Iowa Fishing Team; the Spring Bassmasters and Southern Colorado Junior Bass Club; the Tri-County Bass Anglers of Indiana; and the Chattanooga Bass Association.

The grants totaled $15,000. This year, the Hall intends to match that total. “Our sport depends on these grassroots warriors to keep us going,” said Board member Gene Gilliland, who is also the B.A.S.S. Conservation Director as well as a 2021 inductee into the Hall. “While we recognize that we can’t reward every worthy project, we are increasingly able to help a few each year get completed.”

Gilliland and fellow Board member Casey Shedd of AFTCO will lead the BFHOF conservation grant selection process. Criteria for appropriate projects is outlined on the Hall of Fame’s website at: https://www.bassfishinghof.com/bass-fishing-hall-of-fame-grant-program. Completed applications can be sent to Gilliland at [email protected], as can any questions.

The Bass Fishing Hall of Fame will hold its annual induction dinner on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, at the Wonders of Wildlife Museum and Aquarium in Springfield, Mo. There will also be a concurrent auction which will assist the Board in hosting the dinner and other recognition events each year, along with funding next year’s conservation grants and other worthy endeavors benefiting the sport of bass fishing. Generous donors from all walks of the fishing and outdoors industries have already donated numerous products and experiences, many of them one-of-a-kind items that cannot be purchased elsewhere at any price.

About the BFHOF -- The Bass Fishing Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization led by a volunteer board of directors and is dedicated to celebrating, promoting and preserving the sport of bass fishing. Since 2017, the Hall’s inductees and memorabilia representing the history of bass fishing is showcased in Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife Museum and Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri, where it has rapidly become a popular destination.

For more information about the Hall, its mission, and to become a supporting member,

visit www.BassFishingHOF.com,

by AnglersChannel

MLF Fisheries Management Division Announces New Partnerships, Schedule of Events and Places Local Habitat During REDCREST

TULSA, Okla. (April 5, 2022) – At the REDCREST 2022 Outdoor Sports Expo Presented by Costa, the Major League Fishing Fisheries Management Division in partnership with Berkley Labs made several announcements and completed the industry’s first live habitat build.

A press conference was held on March 26 officially announcing the formation of the Fisheries Management Division (FMD), as well as a partnership with Berkley Labs. During the press conference, FMD directors Steven Bardin and Gary Klein outlined two habitat projects to be completed during the 2022 Bass Pro Tour Season: MossBack Fish Habitat and Mercury Marine will support one of these projects while Berkley Labs will support the other.

"Without healthy fisheries, there is no fishing so we are proud to put the cutting edge resources of Berkley Labs to work with Major League Fishing's Fisheries Management Division to protect and preserve waterways and fish habitats around the country," said Berkley Senior VP of Marketing Jon Schlosser. "With decades of research and the most experienced and capable team of experts in studying fish behavior and product development, we are proud to work as part of the team committed to ensuring this passion we all share is around for generations to come.”

“This has been in the works for a very long time and we are so excited to be rolling out a full slate of conservation projects in 2022,” said Gary Klein. “With the support of our amazing lineup of industry partners we know these events are going to be extremely beneficial for the local communities and fisheries that we visit.”

Costa Sunglasses also joined the MLF-FMD with the announcement of the Costa Clean Water Matters campaign. This campaign will work to clean up trash dumped in fisheries all over the country. SeaArk Boats will support Costa’s efforts by providing their revolutionary trash clean-up boat for use by MLF professionals during four events this season.

2022 MLF-FMD Schedule of Events:

April 30-May 1 FMD Costa Clean Water Matters Program supported by SeaArk at Lake of the Ozarks

May 11 FMD Habitat Restoration Project supported by Mercury Marine and MossBack at Lake Guntersville

June 4 FMD Habitat Restoration Project supported by Berkley Labs and MossBack at Watts Bar Lake

June 15 FMD Costa Clean Water Matters Program supported by SeaArk at the James River

July 28 FMD Costa Clean Water Matters Program supported by SeaArk at Lake Champlain

Aug. 6-7 FMD Costa Clean Water Matters Program supported by SeaArk at Cayuga Lake

Outside of the press event, the FMD used the REDCREST expo to provide the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) with more than 150 artificial structures. Incorporating a habitat build directly into the Expo was a first for the industry. At the Ferguson Habitat Build booth, volunteers from the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance used PVC materials donated by Ferguson to construct 100 4x4x4-foot Georgia Cubes, as well as assemble a MossBack Fish Habitat. The Mossback structures were donated by MossBack, the Kevin VanDam Foundation and via fan donations at the expo.

(Photo by: Ricky Bodsford/Bass365)

The ODWC will deploy the majority of the habitat in Grand Lake over the next several months. Some of those units will go to Lake Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma and to Bixhoma Lake, a small fishery south of Tulsa.

“Habitat for many of our reservoirs is being lost due to the aging process. Much of the natural fish habitat once found in a reservoir has been either buried by siltation or slowly degraded over time as it decomposes. This habitat loss must be addressed if we plan to continue to support healthy fish populations. This is why a project like the Ferguson Habitat build and partnerships with USA, MossBack Fish Habitat, the KVD Foundation and Berkley Labs is so important to MLF Fisheries Management division,” said Steven Bardin, Fisheries Biologist for the MLF-FMD.

On March 28 – less than 24 hours after Bobby Lane claimed the REDCREST trophy – the first step in the deployment of these fish structures took place with six Georgia Cubes and seven MossBack trophy trees placed by the ODWC in Bixhoma Lake. The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance volunteers, MossBack Fish Habitat owner David King, MLF co-founder Gary Klein and FMD biologist Steven Bardin assisted with the Bixhoma Lake habitat deployment.

(Photos by: Chris Neal/MLF)

Tulsa’s KOTV News on 6 covered the habitat deployment live via helicopter and on the water with anchor Tess Maune joining to place three of the MossBack Fish Habitats under a handicap accessible dock. The GPS locations for these and all the future habitat locations will be available under the “Where to Fish” tab on the ODWC website along with in their interactive state habitat map.

Proud partners of the MLF Fisheries Management Division include: Berkley Labs, Costa Sunglasses, SeaArk, Mercury Marine, Ferguson and MossBack Fish Habitat.

For complete details and updated information on Major League Fishing and the MLF Fisheries Management Division, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com/fisheries-management. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

by AnglersChannel

Edwards Claims Phoenix Bass Fishing League Win on Day 2 of Table Rock Lake Double-Header

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Landon Edwards of Springdale, Arkansas, caught five bass Sunday weighing 19 pounds, 1 ounce, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Table Rock Lake . The tournament was the second event for the Bass Fishing League Ozark Division. Edwards earned $6,000 for his victory.

“I caught a lot of fish today,” said Edwards, who said he fished around Kimberling City and the James River. “I found bait, and where you found bait is where you found fish. I was just looking for birds diving for bait and then using my graph to find fish. I’d roll up on a school and start smashing them.”

Edwards said he caught 30 bass over three pounds during the course of the day and described the action as “insane.” He relied on a jerkbait, weighted with lead tape and wire on the hooks to get the bait down to the depths where fish were holding. A Rapala Jigging Shad Rap Ice and a small Keitech soft plastic bait filled his limit. He targeted bass in 100 feet of water that were suspended in depths from 10 to 60 feet.

“Wherever they were blowing holes in the baitfish is where I was catching them,” Edwards said. “I rolled up early to my spot where I knew they were loaded, made a cast and caught a 5-pounder, then caught a few more good ones. Then the sun came up and they got a little finicky. So I started throwing the little Keitech and hitting them in the face with it, and they just couldn’t resist it.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Landon Edwards, Springdale, Ark., five bass, 19-1, $6,000
2nd:       Ryder Mains, Wellsville, Kan., five bass, 19-0, $3,000
3rd:       Joe Grafeman, Camdenton, Mo., five bass, 18-13, $2,500 (includes $500 Phoenix MLF Contingency Bonus)
4th:        Jacob Wade, Mountain Grove, Mo., five bass, 18-12, $1,400
5th:        Graden Hansen, Sachse, Texas, five bass, 18-7, $1,200
6th:        Dustin Blevins, Harrison, Ark., five bass, 17-14, $1,300
7th:        Matt Ells, Mount Vernon, Mo., five bass, 17-0, $2,000
8th:        Tim Merkh, Bennington, Kan., five bass, 16-3, $850
8th:        Cole Breeden, Eldridge, Mo., five bass, 16-3, $850
10th:     Cole Anderson, Bentonville, Ark., five bass, 16-2, $665
10th:     Eric Olliverson, Lampe, Mo., five bass, 16-2, $665

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Ells had a 6-pound, 10-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $1,000.

Shane McGinnis of Springfield, Missouri, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $3,000 Sunday after catching five bass weighing 14 pounds, 7 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Shane McGinnis, Springfield, Mo., five bass, 14-7, $3,000
2nd:       Drew Boehle, Saint Charles, Mo., five bass, 14-3, $1,500
3rd:       Easton Blankenship, Iberia, Mo., five bass, 13-14, $1,000
4th:        D.J. Pugh, Overland Park, Kan., five bass, 13-12, $700
5th:        Kory Ries, Union, Mo., five bass, 13-4, $600
6th:        Mark Horton, Lees Summit, Mo., four bass, 11-1, $625
6th:        Jeff Moss, Oronogo, Mo., four bass, 11-1, $825
8th:        Walter Dechau, Pontiac, Mo., five bass, 10-15, $450
9th:        Chris Bardill, Highland, Ill., three bass, 10-13, $400
10th:     Taylor Surly, Bella Vista, Ark., four bass, 10-11, $350

Michael Mulberry of Galena, Missouri, caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 6 pounds, 1 ounce. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $500.

After two events, Landon Edwards of Springdale, Arkansas, leads the Bass Fishing League Ozark Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 499 points, while Jeff Moss of Truesdale, Missouri, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 483 points.

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. 20-22 Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Grand Lake in Grove, Oklahoma. Boaters will compete for a top award of $60,000, including a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard and $10,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard.

The 2022 Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine 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 Strike King co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six Regional Championships 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 Phoenix Bass Fishing League All-American. The 2022 All-American will be held June 2-4 at Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is hosted by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism and Visit Hot Springs.

The top 45 boaters and Strike King co-anglers plus tournament winners from each Phoenix Bass Fishing League division will also earn priority entry into the MLF Toyota Series, the pathway to the MLF Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit and ultimately the MLF Bass Pro Tour.

Proud sponsors of the 2022 MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine include: 4WP, 13 Fishing, Abu Garcia, AFTCO, A.R.E. Truck Caps, B&W Trailer Hitches, Berkley, Black Rifle Coffee, E3, Epic Baits, Favorite Fishing, Gary Yamamoto Baits, General Tire, Lew’s, Lowrance, Lucas Oil, Mercury, Mossy Oak, Onyx, Phoenix, Polaris, Power-Pole, Revital Outdoors, Strike King, Tackle Warehouse, T-H Marine, Toyota, Wiley X, YETI and Yo-Zuri.

For complete details and updated tournament information, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular Bass Fishing League updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF5’s social media outlets at Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

by AnglersChannel

Garner Wins Phoenix Bass Fishing League Event on Table Rock Lake

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Justin Garner of Highlandville, Missouri, caught five bass Saturday weighing 21 pounds, 13 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Table Rock Lake . The tournament was the season-opener for the Bass Fishing League Ozark Division. Garner earned $13,000, which included the lucrative $7,000 Phoenix MLF Contingency Bonus, for his victory.

“I started out in pre-spawn areas where I know bass like to stage,” Garner said. “I pulled into my second spot and there were shad everywhere, and it was just game on.”

Garner said a Picasso Umbrella Rig with Keitech Swimbaits fished in spots from the Joe Bald area to the Table Rock Dam accounted for most of his bass Saturday.

“This win is awesome,” Garner said. “This Phoenix boat and Major League Fishing makes a good combination and a good payday.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Justin Garner, Highlandville, Mo., five bass, 21-13, $13,000 (includes $7,000 Phoenix MLF Contingency Bonus)
2nd:       Landon Edwards, Springdale, Ark., five bass, 21-2, $3,000
3rd:       Shawn Kowal, Linn Creek, Mo., five bass, 20-3, $2,000
4th:        Travis Harriman, Huntsville, Ark., five bass, 20-2, $1,400
5th:        Dustin Blevins, Harrison, Ark., five bass, 17-14, $1,400
6th:        Wesley Rogers, Thayer, Mo., five bass, 17-13, $1,100
7th:        Connor Cunningham, Springfield, Mo., five bass, 17-11, $1,000
8th:        Tom Statler, Kimberling City, Mo., five bass, 16-14, $900
9th:        Chris Horton, Highlandville, Mo., five bass, 16-12, $800
10th:     Cade Alsbury, Gentry, Ark., five bass, 16-7, $700

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Thomas Rallo of Eldon, Missouri, had a 5-pound, 12-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $1,000.

Sam Poulos of Kirbyville, Missouri, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $3,000 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 18 pounds, 12 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Sam Poulos, Kirbyville, Mo., five bass, 18-12, $3,000
2nd:       Aaron Lorenz, Branson West, Mo., five bass, 18-8, $1,500
3rd:       Christopher Coy, Kirksville, Mo., four bass, 15-3, $1,500
4th:        Bryan Barnard, Harrison, Ark., five bass, 13-10, $700
5th:        Dennis Spell, Bonne Terre, Mo., five bass, 13-7, $600
6th:        Josh Hood, Dupo, Ill., five bass, 12-8, $550
7th:        Rich Carpenter, Parkville, Mo., four bass, 11-8, $500
8th:        Luke Ahart, Ulman, Mo., five bass, 11-7, $450
9th:        Barry Aumiller, Wildwood, Mo., five bass, 10-9, $600
10th:     Alan Quick, Springfield, Mo., four bass, 10-5, $350

Coy caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $500.

After one event, Garner leads the Bass Fishing League Ozark Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 250 points, while Poulos leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race, also with 250 points.

by AnglersChannel

Dorsett Wins Phoenix Bass Fishing League Event on Lake Mitchell

CLANTON, Ala. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Kyle Dorsett of Springville, Alabama, caught five bass Saturday weighing 15 pounds, 7 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Lake Mitchell . The tournament was the second event for the Bass Fishing League Bama Division. Dorsett earned $5,498 for his victory.

“We had about an hour fog delay, and I really didn’t have any expectations,” Dorsett said. “I had practiced a couple of days, and the sun was out then, but I had never even caught a 3-pounder.

“After the fog delay Saturday I went to my spot and there were two boats sitting on it, so I just picked up a jig and went fishing,” Dorsett added. “I fished the way I like to fish.”

Dorsett said his bass came on a Dirty Jigs Swim Jig and a Dirty Jigs Scott Canterbury Flippin’ Jig. He said he focused on fishing Lake Mitchell from the boat ramp mid-lake to the Coosa River.

“This win feels awesome,” Dorsett said. “This is my third BFL win, but it’s been a while. It’s just awesome to win against this caliber of fishermen.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Kyle Dorsett, Springville, Ala., five bass, 15-7, $5,498
2nd:       Chad Hall, Cullman, Ala., five bass, 13-1, $1,873
2nd:       Austin Shields, Lake View, Ala., five bass, 13-1, $1,873
4th:        Dennis Barnes, Boaz, Ala., five bass, 12-14, $1,050
5th:        Danny Grantham, Bay Minette, Ala., five bass, 12-13, $900
6th:        Michael Smith, Andalusia, Ala., five bass, 12-4, $987
6th:        Cory Gardner, Estill Springs, Tenn., five bass, 12-4, $787
8th:        Robbie Robinson, Mobile, Ala., five bass, 12-3, $675
9th:        Dusty Robinson, Eclectic, Ala., five bass, 12-0, $600
10th:     Austin Archer, Anniston, Ala., five bass, 11-10, $1,025 (includes $500 Phoenix MLF Contingency Bonus)

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Tyler Smith of Selma, Alabama, had a 4-pound, 6-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $645.

Mike Langdale of Sycamore, Georgia, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $2,249 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 13 pounds, 12 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Mike Langdale, Sycamore, Ga., five bass, 13-12, $2,249
2nd:       Joseph Chilcott, Crestview, Fla., five bass, 13-3, $1,447
3rd:       Lonnie Hill, Pine Mountain, Ga., five bass, 11-2, $852
4th:        Rodney Thompson, Highland Home, Ala., five bass, 10-8, $525
5th:        Daniel Buswell Jr., Fayetteville, Ga., five bass, 10-1, $450
6th:        Dennis Sandoval, Decatur, Ala., five bass, 9-14, $762
7th:        Anthony Davis, McCalla, Ala., five bass, 9-9, $337
7th:        Michael Corbett, Oxford, Ala., five bass, 9-9, $337
7th:        Sam Fish, Alexander City, Ala., five bass, 9-9, $337
10th:     Gary Marlowe, Montgomery, Ala., five bass, 9-7, $249
10th:     Jeffery McCoy, Montgomery, Ala., five bass, 9-7, $249

Chilcott caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 4 pounds, 14 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $322.

After two events, Dusty Robinson of Eclectic, Alabama, leads the Bass Fishing League Bama Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 487 points, while Mike Langdale of Sycamore, Georgia, and Daniel Buswell, Jr., of Fayetteville, Georgia, are tied for the lead in the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race, both with 487 points.

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. 13-15 Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Pickwick Lake in Counce, Tennessee. Boaters will compete for a top award of $60,000, including a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard and $10,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard.

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Schroeder Wins Phoenix Bass Fishing League Event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir

BROOKELAND, Texas (April 4, 2022) – Boater Blake Schroeder of Whitehouse, Texas, caught five bass Saturday weighing 23 pounds, 4 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Sam Rayburn Reservoir . The tournament, hosted by the Jasper County Development District, was the third event for the Bass Fishing League Cowboy Division. Schroeder earned $5,475 for his victory.

“It wasn’t fast and furious by any means,” Schroeder said. “I caught one big one on a 6^th Sense Cloud 9 C15 crankbait that was about 7½ pounds. I caught a few other ones on a Carolina rig with a Big Bite Baits Pro Lizard in 8 to 12 feet of water. I also caught some of my better ones on beds around hay grass and buck brush on a 3-inch Big Bite Baits soft plastic.”

Schroeder said he caught 15 bass during the course of the day, 11 of which were keepers, fishing north of the Highway 147 bridge.

“This is my third BFL win, and it feels good,” Schroeder said. “I know it’s an accomplishment to win one, and there aren’t a ton of people who get the opportunity to win several, so I’m certainly blessed to have the chance to win in back-to-back years. And winning against the field of anglers that fish Sam Rayburn is an accomplishment in itself.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Blake Schroeder, Whitehouse, Texas, five bass, 23-4, $5,475
2nd:       Tater Reynolds, Florien, La., five bass, 22-9, $2,737
3rd:       Chris Diberardino, Zavalla, Texas, five bass, 21-8, $2,327 (includes $500 Phoenix MLF Contingency Bonus)
4th:        Cameron Mattison, Benton, La., five bass, 20-8, $2,056
4th:        Shaine Campbell, Brookeland, Texas, five bass, 20-8, $1,186
6th:        Wyatt Frankens, Corrigan, Texas, five bass, 19-9, $1,004
7th:        Dicky Newberry, Houston, Texas, five bass, 18-6, $912
8th:        Logan Sherrer, Karnack, Texas, five bass, 18-5, $821
9th:        Jason Bonds, Lufkin, Texas, five bass, 18-1, $730
10th:     Dillon Harrell, New Caney, Texas, five bass, 17-11, $639

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Mattison had a 9-pound, 10-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $870.

Rondell Joseph of Manvel, Texas, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $2,737 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 15 pounds, 9 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Rondell Joseph, Manvel, Texas, five bass, 15-9, $2,737
2nd:       Bryan Myers, Ragley, La., five bass, 14-11, $1,369
3rd:       Tim Sink, Kemah, Texas, five bass, 14-8, $913
4th:        John Pilinski, Haughton, La., two bass, 13-4, $1,074
5th:        Ron Dickens, North Richland Hills, Texas, four bass, 13-0, $547
6th:        Darren Bland, Orange, Texas, four bass, 12-14, $502
7th:        Albert Ignacio, Dallas, Texas, five bass, 12-13, $456
8th:        Mitchel Martin, Washington, La., five bass, 12-7, $388
8th:        Byron Green, Humble, Texas, four bass, 12-7, $388
10th:     Eric Pearce, Roanoke, Texas, five bass, 11-11, $319

Pilinski caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 9 pounds, 7 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $435.

After three events, Tater Reynolds of Florien, Louisiana, leads the Bass Fishing League Cowboy Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 744 points, while Albert Ignacio of Dallas, Texas, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 708 points.

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Fleming Claims Phoenix Bass Fishing League Victory on Grenada Lake

GRENADA, Miss. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Dakota Fleming of Oak Grove, Louisiana, caught five bass Saturday weighing 14 pounds, 9 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Lake Grenada . The tournament, hosted by the Grenada Tourism Commission, was the third event for the Bass Fishing League Mississippi Division. Fleming earned $2,890 for his victory.

“I had planned on fishing close to takeoff to start off, but when I saw there were five boats that had turned in that direction, I ran down the lake to start on my best spot,” Fleming said. “I thought we could pick up a few on the way and then cull at my best spot.”

Fleming said he had found a point that bled into some spawning pockets during practice, and his second pitch of the day resulted in a 2½-pounder that fell for a black and blue Yum Christie Craw. After that, Fleming said he relocated and kept looking for fish, but always ended back up on the point that was producing.

“It kept reloading, and the fish kept getting bigger throughout the day,” Fleming said. “My last two fish were my biggest. I caught six of my seven keepers in a bush that had a floating tree above it. It wasn’t attached; it was going up and down with the waves. If you could pitch just under the tree - not in the bush - you’d get bit.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Dakota Fleming, Oak Grove, La., five bass, 14-9, $2,890
2nd:       Luke Glasgow, Guin, Ala., five bass, 13-15, $1,445
3rd:       Evan Horne, Tuscumbia, Ala., five bass, 11-14, $964
4th:        Will Dupler, Columbus, Miss., five bass, 11-3, $674
5th:        Rick Pullen, Houston, Miss., four bass, 10-14, $908
6th:        J.R. Dukes, Tillatoba, Miss., four bass, 10-2, $730
7th:        Danny Carter, Hernando, Miss., five bass, 9-4, $482
8th:        Brennon Murphy, Ackerman, Miss., five bass, 8-7, $433
9th:        Timmy Ming, Louisville, Miss., two bass, 8-3, $385
10th:     Chris Greer, Grenada, Miss., four bass, 8-2, $337

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Pullen had a 6-pound, 10-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $330.

Thomas Sanderson of Amory, Mississippi, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $1,445 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 10 pounds, 14 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Thomas Sanderson, Amory, Miss., five bass, 10-14, $1,445
2nd:       Adam Hickman, Caledonia, Miss., five bass, 9-10, $722
3rd:       Keith Ramage, Raleigh, Miss., three bass, 7-14, $480
4th:        Steve Ruth, Columbus, Miss., three bass, 7-13, $337
5th:        Bobby Speake, Terry, Miss., four bass, 7-11, $389
6th:        David Huey, Tupelo, Miss., three bass, 7-8, $253
6th:        Zachary Barnes, Franklinton, La., three bass, 7-8, $253
8th:        Scott Kirk, Houston, Miss., one bass, 6-14, $382
9th:        William Herren, Gardendale, Ala., four bass, 6-11, $193
10th:     Blake Koenigsberger, Columbus, Miss., three bass, 5-6, $169

Kirk caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 6 pounds, 14 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $165.

After three events, Evan Horne of Tuscumbia, Alabama, leads the Bass Fishing League Mississippi Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 696 points, while Blake Koenigsberger of Columbus, Mississippi, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 739 points.

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. 20-22 Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Smith Lake in Cullman, Alabama. Boaters will compete for a top award of $60,000, including a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard and $10,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard.

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Nichols Tops Phoenix Bass Fishing League Field on Smith Mountain Lake

HUDDLESTON, Va. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Luke Nichols of Union Hall, Virginia, caught five bass Saturday weighing 24 pounds, 6 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Smith Mountain Lake . The tournament was the first event of the season for the Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division. Nichols earned $4,266 for his victory.

“I had fished weeks prior to the tournament, and this one just started out differently,” Nichols said. “I would fish in the morning and pull my boat out at noon because I knew what I wanted to do. I got on a deal on a jig that’s typical for the beginning to middle of March, but not this late in the year. But it’s been unusually cold, and the jig bite helped account for two key bites in the morning.”

Nichols said he focused on pre-spawn staging areas and used a Garmin Panoptix LiveScope Systemto locate and execute casts on specific targets the bass were holding on. Nichols said he caught his bass on green pumpkin jigs he learned to make with mentor and Bass Fishing League veteran Chris Dillow of Waynesboro, Virginia, who has seven Major League Fishing wins to his credit. The homemade jig, along with a swimbait, produced 10 keepers during the course of the day.

“I got a couple of big bites in the morning on the jig, and later in the day I got a few big bites on some key areas on the swimbait, but the bites were kind of scattered,” Nichols said. “The 7 pound, 11-ounce big bass of the day came at 2 o’clock. It was probably one of the most epic bites I’ve ever had in my life. I’ll never forget it. It was very aggressive and visual. I watched it attack the bait. My co-angler and I took a five-minute break after that and we said, ‘That’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.’

“When it’s your day, it’s your day,” Nichols added. “I just feel blessed. It was God-type stuff that took place out there.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Luke Nichols, Union Hall, Va., five bass, 24-6, $4,266
2nd:       Chris Brummett, Lynch Station, Va., five bass, 19-4, $2,483
3rd:       Jonathan Bailey, Peterstown, W.V., five bass, 17-13, $1,256
4th:        Chad Green, Moneta, Va., five bass, 17-5, $879
5th:        Ben Hudson, Lynchburg, Va., four bass, 17-4, $753
6th:        Steven Coleman, Monroe, Va., five bass, 16-10, $690
7th:        Drew Sallada, Hurricane, W.Va., five bass, 16-8, $628
8th:        Jim Jarvis, Timberville, Va., five bass, 16-7, $565
9th:        Mickey Bergeron, Amherst, Va., five bass, 16-6, $502
10th:     Johnathan Crossland, Chapin, S.C., five bass, 16-0, $717
10th:     Robert Grike, Dumfries, Va., five bass, 16-0, $417

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Nichols had a 7-pound, 11-ounce largemouth that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $500.

Ricky Grant of Callands, Virginia, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $2,080 Saturday after catching three bass weighing 11 pounds, 9 ounces.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Ricky Grant, Callands, Va., three bass, 11-9, $2,080
2nd:       David Deciucis, Chester, Va., five bass, 10-11, $920
3rd:       Seth Brogan, Montvale, Va., three bass, 9-13, $612
4th:        Michael Luckey, Roanoke, Va., three bass, 9-12, $429
5th:        Michael Poling, Amherst, Va., two bass, 8-15, $368
6th:        Nathan Reeves, Lynchburg, Va., five bass, 8-12, $437
7th:        Jeremy Shifflett, Elkton, Va., five bass, 8-6, $307
8th:        Victor Riveras, Newport News, Va., five bass, 7-14, $276
9th:        William Lisenby, Centreville, Va., three bass, 7-9, $245
10th:     Mark Whitman, Elon, N.C., two bass, 7-0, $215

Grant also caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 5 pounds even. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $240.

After one event, Nichols now leads the Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 250 points, while Grant leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race, also with 250 points.

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. 6-8 Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Lake Murray in Prosperity, South Carolina. Boaters will compete for a top award of $60,000, including a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard and $10,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Phoenix 819 Pro with a 200-horsepower Mercury outboard.

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Hunt Wins Phoenix Bass Fishing League Event on Lake Okeechobee

CLEWISTON, Fla. (April 4, 2022) – Boater Stanley Hunt of Jacksonville, Florida, caught five bass Saturday weighing 23 pounds, 13 ounces, to win the MLF Phoenix Bass Fishing League Presented by T-H Marine on Lake Okeechobee . The tournament was the fourth event for the Bass Fishing League Gator Division Presented by Revital Outdoors. Hunt earned $5,349 for his victory.

“What a great tournament,” Hunt said. “I caught fish all day long on a Heddon Zara Spook on the north end near Buckhead Ridge. I was just trying to stay in clean water near spawning flats where they had just finished spawning.”

Hunt said he targeted bass that were two feet deep with a white and yellow Spook, retrieved in a traditional fast walk-the-dog retrieve. Hunt said he caught 15 fish throughout the competition – all keepers – with the smallest one weighing 2 pounds.

“I found those fish earlier in the week when they were on beds,” Hunt said. “I went back in there on Thursday and picked up the Spook and started throwing it. The first fish I caught in there was a 6½-pounder, and then I caught a 5-pounder, and I said, ‘O.K. I’ve got to get out of here.’

“Saturday, we got there at 8 o’clock and stayed until 2 o’clock,” Hunt added. “When they hit the Spook it was explosive. And when they hit it, they were pulling drag right out of the gate.”

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

1st:        Stanley Hunt, Jacksonville, Fla., five bass, 23-13, $5,349
2nd:       Ronnie Buck, Miami, Fla., five bass, 22-12, $3,525
3rd:       Dillon McMillan, Vero Beach, Fla., five bass, 21-4, $1,782
4th:        Timothy King, Fort Myers, Fla., five bass, 20-11, $1,248
5th:        Bradley Macqueen, West Palm Beach, Fla., five bass, 19-0, $1,070
6th:        Michael Johns, Davenport, Fla., five bass, 18-11, $1,281
7th:        Bo Boyles, Deltona, Fla., five bass, 18-1, $1,092
8th:        Mark Lundgren, Saint Cloud, Fla., five bass, 17-1, $802
9th:        Trevor Hamlin, Cape Coral, Fla., five bass, 16-13, $713
10th:     Garrett Thomas, Mulberry, Fla., five bass, 16-12, $624

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Buck had largemouth that weighed 7-pounds even that was the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division and earned the day’s Berkley Big Bass Boater award of $850.

Adam Giran of Wesley Chapel, Florida, won the Strike King Co-angler Division and $2,775 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 20 pounds even.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers were:

1st:        Adam Giran, Wesley Chapel, Fla., five bass, 20-0, $2,775
2nd:       Jake Suvak, Plantation, Fla., five bass, 19-9, $1,762
3rd:       Aleksandar Rak, Jacksonville, Fla., five bass, 16-13, $891
4th:        Brian Cole, Sebastian, Fla., five bass, 15-8, $579
4th:        Joshua Dunn, Mulberry, Fla., five bass, 15-8, $579
6th:        Kevin Bilbrey, Leesburg, Fla., five bass, 13-11, $490
7th:        Art Burgess, Delray, Fla., five bass, 12-5, $446
8th:        Larry Mullikin, Jacksonville, Fla., five bass, 11-11, $401
9th:        Ben Jacobi, Port Saint Lucie, Fla., four bass, 11-9, $357
10th:     Dan Timms, Moore Haven, Fla., five bass, 10-13, $312

Suvak caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Berkley Big Bass Co-angler award of $425.

After four events, Mark Lundgren of Saint Cloud, Florida, leads the Bass Fishing League Gator Division Presented by Revital Outdoors Boater Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 898 points, while David DiMauro of Miramar, Florida, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 955 points.

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Fully Loaded and FDA update

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LAWING & LAUGHERY WIN OVER $21,000 ON DAY 2 CEDAR CREEK WITH 28.19 LBS.

Place

JD LAUGHERY
ROCKWALL , TX

STAN LAWING
POETRY , TX

8.69

28.19

$21,400.00 with Techron, Sure-Life, and Big Bass

TIM CLINE
SHERMAN , TX

JAXON CLINE
SHERMAN , TX

6.43

26.43

$4500.00

JOHN CARTER
MABANK , TX

COREY MAPLES
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

22.75

$3500.00

JONATHAN LANCASTER
QUITMAN , TX

JONATHAN SHORT
RUSK , TX

21.97

$2400.00

IAIN MCCLELLAND
CELINA , TX

TRISTAN WHITE
CELINA , TX

21.65

$2000.00

KEITH TRIMBLE
TRINIDAD , TX

TOM KRESSLEY
SHERMAN , TX

7.21

20.90

$1500.00

TERRY PEACOCK
ROYSE CITY , TX

SCOTT DEAN
TERRELL , TX

7.06

20.51

$1300.00

STEVE ELDRED JR
ALBA , TX

BRIAN HALL
BRONTE , TX

20.08

$3700.00 with Skeeter Bonus Cash

GORDON WELLS
GUN BARRELL CITY , TX

CHRIS RYAN
CRANDALL , TX

7.33

20.02

$2100.00 with Skeeter Bonus Cash

CHASE WELCH
CRANDALL , TX

CHASE WOOD
COMBINE , TX

19.58

$1040.00

CHRIS MOORE
ROCKWALL , TX

KY MARTIN
GRANDVIEW , TX

19.07

$1530.00 with Skeeter Bonus Cash

ROBERT SWOFFORD
SAGINAW , TX

CLAYTON SWOFFORD
FT WORTH , TX

18.99

$1020.00

MIKE BURNS
ALLEN , TX

ROB BURNS
PLANO , TX

18.83

$1010.00

AARON ASHMORE
IVANHOE , TX

ROBERT NULL
DENISON , TX

18.39

$1000.00

BRANDON BROSSETT
GROESBECK , TX

WESLEY BROSSETT
GROESBECK , TX

18.15

$1000.00

GARY HARRISON
GUN BARREL CITY , TX

BILL ROBINSON
HURST , TX

18.09

$1000.00

BRANDEN HOLLINGSHEAD
AZLE , TX

JEREMY LAMBERT
DECATUR , TX

18.06

$6100.00 with James Wood Motors Bonus

ZEB STRICKLAND
TIOGA , TX

MARK MCWHIRTER
ARGYLE , TX

17.98

$1000.00

CLYDE GLENN
BELTON , TX

GARRETT THOMAS
MALAKOFF , TX

17.55

$1000.00

RONNIE CASTLEBURY
ELGIN , OK

JAKE CASTLEBURY
ELGIN , OK

17.45

$1000.00

TOMMY HULSEY JR
CORSICANA , TX

JUSTIN GARNETT
FAIRFIELD , TX

17.38

$1000.00

RICK NEWTON
DALLAS , TX

JOHN THOMPSON
GRAPEVINE , TX

16.94

$900.00

DEWAYNE THOMAS
MALAKOFF , TX

DANIEL RAMSEY
TRINIDAD , TX

16.89

$850.00

DAVID CROW
ARLINGTON , TX

JOHNNY RAY
BURLESON , TX

16.74

$800.00

SCOTT BARNETT
MANSFIELD , TX

SHANNON MCCALEB
JOSHUA , TX

16.54

$800.00

HEATH MOODY
SOUTHLAKE , TX

CODY MORRISON
PILOT POINT , TX

16.54

$800.00

DARRYL ROACH
DECATUR , TX

DANIEL HERRING
WATUAGA , TX

6.50

16.15

$800.00

JOE ROME
FLOWER MOUND , TX

JOEL MCBRIDE
CORINTH , TX

16.06

$400.00

MARK MAYBEN
PLANO , TX

JOHN MAYBEN
DALLAS , TX

16.06

$400.00

GIB COATS
FORT WORTH , TX

JOHN HARRIS
FORT WORTH , TX

15.95

KENNETH MOORE
RED OAK , TX

COLTON MOORE
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

15.92

BOB HAYNES
PILOT POINT , TX

CHAMP WALKER
PILOT POINT , TX

5.80

15.80

MATT CANNON
TROY , TX

JARED SIEGELER
BELTON , TX

15.54

KEITH CARNEY
ARLINGTON , TX

KEVIN CARNEY
ARLINGTON , TX

15.36

ROBERT CASE JR
POINT , TX

MORRIS MCCUTCHEON
WINNSBORO , TX

6.75

15.13

JODY KEA
TYLER , TX

JASON BURTON
EUSTACE , TX

15.10

TIM WILCOXSON
ROCKWALL , TX

ERIC ELDER
SCROGGINS , TX

15.06

DENNIS HASTINGS
FLOWER MOUND , TX

RONNIE SIMS
LEWISVILLE , TX

14.87

STEVE WHITE
EUSTACE , TX

RAY PAGE JR
CRANDALL , TX

14.80

TRENT MENEES
NORTHLAKE , TX

TERRY BOLLOM
FRISCO , TX

14.78

RICHARD NICHOLAS
JUSTIN , TX

BILLY MATTHEWS
BOYD , TX

14.76

MARK BIONDI SR
BURLESON , TX

MARK BIONDI JR
BURLESON , TX

14.72

JACOB KINARD
ROCKWALL , TX

GARY KINARD
FORNEY , TX

14.70

KENT SIKES
ROANOKE , TX

DARRELL CAMPBELL
ALBA , TX

14.65

JOSEPH RAINS
GAINESVILLE , TX

DOUG SHAMPINE
ALBA , TX

14.40

JEFF NORRIS
DECATUR , TX

RONNIE NORRIS
DECATUR , TX

13.96

KEVIN DRITSCHLER
PROSPER , TX

MIKE WITHROW
CORSICANA , TX

13.88

JOHN BATES
QUITMAN , TX

JADE BATES
QUITMAN , TX

13.87

JARED TAYLOR
SOUTHLAKE , TX

PERRY POWELL
ALBA , TX

13.84

JAMES WRIGHT
BROWNSBORO , TX

DARRIN WRIGHT
BROWNSBORO , TX

3.00

13.51

SCOTT TROUTT
CORINTH , TX

DENNIS BUSHLAND
DENTON , TX

13.33

RICHARD WADE
COMMANCHE , TX

KEVIN SEIBOLD
CHICO , TX

13.12

STEVEN LOFTICE
VAN ALSTYNE , TX

MONTY EDGE
VAN ALSTYNE , TX

13.10

TRACY SANDERS
COPPER CANYON , TX

HUNTER SANDERS
COPPER CANYON , TX

13.02

TOM WARD
TYLER , TX

JIM CRAWFORD
NACOGDOCHES , TX

13.00

ROB MEDDERS
CELINA , TX

ROB WILSON
SHERMAN , TX

12.98

COLE BREWER
LEESVILLE , LA

GEORGE SHIPPEY
MT PLEASANT , TX

12.85

DAKOTA MCBRIDE
WINNSBORO , TX

JEFF MCBRIDE
WINNSBORO , TX

12.79

JOSH TAUBER
BULLARD , TX

LEE HAMMERS
FRANKSTON , TX

12.77

JERRY DAVID II
PILOT POINT , TX

JACOB DAVID
PILOT POINT , TX

12.75

JORDAN GRIMM
WEST , TX

JUD HARRIS
WEST , TX

12.55

JOHNNY WATKINS
MAYBANK , TX

RICKY ROBINSON
GRAPEVINE , TX

12.51

RYAN COHLMEYER
WEATHERFORD , TX

DARREN HEAVNER
WEATHERFORD , TX

12.50

BRET STAFFORD
TEMPLE , TX

SHANE MOORE
ARGYLE , TX

12.31

CHAD MADDUX
WYLIE , TX

JAKE MEEKS
FARMERSVILLE , TX

12.11

KYLE WILLIAMS
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

MARK CROW
PALMER , TX

12.04

JOE SMITH
FORNEY , TX

KENNETH GERECHT
PALMER , TX

12.03

TREVOR ROMANS
CELINA , TX

MATT MCMILLAN
FORT WORTH , TX

11.78

JOSH PAXTON
HASLET , TX

AUSTIN FORRESTER
HASLET , TX

11.60

JUSTIN DUBOSE
PARADISE , TX

STEVE LYNAM
SOUTHLAKE , TX

11.59

BOBBY BADARACK
FT WORTH , TX

MARY BADARACK
FORT WORTH , TX

11.46

SCOTTY GALBREAITH
WEATHERFORD , TX

JASON GALBREAITH
BURLESON , TX

11.36

CODY BURDINE
BRIDGEPORT , TX

BOBBY POINTER
ALVORD , TX

11.29

JAY STIDHAM
CHINA SPRING , TX

CASEY BENNETT
WACO , TX

11.29

LOUIS DAVIS
GRAPEVINE , TX

ROBBIE CHENAULT
RICHARDSON , TX

11.23

JAY EICHLER
EMORY , TX

CASEY CHEATHAM
DALLAS , TX

11.23

RICKY CONWAY
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

JAMIE VANDERGRIFF
ROCKWALL , TX

11.13

CODY BENSON
COMBINE , TX

THOMAS WELCH
TERRELL , TX

10.93

ALLEN SHELTON
FARMERS BRANCH , TX

JOHN MCCALMONT
ROCKWALL , TX

10.90

RUSSELL LEE
SACHSE , TX

KEVIN HENRY
FORT WORTH , TX

10.64

STEPHEN COOKSEY
BULLARD , TX

TROY SLAUGHTER
ATHENS , TX

10.63

SHAWN TEMPLE
KRUGERVILLE , TX

COLE TEMPLE
FORT WORTH , TX

10.57

ALAN SWARTZ
MT VERNON , TX

DAN BENSON
COMBINE , TX

10.54

JON HARWOOD
QUINLAN , TX

JERAMY MARINELLI
ROYSE CITY , TX

10.47

CHRISTOPHER RODGERS
TYLER , TX

KHRISTIAN SALCEDO
NEW BRAUNFELS , TX

10.22

VIRGIL KUYKENDALL
KEMP , TX

DON KUYKENDALL
GUN BARRREL CITY , TX

10.15

BILLY JOHNSON
WILLS POINT , TX

ANDY MEDINA
CANTON , TX

10.06

JAMES FENNELL
GORDONVILLE , TX

KEITH CULLUM
CORINTH , TX

10.02

ARCHIE HAYLEY
MT VERNON , TX

GAGE IVEY

10.01

WESLEY BARNARD
HALLSVILLE , TX

ANDREW SCOTT
MARSHALL , TX

9.96

TONY CLIMER
MESQUITE , TX

TOMMY CLIMER JR
MESQUITE , TX

9.92

RONALD SISK
RIO VISTA , TX

9.92

MARK RHODES
ODESSA , TX

EVAN MULLEN
ODESSA , TX

9.82

KEN SMITH
RICHARDSON , TX

TERRY HAWKINS
CORSICANA , TX

9.50

HEATH COLEMAN
FRISCO , TX

ZACHARY SHIMON
MCKINNEY , TX

9.48

CHRIS FORD
WINNSBORO , TX

TRENVER FORD
WINNSBORO , TX

9.43

JOSH KEITHLEY
FORT WORTH , TX

JUSTIN KEITHLEY
ARLINGTON , TX

9.26

MARK SPURGIN
MCKINNEY , TX

TYLER HOLMES
RICHARDSON , TX

8.95

CHUCK RIZUTO
ALBA , TX

DON STAPLETON
YANTIS , TX

8.75

100

EDDIE HALL
CADDO MILLS , TX

BRANDON BREWER
CADDO MILLS , TX

8.72

101

ZACHARY WYMER
HALTOM , TX

DAVID WYMER
HALTOM CITY , TX

8.47

102

DREW SLOAN
SCURRY , TX

NOLAN JACKSON
ROYSE CITY , TX

8.40

103

SHANE WOOD
WAXAHACHIE , TX

JAMIE CLARK
WILLS POINT , TX

5.42

8.19

104

MATT MORTON
DALLAS , TX

MICHAEL BURNSIDE
ANNA , TX

7.94

105

JOEY EAVES
NEVADA , TX

JASON HADLEY
FATE , TX

7.70

106

ADAM MOORE
FRANKSTON , TX

NATHAN WHITE
FRANKSTON , TX

7.57

107

ROGER RITCHIE
WICHITA FALLS , TX

RICHARD RITCHIE
BENTON , AR

7.56

107

RICKY MAYO
ARDMORE , OK

ERIC DUNCAN
ARDMORE , OK

7.56

109

CODY NIX
PLANO , TX

CORY NIX
CELINA , TX

7.55

110

JOHNNY UNDERFUSSER
DENISON , TX

RON SAUCEMAN
COLLINSVILLE , TX

7.35

111

LARRY LANDIS JR
GRAFORD , TX

LARRY LANDIS III
GRAFORD , TX

7.19

112

KELLY FERGUSON
FATE , TX

JAXON FERGUSON
FATE , TX

7.16

113

CHUCK BISHOP
SANGER , TX

JUNIOR MITCHELL
KRUGERVILLE , TX

7.01

114

JUSTIN KELLEY
JOSHUA , TX

RAY BOSQUEZ JR
FORT WORTH , TX

6.93

115

SKYLAR LONG
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

JAMES BEARDON
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

6.47

116

LARRY BENCH
DENISON , TX

HI HILLBURN
COLBERT , OK

6.40

117

CHRIS BACHTA
GRAPEVINE , TX

CHARLIE JOHNSON
DECATUR , TX

6.35

118

KYLE BOTTOM
ALEDO , TX

LARRY BOTTOM
WILLOW PARK , TX

6.30

119

CRAIG DOWIS
DALLAS , TX

MICHAEL VASQUEZ
TEMPLE , TX

5.73

120

KEITH BRYAN
DECATUR , TX

JASON DUNNING
DECATUR , TX

5.61

121

JOEL CHAPMAN
WYLIE , TX

ANDY WILBURN
ROYSE CITY , TX

5.44

122

BRIAN BROOKS
MESQUITE , TX

JAMES SHARP
ROCKWALL , TX

5.28

123

PUTHAL LOEUK
YANTIS , TX

MICHAEL CARRILLO
DALLAS , TX

4.91

124

SCOT MCDONALD
CELINA , TX

KEITH KRZEMINSKI
AUBREY , TX

4.60

125

JEFF PITRUCHA
GREENVILLE , TX

GARY COOPER
COMBINE , TX

4.57

126

BLAKE HENDERSON
ATHENS , TX

BRAD CARTER
SCURRY , TX

4.30

127

DYLON GARCIA
BONHAM , TX

ROBERT HOLLAND
DODD CITY , TX

3.95

128

JUNIOR THOMAS
ALBA , TX

LARRY THOMAS
LIPAN , TX

1.44

3.91

129

MARK WYLIE
KELLER , TX

MARK PARKER
GRAPEVINE , TX

3.66

130

STEVE TRIMBLE
DUNCANVILLE , TX

DAKOTA TRIMBLE
KAUFMAN , TX

3.20

131

GREGORY BROWN
FORT WORTH , TX

JEFFERY MCCORMICK
BENBROOK , TX

2.78

132

JOHN MASTERS
ROYSE CITY , TX

CHAD CANNON
ROYSE CITY , TX

2.60

133

CHARLES GALLAGHER
LAWTON , OK

2.17

134

STEVE ANGELL
TERRELL , TX

KAEDEN ANGELL
TERRELL , TX

2.06

135

STEVE SCHMIDT
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

BILLY RYAN
MANSFIELD , TX

1.73

136

BEAU SULLIVAN
FORT WORTH , TX

JOE SWANEY
GAINESVILLE , TX

0.00

136

CHRIS GILROY
FRISCO , TX

MICHAEL FULLER
BLUE RIDGE , TX

0.00

136

DWIGHT BOUTTE
FRISCO , TX

DAMON NEAL
PROSPER , TX

0.00

136

KASON SCROGGINS
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

ANDREW DEATHERAGE
QUITMAN , TX

0.00

136

JAMES INGRAM JR
ARLINGTON , TX

JOHN BIONDI
ARLINGTON , TX

0.00

136

CEBO SMITH JR
SCURRY , TX

COLTEN SMITH
SCURRY , TX

0.00

136

BYRON BIONDI
KENNEDALE , TX

JASON GREENFIELD
KENNEDALE , TX

0.00

136

GG BOYD
AZLE , TX

JACOB ROANE
CELINA , TX

0.00

136

RORY LAYNE
EMORY , TX

WILLIAM BRUNSON
LIBERTY HILL , TX

0.00

136

CHARLES GUTHRIE
CONROE , TX

RICHARD FAULKNER
BROADDUS , TX

0.00

136

JOHN BYLER
ARGYLE , TX

MATT FRANCE
COLLEYVILLE , TX

0.00

136

JOHN ADAMS
FRISCO , TX

RICK CLARK
TERRELL , TX

0.00

136

DEVIN BUSHLAND
ALLEN , TX

CARSON KIRKHUFF
COLLEYVILLE , TX

0.00

136

MIKE CRAIN
AZLE , TX

ANDREW RICKMAN JR
CANTON , TX

0.00

136

SHAWN BROOKS
BOYD , TX

LANCE HILDEBRAND
OTSEGO , MI

0.00

136

WILLIAM PALMER
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

JERAMIE BYRD
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

0.00

136

CHAD OWEN
CELESTE , TX

CALEB HAND
ANNA , TX

0.00

136

SHAWN WATSON
ROYSE CITY , TX

JOE STURGEON
ROYSE CITY , TX

0.00

136

DEAN TRUDELL
HIGHLAND VILLAGE , TX

MIKE KUBANEK
HIGHLAND VILLAGE , TX

0.00

136

DEREK ROGERS
MALAKOFF , TX

COOPER BUSCH
MALAKOFF , TX

0.00

136

BRYON HARRISON
QUINLAN , TX

DIRK SMITH
FARMERSVILLE , TX

0.00

136

DONALD DICKENS
MONTGOMERY , TX

WILLIE DICKENS
BAYTOWN , TX

0.00

136

JAMES HARRISON
GRAPEVINE , TX

J WYATT HARRISON
GRAPEVINE , TX

0.00

136

MIKE PERKINS
DALLAS , TX

STAN GERZSENYI
DEL RIO , TX

0.00

136

DAMEON SCOTT
SOUTHMAYD , TX

BRUCE ANDERSON
SHERMAN , TX

0.00

136

ROCKIE MARTIN
ROCKWALL , TX

CLINT NOWELL
FORT WORTH , TX

0.00

136

ERIC PHILLIPS
STREETMAN , TX

JOE HARRELL
CORSICANA , TX

0.00

136

CALVIN SHORT
RUSK , TX

KELLY SHORT
RUSK , TX

0.00

136

BLAKE MOOTY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

ANDY MOOTY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

0.00

136

JAMES SHAMBURGER
MABANK , TX

JACOB SHANNON
ARLINGTON , TX

0.00

136

MATT HITT
MESQUITE , TX

RUSSELL STROMAN
HEARTLAND , TX

0.00

136

TYLER ROANE
GUNTER , TX

JOSH ROANE
PROSPER , TX

0.00

136

KURT KLOSOWSKI
PLANO , TX

TOM MOCNY
QUITMAN , TX

0.00

136

ADAM PELS
PILOT POINT , TX

CHRIS PELS
SANGER , TX

0.00

136

TOMMY MURRAY
BEDFORD , TX

KEITH IVY
PONDER , TX

0.00

136

NORMAN WILSON JR
KILLEEN , TX

NORM WILSON SR
HUTTO , TX

0.00

136

WILLIE BENSLEY
MESQUITE , TX

BRAD BEESON
CLEBURNE , TX

0.00

136

WARREN KEPKE
DENTON , TX

JASON TRUITT
BURLESON , TX

0.00

136

DARRELL COBB
CORSICANA , TX

CODY COBB
CORSICANA , TX

0.00

136

LANCE KENNY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

MARK JOHNSTON
RICHLAND HILLS , TX

0.00

136

JORDAN KENNY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

DAVION SPILLER
AUSTIN , TX

0.00

136

MARTY MASSOLETTI
GILMER , TX

RORY LAYNE
EMORY , TX

0.00

136

JOHN MCDIFFITT
GRANBURY , TX

BOBBY VINCENT
HUDSON OAKS , TX

0.00

136

MICHAEL EDGETT
GRAND PRAIRIE , TX

0.00

136

RUSSELL PASKET
ANDERSON , TX

KIRK WICKMAN
ANDERSON , TX

0.00

136

GARY STANDRIDGE
JACKSBORO , TX

COLBY BRYAN
DECATUR , TX

0.00

136

RYAN AUTERY
RICHARDSON , TX

THOMAS ROSS
ROCKWALL , TX

0.00

136

DERRICK CORSO
MCKINNEY , TX

BRANDT BIGGERSTAFF
FRISCO , TX

0.00

136

CRAIG WALDROP
BENBROOK , TX

COREY WALDROP
FT WORTH , TX

0.00

136

ZACH PARKER
DENTON , TX

BUSTER JOHNSON
KRUM , TX

0.00

136

RONNY HALBERT
LARUE , TX

RICKY PHILLIPS
TRINIDAD , TX

0.00

136

PAUL MCCOLLUM
CORSICANA , TX

COEY MCCOLLUM
CORSICANA , TX

0.00

136

SHANE THOMPSON
FORNEY , TX

RICKY MEDINA
FORNEY , TX

0.00

136

CHRISTOPHER MCMINN
BALKO , OK

JUSTIN EARLES
LITTLE ROCK , AR

0.00

136

DANIEL WILLIAMSON
FT WORTH , TX

DOUG DURRWACHTER
GRAPEVINE , TX

0.00

136

BRYCE CAIN
COLLEYVILLE , TX

JEFFREY BRANNON
PRINCETON , TX

0.00

136

JACOB BAKER
TERRELL , TX

MATTHEW KIRKLIN
HOLLY LAKE RANCH , TX

0.00

136

DELL BROWN
ARLINGTON , TX

MARK MCCLURE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

0.00

136

CHRIS BAKER
POWDERLY , TX

BRANDON BEERS
DETROIT , TX

0.00

136

CHARLES GRAHAM
DALLAS , TX

CARLOS JIMENEZ
BURLESON , TX

0.00

136

DUSTY FRANK
WEST POINT , TX

RUSTY REEDY
SPRING BRANCH , TX

0.00

136

KEITH COLE
ZAVALLA , TX

CHUCK COLE
BROOKLAND , TX

0.00

136

KENNETH COLLARD
CANTON , TX

DANNY HOWARD
CYPRESS , TX

0.00

136

JEFF GAY
FORT WORTH , TX

WES TURNER
PALMER , TX

0.00

136

PERRY TAYLOR
ROWLETT , TX

CLAY TAYLOR
MESQUITE , TX

0.00

136

ERIC GARZA
MABANK , TX

KAITLYN BEEBE
MABANK , TX

0.00

136

DAVID ATNIP
SAVOY , TX

0.00

136

STEVEN RIZZO
PROSPER , TX

CHRIS STRATTA
LITTLE ELM , TX

0.00

136

JEFF BAUGUS
CROSS ROADS , TX

NATHAN MEHL
DENTON , TX

0.00

136

JOHNNY TRAMMELL
BOYD , TX

DOYLE REDDELL
MINERAL WELLS , TX

0.00

136

NICK BROWN
LINDALE , TX

RILEY BROWN
LINDALE , TX

0.00

136

NATHAN WOOD
KAUFMAN , TX

RYAN NEVIL
FORNEY , TX

0.00

136

JIM EDWARDS
BLUM , TX

BEN MILLER
BLUM , TX

0.00

by AnglersChannel

MARK & JOHN MAYBEN TOP 237 TEAMS ON CEDAR CREEK AND TAKE HOME OVER $22,500

DISPLAY JUNIOR TEAMS / DISPLAY ALL TEAMS

Place

MARK MAYBEN
PLANO , TX

JOHN MAYBEN
DALLAS , TX

7.72

25.11

$22,700.00 with Skeeter Cash and Sure-Life

WILL ANDRIE
CHINA SPRINGS , TX

ROBERT MILLS
HEWITT , TX

24.34

$5000.00

TOMMY HULSEY JR
CORSICANA , TX

JUSTIN GARNETT
FAIRFIELD , TX

7.31

23.82

$10,100.00 with Skeeter Cash and James Wood Motors

SPENCER JOHNSON
VAN , TX

KEVIN TUNNELL
VAN , TX

22.46

$3500.00 with Skeeter Bonus Cash

JOHNNY WATKINS
MAYBANK , TX

RICKY ROBINSON
GRAPEVINE , TX

19.83

$2500.00

MATT CANNON
TROY , TX

JARED SIEGELER
BELTON , TX

19.03

$2000.00

HEATH MOODY
SOUTHLAKE , TX

CODY MORRISON
PILOT POINT , TX

18.33

$1500.00

GORDON WELLS
GUN BARRELL CITY , TX

CHRIS RYAN
CRANDALL , TX

17.95

$1400.00

CHRIS MOORE
ROCKWALL , TX

KY MARTIN
GRANDVIEW , TX

17.89

$1300.00

RUSSELL LEE
SACHSE , TX

KEVIN HENRY
FORT WORTH , TX

17.77

$1200.00

JOHN BATES
QUITMAN , TX

JADE BATES
QUITMAN , TX

17.66

$1100.00

JOHN CARTER
MABANK , TX

COREY MAPLES
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

17.61

$1090.00

SHANE WOOD
WAXAHACHIE , TX

JAMIE CLARK
WILLS POINT , TX

17.50

$1080.00

BLAKE HENDERSON
ATHENS , TX

BRAD CARTER
SCURRY , TX

17.48

$1070.00

CHARLES GUTHRIE
CONROE , TX

RICHARD FAULKNER
PROVIDENCE VILLAGE , TX

17.36

$1060.00

TERRY PEACOCK
ROYSE CITY , TX

SCOTT DEAN
TERRELL , TX

17.23

$1050.00

JASON MAY
GRAND PRAIRIE , TX

17.21

$1040.00

STEVE WHITE
EUSTACE , TX

RAY PAGE JR
CRANDALL , TX

17.05

$1030.00

CHAD MADDUX
WYLIE , TX

JAKE MEEKS
FARMERSVILLE , TX

8.40

17.04

$2020.00 with Big Bass

KENNETH MOORE
RED OAK , TX

COLTON MOORE
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

17.03

$1010.00

LAIN MCCLELLAND
CELINA , TX

TRISTAN WHITE
CELINA , TX

16.90

$1000.00

JOHN MASTERS
ROYSE CITY , TX

CHAD CANNON
ROYSE CITY , TX

16.73

$1000.00

JARED TAYLOR
SOUTHLAKE , TX

PERRY POWELL
ALBA , TX

5.81

16.55

$1000.00

BRYON HARRISON
QUINLAN , TX

DIRK SMITH
FARMERSVILLE , TX

16.50

$1000.00

JACOB KINARD
ROCKWALL , TX

GARY KINARD
FORNEY , TX

16.40

$1000.00

TRACY SANDERS
COPPER CANYON , TX

HUNTER SANDERS
COPPER CANYON , TX

16.33

$1000.00

JOEL CHAPMAN
WYLIE , TX

ANDY WILBURN
ROYSE CITY , TX

16.19

$1000.00

JAMES FENNELL
GORDONVILLE , TX

KEITH CULLUM
CORINTH , TX

15.92

$1000.00

ZACH PARKER
DENTON , TX

BUSTER JOHNSON
KRUM , TX

15.73

$1000.00

JOEY EAVES
NEVADA , TX

JASON HADLEY
FATE , TX

6.74

15.71

$1000.00

MELVIN YEZAK
BREMOND , TX

JOHN YEZAK
SPRING , TX

15.55

$1000.00

LOUIS DAVIS
GRAPEVINE , TX

ROBBIE CHENAULT
RICHARDSON , TX

15.51

Fun n Sun First Out Bonus

KURT KLOSOWSKI
PLANO , TX

TOM MOCNY
QUITMAN , TX

15.47

TREVOR ROMANS
CELINA , TX

MATT MCMILLAN
FORT WORTH , TX

15.43

RUSS CHAVERS
ATOKA , OK

JEFF CULBREATH
LANE , OK

15.30

ZEB STRICKLAND
TIOGA , TX

MARK MCWHIRTER
ARGYLE , TX

15.25

JORDAN LANE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

MATTHEW LANE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLLS , TX

15.22

GIB COATS
FORT WORTH , TX

JOHN HARRIS
FORT WORTH , TX

15.02

EDDIE HALL
CADDO MILLS , TX

BRANDON BREWER
CADDO MILLS , TX

14.99

TRENT MENEES
NORTHLAKE , TX

TERRY BOLLOM
FRISCO , TX

14.91

SCOTT BARNETT
MANSFIELD , TX

SHANNON MCCALEB
JOSHUA , TX

14.85

DREW SLOAN
SCURRY , TX

NOLAN JACKSON
ROYSE CITY , TX

14.83

CRAIG DOWIS
DALLAS , TX

MICHAEL VASQUEZ
TEMPLE , TX

14.83

KEN SMITH
RICHARDSON , TX

TERRY HAWKINS
CORSICANA , TX

14.77

SHAWN TEMPLE
KRUGERVILLE , TX

COLE TEMPLE
FORT WORTH , TX

6.51

14.44

CEBO SMITH JR
SCURRY , TX

COLTEN SMITH
SCURRY , TX

14.37

TONY CLIMER
MESQUITE , TX

TOMMY CLIMER JR
MESQUITE , TX

14.28

JACOB BAKER
TERRELL , TX

MATTHEW KIRKLIN
HOLLY LAKE RANCH , TX

5.80

14.24

WILLIAM PALMER
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

JERAMIE BYRD
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

6.31

14.06

LANCE UEBERROTH
ENNIS , TX

JOE PEREZ
KEMP , TX

13.98

RYAN COHLMEYER
WEATHERFORD , TX

DARREN HEAVNER
WEATHERFORD , TX

13.88

CHUCK RIZUTO
ALBA , TX

DON STAPLETON
YANTIS , TX

13.74

DAVID CROW
ARLINGTON , TX

JOHNNY RAY
BURLESON , TX

13.64

WARREN KEPKE
DENTON , TX

JASON TRUITT
BURLESON , TX

13.59

BILLY JOHNSON
WILLS POINT , TX

ANDY MEDINA
CANTON , TX

13.34

ZACH HUGHES
QUITMAN , TX

JEREMY SIMS
EMORY , TX

13.17

BRET STAFFORD
TEMPLE , TX

GRANT ADAMS
COLLEGE STATION , TX

12.82

STEPHEN COOKSEY
BULLARD , TX

TROY SLAUGHTER
ATHENS , TX

12.71

CHARLES SIMMONS
WACO , TX

MIKE ASHLEY
ROBINSON , TX

12.64

JORDAN GRIMM
WEST , TX

JUD HARRIS
WEST , TX

12.63

ERIC PHILLIPS
STREETMAN , TX

JOE HARRELL
CORSICANA , TX

12.62

DEWAYNE THOMAS
MALAKOFF , TX

MACKEY BOONE
RED OAK , TX

12.58

JD LAUGHERY
ROCKWALL , TX

STAN LAWING
POETRY , TX

12.44

WESLEY BARNARD
HALLSVILLE , TX

ANDREW SCOTT
MARSHALL , TX

12.44

BOB HAYNES
PILOT POINT , TX

CHAMP WALKER
PILOT POINT , TX

12.35

ROBERT SWOFFORD
SAGINAW , TX

CLAYTON SWOFFORD
FT WORTH , TX

12.25

DARRYL ROACH
DECATUR , TX

DANIEL HERRING
WATUAGA , TX

12.22

SCOT MCDONALD
CELINA , TX

KEITH KRZEMINSKI
AUBREY , TX

12.21

JOE ROME
FLOWER MOUND , TX

JOEL MCBRIDE
CORINTH , TX

11.94

ROBERT MEGALLON
MABANK , TX

HANNAH MEGALLON
MABANK , TX

11.82

KYLE WILLIAMS
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

MARK CROW
PALMER , TX

11.80

JUSTIN KELLEY
JOSHUA , TX

RAY BOSQUEZ JR
FORT WORTH , TX

11.62

STEVE ELDRED JR
ALBA , TX

BRIAN HALL
BRONTE , TX

11.49

CLYDE GLENN
BELTON , TX

GARRETT THOMAS
MALAKOFF , TX

11.35

STEVEN RIZZO
PROSPER , TX

CHRIS STRATTA
LITTLE ELM , TX

11.26

STEVE TRIMBLE
DUNCANVILLE , TX

DAKOTA TRIMBLE
KAUFMAN , TX

11.01

RICHARD WADE
COMMANCHE , TX

KEVIN SEIBOLD
CHICO , TX

10.92

BRIAN BROOKS
MESQUITE , TX

JAMES SHARP
ROCKWALL , TX

10.91

CHAD OWEN
CELESTE , TX

CALEB HAND
ANNA , TX

10.90

ALLEN SHELTON
FARMERS BRANCH , TX

JOHN MCCALMONT
ROCKWALL , TX

10.85

NATHYN HAYES
DUBLIN , TX

KIM MASK
ALEDO , TX

10.77

CHRIS BACHTA
GRAPEVINE , TX

CHARLIE JOHNSON
DECATUR , TX

10.69

DAKOTA MCBRIDE
WINNSBORO , TX

JEFF MCBRIDE
WINNSBORO , TX

10.62

JOEL MYERS
CONROE , TX

SKYLER EWING
ARLINGTON , TX

10.54

AARON ASHMORE
IVANHOE , TX

ROBERT NULL
DENISON , TX

10.53

MARK SPURGIN
MCKINNEY , TX

TYLER HOLMES
RICHARDSON , TX

10.19

KASON SCROGGINS
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

ANDREW DEATHERAGE
QUITMAN , TX

10.19

BRANDEN HOLLINGSHEAD
AZLE , TX

JEREMY LAMBERT
DECATUR , TX

10.06

CHRIS FORD
WINNSBORO , TX

TRENVER FORD
WINNSBORO , TX

10.05

JON HARWOOD
QUINLAN , TX

JERAMY MARINELLI
ROYSE CITY , TX

9.97

TIM CLINE
SHERMAN , TX

JAXON CLINE
SHERMAN , TX

9.97

JOHNNY UNDERFUSSER
DENISON , TX

RON SAUCEMAN
COLLINSVILLE , TX

9.82

MIKE CRAIN
AZLE , TX

ANDREW RICKMAN JR
CANTON , TX

9.81

STEVEN LOFTICE
VAN ALSTYNE , TX

MONTY EDGE
VAN ALSTYNE , TX

9.80

JOHN BYLER
ARGYLE , TX

MATT FRANCE
COLLEYVILLE , TX

9.79

RYAN AUTERY
RICHARDSON , TX

THOMAS ROSS
ROCKWALL , TX

9.77

JODY KEA
TYLER , TX

JASON BURTON
EUSTACE , TX

9.76

KELLY FERGUSON
FATE , TX

JAXON FERGUSON
FATE , TX

9.66

TATE SHULTZ
AMARILLO , TX

9.42

100

KEITH BRYAN
DECATUR , TX

JASON DUNNING
DECATUR , TX

9.29

101

KENT SIKES
ROANOKE , TX

DARRELL CAMPBELL
ALBA , TX

9.28

102

CHADD DEAREN
ROWLETT , TX

KEITH TAYLOR
ROCKWALL , TX

9.21

103

LANCE KENNY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

MARK JOHNSTON
RICHLAND HILLS , TX

9.09

104

JERRY DAVID II
PILOT POINT , TX

JACOB DAVID
PILOT POINT , TX

9.05

105

DENNIS HASTINGS
FLOWER MOUND , TX

RONNIE SIMS
LEWISVILLE , TX

9.01

106

TYLER WOODS
FT WORTH , TX

GILBERT MILLER
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

9.00

107

JEFF PITRUCHA
GREENVILLE , TX

GARY COOPER
COMBINE , TX

3.08

8.92

108

MICHAEL EDGETT
GRAND PRAIRIE , TX

8.91

109

KEITH PIPPENGER
COMBINE , TX

8.85

110

RONALD SISK
RIO VISTA , TX

8.83

111

NORMAN WILSON JR
KILLEEN , TX

NORM WILSON SR
HUTTO , TX

8.77

112

DAMEON SCOTT
SOUTHMAYD , TX

BRUCE ANDERSON
SHERMAN , TX

8.72

113

SKYLAR LONG
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

JAMES BEARDON
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

8.62

114

CHRIS GILROY
FRISCO , TX

MICHAEL FULLER
BLUE RIDGE , TX

8.54

115

TIM WILCOXSON
ROCKWALL , TX

ERIC ELDER
SCROGGINS , TX

8.39

116

JEFF BAUGUS
CROSS ROADS , TX

NATHAN MEHL
DENTON , TX

8.35

117

CHASE WELCH
CRANDALL , TX

CHASE WOOD
COMBINE , TX

8.25

118

KEVIN DRITSCHLER
PROSPER , TX

MIKE WITHROW
CORSICANA , TX

8.03

119

RICK NEWTON
DALLAS , TX

JOHN THOMPSON
GRAPEVINE , TX

7.98

120

JESSE FLAKE
JEWETT , TX

HARLEY EAKIN
OAKWOOD , TX

7.82

121

BLAKE MOOTY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

ANDY MOOTY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

7.78

122

MARK WYLIE
KELLER , TX

MARK PARKER
GRAPEVINE , TX

7.73

123

BEAU SULLIVAN
FORT WORTH , TX

JOE SWANEY
GAINESVILLE , TX

7.56

124

ARCHIE HAYLEY
MT VERNON , TX

GAGE IVEY

7.46

125

LARRY BENCH
DENISON , TX

HI HILLBURN
COLBERT , OK

7.19

126

MATT MORTON
DALLAS , TX

MICHAEL BURNSIDE
ANNA , TX

6.96

126

JORDAN KENNY
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

DAVION SPILLER
AUSTIN , TX

6.96

128

TOMMY MURRAY
BEDFORD , TX

KEITH IVY
PONDER , TX

6.91

129

CODY BURDINE
BRIDGEPORT , TX

BOBBY POINTER
ALVORD , TX

6.68

130

ADAM MOORE
FRANKSTON , TX

NATHAN WHITE
FRANKSTON , TX

6.65

131

DEVIN BUSHLAND
ALLEN , TX

CARSON KIRKHUFF
COLLEYVILLE , TX

6.39

131

STEVE ANGELL
TERRELL , TX

KAEDEN ANGELL
TERRELL , TX

6.39

131

ALAN SWARTZ
MT VERNON , TX

DAN BENSON
COMBINE , TX

6.39

134

LARRY LANDIS JR
GRAFORD , TX

LARRY LANDIS III
GRAFORD , TX

6.20

135

JOSH PAXTON
HASLET , TX

AUSTIN FORRESTER
HASLET , TX

6.12

136

GARY STANDRIDGE
JACKSBORO , TX

COLBY BRYAN
DECATUR , TX

6.06

137

JUSTIN DUBOSE
PARADISE , TX

STEVE LYNAM
SOUTHLAKE , TX

6.05

138

JEFF NORRIS
DECATUR , TX

RONNIE NORRIS
DECATUR , TX

6.04

139

JOSEPH RAINS
GAINESVILLE , TX

DOUG SHAMPINE
ALBA , TX

5.90

140

CODY BENSON
COMBINE , TX

THOMAS WELCH
TERRELL , TX

5.03

141

DEREK ROGERS
MALAKOFF , TX

COOPER BUSCH
MALAKOFF , TX

4.97

142

KYLE BOTTOM
ALEDO , TX

LARRY BOTTOM
WILLOW PARK , TX

4.85

143

VIRGIL KUYKENDALL
KEMP , TX

DON KUYKENDALL
GUN BARRREL CITY , TX

4.73

144

SCOTTY GALBREAITH
WEATHERFORD , TX

JASON GALBREAITH
BURLESON , TX

4.65

145

MIKE BURNS
ALLEN , TX

ROB BURNS
PLANO , TX

4.60

146

JAMES INGRAM JR
ARLINGTON , TX

JOHN BIONDI
ARLINGTON , TX

4.47

147

NATHAN WOOD
KAUFMAN , TX

RYAN NEVIL
FORNEY , TX

4.34

148

JOHN MCDIFFITT
GRANBURY , TX

BOBBY VINCENT
HUDSON OAKS , TX

4.14

149

TOM WARD
TYLER , TX

JIM CRAWFORD
NACOGDOCHES , TX

4.05

150

ROB MEDDERS
CELINA , TX

ROB WILSON
SHERMAN , TX

4.04

151

SCOTT TROUTT
CORINTH , TX

DENNIS BUSHLAND
DENTON , TX

3.94

151

ROBERT CASE JR
POINT , TX

MORRIS MCCUTCHEON
WINNSBORO , TX

3.94

153

KEITH CARNEY
ARLINGTON , TX

KEVIN CARNEY
ARLINGTON , TX

3.81

154

ROGER RITCHIE
WICHITA FALLS , TX

RICHARD RITCHIE
BENTON , AR

3.77

155

JOE SMITH
FORNEY , TX

KENNETH GERECHT
PALMER , TX

3.48

156

PUTHAL LOEUK
YANTIS , TX

MICHAEL CARRILLO
DALLAS , TX

3.18

157

DYLON GARCIA
BONHAM , TX

ROBERT HOLLAND
DODD CITY , TX

3.00

158

MATT HITT
MESQUITE , TX

RUSSELL STROMAN
HEARTLAND , TX

2.82

158

RICHARD NICHOLAS
JUSTIN , TX

BILLY MATTHEWS
BOYD , TX

2.82

160

JOSH KEITHLEY
FORT WORTH , TX

JUSTIN KEITHLEY
ARLINGTON , TX

2.79

161

MARTY MASSOLETTI
GILMER , TX

RORY LAYNE
EMORY , TX

2.62

162

JUSTIN CHANCE
PILOT POINT , TX

2.44

163

JUNIOR THOMAS
ALBA , TX

LARRY THOMAS
LIPAN , TX

2.08

164

CRAIG HATCHEL
WHITESBORO , TX

CHANCE HATCHEL
WHITESBORO , TX

1.83

165

CHARLES GRAHAM
DALLAS , TX

CARLOS JIMENEZ
BURLESON , TX

1.65

166

GREG OSTERTAG
BOGATA , TX

0.00

166

DUSTY FRANK
WEST POINT , TX

RUSTY REEDY
SPRING BRANCH , TX

0.00

166

KEITH COLE
ZAVALLA , TX

CHUCK COLE
BROOKLAND , TX

0.00

166

JAY EICHLER
EMORY , TX

CASEY CHEATHAM
DALLAS , TX

0.00

166

JACOBY ADKINS
KINGSTON , OK

BLAKE WILLIAMS
NEWCASTLE , OK

0.00

166

JAMES WRIGHT
BROWNSBORO , TX

DARRIN WRIGHT
BROWNSBORO , TX

0.00

166

ALTON KISER JR
GRAND PRAIRIE , TX

ED BLACKBURN
GRAND PRAIRIE , TX

0.00

166

JOSH TAUBER
BULLARD , TX

LEE HAMMERS
FRANKSTON , TX

0.00

166

GREGORY BROWN
FORT WORTH , TX

JEFFERY MCCORMICK
BENBROOK , TX

0.00

166

JONATHAN KINCAID
WEATHERFORD , TX

DOUG KINCAID
WEATHERFORD , TX

0.00

166

KRIS CHITTY
CANTON , TX

SARA CHITTY
CANTON , TX

0.00

166

MARK BIONDI SR
BURLESON , TX

MARK BIONDI JR
BURLESON , TX

0.00

166

RONNY HALBERT
LARUE , TX

RICKY PHILLIPS
TRINIDAD , TX

0.00

166

CRAIG WALDROP
BENBROOK , TX

COREY WALDROP
FT WORTH , TX

0.00

166

CHRISTOPHER MCMINN
BALKO , OK

JUSTIN EARLES
LITTLE ROCK , AR

0.00

166

DELL BROWN
ARLINGTON , TX

MARK MCCLURE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS , TX

0.00

166

CHRIS BAKER
POWDERLY , TX

BRANDON BEERS
DETROIT , TX

0.00

166

CHARLIE HERRON
EUSTACE , TX

JACOB CONGLETON
KEMP , TX

0.00

166

PAUL MCCOLLUM
CORSICANA , TX

COEY MCCOLLUM
CORSICANA , TX

0.00

166

SHANE THOMPSON
FORNEY , TX

RICKY MEDINA
FORNEY , TX

0.00

166

BRYCE CAIN
COLLEYVILLE , TX

JEFFREY BRANNON
PRINCETON , TX

0.00

166

DANIEL WILLIAMSON
FT WORTH , TX

DOUG DURRWACHTER
GRAPEVINE , TX

0.00

166

JOHNNY TRAMMELL
BOYD , TX

DOYLE REDDELL
MINERAL WELLS , TX

0.00

166

NICK BROWN
LINDALE , TX

RILEY BROWN
LINDALE , TX

0.00

166

JIM EDWARDS
BLUM , TX

BEN MILLER
BLUM , TX

0.00

166

GARY HARRISON
GUN BARREL CITY , TX

BILL ROBINSON
HURST , TX

0.00

166

CURTIS YOUNG
RICHLAND HILLS , TX

0.00

166

STEVE FOUSHEE
MURPHY , TX

BRYAN TUCKER
CARROLLTON , TX

0.00

166

CHARLES GALLAGHER
LAWTON , OK

0.00

166

BRUCE SPRING
ALBA , TX

RICKIE NELSON
KAUFMAN , TX

0.00

166

DAVID HOWARD
DALLAS , TX

0.00

166

CALVIN SHORT
RUSK , TX

KELLY SHORT
RUSK , TX

0.00

166

DEAN TRUDELL
HIGHLAND VILLAGE , TX

MIKE KUBANEK
HIGHLAND VILLAGE , TX

0.00

166

RICKY CONWAY
SULPHUR SPRINGS , TX

JAMIE VANDERGRIFF
ROCKWALL , TX

0.00

166

KEITH TRIMBLE
TRINIDAD , TX

TOM KRESSLEY
SHERMAN , TX

0.00

166

ROCKIE MARTIN
ROCKWALL , TX

CLINT NOWELL
FORT WORTH , TX

0.00

166

SHAWN BROOKS
BOYD , TX

LANCE HILDEBRAND
OTSEGO , MI

0.00

166

SHAWN WATSON
ROYSE CITY , TX

JOE STURGEON
ROYSE CITY , TX

0.00

166

CODY NIX
PLANO , TX

CORY NIX
CELINA , TX

0.00

166

BOBBY BADARACK
FT WORTH , TX

MARY BADARACK
FORT WORTH , TX

0.00

166

CHRISTOPHER RODGERS
TYLER , TX

KHRISTIAN SALCEDO
NEW BRAUNFELS , TX

0.00

166

HEATH COLEMAN
FRISCO , TX

ZACHARY SHIMON
MCKINNEY , TX

0.00

166

JAMES SHAMBURGER
MABANK , TX

JACOB SHANNON
ARLINGTON , TX

0.00

166

RICKY MAYO
ARDMORE , OK

ERIC DUNCAN
ARDMORE , OK

0.00

166

WILLIE BENSLEY
MESQUITE , TX

BRAD BEESON
CLEBURNE , TX

0.00

166

MARK RHODES
ODESSA , TX

EVAN MULLEN
ODESSA , TX

0.00

166

TYLER ROANE
GUNTER , TX

JOSH ROANE
PROSPER , TX

0.00

166

ADAM PELS
PILOT POINT , TX

CHRIS PELS
SANGER , TX

0.00

166

DERRICK CORSO
MCKINNEY , TX

BRANDT BIGGERSTAFF
FRISCO , TX

0.00

166

RUSSELL PASKET
ANDERSON , TX

KIRK WICKMAN
ANDERSON , TX

0.00

166

TANNER BARTON
EDMOND , OK

BRAD BARTON
EDMOND , OK

0.00

166

CHANCELLOR LEWIS
WINONA , TX

MORGAN EVANS
LONGVIEW , TX

0.00

166

BRANDON BROSSETT
GROESBECK , TX

WESLEY BROSSETT
GROESBECK , TX

0.00

166

JERRAD CARSON
LONE OAK , TX

0.00

166

MICHAEL HARP
LINDEN , TX

AARON HARP
LINDEN , TX

0.00

166

STEVE SCHMIDT
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

BILLY RYAN
MANSFIELD , TX

0.00

166

JAMES JACKSON
MIDLOTHIAN , TX

MARK BROWN
ARLINGTON , TX

0.00

166

ZACHARY WYMER
HALTOM , TX

MATT CARR
SCURRY , TX

0.00

166

DONALD DICKENS
MONTGOMERY , TX

WILLIE DICKENS
BAYTOWN , TX

0.00

166

JAMES HARRISON
GRAPEVINE , TX

J WYATT HARRISON
GRAPEVINE , TX

0.00

166

MIKE PERKINS
DALLAS , TX

STAN GERZSENYI
DEL RIO , TX

0.00

166

BILLY DAVIS
ROYSE CITY , TX

JONATHON WEBER
CADDO MILLS , TX

0.00

166

GARY WILCOXSON
HAWKINS , TX

JAY WILCOXSON
MINEOLA , TX

0.00

166

DAX DAVIS
EMORY , TX

BRAD SWEARINGEN
CUMBY , TX

0.00

166

DWIGHT BOUTTE
FRISCO , TX

DAMON NEAL
PROSPER , TX

0.00

166

JONATHAN LANCASTER
QUITMAN , TX

JONATHAN SHORT
RUSK , TX

0.00

166

BYRON BIONDI
KENNEDALE , TX

JASON GREENFIELD
KENNEDALE , TX

0.00

166

CHUCK BISHOP
SANGER , TX

JUNIOR MITCHELL
KRUGERVILLE , TX

0.00

166

COLE BREWER
LEESVILLE , LA

GEORGE SHIPPEY
MT PLEASANT , TX

0.00

166

GG BOYD
AZLE , TX

JACOB ROANE
CELINA , TX

0.00

166

RORY LAYNE
EMORY , TX

WILLIAM BRUNSON
LIBERTY HILL , TX

0.00

166

JOHN ADAMS
FRISCO , TX

RICK CLARK
TERRELL , TX

0.00

by AnglersChannel

Big Bass Tour Berkley Lake Breakdown - Table Rock

Segar Says Table Rock is Better Than Ever

By Pete Robbins

Table Rock Lake guide Doc Segar has fished the jewel of the Ozarks for 60 years and he said that the lake has never been more productive, both for numbers and big fish. As the Big Bass Tour anglers descend upon it next weekend, things are primed for a slugfest.

“We have more 3- to 6-pond fish than we’ve ever had because of the past few spawns,” he said. “In a recent 170 boat tournament, there were five 20-pound bags, and they were mixed – not just largemouths but 4-pound Kentuckies and 4-pound smallmouths, too. The top four big bass were all over 6 pounds. For the BBT, to win the overall top prize, it’ll for sure take a high 6, but it could easily take a 7-pounder to win.”

That’s consistent with past April BBT events on Table Rock. It’s always a matter of ounces with 5- and 6-pounders choking the top of the leaderboard. Every other year, it seems, there are multiple bass weighed in that push the scales past 7 pound. In 2019, the three anglers who brought in 7-pounders were greatly disappointed to find out that another competitor had landed a massive 9.02 largemouth. They’re out there, in greater numbers than many expect.

The fish moved up shallow with the last full moon and Segar said “they’re not moving back,” even though there’s been plenty of rain and some snow in the recent weather report. “The best thing that could happen would be to have that snow. The fish out in 30 to 40 feet of water won’t win it.”

Of course, the rain impacts the fishery in other ways, particularly in terms of water clarities. Segar would head to the back third of major creeks and “go around and look for stain,” throwing a Berkley Frittside anywhere he found it. That same bait, just in different colors, is also a clear water go-to. “The best fish are all less than 10 feet deep.”

He’d look for brush piles in less than 10 feet of water, both those placed by the state and those added by local anglers. Then he’d drop Berkley’s new ½ ounce flipping jig in them. In the early morning he’d use PBJ and later in the day Green Pumpkin, both with a Green Pumpkin MaxScent Chigger Craw.

While the Berkley Stunna jerkbait bite that had been incredibly strong is fading out, there still remains a good swimbait bite with the Power Swimmer, either alone on an underspin or on an umbrella rig. Looking for that bigger bite, would use the 3.8” size across the board. On the A-Rig, he’d use four of the silver/blue ones around the edges because “they just love it.” IN the middle he’d place one pearl swimmer, with the tail dipped chartreuse. “That’s the deal.”

The great thing about this event at this time is that “the whole lake is exploding right now,” he added. That means that anglers will be able to spread out. He’d try to stay within 25 minutes of the scales to maximize fishing time. Even anglers without extensive history on Table Rock should have a fighting chance of earning hourly checks, if not the overall big bass prize.

“Just look for the gravel where they’re going to spawn, where it meets with baseball-sized to boulder-sized rocks,” he explained. “Those fish are staging. You can even just put the boat in 25 feet of water, throw that Power Swimmer as far as you can, and slow roll it back. You’ll catch a lot of good fish that way.

He said that smallmouths and spots will also play a roll, and they’re plentiful, but largemouths should ultimately rule the day.

“The top 10 could easily all be 6-pounders.”

by AnglersChannel

Jack Daniel Williams Earns Win at Toyota Series at Dale Hollow Lake

BYRDSTOWN, Tenn. (April 3, 2022) – Kingsport, Tennessee, boater Jack Daniel Williams brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 21 pounds, 13 ounces to win the Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. at Dale Hollow Lake. Williams’ three-day total of 15 bass weighing 64-10 earned him the victory by a 1-pound, 13-ounce margin over second place boater Kevin Drake of Cleveland, Tennessee, and earned Williams the top payout of $71,500.

The three-day event, hosted by the Byrdstown-County Chamber of Commerce, was the second event of the season for the Toyota Series Central Division.

“I’m telling you I’m speechless, I really am. I don’t even know what to say. I think it will set in tomorrow, maybe when I drive out of here,” said Williams, laughing and adding, “I know that trophy is going to sleep in the bed with me for the next six weeks, I’m sure.”

Like most of the Top 25, forward-facing sonar and an abundance of bait were critical factors in Williams reaching the final day of competition. He noted that certain characteristics in his primary area along with changing weather conditions affected the movement of baitfish throughout the area.

“All my areas had points and steep drops on each side of them. The bait would load up on points when it got warm and drop off when it got cold into that deeper water.”

Williams targeted Dale Hollow’s schools of fish with a small 3½-inch swimbait rigged on a ¼-ounce jig head. He, like many others, made targeted casts aided by his sonar to specific single fish or pods of fish to initiate strikes.

“The warmer weather made the bait come up and that’s when I’d use a lighter head, with a slower fall to keep it in front of their face,” explained Williams.

While Williams was able to notch three bags eclipsing 21 pounds, it wasn’t easy by any stretch. Williams noted that the turning point of his was event was his late Day 2 flurry where he culled all five of his keeper fish to jump from roughly 13 pounds to 21-7. That put him in fourth and within striking distance on Day 3.

“It gave me the confidence going into the [final] day. I caught them late yesterday, and it gave me some confidence. I figured that they would still be there. So, I showed up today and caught a 4-pounder immediately.”

Williams’ area wasn’t on fire immediately after his early morning 4-pounder. But, after bouncing around to a few new areas, Williams was able to put a limit of fish in the boat before jumping his weight up soon thereafter by returning to his primary area.

“It seemed like I needed the wind to get up, so I left. I went and caught five, and then when I came back, I started culling.”

Still in shock at taking the top spot, Williams took a moment to reflect on what this meant for him in his young career.

“This is the dream come true. Every fisherman knows it’s not about the money. It’s about winning, and just loving the sport really,” he said. “And doing good. I just want to do good as a fisherman, that’s it. If I was to get beat with 21 pounds each day then so be it, hats off to them.”

The top 10 pros on Dale Hollow Lake finished:

1^st:          Jack Daniel Williams, Kingsport, Tenn., 15 bass, 64-10, $71,500
2^nd:         Kevin Drake, Cleveland, Tenn., 15 bass, 62-13, $31,000
3^rd:         Tristan Abbott, Somerset, Ky., 15 bass, 62-8, $19,400
4^th:         Nick Ratliff, Vine Grove, Ky, 13 bass, 62-5, $17,000
5^th:         Bailey Gay, Union, Ky., 15 bass, 60-2, $16,000
6^th:         Isaac Peavyhouse, Jamestown, Tenn., 15 bass, 59-13, $12,500
7^th:         Seth Davis, Harrison, Tenn., 15 bass, 59-3, $11,000
8^th:         Austin Swindle, Parrish, Ala., 15 bass, 58-7, $9,000
9^th:         Jonathan Dietz, Corry, Pa., 15 bass, 54-13, $8,000
10^th:       Andrew Behnke, Fond du Lac, Wis., 15 bass, 52-12, $6,000

Complete results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Pro Blake Hall of Decatur, Alabama, won the $500 Day 1 Berkley Big Bass award in the pro division Thursday with a bass weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Pat Eichmann of Nancy, Kentucky, earned Friday’s $500 Berkley Big Bass award with a 6-pound, 3-ouncer.

Drake took home an extra $1,000 as the highest finishing Phoenix MLF Bonus member. Boaters are eligible to win up to an extra $35,000 per event in each Toyota Series tournament if all requirements are met. More information on the Phoenix MLF Bonus contingency program can be found at PhoenixBassBoats.com.

Jeremy Bouldin of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, won the Strike King Co-angler Division Saturday with a three-day total of 13 bass weighing 35 pounds, 12 ounces. Bouldin took home the top prize package worth $41,000, including a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard motor.

The top 10 Strike King co-anglers on Dale Hollow Lake finished:

1^st:          Jeremy Bouldin, Kings Mountain, N.C., 13 bass, 35-12, Phoenix 518 Pro boat w/115-hp Mercury outboard + $7,500
2^nd:         Clayton Weber, West Salem, Wis., 13 bass, 32-4, $8,500
3^rd:         Randy Wiggins, Birmingham, Ala., 11 bass, 31-4, $7,350
4^th:         James Burns, Nancy, Ky., 12 bass, 31-3, $5,500
5^th:         Lenny Bays, Dayton, Ky., 11 bass, 29-1, $5,000
6^th:         Pop Catalin, Cookeville, Tenn., nine bass, 25-13, $4,150
7^th:         Luke Kerstetter, Brookfield, Wis., nine bass, 25-6, $3,500
8^th:         Gary Haraguchi, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 11 bass, 24-13, $2,750
9^th:         Joe Rush, Brodhead, Ky., 11 bass, 24-4, $1,900
10^th:       Richard Arnold, Owens Cross Roads, Ala., eight bass, 23-8, $1,700

The Day 1 Berkley Big Bass $150 award winner in the Strike King co-angler division, was Pop Catalin with a 5-pound, 14-ounce bass, while the Day 2 $150 award went to Tony Pickering of Lafayette, Indiana, with a 5-pound, 13-ounce fish.

After two events in the Toyota Series Central Division, boater Derik Hudson of Concord, Virginia, leads the Toyota Series Central Division Pro Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 508 points, while Randy Wiggins of Birmingham, Alabama, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 511 points.

The next event for Toyota Series anglers will take place on April 7-9 – the Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. at Santee Cooper in Summerton, South Carolina, hosted by the Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce. For a complete schedule, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com.

The 2022 Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. consists of six divisions – Central, Northern, Plains Presented by Outlaw Ordnance, Southern, Southwestern Presented by Outlaw Ordnance and Western – each holding three regular-season events, along with the International and Wild Card divisions. Anglers who fish in any of the six divisions and finish in the top 25 – or the top 12 from the Wild Card division – will qualify for the no-entry-fee Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. Championship for a shot at winning up to $235,000 cash. The winning Strike King co-angler at the championship earns a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard. The 2022 Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. Championship will be held Nov. 3-5 on Lake Guntersville in Guntersville, Alabama, and is hosted by Marshall County Tourism and Sports.

Proud sponsors of the 2022 MLF Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. include: 4WP, 13 Fishing, Abu Garcia, AFTCO, A.R.E. Truck Caps, B&W Trailer Hitches, Berkley, Black Rifle Coffee, E3, Epic Baits, Favorite Fishing, Gary Yamamoto Baits, General Tire, Lew’s, Lowrance, Lucas Oil, Mercury, Mossy Oak, Onyx, Outlaw Ordnance, Phoenix, Polaris, Power-Pole, Strike King, Tackle Warehouse, T-H Marine, Toyota, Wiley X and YETI.

For complete details and updated information visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the MLF Toyota Series on the MLF5 social media outlets at Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

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Gallant Rallies To Win Bassmaster Southern Open At Cherokee Lake

Cooper Gallant of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, has won the 2022 St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing with a two-day total of 36 pounds, 1 ounce.
Photo by Andy Crawford/B.A.S.S.
April 2, 2022

Gallant Rallies To Win Bassmaster Southern Open At Cherokee Lake

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Sticking with a deep bite for smallmouth bass, Cooper Gallant of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, caught 18 pounds, 9 ounces on Championship Saturday and won the St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open on Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing.

He finished with a two-day total of 36-1.

The 24-year-old Gallant, who called the victory the biggest of his career so far, earned $52,533 and qualified for the 2023 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk.

“I’m thankful for the win and I couldn’t do it without my friends, family and the support from my sponsors,” Gallant said. “I’m excited for the Classic and excited to get on the road to the (next Open at) James River.”

Gallant, who is also attempting to qualify for the Bassmaster Elite Series, is now in seventh place in the Southern Open standings after two events.

“After Florida, I figured I would need a Top 20 in this one and another Top 20 on Hartwell in October,” he said. “To come into this one and actually win the thing, it sets me up really well for Hartwell. If I can get a Top 15 or 20 on Hartwell, I will have a good shot at making the Elites.”

With water temperatures cooler than expected, Gallant focused on deep rock structure between 15 and 30 feet of water where prespawn smallmouth were staging to move up into shallower spawning areas.

The best smallmouth he caught came from about 23 feet of water. With 20 spots to choose from, ranging from rock flats and rockpiles to boulders and main-lake points, he would move until he found a group of bass that were willing to bite.

He said could not see his bass on his Garmin LiveScope.

“I barely saw any bait this week where I was fishing,” he said. “They were hunkering down and waiting to move up. You wouldn’t see them on LiveScope. You just had to fish around and you would see them rise from the bottom. I would just fish where I thought they would be.”

Most of Gallant’s bass fell for an X-Zone Lures Hot Shot Minnow on either a drop shot or a Damiki rig. He would drop a bigger fluke rigged on a Damiki rig as well, but some of the bass would not commit to eating the larger profile and he would follow with the smaller Hot Shot Minnow.

The couple of bites he did get shallow were around pea gravel with a swimbait.

“If they weren’t eating right away I’d pretty well pull out of there and move to the next one,” he said. “Going into this week, I thought they were going to push shallow, but it ended up working out perfectly. I was able to catch them out deep and I feel comfortable out deep.”

After strong winds shortened the event to two days, Gallant landed in eighth place after Day 1 with 17-8. But he spent the last few hours of the day looking for new fish and found a spot that gave him the confidence to stick with the program for another day.

“For Day 1, I thought for sure I was going to have to switch things up and go shallow. But I dropped the trolling motor down and saw the (water temperature) was 52.5,” he said. “After Day 1, I said to myself ‘I’m staying out deep and I’m going to grind it out.’

“I knew I could catch another 15 to 16 pounds, I wasn’t sure I could catch 18. I knew I was around them but wasn’t positive I could make it happen.”

After leading Day 1 with 19-3, South Carolina pro Bryan New caught 16-1 to finish in second place with a two-day total of 35-4. Using mostly a Greenfish Tackle Bad Little Dude finesse jig with a Zoom Z-Craw Worm trailer, New targeted transition banks and shelf rock in the backs of pockets where both smallmouth and largemouth were staging, mixing in some brushpiles and offshore rockpiles as well.

“A Z-Craw is good for a big jig trailer, but when you are fishing a smaller, light-wire jig, it has a worm body and Z-Craw legs,” New said. “You cut it down, thread it on there and you aren’t taking away from the bite of your hook.

“You still have the profile, but you don’t have the bulk that gets in the way of your hook. I caught a lot of fish in the Classic on this same deal.”

New paired the jig with a 6-6 Medium Heavy Fitzgerald Jerkbait Rod, an Abu Garcia Revo STX and 14-pound Sunline Shooter. He also mixed in a big swimbait and a Spro Little John MD.

Canadian Jamie Bruce finished third with 34-7, catching 18-2 on Day 1 before landing 16-5 on Championship Saturday. In his first-ever tournament in the United States, he caught offshore smallmouth with a 3/8-ounce Bass Tactics Smeltinator Jig Head paired with a 5-inch Z-Man Jerk Shad.

He found the bass would rise further off the bottom to investigate the bigger bait.

“I fished as much steep structure as I could. I fished vertically over it,” Bruce said. “There were a lot of obvious boulders and humps and they were getting beat on. I would catch what I could and then go to these sneaky spots I found. They take forever to find. They are super steep ledges and you have to hang it over the ledge and you don’t know if there is a fish there until it shows itself.”

Alabama angler David Kilgore earned $750 for the Phoenix Boats Big Bass of the Tournament with a 5-11 largemouth he caught on Day 1.

Justin Baldridge of Greenup, Ky., won the co-angler division with a two-day total of 19-1. Tyler Carrick finished second with 18-15 and Keith Gunsauls finished third with 18-15. Frank Williams won the Phoenix Boats Big Bass on the co-angler side with a 5-3.

Arkansas pro Joey Cifuentes III and Tennessee pro Brandon Lester are tied for the lead in the overall Opens and Southern Opens point standings with 380 points, while New is third with 376.

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New Targets Staging Bass To Grab Lead At Bassmaster Southern Open On Cherokee Lake

Bryan New of Saluda, S.C., is leading the 2022 St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing with 19 pounds, 3 ounces.

Photo by Andy Crawford/B.A.S.S.

April 1, 2022

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Using several different techniques, South Carolina pro Bryan New caught a mixed bag of largemouth and smallmouth weighing 19 pounds, 3 ounces to lead the St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing.

The current Bassmaster Elite Series pro holds a slim advantage over second-place pro Shane Lineberger and third-place angler Frank Ramsey.

“It looks like I smashed them, but I didn’t,” New said. “I think I caught seven bass and lost two. It was one of those grinder days. This place had so much pressure this week and it is hard to run one deal. You have to do a little of this and a little of that.

“This place isn’t that big and 225 boats in one week changes things.”

With high winds and severe storms moving through East Tennessee on Thursday, Day 1 of the event was postponed, pushing the start to Friday morning and shortening the tournament to two days. In New’s mind, the delay helped the fishery tremendously.

When action finally began, 141 boaters landed limits Friday.

“I’ll argue with anyone, an off day in every tournament makes the fishing better,” New said. “They smashed them today. If we didn’t have that off day, basically a day and a half off, we would have caught some but it wouldn’t have been like this.”

This is only New’s second trip to Cherokee, but he is using his past experience on the Tennessee River to predict where the bass will be staging. With water levels on the lake dropping the past couple of weeks, New anticipated the bass wouldn’t be spawning yet.

“It is 13, 14 feet low now. I was thinking they should be stacked up on the staging stuff,” he said. “I figured the Damiki deal would still be going on — and it is, but there is only so much of the staging stuff and it is getting pounded. I was fortunate to catch four big ones and one good one.”

Cooler nights prevailed in practice, which didn’t allow the water temperatures to rise much. On tournament day, New noticed temperatures started in the low 50s, but rose throughout the day to about 58 degrees.

“The sun is important,” New said. “Not only does it warm the water up, but it positions the fish better. It makes them easier to catch.”

New has found that the smallmouth and largemouth are mostly in the same areas, but there are differences that will attract a smallmouth to an area more than a largemouth and vice versa. He ended Day 1 with four largemouth and one smallmouth.

The day started quickly for New, who landed his first bass on a Greenfish Tackle Bad Little Dude jig. From there, he landed a 2 1/2 and a 3 1/2 on a Spro Little John MD before landing his biggest bass, a 5-pounder, on a completely different bait. Two key culls late in the day, including one on the Bad Little Dude with minutes to spare before check-in, lifted him up the leaderboard.

Lineberger landed all largemouth on his way to 18-11. The North Carolina angler did not have a keeper at 9 a.m., but he decided to make a change mid-morning — something he likes to do on his home waters of Lake Norman — and the pattern he discovered lasted the rest of the day.

“I picked up a bait I throw at home this time of year and started doing things I do around the house,” Lineberger said. “The first place I fished I caught three and I ran the pattern from there. It held up until I quit running it.

“I caught a couple 2 1/2s that I threw back, and when I did that I quit running it. I may need those bass tomorrow.”

While Lineberger caught several smallmouth in practice, he had not been able to find them consistently. Even with his largemouth program, Lineberger anticipated he might only be able to catch 10 or 12 pounds.

“Sometimes the Good Lord smiles on you,” he said. “I had two that were around 4 1/4. They were all solid fish and that is what you have to have here. You can’t go out there and win on just smallmouth. I think you have to mix it up.

“Tomorrow I may have to do that. There is no holding back tomorrow and I can whack whatever bites.”

With a mixed bag, Ramsey ended Day 1 in third place with 18-5. The Illinois angler started the day by targeting brushpiles and landed two keepers quickly. Although the bite slowed from there, he filled a limit once the sun fully rose.

Most of his damage was done on one bank where he caught 10 keepers and made five or six key culls with both species.

“It was a grind waiting for the sun to come out,” he said. “Once the sun came out, it was all about moving baits, slow rolling and taking your time in prespawn areas and classic staging areas. Steep banks played a key role.”

Alabama pro David Kilgore landed the Phoenix Boats Big Bass of the Day, a 5-11 largemouth that helped him land in sixth place.

Mitch Mitchell of Georgia leads the nonboater standings with a three-bass limit weighing 12-3. Mike McKinney is second with 11-6, followed by Herschel Brady with 11-0. Gerald Robbins Jr. holds the Big Bass of the Day on the co-angler side with a 5-1.

The full field of pros and co-anglers will compete on Championship Saturday. Anglers will take off at 7 a.m. ET from the Cherokee TVA Dam Boat Launch and return for weigh-in starting at 3 p.m.

2022 St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing 3/31-4/2
Cherokee Lake, Jefferson County TN.
(BOATER) Standings Day 1

Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$

1. Bryan New Saluda, SC 5 19-03 200
Day 1: 5 19-03
2. Shane Lineberger Lincolnton, NC 5 18-11 199
Day 1: 5 18-11
3. Frank Ramsey Spring Grove, IL 5 18-05 198
Day 1: 5 18-05
4. Jamie Bruce Kenora Ontario CANADA 5 18-02 197
Day 1: 5 18-02
5. Todd Auten Lake Wylie, SC 5 18-00 196
Day 1: 5 18-00
6. David Kilgore Jasper, AL 5 17-13 195
Day 1: 5 17-13
7. Brandon Lester Fayetteville, TN 5 17-12 194
Day 1: 5 17-12
8. Coop Gallant Bowmanville Ontario CAN 5 17-08 193
Day 1: 5 17-08
9. Jeremy Gordon Rutledge, TN 5 17-03 192
Day 1: 5 17-03
10. Brandon Edel White House, TN 5 17-02 191
Day 1: 5 17-02
11. Joel Willert Prior Lake, MN 5 17-01 190
Day 1: 5 17-01
12. Scott Allgood Fair Play, SC 5 17-00 189
Day 1: 5 17-00
13. David Williams Newton, NC 5 16-14 188
Day 1: 5 16-14
14. Tim Frederick Leesburg, FL 5 16-13 187
Day 1: 5 16-13
15. Tom Frink Southside, AL 5 16-12 186
Day 1: 5 16-12
16. Zack Birge Blanchard, OK 5 16-09 185
Day 1: 5 16-09
17. Denny Fiedler Wabasha, MN 5 16-08 184
Day 1: 5 16-08
18. Ben Ballou Dickson, TN 5 16-06 183
Day 1: 5 16-06
19. Kyle Cortiana Broken Arrow, OK 5 16-05 182
Day 1: 5 16-05
19. Justin Margraves Diana, TX 5 16-05 182
Day 1: 5 16-05
21. Cody Bertrand Dyer, IN 5 16-04 180
Day 1: 5 16-04
22. Kyle Austin Ridgeville, SC 5 16-03 179
Day 1: 5 16-03
22. Jacob Moore Wake Forest, NC 5 16-03 179
Day 1: 5 16-03
24. Shannon Poore Walhalla, SC 5 16-02 177
Day 1: 5 16-02
24. Tommy Williams Shepherdsville, KY 5 16-02 177
Day 1: 5 16-02
26. Jacob Bigelow Cecil, WI 5 16-01 175
Day 1: 5 16-01
27. Zach Goutremout Chaumont, NY 5 15-15 174
Day 1: 5 15-15
28. Scott Canterbury Odenville, AL 5 15-14 173
Day 1: 5 15-14
29. Jon Canada Helena, AL 5 15-13 172
Day 1: 5 15-13
29. Drew Coker Murrayville, GA 5 15-13 172
Day 1: 5 15-13
29. Caiden Sinclair Wilsonville, AL 5 15-13 172
Day 1: 5 15-13
32. Corey Lindsey Marion, OH 5 15-12 169
Day 1: 5 15-12
32. Mark Pappas Dandridge, TN 5 15-12 169
Day 1: 5 15-12
34. Jason Borofka Lavon, TX 5 15-11 167
Day 1: 5 15-11
34. Wesley Gore Clanton, AL 5 15-11 167
Day 1: 5 15-11
36. Chancy Walters West Des Moines, IA 5 15-09 165
Day 1: 5 15-09
37. Ty Ball Rogersville, TN 5 15-08 164
Day 1: 5 15-08
38. John Hunter Jr Shelbyville, KY 5 15-07 163
Day 1: 5 15-07
38. Kayden Tanner Tolar, TX 5 15-07 163
Day 1: 5 15-07
40. Chris Beaudrie Princeton, KY 5 15-06 161
Day 1: 5 15-06
40. Lucas Bradley Flippin, AR 5 15-06 161
Day 1: 5 15-06
42. Derek Lehtonen Woodruff, SC 5 15-05 159
Day 1: 5 15-05
42. Josh Roark Bean Station, TN 5 15-05 159
Day 1: 5 15-05
44. Billy Messer Spartanburg, SC 5 15-04 157
Day 1: 5 15-04
45. Paul Marks Cumming, GA 5 15-03 156
Day 1: 5 15-03
46. Gary Ginter Bellefontaine, OH 5 15-01 155
Day 1: 5 15-01
47. Bryden Mugleston Mount Juliet, TN 5 15-00 154
Day 1: 5 15-00
47. Joey Nania Cropwell, AL 5 15-00 154
Day 1: 5 15-00
49. Matt Coughlin Dandridge, TN 5 14-15 152
Day 1: 5 14-15
49. Jon Jezierski Troy, MI 5 14-15 152
Day 1: 5 14-15
51. Kyle Patrick Cooperstown, NY 5 14-14 150
Day 1: 5 14-14
51. Blake Sylvester Plaquemine, LA 5 14-14 150
Day 1: 5 14-14
53. Bradley Hallman Edmond, OK 5 14-13 148
Day 1: 5 14-13
54. Chris Blanchette Charleston, SC 5 14-10 147
Day 1: 5 14-10
54. Dustin O'shaughnessy Junction City, WI 5 14-10 147
Day 1: 5 14-10
54. Logan Shaddix Cullman, GA 5 14-10 147
Day 1: 5 14-10
57. Tristan McCormick Burns, TN 5 14-09 144
Day 1: 5 14-09
58. Matt Robertson Kuttawa, KY 5 14-08 143
Day 1: 5 14-08
59. Johnny Bigger II Spring Hill, FL 5 14-05 142
Day 1: 5 14-05
59. Matt Pangrac Bixby, OK 5 14-05 142
Day 1: 5 14-05
59. Tucker Smith Shoal Creek, AL 5 14-05 142
Day 1: 5 14-05
62. Darrell Davis Dover, FL 5 14-03 139
Day 1: 5 14-03
62. Harvey Horne Bella Vista, AR 5 14-03 139
Day 1: 5 14-03
62. Andrew Mlotek Indianapolis, IN 5 14-03 139
Day 1: 5 14-03
62. John Soukup Sapulpa, OK 5 14-03 139
Day 1: 5 14-03
62. Frank Talley Temple, TX 5 14-03 139
Day 1: 5 14-03
67. Michael Cooper Mobile, AL 5 14-02 134
Day 1: 5 14-02
68. David Gaston Sylacauga, AL 5 14-00 133
Day 1: 5 14-00
68. Darold Gleason Many, LA 5 14-00 133
Day 1: 5 14-00
68. Connor Neal Hoover, AL 5 14-00 133
Day 1: 5 14-00
71. Brandon Palaniuk Rathdrum, ID 5 13-15 130
Day 1: 5 13-15
72. D.J. Ellis Crestview, FL 5 13-14 129
Day 1: 5 13-14
72. Todd Goade White Pine, TN 5 13-14 129
Day 1: 5 13-14
72. Kenta Kimura Osaka JAPAN 5 13-14 129
Day 1: 5 13-14
75. Logan Parks Auburn, AL 5 13-13 126
Day 1: 5 13-13
75. Alex Sherrill Clanton, AL 5 13-13 126
Day 1: 5 13-13
75. Bart Stanisz Wichita Falls , TX 5 13-13 126
Day 1: 5 13-13
78. Cole Drummond Effingham, SC 5 13-12 123
Day 1: 5 13-12
78. Seiji Kato Outsu Shiga JAPAN 5 13-12 123
Day 1: 5 13-12
78. Andrew Upshaw Hemphill, TX 5 13-12 123
Day 1: 5 13-12
81. David Perdue Wirtz, VA 5 13-11 120
Day 1: 5 13-11
82. Quentin Cappo Prairieville, LA 5 13-10 119
Day 1: 5 13-10
83. Mike Huff London, KY 5 13-09 118
Day 1: 5 13-09
83. Chris Keeble Lenoir City, TN 5 13-09 118
Day 1: 5 13-09
85. Andrew Thomasson Dublin, VA 5 13-08 116
Day 1: 5 13-08
86. Adam Neu Sturgeon Bay, WI 5 13-07 115
Day 1: 5 13-07
87. Jake Maddux Birmingham, AL 5 13-06 114
Day 1: 5 13-06
88. Garrett Paquette Canton, MI 5 13-05 113
Day 1: 5 13-05
89. Trevor McKinney Benton, IL 5 13-04 112
Day 1: 5 13-04
89. Chad Smith Minnetonka, MN 5 13-04 112
Day 1: 5 13-04
91. Jim Dillard West Monroe, LA 5 13-03 110
Day 1: 5 13-03
92. Matt Green Cartersville, GA 5 13-01 109
Day 1: 5 13-01
93. Joey Cifuentes III Clinton, AR 5 13-00 108
Day 1: 5 13-00
93. Robbie Latuso Gonzales, LA 5 13-00 108
Day 1: 5 13-00
93. Lucas Murphy West Columbia, MI 5 13-00 108
Day 1: 5 13-00
93. Bryant Smith Roseville, CA 5 13-00 108
Day 1: 5 13-00
97. Brad Leuthner Independence, MN 5 12-15 104
Day 1: 5 12-15
97. Brian Post Janesville, WI 5 12-15 104
Day 1: 5 12-15
99. Logan Johnson Jasper, AL 4 12-14 102
Day 1: 4 12-14
100. Cole Sands Calhoun , TN 5 12-13 101
Day 1: 5 12-13
101. Randy Elliott Severn, MD 5 12-11 100
Day 1: 5 12-11
101. Michael Kinard Concord, NC 5 12-11 100
Day 1: 5 12-11
103. Cody Stahl Barnsville, GA 5 12-09 98
Day 1: 5 12-09
103. Dustin Williamson Aiken, SC 5 12-09 98
Day 1: 5 12-09
105. Rick Morris Lake Gaston, VA 5 12-08 96
Day 1: 5 12-08
105. Tyler Williams Belgrade, ME 5 12-08 96
Day 1: 5 12-08
107. Aaron Digh Denver, NC 5 12-07 94
Day 1: 5 12-07
107. Bailey Fain Lenoir City, TN 5 12-07 94
Day 1: 5 12-07
109. Gary Pilkenton Morristown, TN 5 12-04 92
Day 1: 5 12-04
110. Kyle Monti Okeechobee, FL 5 12-03 91
Day 1: 5 12-03
110. Sean Torgrude Jacksonville, FL 5 12-03 91
Day 1: 5 12-03
112. Jeff Fellows Orlando, FL 5 12-02 89
Day 1: 5 12-02
113. Lonnie Cochran Section, AL 5 12-01 88
Day 1: 5 12-01
113. Drew Cook Cairo, GA 5 12-01 88
Day 1: 5 12-01
113. Austin Felix Eden Prairie, MN 5 12-01 88
Day 1: 5 12-01
116. Scott Ashmore Broken Arrow, OK 5 11-15 85
Day 1: 5 11-15
116. Ben Stone Iva, SC 5 11-15 85
Day 1: 5 11-15
118. Bailey Boutries Springfield, MO 5 11-14 83
Day 1: 5 11-14
119. Julius Mazy Phoenix, AZ 5 11-13 82
Day 1: 5 11-13
120. Zeke Gossett Pell City, AL 4 11-12 81
Day 1: 4 11-12
121. Griffin Heffington Cumming, GA 5 11-11 80
Day 1: 5 11-11
121. Chris Neau Gretna, LA 5 11-11 80
Day 1: 5 11-11
121. Jayme Rampey Liberty, SC 5 11-11 80
Day 1: 5 11-11
124. Michael Hall Annandale, VA 5 11-10 77
Day 1: 5 11-10
124. Ronnie Mccoy Lamar, SC 5 11-10 77
Day 1: 5 11-10
126. Keith Poche Pike Road, AL 5 11-05 75
Day 1: 5 11-05
127. Chris Moody Brooks, GA 5 11-03 74
Day 1: 5 11-03
128. Randy Blaukat Springfield, MO 5 11-02 73
Day 1: 5 11-02
129. Dave Frost Mount Dora, FL 5 11-01 72
Day 1: 5 11-01
129. Matty Wong Honolulu, HI 5 11-01 72
Day 1: 5 11-01
131. Kibbee Mccoy Knoxville, TN 5 11-00 70
Day 1: 5 11-00
132. Douglas Reed Bridgeton, NJ 5 10-15 69
Day 1: 5 10-15
133. Brad Whatley Bivins, TX 4 10-15 68
Day 1: 4 10-15
134. Danny Ramsey Trinidad, TX 4 10-14 67
Day 1: 4 10-14
134. Troy Roder Brookeland, TX 4 10-14 67
Day 1: 4 10-14
136. Carter McNeil Abbeville, SC 5 10-13 65
Day 1: 5 10-13
137. Hayden Newberry Jonesboro, IL 5 10-12 64
Day 1: 5 10-12
137. Nic Rand Kalamazoo, MI 5 10-12 64
Day 1: 5 10-12
139. Adam Rasmussen Sturgeon Bay, WI 4 10-11 62
Day 1: 4 10-11
140. Steven Mack Queen Creek, AZ 5 10-06 61
Day 1: 5 10-06
141. Hunter Sales Blaine, TN 4 10-06 60
Day 1: 4 10-06
142. Randall Carter Maplesville, AL 4 10-05 59
Day 1: 4 10-05
143. Destin DeMarion Harborcreek, PA 5 10-04 58
Day 1: 5 10-04
144. Brent Crow Hartselle, AL 4 10-02 57
Day 1: 4 10-02
145. Caden Acree Powder Springs, GA 5 09-15 56
Day 1: 5 09-15
146. Andy Hribar Lakeville, MN 5 09-12 55
Day 1: 5 09-12
147. Trey Swindle Cleveland, AL 3 09-12 54
Day 1: 3 09-12
148. Blake Smith Lakeland, FL 5 09-08 53
Day 1: 5 09-08
149. Chance Woodard Paris, TX 4 09-08 52
Day 1: 4 09-08
150. Dave Turner Crystal River, FL 5 09-04 51
Day 1: 5 09-04
151. Garrett Rocamora Lithia, FL 4 09-03 50
Day 1: 4 09-03
152. Spencer Peters Corryton, TN 5 09-02 49
Day 1: 5 09-02
153. Guy Eaker Cherryville, NC 4 09-02 48
Day 1: 4 09-02
154. Brandon Ackerson Afton, OK 3 09-02 47
Day 1: 3 09-02
155. Brady Vernon Birmingham, AL 4 09-01 46
Day 1: 4 09-01
156. Rich Howes Oviedo, FL 3 09-00 45
Day 1: 3 09-00
157. Gerald Swindle Guntersville, AL 3 08-15 44
Day 1: 3 08-15
158. Craig Cavanna Spring Hill, FL 3 08-14 43
Day 1: 3 08-14
159. Travis Loyd Brookeland, TX 4 08-12 42
Day 1: 4 08-12
160. Buddy Cipoletti Naples, FL 3 08-05 41
Day 1: 3 08-05
161. Justin Atkins Florence, AL 4 07-14 40
Day 1: 4 07-14
162. Rob Digh Denver, NC 3 07-14 39
Day 1: 3 07-14
163. Tommy Parker Minnetonka, MN 3 07-13 38
Day 1: 3 07-13
163. Hermilo Salgado-Zavaleta Artemus, KY 3 07-13 38
Day 1: 3 07-13
165. Greg Mansfield Olathe, KS 3 07-10 36
Day 1: 3 07-10
166. Ronald Young New Braunfels, TX 4 07-08 35
Day 1: 4 07-08
167. Bradford Beavers Summerville, SC 3 07-08 34
Day 1: 3 07-08
168. Charlie Hartley Grove City, OH 4 07-04 33
Day 1: 4 07-04
169. T-Roy Broussard Port Arthur, TX 3 07-04 32
Day 1: 3 07-04
170. JT Thompkins Myrtle Beach, SC 3 06-15 31
Day 1: 3 06-15
171. Sam George Athens, AL 2 06-12 30
Day 1: 2 06-12
172. Jeff Bauler Chapin, SC 3 06-11 29
Day 1: 3 06-11
173. Tim Malone Kodak, TN 3 06-08 28
Day 1: 3 06-08
174. Scott Pellegrin Chippewa Falls, WI 3 06-07 27
Day 1: 3 06-07
175. Chris Kingree Inverness, FL 3 05-15 26
Day 1: 3 05-15
176. Connor Graham Minneapolis, MN 2 05-15 25
Day 1: 2 05-15
177. Billy McDonald Greenwood, IN 2 05-14 24
Day 1: 2 05-14
178. Keith Nemcek St Charles, IL 2 05-11 23
Day 1: 2 05-11
179. Greg Secord Salem, SC 2 05-09 22
Day 1: 2 05-09
180. Eric Talley Corsicana, TX 2 05-06 21
Day 1: 2 05-06
181. Joey Sabbagha Prosperity, SC 2 05-04 20
Day 1: 2 05-04
182. Mason Gunter Newnan, GA 2 05-02 19
Day 1: 2 05-02
182. Kenny Mittelstaedt Minnetonka, MN 2 05-02 19
Day 1: 2 05-02
182. Dustin Wilkey Durant, OK 2 05-02 19
Day 1: 2 05-02
185. Tyler Caton Clanton, AL 2 04-15 16
Day 1: 2 04-15
186. Michael Harter Westminster, SC 2 04-13 15
Day 1: 2 04-13
187. Daniel Smith Blountsville, AL 2 04-10 14
Day 1: 2 04-10
188. Noah Boyett Mountain Home, AR 3 04-09 13
Day 1: 3 04-09
189. Jason Casteel Ocoee, FL 2 04-09 12
Day 1: 2 04-09
189. Kevin Ledoux Choctaw, OK 2 04-09 12
Day 1: 2 04-09
189. Teddie Scalf Corbin, KY 2 04-09 12
Day 1: 2 04-09
192. Allen Brooks Canton, GA 2 04-06 9
Day 1: 2 04-06
193. Jason Williamson Wagener, SC 2 04-03 8
Day 1: 2 04-03
194. Wayman Coleman Abbeville, SC 2 04-02 7
Day 1: 2 04-02
195. Teb Jones Yalaha, MS 1 04-02 6
Day 1: 1 04-02
196. Jacob Walker Springville, AL 2 04-01 5
Day 1: 2 04-01
197. Marshall Harrelson Clarksville, GA 1 04-01 4
Day 1: 1 04-01
198. Parker Mott Winter Garden, FL 2 04-00 3
Day 1: 2 04-00
199. Daisuke Kita Ohtsu Shiga JAPAN 2 03-13 2
Day 1: 2 03-13
199. Jenny Nevans Dayton, TN 2 03-13 2
Day 1: 2 03-13
201. Joe McClosky Swanton, MD 1 03-07 0
Day 1: 1 03-07
202. Hugh Cosculluela Spring, TX 1 03-02 0
Day 1: 1 03-02
203. Tanner Sanderson Ackerly, TX 1 03-01 0
Day 1: 1 03-01
204. Christiana Bradley Goldvein, VA 1 02-14 0
Day 1: 1 02-14
205. Jerry Gallogly Jr North Tazewell, VA 1 02-13 0
Day 1: 1 02-13
206. Danny Lavoie Franklin, GA 1 02-12 0
Day 1: 1 02-12
207. Chuck Stratton Chaffee, MO 1 02-11 0
Day 1: 1 02-11
208. John Garrett Union City, TN 1 02-10 0
Day 1: 1 02-10
209. Luke Dunkin Lawrenceburg, TN 1 02-09 0
Day 1: 1 02-09
210. Bob Behrle Hoover, AL 1 01-15 0
Day 1: 1 01-15
210. Zachary Kuehler Seymour, TX 1 01-15 0
Day 1: 1 01-15
212. Jordan McDonald Jackson, GA 1 01-14 0
Day 1: 1 01-14
213. Colby Robertson Summerfield, FL 1 01-13 0
Day 1: 1 01-13
214. Austin Cranford Moore, OK 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Tony Dumitras Winston, GA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Zak Fadden Plymouth, MI 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Derek Freeman Anderson, SC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Ryan Hoover Lithia, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Jared Miller Norman, OK 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Allan Nail Sand Springs, OK 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Dustin Reneau Mckinney, TX 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Ron Ryals Jr Live Oak, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
214. Nick Ward Newnan, GA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 140 883 2418-09
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140 883 2418-09

2022 St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing 3/31-4/2
Cherokee Lake, Jefferson County TN.
(NON_BOATER) Standings Day 1

Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$

1. Mitch Mitchell Appling, GA 3 12-03 200
Day 1: 3 12-03
2. Mike Mckinney Benton, IL 3 11-06 199
Day 1: 3 11-06
3. Herschel Brady Morristown, TN 3 11-00 198
Day 1: 3 11-00
4. Darrell Curl Winston Salem, NC 3 10-01 197
Day 1: 3 10-01
5. Jason Moorman Bristol, TN 3 09-14 196
Day 1: 3 09-14
5. Steven Redmond Sevierville, TN 3 09-14 196
Day 1: 3 09-14
7. Timmy Cales Beckley, WV 3 09-13 194
Day 1: 3 09-13
7. Avery Williams Murrells Inlt, SC 3 09-13 194
Day 1: 3 09-13
9. Cory Weaver Ankeny, IA 3 09-10 192
Day 1: 3 09-10
10. Justin Westergreen Dahinda, IL 3 09-08 191
Day 1: 3 09-08
11. Steve Simpson Dobson, NC 3 09-07 190
Day 1: 3 09-07
11. Corey Yaden Grovetown, GA 3 09-07 190
Day 1: 3 09-07
13. Keith Gunsauls Dandridge, TN 3 09-06 188
Day 1: 3 09-06
14. Clifton Overstreet Dothan, AL 3 09-04 187
Day 1: 3 09-04
15. William Gaston Sylacauga, AL 3 09-01 186
Day 1: 3 09-01
15. Jordan LaClair Ogdensburg, NY 3 09-01 186
Day 1: 3 09-01
17. AJ Jones Lutz, FL 3 09-00 184
Day 1: 3 09-00
18. Kiel Guin Knoxville, TN 3 08-15 183
Day 1: 3 08-15
19. Chad Stahl Barnesville, GA 3 08-14 182
Day 1: 3 08-14
20. Erik Brztowski Lemont, IL 3 08-13 181
Day 1: 3 08-13
20. Clayton Payne The Plains, VA 3 08-13 181
Day 1: 3 08-13
20. Chip Stith Piscataway, NJ 3 08-13 181
Day 1: 3 08-13
23. Justin Baldridge Greenup, KY 3 08-12 178
Day 1: 3 08-12
24. Kevin Mallow Kansas, OK 3 08-10 177
Day 1: 3 08-10
25. Chris Buswell Clinton, TN 3 08-09 176
Day 1: 3 08-09
25. Steven Phillips Bowie, TX 3 08-09 176
Day 1: 3 08-09
27. Eric Camarote Rogers, MN 3 08-08 174
Day 1: 3 08-08
28. Mark Aaron Gastonia, NC 3 08-07 173
Day 1: 3 08-07
29. David Waack Cary, NC 3 08-04 172
Day 1: 3 08-04
30. Stephen Davis Blacksburg, VA 3 08-02 171
Day 1: 3 08-02
30. Christian Geisler Santa Barbara, CA 3 08-02 171
Day 1: 3 08-02
30. Ashton Smith Lake Helen, FL 3 08-02 171
Day 1: 3 08-02
30. Johnny Taylor Dandridge, TN 3 08-02 171
Day 1: 3 08-02
34. Tyler Carrick Lexington, NC 3 08-01 167
Day 1: 3 08-01
35. Dennis Lane Rutledge, TN 3 08-00 166
Day 1: 3 08-00
35. Mike Spears Jasper, AL 3 08-00 166
Day 1: 3 08-00
37. Trey Brafford Kings Mtn, NC 3 07-15 164
Day 1: 3 07-15
38. Bobby Williams Salisbury, NC 3 07-13 163
Day 1: 3 07-13
39. Justin Salisbury Binghamton, NY 2 07-12 162
Day 1: 2 07-12
40. Curtis Crooke Washburn, TN 3 07-11 161
Day 1: 3 07-11
41. Russell Jones Simpsonville, SC 3 07-08 160
Day 1: 3 07-08
42. Derek Caldwell Fyffe, AL 3 07-07 159
Day 1: 3 07-07
43. Will Hartsell Vestavia Hills, AL 2 07-06 158
Day 1: 2 07-06
44. Troy Mims Suwanee, GA 3 07-05 157
Day 1: 3 07-05
45. Ryan Shriber Franklin, TN 3 07-04 156
Day 1: 3 07-04
46. Don Bible II Knoxville, TN 3 07-03 155
Day 1: 3 07-03
47. Charles Mabry Phoenix, AZ 2 07-03 154
Day 1: 2 07-03
48. TJ Blakely Kingsport, TN 3 07-01 153
Day 1: 3 07-01
48. Justin Mcgaha Knoxville, TN 3 07-01 153
Day 1: 3 07-01
48. Steve Wever Waynetown, IN 3 07-01 153
Day 1: 3 07-01
51. Jonathan Barnette Jasper, AL 3 07-00 150
Day 1: 3 07-00
51. Hunter Reifschneider Marion, IA 3 07-00 150
Day 1: 3 07-00
51. Daniel Valois Gomez Caracas FL VENEZUELA 3 07-00 150
Day 1: 3 07-00
54. Kevin Humbard Dandridge, TN 3 06-15 147
Day 1: 3 06-15
55. Gerald Robbins Jr. Asheboro, NC 2 06-15 146
Day 1: 2 06-15
56. Michael Schrader North Attleboro, MA 3 06-12 145
Day 1: 3 06-12
56. Jerry Shepard Lebanon, VA 3 06-12 145
Day 1: 3 06-12
58. Jerry Morris Jr Charlotte, NC 3 06-11 143
Day 1: 3 06-11
59. Jimmy Crum Afton, TN 3 06-10 142
Day 1: 3 06-10
60. Sakae Ushio Tonawanda, NY 3 06-09 141
Day 1: 3 06-09
61. Bradley Sterner Manchester, PA 3 06-07 140
Day 1: 3 06-07
62. Jacob Altman Olathe, CO 2 06-07 139
Day 1: 2 06-07
63. Wes Ratcliff Knoxville, TN 3 06-06 138
Day 1: 3 06-06
64. George Headden Oakdale, TN 3 06-05 137
Day 1: 3 06-05
65. Bill Humbard New Market, TN 2 06-05 136
Day 1: 2 06-05
66. Robert Brewer Trafford, AL 3 06-04 135
Day 1: 3 06-04
67. Kent Biggs Morristown, TN 3 06-03 134
Day 1: 3 06-03
68. Skyler Anderson Harlem, GA 3 06-02 133
Day 1: 3 06-02
68. Paul Holden Greenfield, IN 3 06-02 133
Day 1: 3 06-02
70. Levi Allgeier Bardstown, KY 3 06-01 131
Day 1: 3 06-01
70. Ray Hill Lake City, FL 3 06-01 131
Day 1: 3 06-01
72. Dawson Wisner Westminster, MD 2 05-13 129
Day 1: 2 05-13
73. John Barnes Henrico, VA 3 05-12 128
Day 1: 3 05-12
73. Johnnie Garrett Union City, TN 3 05-12 128
Day 1: 3 05-12
75. Bill Bruce Hendersonville, TN 2 05-12 126
Day 1: 2 05-12
75. Scotty Ingle Asheville, NC 2 05-12 126
Day 1: 2 05-12
77. Tyler Morrison Locust Grove, GA 2 05-11 124
Day 1: 2 05-11
78. Greg Mauldin Archdale, NC 2 05-09 123
Day 1: 2 05-09
79. Byong Lee Stedman, NC 2 05-08 122
Day 1: 2 05-08
79. Alex Reece Greenville, SC 2 05-08 122
Day 1: 2 05-08
81. Steve Ouellette Knoxville, TN 3 05-07 120
Day 1: 3 05-07
82. Anthony Boris Kansasville, WI 2 05-07 119
Day 1: 2 05-07
83. Ben Brumley Anderson, SC 2 05-05 118
Day 1: 2 05-05
83. David Timbs Elizabethton, TN 2 05-05 118
Day 1: 2 05-05
85. Jon Brown Tampa, FL 2 05-04 116
Day 1: 2 05-04
86. Owen Stamm Jefferson City, TN 2 05-03 115
Day 1: 2 05-03
87. Keith Gregory Waynesville, OH 2 05-02 114
Day 1: 2 05-02
88. Gary Sanders Jonesborough, TN 2 05-01 113
Day 1: 2 05-01
88. Todd Sosebee Bessemer City, NC 2 05-01 113
Day 1: 2 05-01
88. Tony Vultaggio Santa Barbara, CA 2 05-01 113
Day 1: 2 05-01
91. Mike Anderson Harlem, GA 2 04-15 110
Day 1: 2 04-15
92. Steve Kline Hilltop Lakes, TX 2 04-14 109
Day 1: 2 04-14
93. Wayne Foriest Nashville, TN 2 04-11 108
Day 1: 2 04-11
93. Joshua McGeary Mt. Pleasant, PA 2 04-11 108
Day 1: 2 04-11
95. Brad Cain Greenville, SC 2 04-09 106
Day 1: 2 04-09
96. Shon Pulley Trenton, SC 2 04-08 105
Day 1: 2 04-08
96. Matt Rasnick Elizabethton, TN 2 04-08 105
Day 1: 2 04-08
98. Josh Milner Clyde, NC 2 04-07 103
Day 1: 2 04-07
98. Lance Owen Greer, SC 2 04-07 103
Day 1: 2 04-07
100. Parker Knudsen Minnetonka, MN 2 04-05 101
Day 1: 2 04-05
100. David Watkins Saint Marys, WV 2 04-05 101
Day 1: 2 04-05
102. Jonathon Dewey Fort Gratiot, MI 2 04-04 99
Day 1: 2 04-04
102. Horace Hubbard Albany, GA 2 04-04 99
Day 1: 2 04-04
104. Thomas Abraham Winchester, TN 2 04-02 97
Day 1: 2 04-02
104. Dennis Oxendine Morristown, TN 2 04-02 97
Day 1: 2 04-02
106. Justin Thomas Panama City, FL 2 04-01 95
Day 1: 2 04-01
107. Jimmy Hayes Fayetteville, NC 2 04-00 94
Day 1: 2 04-00
108. Bailey Rothrock Monticello, IN 2 03-15 93
Day 1: 2 03-15
109. Tristan Bramblett Tiger, GA 1 03-14 92
Day 1: 1 03-14
109. Chris Earles Lady Lake, FL 1 03-14 92
Day 1: 1 03-14
111. Austin Cole Rutherfordton, NC 2 03-12 90
Day 1: 2 03-12
112. Corey Owens Gray, KY 1 03-12 89
Day 1: 1 03-12
113. Jason Sturgill Big Stone Gap, VA 2 03-11 88
Day 1: 2 03-11
114. Trent Peace Roebuck, SC 1 03-10 87
Day 1: 1 03-10
115. Harold Addison Columbia, SC 2 03-06 86
Day 1: 2 03-06
116. Charles Bowman II Kernersville, NC 1 03-04 85
Day 1: 1 03-04
117. Matthew Mccarthy Marysville, OH 1 02-14 84
Day 1: 1 02-14
118. Travis Culbreth Alexander City, AL 1 02-13 83
Day 1: 1 02-13
118. James Roten West Jefferson, NC 1 02-13 83
Day 1: 1 02-13
118. Christopher Tinsley Pisgah Forest, NC 1 02-13 83
Day 1: 1 02-13
118. Rodney Vaow Huntersville, NC 1 02-13 83
Day 1: 1 02-13
122. Rick Hamer Charleston, WV 1 02-12 79
Day 1: 1 02-12
122. Justin Yenter Stevens Point, WI 1 02-12 79
Day 1: 1 02-12
124. Stacey Jefferson Conway, SC 1 02-10 77
Day 1: 1 02-10
125. Justin Eger Monticello, IN 1 02-08 76
Day 1: 1 02-08
126. Joseph Barnes Locust Grove, GA 1 02-07 75
Day 1: 1 02-07
126. Brett Bowman Sophia, NC 1 02-07 75
Day 1: 1 02-07
128. Cliff Graham Mills River, NC 1 02-06 73
Day 1: 1 02-06
128. Douglas Landers Greeneville, TN 1 02-06 73
Day 1: 1 02-06
130. Ryan Godsey Chickamauga, GA 1 02-04 71
Day 1: 1 02-04
130. Keith Raney Tullahoma, TN 1 02-04 71
Day 1: 1 02-04
130. Neal Wisinski Stevens Point, WI 1 02-04 71
Day 1: 1 02-04
133. Ryan Chambers Chandler, AZ 1 02-03 68
Day 1: 1 02-03
133. Brian Rothrock Monticello, IN 1 02-03 68
Day 1: 1 02-03
135. Pete Patterson Kingsport, TN 1 02-02 66
Day 1: 1 02-02
135. Cal Teneyck Shakopee, MN 1 02-02 66
Day 1: 1 02-02
137. Frank Williams Jackson, MO 1 02-01 64
Day 1: 1 02-01
138. David Booth Erin, TN 1 01-15 63
Day 1: 1 01-15
139. James Davis Afton, TN 1 01-14 62
Day 1: 1 01-14
140. Anthony Harris Bellview, FL 1 01-13 61
Day 1: 1 01-13
140. Floyd Willis Grayson, KY 1 01-13 61
Day 1: 1 01-13
142. Gregory Mauldin Archdale, NC 1 01-10 59
Day 1: 1 01-10
142. Angela Mayo Maiden, NC 1 01-10 59
Day 1: 1 01-10
144. Matt Molitor Canton, IL 1 01-09 57
Day 1: 1 01-09
145. Blake Bailey Rutledge, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Robert Bean Maryville, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Andy Beloat Montgomery, TX 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. John Coker Knoxville, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. David Compton Mount Bethel, PA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Wallace Coward Beech Island, SC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. John Cummings Maumelle, AR 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Joshua Gabehart Scott Depot, WV 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Dehn Ganey Bonneau, SC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Jason George Farragut, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Kevin Gonyea Franklinton, NC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. John Goul Philadelphia, MS 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Gregory Greene Knoxville, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Osvaldo Gutierrez Grand Island, NE 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Curtis Hall Lenore, WV 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Curtis Hall II Lenore, WV 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. John Hatfield Panama City, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Jeremiah Hitt Lutz, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Christopher House Walworth, NY 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Russell Hoyle Newton, NC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Rick Jones Monitcello, IA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Justin Jones Winchester, OH 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Brian Kendzior Bradenton, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Gus Kneidinger Prospect, PA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Todd Lee Jasper, AL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Phillip Little Whitesburg, KY 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Michael Livesay Dandridge, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Kenneth Lodwick Dandridge, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Rod Longnecker Tampa, FL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Alexander Mckenzie Langhorne, PA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Matt Melton Fairlawn, VA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Ronald Miller Gadsden, AL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Bob Morin Seymour, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Rusty Odom Simpsonville, SC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Drew Osborn Maryville, TN 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Dee Powell Hope Hull, AL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Asa Putnam Tunnel Hill, GA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Bill Richards Whitmore Lak, MI 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Jacob Robinson Temple, GA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Austin Sears Dayton, OH 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Chris Sherrill Clanton, AL 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Brandon Smith Knightdale, NC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Greg Smith Georgetown, KY 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Blake Stephenson Evans, GA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Ike Taylor Westerville, OH 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Ryan Thomas Salyersville, KY 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Mike Toney Blacksburg, VA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Bruce Touchstone Madison Heights, VA 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Dusty Wood Belton, SC 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
145. Ken Yamate Richardson, TX 0 00-00 0
Day 1: 0 00-00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 68 323 844-06
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68 323 844-06

by AnglersChannel

One Bite for $100K – Major League Fishing’s General Tire Heavy Hitters Event Set to Launch on Lake Palestine Next Week

MLF’s Bass Pro Tour All-Star Event to Showcase 32 Top Pro Anglers Targeting Big Bass Over Six Days for Huge Payouts and Daily Big Bass Bonuses of Up to $100K

TYLER, Texas (April 1, 2022) – Major League Fishing (MLF), the world’s largest tournament fishing organization, is set to return to Texas next week, April 9-14, for the third-annual General Tire Heavy Hitters at Lake Palestine . The all-star event will showcase the 32 pros that qualified from the 2021 Bass Pro Tour season competing in a no-entry-fee tournament for a purse of more than $500,000, with a top prize of $100,000 to the winner along with Big Bass Bonuses during the competition that pay out $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 to the single biggest fish in the Qualifying, Knockout and Championship rounds.

To qualify for the General Tire Heavy Hitters 2022 event, the weight of an angler’s single-largest bass from each event of the seven 2021 Bass Pro Tour events was recorded. The 32 anglers with the heaviest five big-fish totals from those seven events qualified to compete in this event.

This event will mark the first time that MLF has ever visited Lake Palestine for an event featuring the catch-weigh-immediate release-format.

“This lake has been on the “quiet” upswing for probably the last 5 to 7 years,” said MLF Director of Event Research and Program Analyst Marty Stone. “This is a ‘kiss and don’t tell anyone’ lake in Texas. The local anglers know how good it is, it just hasn’t had big enough boat ramps and hotel infrastructure to support a national trail. But it will be perfect for this General Tire Heavy Hitters event and I know we’re getting ready to see some tanks.

“I know of at least one 13-pounder that has come out of there this year,” Stone continued. “I think it will take a 9+ pounder every day to win the big fish awards, and I think we will see several in the 10+ range. If we were here a month earlier, I would predict Randy Howell’s record for the largest fish ever caught in Bass Pro Tour competition would likely be broken.”

One Bass Pro Tour angler who will not be competing in this event is local pro Jeff Sprague of Wills Point, Texas. Sprague was the big winner of last year’s General Tire Heavy Hitters 2021 event as he caught the Championship Round Big Bass and earned the $100,000 top prize. The local pro is extremely disappointed that he was unable to qualify for this year’s event but knows that the anglers on the water are in for a special treat.

“Lake Palestine is a hidden jewel in East Texas,” Sprague said. “I’ve been very fortunate to grow up fishing it and it kills me that I’m not going to be a part of this event. This one is going to really impress anyone who watches. We’re going to see a lot of scorable bass caught weighing 5 pounds plus, and quite a few 8- and 9-pounders.

“The only downside that we might see is that the lake is facing a tremendous amount of pressure over these next few weeks – it is absolutely the prime time to be fishing Lake Palestine,” Sprague continued. “It’s known for kicking out mega-bags this time of year, and I know that the guys fishing in Heavy Hitters are going to have an amazing event. “

When asked about the excitement surrounding the Big Bass Awards, Sprague said the opportunity to earn $100,000 from one fish doesn’t come around often.

“It’s not very often that anyone, anywhere gets to fish for that kind of money for just one bite,” Sprague said. “To pull it out last year, was so incredible. A single fish worth $100,000 is a once in a lifetime catch.”

Anglers will launch each day at 7:30 a.m. from the Villages Marina, located at Big Eddy Road in Flint, Texas. Each day’s General Tire Takeout will be held at the Marina, beginning at 4:30 p.m.Fans are welcome to attend all launch and takeout events and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLF NOW!® live stream and SCORETRACKER® coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

The General Tire Heavy Hitters 2022 will feature anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable in the Qualifying and Knockout Rounds, but for the final day Championship Round a bass must weigh at least 3 pounds to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

The 16 Anglers in Group A compete in their two-day qualifying round on Saturday and Monday – the 16 anglers in Group B on Sunday and Tuesday. After each two-day qualifying round is complete, the anglers that finish in 2nd through 8th place from both groups advance to Wednesday’s Knockout Round, while the winner of each group advances directly to Thursday’s Championship Round. In the Knockout Round, weights are zeroed and the remaining 14 anglers compete to finish in the top 8 to advance to the Championship Round. In the final day Championship Round, weights are zeroed and the highest one-day total wins. In addition to the tournament, Big Bass Bonuses are awarded in each round of competition with payouts of $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000 awarded to the single biggest fish in the Qualifying, Knockout and Championship rounds.

The 32 anglers that will be competing in the General Tire Heavy Hitters 2022 All-Star Event on Lake Palestine are:

Group A:
Ott DeFoe, Blaine, Tenn.
James Elam, Tulsa, Okla.
Alton Jones, Jr., Waco, Texas
Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla.
Matt Lee, Cullman, Ala.
Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Ala.
Ish Monroe, Oakdale, Calif.
Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan
Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif.
Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky.
Fletcher Shryock, Guntersville, Ala.
Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn.
Randall Tharp, Port Saint Joe, Fla.
Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C.
James Watson, Lampe, Mo.
Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn.

Group B:
Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz.
Tommy Biffle, Wagoner, Okla.
Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla.
Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark.
Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala.
Cliff Crochet, Pierre Part, La.
Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark.
Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif.
Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla.
Jeff Kriet, Ardmore, Okla.
Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala.
Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala.
Britt Myers, Lake Wylie, S.C.
Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn.
Cliff Pace, Petal, Miss.
Gerald Spohrer, Gonzales, La.

The MLF NOW!® broadcast team of Chad McKee, Marty Stone and J.T. Kenney will break down the extended action on all six days of competition from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT. MLF NOW!® will be live streamed on MajorLeagueFishing.com and the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app.

Television coverage of the General Tire Heavy Hitters 2022 Event will be showcased across six two-hour episodes, premiering at 7 a.m. ET, July 16 and running each Saturday through August 20 on the Discovery Channel. A one-hour special episode of MLF Inside Heavy Hitters will also air on CBS in late 2022. New MLF episodes premiere each Saturday morning on the Discovery Channel, with additional re-airings on the Outdoor Channel and the Sportsman Channel. Each two-hour long reality-based episode goes in-depth to break down each day of competition.

Proud sponsors of the 2022 MLF General Tire Heavy Hitters Event include: Abu Garcia, B&W Hitches, Bally Bet, Bass Cat Boats, Bass Pro Shops, Berkley, Builders First Source, Covercraft, Ferguson, FuelMe, GEICO, General Tire, Guaranteed Rate, Kubota, Lowrance, Lucas Oil, Mercury, Mossy Oak, NITRO Boats, Onyx, Phoenix Boats, Plano, Power-Pole, Power Stop Brakes, Shore Lunch, Sonic, StarBrite, Sqwincher, T-H Marine, Toyota, United States Airforce, Wiley X, Yellowstone Bourbon, and YETI.

For complete details and updated information on Major League Fishing and the Bass Pro Tour, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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East Texas Baptist University Goes Wire-to-Wire to Win 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship

WAGONER, Okla. (March 31, 2022) – The East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) duo of Kaden Proffitt of Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale of Winnsboro, Texas, weighed a five-bass limit Thursday totaling 14 pounds, 1 ounce to win the 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship Presented by Lowrance at Fort Gibson Lake. Although ETBU has a Tackle Warehouse School of the Year title under its belt, this is the first national title for the university, earning the team a $33,500 prize package, including a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard and automatic entry into the 2022 Toyota Series Championship to compete as pros for a shot to win up to $235,000.

After leading on both Day One and Day Two by a mere ounce, the Tiger duo’s three-day total of 14 bass, weighing 43-8 gave them the win by a 3-pound, 5-ounce margin – the largest margin they’ve had throughout the entire event. Donavan Carson and Landon Lawson from King University finished second with 13 bass weighing 40-3.

“We both went into this week knowing if we put our heads down and fished hard, we could win this event,” said Proffitt. “We knew logically if we could catch 15 3-pounders, we could win the tournament – and we’ve caught a million 3-pounders in our lives, so how difficult could it be to catch 15 – that was our mindset going into this event.

“We had zero fish at 10:30 a.m. today and we knew realistically we could zero for the day – it’s a fine line that we were walking this week. There are so few fish, and the bites are so few and far between, if you miss one, you’ve changed the entire result of the event. Thankfully it all worked out for us this week.”

“Some of our fish came off spots that we had actually fished in July during another MLF tournament,” said Ragsdale. “We pulled up in that same area and caught our kicker fish there, so we definitely feel blessed.

“We just fished slow. We ran and ran, but every spot we put down, we fished slow and methodical and made sure that every place where a fish could possibly be, we put a bait in.”
Proffitt said they caught their fish between 2 and 6 feet of water throughout the event and their key bait on Championship Thursday was a jig.

“We caught fish on a ChatterBait and on a crankbait, but the jig was what we caught the two big ones on and that was really key for us, just slowing down, especially earlier in the event,” said Proffitt. “There were a lot of people fishing the same areas as us, and we weren’t doing anything ‘special’ as far as where we were fishing, but I think the difference was we were just settling down once we got in an area and just made sure we fished it real slow. We made sure we made every cast we could possibly make, from every angle we could possibly hit it from, then we’d move on. And we hit as many spots as we could doing that.”

When asked about the automatic berth into the 2022 Toyota Series Championship, Proffitt said, “I can’t even process what that means right now. I’ve always wanted to fish for a living, and I can’t imagine a better way to possibly get started.”

“Every meeting we go to, we’ve said, ‘we’re fishing this tournament to get to the National Championship, so we can try to win the National Championship’ so to come here and do it is just amazing,” said Ragsdale. “Kaden and I have looked at each other all throughout this event and said, ‘we’re going to catch what we need to catch to continue moving forward’, and that’s how we’ve fished the entire event. If we had ten minutes left, we were going to catch what we needed in that ten minutes. We didn’t even have a limit yesterday, but we knew going into it that we were going to catch what we needed.

“This National Championship win is insane for our program – it’s going to be awesome.”

The top 10 teams on Fort Gibson Lake finished:

1^st:           East Texas Baptist University – Kaden Proffitt, Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale, Winnsboro, Texas, 14 bass, 43-8, $33,500 prize package
2^nd:          King University – Donavan Carson of Bluff City, Tenn., and Landon Lawson of Jonesborough, Tenn., 13 bass, 40-3, $5,000
3^rd:          McKendree University – Bailey Bleser, Burlington, Wis., and Nathan Doty, Decatur, Ill., 14 bass, 39-7, $4,000
4^th:           Stephen F. Austin - Austin Anderson, Nacogdoches, Texas and Cal Cameron, Coppell, Texas, 11 bass, 34-6, $3,000
5^th:           Kentucky Christian University – Lafe and Matt Messer, both of Warfield, Ky., 11 bass, 33-2, $2,000
6^th:           Illinois State University – Justin and Austin Carr, both of Bloomington, Ill., 11 bass, 32-7
7^th:           East Texas Baptist University – Cannon Bird of Marshall, Texas, and Jacob Keith, Jefferson, Texas, 13 bass, 32-2
8^th:           Drury University – Cole Breeden of Eldridge, Mo., and Cameron Smith of Nixa, Mo., eight bass, 29-1
9^th:           Texas A&M – Dawson Cassidy of Gainesville, Texas and Augustus McLarry of Caddo Mills, Texas, 10 bass, 28-15
10^th:        Murray State University – Kayden Effinger of Westfield, Ind., and David Wisler of Noblesville, Ind., eight bass, 26-4

For a full list of results, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 26 bass weighing 72 pounds even caught by nine teams Thursday. The catch included 1 five-bass limit.

The Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship Presented by Lowrance at Fort Gibson Lake was hosted by the Wagoner Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Wagoner.

The 13^th annual College Fishing National Championship is a three-day event – hosted by the Wagoner Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Wagoner – featuring the top 176 college bass fishing teams from across the nation competing in an internationally televised, no-entry fee tournament for a $33,500 prize package, including a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard.

In addition to the boat package, both members of the winning team and the runners-up at the 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship will advance to the 2022 Toyota Series Championship where they will compete as pros for a top prize of up to $235,000. Both members of the third-place team will advance to the 2022 Toyota Series Championship to compete as co-anglers for a shot at winning a $33,500 Phoenix 518 Pro with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard.

Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI 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 Abu Garcia College Fishing Open advance to the following year’s Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship.

Proud sponsors of the 2022 MLF Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI include: 4WP, 13 Fishing, Abu Garcia, A.R.E. Truck Caps, B&W Trailer Hitches, Berkley, Black Rifle Coffee, E3, Epic Baits, Favorite Fishing, Gary Yamamoto Baits, General Tire, Lew’s, Lowrance, Lucas Oil, Mercury, Mossy Oak, Onyx, Phoenix, Polaris, Power-Pole, Strike King, Tackle Warehouse, T-H Marine, Toyota, Wiley X and YETI.

For complete details and updated information visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI on MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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Santee Cooper Set to Host MLF Toyota Series Southern Division Tournament

SUMMERTON, S.C. (March 31, 2022) –Major League Fishing (MLF) is set to return to Summerton and Clarendon County, South Carolina, for a tournament next week, April 7-9, with the Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. at Santee Cooper. The three-day tournament, hosted by the Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce, is the second event of the season for the Toyota Series Southern Division.

The tournament will feature the region’s best bass-fishing pros and Strike King co-anglers casting for a top prize package of up to $75,000 in the pro division and a new Phoenix 518 pro boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard motor, in the co-angler division.

“This is going to be a fun event to follow,” said Bass Pro Tour angler Anthony Gagliardi, who resides in Prosperity, South Carolina. “Santee is always a little bit ahead of Lake Murray when it comes to the spawn, but I expect we’ll see fish in all three phases. Whether or not the postspawn fish play– meaning targeting the shad spawn – will likely depend on the weather. But it’s a really good fishery and they’re going to catch a lot of big fish down there next week.”

Gagliardi said that although there are certain areas of the lake that are historically good, he expects the majority of the field to be pretty spread out.

“With the two lakes in play – and each are really big – there is a lot of fishable water for sure,” Gagliardi said. “I think we’ll see guys get back into the backwater ponds and some swampy areas up the river, but some will target the big flats on the lower end. The fish also are known to get out into those stump fields as well. Guys are really going to have a lot of options available to them.”

When asked what baits he would be throwing if he was competing in this event, Gagliardi offered a trio of options that he expects to play a role for competitors.

“I’d definitely have a spinnerbait tied on, that’s really good here this time of year. I’d have a frog or some sort of topwater bait, and I’d have a wacky-rig ready to go – something for bed fishing, because there are definitely going to be some spawners caught in this one.”

Anglers will take off each day at 7 a.m. CT from John C. Lane III Landing, located at 4404 Greenall Road in Summerton, South Carolina. Weigh-ins will also be held at the landing, beginning at 3 p.m. on the first two days of competition – Thursday and Friday – and 4 p.m. on Championship Saturday. Fans are welcome to attend and encouraged to follow the event online through the “MLF Live” weigh-in broadcasts and daily coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

After one event in the Toyota Series Southern Division, Robert Branagh of Malabar, Florida, leads the Pro Division Angler of the Year (AOY) race with 260 points, while Brent Jones of Okeana, Ohio, leads the Strike King Co-Angler Division AOY race with 260 points.

In Toyota Series regular-season competition, payouts are based on the number of participants competing in the event, scaling up for every 20 boats over 160 and scaling down for every boat below 160. With a 160-boat field, pros fish for a top prize of $40,000, plus an extra $35,000 if Phoenix MLF Bonus qualified. Strike King co-anglers cast for the top prize of a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard (valued at $33,500). With a 260-boat field, pros fish for a top award of $65,000, plus an extra $35,000 if Phoenix MLF Bonus qualified. Strike King co-anglers cast for the top prize of a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower outboard (valued at $33,500) plus $5,000 cash.

The 2022 Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. consists of six divisions – Central, Northern, Plains, Southern, Southwestern and Western – each holding three regular-season events, along with the International and Wild Card divisions. Anglers who fish in any of the six divisions and finish in the top 25 – or the top 12 from the Wild Card division – will qualify for the no-entry-fee Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. Championship for a shot at winning up to $235,000 cash. The winning Strike King co-angler at the championship earns a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard. The 2022 Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. Championship will be held Nov. 3-5 on Lake Guntersville in Guntersville, Alabama, and is hosted by Marshall County Tourism and Sports.

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Big Largemouth Expected At The Scales For Bassmaster Elite At Chickamauga Lake

Dayton, Tenn., will host the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Chickamauga Lake April 7-10, 2022.

Photo by Dalton Tumblin/B.A.S.S.

March 31, 2022

DAYTON, Tenn. — One of Buddy Gross’s biggest sponsors is Fish Lake Chickamauga.

The Chattanooga resident has long considered the world-famous largemouth factory his home waters.

So, when Gross makes a bold statement about the upcoming Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Chickamauga Lake, the world should perk up and take notice.

“There are going to be some giants brought to the scales,” said Gross, who has two Elite Series victories to his credit. “They’re gonna be big, fat and healthy — and if a few people can find several of those kind of fish, you could see another event like we just had at Santee Cooper, Century Belts included.”

Competition days will be April 7-10, with takeoffs each day at 7 a.m. ET from Dayton Boat Dock and daily weigh-ins at 3 p.m. at Point Park/Dayton Boat Dock. A full field of 94 pros will fish the first two days, with the field being cut to 47 for Semifinal Saturday and to 10 for Championship Sunday as the anglers compete for a $100,000 first-place prize.

Gross said a recent one-day local event was won on Chickamauga with a five-bass limit that weighed more than 37 pounds, including a 12 1/2-pound largemouth kicker.

“Think about that,” he said. “That means they had four other fish that weighed 25 pounds by themselves. That’s the kind of potential this lake has.”

Gross said he expects the water level to be falling on the 36,240-acre Tennessee River fishery — and that could help because it will force fish into smaller and smaller areas each day. That’s the good news.

The bad news is they could be in transition between prespawn and spawning areas — and that could make them harder to find in bunches. He said that could play into the hands of someone who specializes in reading forward-facing electronics.

“Fishing has changed so much the last two years, and the forward-facing sonar gives us the ability to find those roamer fish that are the really big ones,” he said. “That’s what’s going to play. The competitors I’m scared of are the ones who can go out there with a single bait and find those single giants swimming around.”

Gross said jerkbaits — a common choice for forward-facing sonar experts — will likely factor in heavily, along with lipless crankbaits and bladed jigs. More than anything, though, he said flexibility will likely be a part of the winning angler’s game plan.

As a historic producer of giant largemouth, Chickamauga is a destination site for avid bass anglers from across the United States. The lake gets major fishing traffic — and because of that, there are few bass in its waters that haven’t seen traditional presentations over and over again.

“The lake gets pressured a lot, and a lot of these guys who drive 18 hours to Chickamauga to catch a giant, they’re not gonna slow down,” he said. “You can’t fault anyone for that. You just have to get in there and work with everybody.

“Somebody with an open mind will be the one to watch for in our field. Somebody who figures out something a little different that hasn’t gotten beat up is going to be the key.”

While he believes another Century Belt performance — a four-day limit of 100 pounds or more — is possible, Gross believes it will take a little less than that to win.

“Unless somebody really, really finds that magic spot, 100 pounds is going to be tough,” he said. “It can happen; I think a man could catch four days of 30 pounds pretty easy, but it will take the absolute perfect storm. I’m still going to go with mid- to upper 80s for my prediction as a winning weight.”

Heading into the fourth stop on the 2022 Elite Series schedule, Florida pro John Cox leads the Progressive Insurance Bassmaster Angler of the Year standings with 285 points. He is followed by Tennessee pro David Mullins (265), Arkansas pro Stetson Blaylock (257), Idaho pro Brandon Palaniuk (254) and Georgia pro Drew Cook (248).

During B.A.S.S.’s three most recent trips to Chickamauga, Cox earned two victories — in the 2017 Bassmaster Southern Open and the 2019 Bassmaster Eastern Open. Texas pro Lee Livesay won the other event, a 2020 Elite Series tournament that was moved to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wisconsin pro Jay Przekurat leads the Falcon Rods Bassmaster Rookie of the Year race with 232 points, followed by Alabama pro Joseph Webster (183), Pennsylvania pro Jonathan Kelley (167), Japanese pro Masayuki Matsushita (150) and Missouri pro Cody Huff (131).

Full coverage from all four days of the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Chickamauga Lake will be available on Bassmaster.com and the FOX Sports digital platforms. FS1 will also broadcast live with the tournament leaders on Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10 beginning at 8 a.m. ET.

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High Winds Force Day 1 Postponement Of Bassmaster Open At Cherokee Lake

March 31, 2022

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Forecasts of high winds have forced officials to postpone Day 1 of the St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing.

"The safety of our anglers, co-anglers and staff is our primary concern," said Chris Bowes, Vice President of Tournaments. "We have been monitoring the weather closely alongside the local National Weather Service, and the forecast is calling for sustained Southwest winds of 15-25 mph and gusts over 30 mph."

The competition will resume Friday morning at 7 a.m. ET and the full field will compete both Friday and Saturday. Anglers will take off from Cherokee TVA Dam Boat Launch and return for weigh-in at 3 p.m.

Visit Jefferson County, Tennessee, is hosting the event.

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East Texas Baptist University Extends Lead at 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship

WAGONER, Okla. (March 30, 2022) – After another brutal day on the water, the East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) duo of Kaden Proffitt of Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale of Winnsboro, Texas, extended their lead Wednesday after Day Two of the 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship Presented by Lowrance at Fort Gibson Lake.

The duo grabbed the early lead on Day One by a slim one-ounce margin and narrowly maintained that lead on Day Two, bringing only four bass to the scale weighing 11 pounds, 14 ounces. Their two-day total of 29 pounds, 7 ounces gives them a mere one-ounce lead over the second-place team from Stephen F. Austin – Austin Anderson of Nacogdoches, Texas and Cal Cameron of Coppell, Texas – who brought a limit to the scale weighing 16 pounds, 6 ounces, to bring their two-day total to 29 pounds, 6 ounces.

“The conditions definitely changed today,” said Ragsdale. “We started off in the morning expecting the fish to do something different with the rain we got last night. I didn’t know if the lake would come up, but knew there would be water running in, so we decided to run the backs of creeks.

“There weren’t as many fish there as we thought there would be, but we ended up catching a 4 ½-5 pounder in one of them,” continued the senior business administration major. “We tried to duplicate that up the lake, but it just didn’t work out. We ended up catching a few fish out of the same areas as we did on Day One, but overall, it was just a tougher day.”

The duo said once they realized the creeks weren’t going to deliver like they had expected, they ended up fishing transition banks again on Day Two.

“Our baits have been pretty different each day,” said Proffitt. “Day One we mostly caught our fish on a crankbait, but today we caught them on several different baits, just fishing the conditions.”

The Tiger team said they expect the conditions to change once again tomorrow but are optimistic that they can find what it takes to win out on Fort Gibson Lake.

“We’re around quality fish and believe we can go out there and catch another bag tomorrow, if we can just get the right bites,” said Ragsdale. “If we can get another 5-pounder tomorrow, that would go a long way – if we could just get a couple more keepers to go with it. I expect tomorrow to get even more difficult if the sun comes out and the wind dies down like is forecasted, but if it’s difficult for us, that means it will be difficult for everyone, so we’ll see what happens.”

The ETBU bass-fishing team is one of the best in the country – previously earning the 2020 Tackle Warehouse School of the Year title – but has yet to win a national title.

“Winning this event would mean everything,” said Proffitt, who is also a senior business administration major. “It would be our school’s first national championship and our first team win in our collegiate series, so it would be huge for us and for the program.”

The full field of 176 teams competed on Tuesday and Wednesday, with only the top-10 – based on two-day cumulative weight – advancing to Championship Thursday. The National Champions will be crowned Thursday based on the cumulative three-day weight total.

The top 10 teams that now advance to Championship Thursday on Fort Gibson Lake are:

1^st:           East Texas Baptist University – Kaden Proffitt, Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale, Winnsboro, Texas, nine bass, 29-7
2^nd:          Stephen F. Austin - Austin Anderson, Nacogdoches, Texas and Cal Cameron, Coppell, Texas, nine bass, 29-6
3^rd:          Kentucky Christian University – Lafe and Matt Messer, both of Warfield, Ky., nine bass, 29-5
4^th:           McKendree University – Bailey Bleser, Burlington, Wis., and Nathan Doty, Decatur, Ill., 10 bass, 27-7
5^th:           Illinois State University – Justin and Austin Carr, both of Bloomington, Ill., nine bass, 26-6
6^th:           Murray State University – Kayden Effinger of Westfield, Ind., and David Wisler of Noblesville, Ind., eight bass, 26-4
7^th:           East Texas Baptist University – Cannon Bird of Marshall, Texas, and Jacob Keith, Jefferson, Texas, 10 bass, 25-13
8^th:           King University – Donavan Carson of Bluff City, Tenn., and Landon Lawson of Jonesborough, Tenn., nine bass, 25-10
9^th:           Drury University – Cole Breeden of Eldridge, Mo., and Cameron Smith of Nixa, Mo., six bass, 24-1
10^th:        Texas A&M – Dawson Cassidy of Gainesville, Texas and Augustus McLarry of Caddo Mills, Texas, eight bass, 23-12

For a full list of results, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 285 bass weighing 823 pounds, 3 ounces caught by 115 teams Wednesday. The catch included 13 five-bass limits.

The final 10 teams will launch Championship Thursday from Taylor’s Ferry North, located on Dock Road in Wagoner at 7 a.m. CT each day of competition. Thursday’s championship weigh-in will be held at Taylor’s Ferry North starting at 3 p.m. and will be livestreamed. Fans are welcome to attend the event or tune in to the weigh-in and follow the online coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com .

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B.A.S.S. Names Top Student Athletes To 2022 Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Team

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March 30, 2022

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Fifty-three of the most outstanding high school anglers from across the country have been named to the 2022 Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing Team presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors.

The students were selected for the honor based on their success in bass tournament competition, academic achievement and leadership in conservation and community service.

To be considered for the All-State Fishing Team, a student must have been nominated by a parent, coach, teacher or other school official. Students enrolled in grades 10-12 with a current-year grade point average of 2.5 or higher were eligible.

B.A.S.S. received nearly 400 nominations from across the nation. From these, judges selected 53 student anglers from 34 states to make the All-State Fishing Team. In addition, 40 students received Honorable Mentions recognizing them for their tournament success as well as community service and academic achievement.

“Congratulations to all 53 anglers on being selected to be a part of the 2022 Bassmaster High School All-State Fishing team or Honorable Mention,” said Glenn Cale, B.A.S.S. Nation Tournament Manager — College, High School and Junior. “It’s always impressive to see the accolades of each applicant. Every parent and angler should be very proud of joining the team.”

A second panel of judges will review the nominations of the 53 All-State team members and select the 12 members of the 2022 Bassmaster High School All-American Fishing Team presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors. As in All-State judging, criteria include success in high school fishing tournaments, involvement in conservation efforts and other community service activities.

The 12 finalists will compete in a one-day Bassmaster High School All-American Bass Tournament presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors, which will be held during the 2022 Simms Bassmaster Elite at Lake Fork, scheduled to take place May 19-22 in Quitman, Texas.

Elite Series anglers will serve as teammates and “coaches” of the student anglers in the tournament. The high school standouts will be honored on the main stage at the weigh-in.

Below is the list of the 53 All-State anglers and 40 Honorable Mentions, in order by state:

Alabama
Hudson Choquette, Headland
Braxton Hopper, Chelsea
Barclay Butler, Scottsboro (Honorable Mention)
Dixie Morris, Valley (Honorable Mention)
James Quinlivan, Headland (Honorable Mention)
Benjamin Travis, Birmingham (Honorable Mention)

Arizona
Zachary VerBrugge, Lake Havasu City

Arkansas
Austin Rose, Mena
Brady Horton, Clinton (Honorable Mention)
Jackson Smith, Fayetteville (Honorable Mention)

Florida
Bryce DiMauro, Longwood
Tyson Verkaik, Eustis
Drew Bradstreet, Lutz (Honorable Mention)
Nick Claussen, Dover (Honorable Mention)
Evan Newell, Lakeland (Honorable Mention)
Cole Rountree, Clermont (Honorable Mention)

Georgia
Gabriel Clark, Ellerslie
Gage Sellars, Bainbridge
Henry Garrett, Evans (Honorable Mention)
Jacob Hodge, Evans (Honorable Mention)
Cohen Smith, Williamson (Honorable Mention)

Illinois
Szymon Piton, Orland Park
Laindree Richardson, Benton
Andrew Kay, Shorewood (Honorable Mention)
Hunter Petrovic, Minooka (Honorable Mention)

Indiana
Cole Berry, Terre Haute
Dylan May, Brownsburg

Iowa
Kolby Angell, Grand Junction
Tyler Loudon, Creston
Caleb Neu, Johnston (Honorable Mention)
Jackson Toale, Independence (Honorable Mention)

Kansas
Colton Hutchinson, Bonner Springs

Kentucky
Evan Fields, Shelbyville
Jaydon Coggins, Burnside (Honorable Mention)

Louisiana
Levi Thibodaux, Thibodaux
Jase White, Haughton
Evan Howe, Keatchie (Honorable Mention)
Wade Roberts, Lake Charles (Honorable Mention)

Maine
Colby Carrier, Skowhegan

Maryland
Grayden Scibilia, Hagerstown

Massachusetts
Nicholas Frumkin, Lincoln

Michigan
Brayden Ruckman, Freeland
Henri Sturm, Fenton

Minnesota
Jacob Panichi, Cook
Matt Boerboom, Inver Grove Heights (Honorable Mention)
Lance Nelson, Rosemount (Honorable Mention)
Noah Wells, Esko (Honorable Mention)

Mississippi
Wes Bailey, Brandon
Parker O’Bryan, Brandon

Missouri
Brock Rogers, Bradleyville

Nebraska
Logan Greeno, Kearney

Nevada
Carter Doren, Las Vegas

New Hampshire
Cole Moulton, Enfield
Cameron Yates, New Durham
Alex Gross, Jefferson (Honorable Mention)

New Jersey
Nicholas DellaPorta, Pequannock

New York
Rein Golubjatnikov, Pittsford
Tyler Mahood, Briarcliff Manor (Honorable Mention)
Christian Misciagna, Syracuse (Honorable Mention)

North Carolina
Harrison McCall, Salisbury
Drake Sturgill, Lincolnton
Hunter Alexander, China Grove (Honorable Mention)
Kaden Buchmann, Mooresville (Honorable Mention)

Ohio
Kyle Johnson, Helena
Braden McNamara, Delaware
Mike Abbott Jr., Plain City (Honorable Mention)

Oklahoma
Zack Cooper, Tahlequah
River Eubanks, Wilson

Pennsylvania
Trenton Carey, York Springs
Luke Rokavec, Mifflinburg
Carson Forrester, Chambersburg (Honorable Mention)
Ty Stroup, Mifflinburg (Honorable Mention)

South Carolina
Hunter Dill, Travelers Rest
Peyton Sorrow, Abbeville
Zachary McCraw, Gaffney (Honorable Mention)

Tennessee
Nathan Reynolds, Nashville
Banks Shaw, Harrison
Wayland Adkisson, Franklin (Honorable Mention)
Riley Faulkner, Jacksboro (Honorable Mention)
Carter Nutt, Nashville (Honorable Mention)
Dylan Nutt, Nashville (Honorable Mention)

Texas
Connor Dunn, Lucas
Jared Mizell, Pearland
Justin James, Orange (Honorable Mention)
Breckett Long, Livingston (Honorable Mention)
Kaden Mueck, Livingston (Honorable Mention)

Vermont
Brendan Vinton, Braintree
Gordon Willey, White River Junction

Virginia
Ryan Lachniet, Gum Spring
Shelby Rigney, Axton
Logan Buttolph, Doswell (Honorable Mention)

Washington
Hayden Nerland, Puyallup

Wisconsin
Reece Keeney, Hortonville

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AFTCO And Yamaha Rightwaters™ Partner With B.A.S.S. On Three Clean-Up Challenges

March 30, 2022

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Volunteers, community organizations and Bassmaster anglers will come together at three venues to help make a positive impact on Elite Series fisheries thanks to the Lake Clean-Up Challenge sponsored by AFTCO and Yamaha Rightwaters™. The events will be held April 6 in Dayton, Tenn., June 4 in Counce, Tenn., and August 27 in La Crosse, Wis.

Conservation efforts are a cornerstone of the B.A.S.S. tradition, and leading efforts to collect litter can have a sizable impact on the waterways the organization and its fans frequent.

“B.A.S.S. was founded on three things: tournament fishing competition, youth participation and conservation,” B.A.S.S. Conservation Director Gene Gilliland said. “We’re thrilled to partner with AFTCO, Yamaha Rightwaters and the communities we’ll be visiting for Elite events on Chickamauga Lake, Pickwick Lake and the Upper Mississippi River for these Clean-Up Challenges. One of the things that we want to try to do is to improve the resource anytime we have a chance.

“An event like this builds camaraderie between those participating. It builds goodwill with the communities that host our events. Most importantly, it helps us leave the venue better than we found it.”

At each event, participants will receive a gift package from AFTCO and Yamaha Rightwaters. Plus, registered volunteer organizations participating in the Lake Clean-Up Challenges will be eligible for conservation grants from AFTCO and Yamaha Rightwaters. The brands will select the conservations grants — totaling over $25,000 for 2022 — based on their participation in the Lake Clean-Up Challenges and the group’s overall conservation or public service mission.

“Clean water is vitally important to the health of fisheries, and we're excited to partner with Yahama Rightwaters and B.A.S.S in rewarding local groups for participating in the type of collective action needed to keep our waterways clean,” said AFTCO President Casey Shedd. “We hope that these clean-up challenges will also bring further awareness to the need for single-use plastic reduction and more careful waste disposal consideration.”

“Marine conservation is at the heart of the Yamaha Rightwaters mission and every community clean-up effort can make a major difference in our nation’s waterways,” said John O’Keefe, Senior Specialist, Government Relations, Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit. “We proudly join forces with B.A.S.S., AFTCO, a great league of pro anglers and community volunteers to help preserve these great fisheries for today’s competitors as well as future generations of anglers.”

The three Lake Clean-Up Challenges are timed so that Bassmaster Elite Series pros are able to join volunteers to protect the fisheries where they compete. This is particularly important to these pros, who recognize the opportunity to make an even bigger impact on the river and our sport by showing how important it is to help these environments thrive.

“At every stop we make, it seems like there is a lack of education about the harm leaving trash behind does to the environment,” said Bassmaster Elite Series pro Carl Jocumsen. “We want to do our part to change it.”

In order to participate, volunteers and groups must preregister by contacting Gene Gilliland, B.A.S.S. Conservation Director, at [email protected].

“Whether they’re part of a junior Bassmaster club, fishing team, church group, Scout troop or a group of civic-minded friends, anyone who wants our waters to be clean and free of trash is welcome to join us lake-side for these events,” said Gilliland.

For full details, visit Bassmaster.com/Conservation-News.

by AnglersChannel

AC Insider Podcast - "Meat & Taters Fishing" with Drew Cook!

This week Chris and David welcome in Santee Elite Series Champ Drew Cook to the show to talk about his big win on Santee and an overview of his careeer on the Elites!

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Big Bite Baits Fishathlon Begins!

Compete on your schedule to finish the Big Bite Fishathlon (pronouced fish-ath-lon). If you think you have what it takes to catch a fish on ten different baits, sign up for Fishathlon. Simple to enter - just start catching fish with one of the 10 Big Bite Baits listed below. You can use any size in the shape, rigged in any way. When you catch a fish with one of these shapes, submit a photo showing the bait and fish to Big Bite Baits on social media or via email. We will record your progress, and once you submit fish catches with all 10 baits you will be sent the exclusive Big Bite Fishathlon hat. You can get started and track your progress at https://bigbitebaits.com/fishathlon.

10 Baits include any size or color of the following shapes:

Kamikaze Swimon, Fighting Frog, Suicide Shad, Kamikaze Craw, Pro Swimmer, Trick Stick, Cane Thumper, Battle Bug, Limit Maker and Coontail.

The goal: Catch 10 different fish on the 10 designated Big Bite baits. Any size/color/variation is allowed. Rig the baits any way you like, see http://bigbitebaits.com/rigs for suggestions. Special discount available to purchase all 10 baits to get started. Already have the baits, then get started today. Take a photo of each fish with bait visible and submit entries to https://bigbitebaits.com/fishathlon. Complete all 10 catches, and with verification you will win an exclusive Fishathlon hat free of charge.

Follow the contest and see all the details at www.bigbitebaits.com.

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East Texas Baptist University Grabs Early Lead at 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship

WAGONER, Okla. (March 29, 2022) – The East Texas Baptist University duo of Kaden Proffitt of Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale of Winnsboro, Texas, grabbed the early lead Tuesday after Day One of the 2022 Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship Presented by Lowrance at Fort Gibson Lake. The Tigers team brought a five-bass limit to the scale weighing 17 pounds, 9 ounces, giving them a mere 1-ounce lead over the second-place Kentucky Christian University team of brothers Lafe and Matt Messer of Warfield, Kentucky.

After a blustery start to the day, competition on Day One was shortened by an hour due to high winds in the forecast; however, that didn’t seem to put much of a damper on the outcome for the young anglers in the top position.

“The numbers on the scales made it seem like we smashed them, but it was pretty tough,” said Ragsdale. “It was a grind, and the wind blew us around a lot. I think the key difference is that we were able to get out of the wind, then just stayed in one area and really pounded it. It took us 20 to 40 minutes sometimes, making the same cast over and over again, just to get a bite. There were some fish here and there that just happened to be the right ones today.”

“We fished a lot of transition banks, where there were fish that wanted to move up but with the water and weather changing, they don’t know really where they want to be,” said Proffitt. “They are kind of staging in areas in front of where they are going to be spawning.”

The pair started the morning on the south end of the lake, where they caught two fish, before spending the rest of the day down in Long Bay. As for experience on the fishery, Ragsdale said he’d only fished on Fort Gibson Lake once before, in the summertime, under completely different conditions.

“When I was younger, I spent a little time fishing on Lake Texoma, and this lake feels a lot like that, so I’ve used a few things that I learned there,” continued Ragsdale. “Mostly though, we are just fishing things that make sense, areas where fish can sit and be comfortable, whether the water is going up or down, and the water isn’t going to run off of them – steeper banks, things like that.”

The senior business administration majors said they only caught five keepers today, landing the last one only 35 minutes before they had to check in, but they were thankful those five had the numbers to keep them on the top of the leaderboard.

When asked their expectations for tomorrow, Ragsdale responded, “I think we can duplicate what we did today, but we could also zero. It’s one of those weeks that if we get the bites, we get them, but it probably won’t be a slugfest.”

“I think most of the fish we are around are good quality fish, so if we are fortunate enough to get five bites again, there’s a good shot that we’ll have another good bag in the 12- to 14-pound range,” said Proffitt.

The full field of 176 teams compete on Tuesday and Wednesday, with only the top-10 – based on two-day cumulative weight – advancing to Championship Thursday. The National Champions will be crowned Thursday based on the cumulative three-day weight total.

The top 10 teams after Day One on Fort Gibson Lake are:

1^st:           East Texas Baptist University – Kaden Proffitt, Pittsburg, Texas and Cason Ragsdale, Winnsboro, Texas, five bass, 17-9
2^nd:          Kentucky Christian University – Lafe and Matt Messer, both of Warfield, Ky., five bass, 17-8
3^rd:          Missouri Western State University – Gaige Blanton and Kody Mazur, both of Saint Joseph, Mo., four bass, 14-4
4^th:           University of Louisiana Monroe – Jacob Andrews and Connor Nimrod, both of Monroe, La., five bass, 14-0
5^th:           McKendree University – Kyle Hopping, Lake St. Louis, Mo., and Lane Stephens, Grove, Okla., five bass, 13-15
6^th:           McKendree University – Bailey Bleser, Burlington, Wis., and Nathan Doty, Decatur, Ill., five bass, 13-9
7^th:           Stephen F. Austin – Austin Anderson, Nacogdoches, Texas and Cal Cameron, Coppell, Texas, four bass, 13-0
8^th:           Carson Newman University – Caz Anderson, Haysville, N.C., and Lee Rose Koza, Marietta, Ga., five bass, 12-15
9^th:           Bethel University – Chase Milholen, Lexington, Tenn., and Levi Mullins, Nineveh, Ind., four bass, 12-12
10^th:        Stephen F. Austin – River Lee, Nacogdoches, Texas, and Hunter Muncrief, Pineland, Texas, four bass, 12-11
10^th:        Dallas Baptist University – Reece Martin, Lindale, Texas, and Jacob Witkowski, Dallas, Texas, four bass, 12-11

For a full list of results, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 298 bass weighing 813 pounds, 4 ounces caught by 131 teams Tuesday. The catch included 10 five-bass limits.

Anglers will take off from Taylor’s Ferry North, located on Dock Road in Wagoner at 7 a.m. CTeach day of competition. Weigh-ins will be held at Taylor’s Ferry North starting at 3 p.m. and will be livestreamed daily. Fans are welcome to attend the event or tune in to the weigh-in and follow the online coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com .

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Major League Fishing Set to Premiere General Tire Team Invitational Pilot Saturday on Outdoor Channel

TULSA, Okla. (March 29, 2022) – Major League Fishing (MLF) announced today the premiere date and time for a new concept that is being piloted for next season – the MLF General Tire Team Invitational, which will premiere this Saturday, April 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. ET on Outdoor Channel. The pilot was shot in mid-December on Florida’s Garcia Reservoir.

The General Tire Team Invitational will feature nine MLF Cup anglers, including REDCREST 2022 Champion Bobby Lane, competing as three, three-man teams. The anglers on each team will wear headsets that have them in constant communication with their teammates. This concept allows each team to work together and strategize in real-time on the water, shifting baits, techniques, patterns or areas as needed and creating a new type of excitement and drama.

A preview of the General Tire Team Series pilot that will air Saturday on Outdoor Channel can be found on Major League Fishing’s YouTube page.

“We look forward to watching how this team concept plays out in real-time on Saturday and seeing the response on the episode from our avid MLF Cup event viewership audience,” said Jim Wilburn, President and CEO of Major League Fishing. “We were thrilled that our longtime partnership with General Tire has allowed us to explore a new tournament concept that we believe will excite both our fans and anglers alike.”

The three teams that will compete in Saturday’s General Tire Team Invitational on Outdoor Channel are:

Team Ferguson:
*Edwin Evers of Talala, Okla.
Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Fla.
Chris Lane of Guntersville, Ala.

Team Sqwincher:
Brent Ehrler of Redlands, Calif.
Michael Neal of Dayton, Tenn.
*Skeet Reese of Auburn, Calif.

Team Lucas Oil:
Andy Montgomery of Blacksburg, S.C.
*Mark Rose of Wynne, Ark.
Bryan Thrift of Shelby, N.C.

*denotes Team Captain

For complete details and updated information on Major League Fishing, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube .

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Bass Pro Shops Grows Partnership With Bassmaster Tournament Trail

March 29, 2022

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Longtime B.A.S.S. partner Bass Pro Shops will expand its sponsorship of the Bassmaster Tournament Trail for 2022, officials announced today. As part of a new multiyear agreement, Bass Pro Shops has stepped up to be a premier sponsor for the B.A.S.S. Tournament Trail, including the Bassmaster Elite Series and the iconic Bassmaster Classic, has taken over title sponsorship of the Bassmaster Team Championship and will continue as presenting sponsor of the Bassmaster College Series.

“For decades, B.A.S.S. and Bass Pro Shops have shared a vision to get more people on the water and fishing, and we deeply appreciate their continued partnership as they elevate their sponsorship of the Bassmaster Tournament Trails to the premier level,” said B.A.S.S. CEO Chase Anderson. “Their sponsorship and support for both college anglers and for team trail and grass-roots anglers from across the country are invaluable.”

B.A.S.S. will participate in the World’s Fishing Fair March 30-April 3, 2022 at the Bass Pro Shops National Headquarters in Springfield, Mo. The event is set to feature a host of deals, an all-star lineup of country music stars, fishing pros, NASCAR legends, outdoor personalities and national conservation leaders, and 50% of proceeds will be given back to conservation.

“As a young angler, fishing in the first national B.A.S.S. tournament on Table Rock Lake served as my inspiration for starting Bass Pro Shops,” said Johnny Morris, noted conservationist and founder of Bass Pro Shops. “Now, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bass Pro Shops this year, our expanded partnership brings it full circle. We’re excited to work alongside our friends at B.A.S.S. to further elevate the sport of fishing, connect folks to nature and invest in conservation.”

Bass Pro Shops is renowned for their prolific support of grass-roots anglers, and the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship offers a path to the Bassmaster Classic for one amateur competitor. Founded in 2014, the Team Championship starts with the same simple concept as most team events around the country. Two friends fish for two days out of the same boat for bass that will go in the same livewell. The team with the heaviest total weight wins the national team championship. The six anglers from the Top 3 teams are sent back onto the lake for a two-day solo competition, which pits partners against partners as well as anglers from the other teams. The winning individual earns a berth in the Classic.

The Strike King Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops is off to a record-breaking start through two events. Brothers Lafe and Matt Messer of Kentucky Christian University won the Bassmaster College Series at Harris Chain of Lakes with a two-day total of 61 pounds, 13 ounces. The Messers’ Day 2 weight of 36-7 broke the College Series single-day record. Their winning weight also broke the Series’ two-day catch record.

College Series events have been an incredible tool for encouraging youth fishing participation across the country, and they’re beginning to have a pronounced effect on the highest levels of professional bass fishing. Since B.A.S.S. started the circuit in 2013, there has been a 97% growth in the number of participating schools and clubs at the college level.

Under the agreement, Bass Pro Shops joins sister brands Nitro and Ranger as a premier sponsor of the Bassmaster Tournament Trail and the Bassmaster Classic through 2024. Triton, another sister brand, has partnered with B.A.S.S. as a supporting sponsor.

As a Series and Tournament Trail sponsor, Bass Pro Shops will be featured in B.A.S.S.’s industry-leading publications Bassmaster and B.A.S.S. Times magazines as well as on social media. During Bassmaster LIVE, which airs on Bassmaster.com and the FOX Sports platforms — as well as across the magazines and social media — fans can watch for “Top Lures presented by Bass Pro Shops.” This special segment will focus on what baits the pros are using and what will work best for upcoming events.

by AnglersChannel

Legendary Costa frames go PRO with new performance features

Stay out on the water longer and fish harder with Costa’s new Tuna Alley PRO and Reefton PRO

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 29, 2022) – Costa Sunglasses, manufacturer of the first color-enhancing all-polarized glass sunglass lens, brings next-level performance to two more of its legacy frames for spring 2022. The enhanced Reefton PRO and Tuna Alley PRO feature new performance upgrades that keep your frames locked in place and vision clear so you can focus on the fish.

For nearly 40 years, Costa has provided anglers with the best sunglasses on the market for long days on the water. In 2021, the brand debuted its PRO Series with the award-winning Blackfin PRO and Fantail PRO. Today, the collection grows to a family of four with the Reefton PRO and Tuna Alley PRO. These best-selling frames now feature an updated style and a new level of “PROformance.” Six added features help anglers better manage sweat, reduce fogging and keep frames locked in place, even when the water gets rough.

Eyewire drains help keep sweat and water from pooling inside the frame
Sweat management channels move sweat and water away from your eyes
Improved Hydrolite™ grip on the nose and earpiece keep frames locked in place, especially when wet
Fully-adjustable and ventilated nose pads offer a customizable fit and reduce fogging
Metal keeper slots help keep your frames from going overboard
Hooding and side shields maximize coverage to help keep light from leaking in

The new frames have Costa’s polarized, color-enhancing 580® Glass lens technology for next-level clarity. The scratch-resistant lens cuts haze and blur and enhances key colors for superior clarity and definition. Like all Costa injected frames, the PRO Series is built using the brand's lightweight Bio-Resin. Bio-Resin reduces the carbon footprint of each new frame and maintains the durability standards required for long days on the water. Updated styling for the Reefton PRO includes a larger lens size for increased field of view while the Tuna Alley's famed vent design has been modernized and complemented by Hydrolite grip for a more secure fit.

“The Tuna Alley PRO and Reefton PRO are the second wave of frames hitting the PRO Series,” said John Acosta, Vice President of Marketing at Costa. “After the success of the Blackfin PRO and Fantail PRO we are looking forward to adding two more of our best-selling legacy frames to the collection. The new and improved features help keep anglers at the top of their game - something we’ve been striving for since the very beginning.”

“It is always an honor to work with a company like Costa. There’s a reason why they are leaders in the outdoor market: non-stop innovation, “ says Costa pro, Jako Lucas. “The original Reefton frame seemed pretty much perfect to me, but Costa took them to a whole other level with the Reefton PRO through their relentless pursuit for perfection. They’re comfortable, adjustable, vented, handle a beat down, easy on the eyes – and as always, they keep me focused on spotting fish.”

For more information about the Reefton PRO and Tuna Alley PRO, and Costa’s full collection of best-selling sunglasses, visit Costadelmar.com.

About Costa Sunglasses

As the first manufacturer of color-enhancing all-polarized glass sunglass lenses, Costa combines superior lens technology with unparalleled fit and durability. Costa has made the highest quality, best-performing sunglasses and prescription sunglasses (Rx) for outdoor enthusiasts since 1983, and now its product portfolio includes optical frames. Costa’s growing cult-brand status ties directly to its purpose to provide high-quality products with a focus on sustainability and conservation as the company works hard to protect the waters it calls home. From the use of sustainable and water-friendly materials to its Kick Plastic initiative, IndiFly Foundation, and meaningful partnerships with mission-aligned organizations, Costa encourages people to help protect the Earth’s natural resources in any way they can. Find out more on Costa’s website and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter at @CostaSunglasses.

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Big Bass Tour - Berkley Lake Breakdown - Eufaula

Eufaula Promises to be a Shallow Water Big Fish Battle

By Pete Robbins

Last year the Big Bass Tour made its inaugural visit to world-famous Lake Eufaula in southern Alabama and the lake did not disappoint. During an early March weekend, contestants weighed in four bass over 7 pounds, including a 7.85 pound bruiser, but that doesn’t tell the full tale of the tape. The real story is that it rarely took less than a “heavy five” to win an hourly prize. This storied venue has tons of rock-solid 4- to 6-pound largemouth bass, and they range up into the double digits if you hit it right.

This year’s field should truly hit it right, said top local stick Matt Baty. With the tournament almost exactly a month later this time around – April 1^st through 3^rd – contestants shouldn’t expect an “April Fools,” but rather an opportunity to show off their shallow water expertise.

“April is just about always a really good month,” Baty said. “That’s when most of the spawn happens. We’ve had some recent rain, so the elevation is high, and at this time of year that almost always means your best bet is to be looking at the bank in less than 2 feet of water.”

The whole lake has the potential to produce a giants, but Baty would focus from “Sandy Branch south on the Georgia side.” He’d likely concentrate on cypress trees and the backs of pockets, looking for places where the biggest fish stage before the spawn and then rush up to do their business. An angler who wants to cover ground could do so with a spinnerbait or a vibrating jig, but he’d prefer to slow down. “I’d almost certainly throw a Berkley MaxScent The General, with a 1/16 or 1/8 ounce weight. It would probably be either junebug or black and blue, and I’d pitch it behind the trees.”

With many trees to choose from, how would he know which ones to hit?

“Any of them can be good,” he said cagily, “But I tend to like the ones with grass in front of them. They get behind the grass and I kind of believe not as many people take the time to go back there.”

In addition to the spinnerbait and vibrating jig, he’d likely add a Berkley Fusion Swim Jig to his arsenal, once again black and blue, with a matching trailer – either a Chigger Craw or the newer Rocket Craw.

For anglers who want to chase a different bite, Baty reminds them that not all of the fish spawn at the same time. Even if the lion’s share have moved shallow, there will likely still be a handful of big prespawn sows holding in offshore brushpiles. He’d fish for the with a 1 ounce spinnerbait, or by slowly dragging a 10-inch Berkley Power Wormbehind a ½ ounce weight through the available cover. It might not be a numbers game, but those extra ounces the big girls are carrying could make a huge difference in a tournament that promises to be as tightly contested as this one.

by AnglersChannel

“Big Fish” Bobby Lane Wins REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa Sunglasses on Grand Lake

Lakeland, Florida Pro Boats 2-Pounder in Final Minutes to Win REDCREST and Earn $300,000 Top Prize

TULSA, Okla. (March 27, 2022) – In the most exciting and dramatic finish in Major League Fishing (MLF) history, Lakeland, Florida pro “Big Fish” Bobby Lane caught a 2-pound bass with just four minutes left in competition to win REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa Sunglasses, the Bass Pro Tour championship, on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees and earn the $300,000 top prize.

With just over four minutes left in competition Sunday the reigning Bally Bet Angler of the Year (AOY), Academy Sports + Outdoors pro Jacob Wheeler of Harrison, Tennessee, looked to be cruising to his first career MLF REDCREST Championship victory. Wheeler had weighed eight scorable bass totaling 28 pounds, 4 ounces and was atop the leaderboard as the time ticked down.

That’s when things got exciting.

REDCREST 2022 on Grand Lake featured anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable.

With almost exactly four minutes left, Lane hooked into a bass throwing a Berkley Frittside 5 crankbait and boat flipped the Grand Lake largemouth into the boat. Lane’s official quickly got the bass on the scale, and Lane gasped when he saw that the scale read 1-pound, 15-ounces.

“No way, no way. We’ve got to re-weigh her,” Lane said.

Bass Pro Tour rules state that an angler is allowed to ask for a re-weigh of any fish they catch, up to a maximum of two times.

The official got the bass back on to the scale and once again, it read – 1-pound, 15-ounces.

Lane grunted and shook his head. This was it. His final opportunity to re-weigh his fish. His entire tournament, and so much more, was coming down to this moment. Only 2 minutes and 38 seconds now remained. He nodded at his official and placed the bass back onto the scale.

This time, the numbers “2.0” flashed on the scale screen – the bass was scorable – and Lane and the packed house at the SageNet Center at Expo Square in Tulsa exploded.

“Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Unbelievable. I’ve been at this a long time, and I have never been hungrier for something good to happen. Madeline, I love you. Kids… your dad is the REDCREST Champion!” roared an elated Lane shortly after time expired and his win was confirmed.

During the week, Lane quietly had success during each day of competition. He finished Day 1 of the event with a sixth-place standing after catching eight bass for 26-12, then added another four weighing 9-9 the next day to advance to the Knockout Round inside the top 20. In the Knockout Round, Lane tallied 27-13 on nine fish to make it to Championship Sunday.

He relied on a Berkley Frittside 5 in the HD brown color all week, focusing on the last rock structure in the backs of pockets as bass moved their way towards spawning grounds. That’s what got him to the final day, but pitching a jig is what won it for him.

“The fish made a transition late this afternoon and got super shallow,” he said. “I knew that and made every single one count and started flipping a green pumpkin jig with a matching Berkley PowerBait Meaty Chunk in the smaller size and added some chartreuse dye to the tips of the trailer.”

Lane caught two bass early on the crankbait, and just after noon he caught his first bass on a jig and went to work with it from there. Included in his catch was the Berkley Big Bass of the day, a 6-3 that he landed in dramatic fashion over and through several dock cables.

“I had a 3-11 and 6-3 within three minutes,” Lane said. “The big one had me between cables and there was no physical way to get it, and I had to hand line it in. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

After having some time to reflect on his win during the ride to the REDCREST Outdoor Sports Expo Presented by Costa in Tulsa, Lane was emotional when meeting up with his family and brother and fellow pro Chris Lane and said that it felt like someone had lifted a weight off of his shoulders.

“I’m not getting any younger, I promise,” he said. “But today I felt like a 10-year-old winging my bait around and to finally come through to win – it’s just unbelievable. Everything went perfect today.”

The top 10 pros at REDCREST 2022 on Grand Lake finished:

1^st:          Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla., 10 bass, 29-14, $300,000
2^nd:         Luke Clausen, Spokane, Wash., eight bass, 28-11, $50,000
3^rd:         Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., eight bass, 28-4, $40,000
4^th:         Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala., 10 bass, 25-14, $28,000
5^th:         Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C., six bass, 24-2, $25,000
6^th:         Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla., eight bass, 21-9, $20,000
7^th:         Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla., four bass, 16-13, $18,000
8^th:         Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala., six bass, 16-12, $16,000
9^th:         Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., six bass, 15-5, $14,500
10^th:       Michael Neal, Dayton Tenn., five bass, 12-5, $12,500

Full results for the entire field can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall on Sunday there were 71 scorable bass weighing 219 pounds, 9 ounces caught by the final 10 pros. Throughout the entire five-day event, the 41 Bass Pro Tour competitors caught a total of 390 bass weighing 1,181 pounds, 9 ounces.

Lane also earned Sunday’s $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Award with his 6-3 largemouth that he caught in Period 3. Wheeler earned the $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Bonus for weighing in the heaviest bass of the event – a 6-pound, 10-ounce largemouth that he caught on the very first day of competition.

REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees featured anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

Television coverage of REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa will be showcased across two two-hour episodes, premiering at 7 a.m. ET, July 2 and July 9 on the Discovery Channel. A one-hour special episode of MLF REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa will premiere at 2 p.m. ET, Sunday, July 17 on CBS. New MLF episodes premiere each Saturday morning on the Discovery Channel, with additional re-airings on the Outdoor Channel. Each two-hour long reality-based episode goes in-depth to break down each day of competition.

REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa was hosted by Tulsa Regional Tourism and showcased the top 41 professional bass-fishing anglers from the 2021 Bass Pro Tour competing for a total purse of $730,000.

Proud sponsors of the MLF Bass Pro Tour include: 13 Fishing, Abu Garcia, A.R.E. Truck Caps, B&W Trailer Hitches, Bally Bet, Bass Cat, Bass Pro Shops, Berkley, Covercraft, Favorite Fishing, Garmin, General Tire, Googan Baits, Grundéns, Guaranteed Rate, Humminbird, Lowrance, Luminox, Mercury, Minn Kota, Mossy Oak, Nitro Performance Boats, Onyx, Plano, Power-Pole, Power Stop, Rapala, Starbrite, Toro, Toyota, Wrangler, Yellowstone Bourbon and Zoom.

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Bally Bet Awards $50K to Former MLF Bass Pro Tour Angler of the Year Winners Edwin Evers, Jordan Lee and Jacob Wheeler

TULSA, Okla. (March 27, 2022) – Major League Fishing (MLF) and its Angler of the Year (AOY) sponsor Bally Bet announced Friday at REDCREST 2022 that former MLF Bass Pro Tour AOY award winners Edwin Evers (2019), Jordan Lee (2020), and Jacob Wheeler (2021) all will receive a check for $50,000 as an award for their prestigious AOY victories in previous seasons of the Bass Pro Tour.

Online sportsbook operator Bally Bet became the title sponsor of the coveted Bass Pro Tour AOY award in late December. After learning that the AOY Award had lacked a title sponsor for its first three seasons, Bally Bet agreed to allocate portions of its presenting sponsorship fees to reward each of the former AOY winners with a $50,000 prize.

“We are proud of our sponsorship with Major League Fishing and are thrilled to reward these former Bass Pro Tour AOY winners with these well-deserved $50,000 prizes,” said Adi Dhandhania, Chief Operating Officer of North America for Bally’s Interactive, the online sportsbook operator’s parent company. “The Bass Pro Tour is a showcase of the best anglers on the planet, and we are proud to associate our brand with the award that many consider to be one of the most difficult prizes in the sport to win. Congratulations to all of the former Bally Bet AOY champions, and we look forward to watching who will take home the $100,000 top prize for the AOY in 2022.”

“Bally Bet is already proving to be an amazing partner and we thank them for their contributions to our former Bally Bet AOY winners,” said Jim Wilburn. “This relationship is already proving to be mutually beneficial, and we look forward to building on these successes in the years to come.”

The Bass Pro Tour features a field of 80 of the top professional anglers in the world competing across seven regular-season tournaments around the country for valuable points in the Bally Bet AOY race. The top angler at the end of the 2022 season will receive a $100,000 payout from the online sportsbook.

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Jordan Lee Cruises in Knockout Round at REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa Sunglasses on Grand Lake

Final 10 Anglers now Set for Sunday’s Final-Day Shootout for $300,000 Top Prize

TULSA, Okla. (March 26, 2022) – Berkley pro Jordan Lee of Cullman, Alabama, caught 11 scorable bass weighing 33 pounds, 2 ounces to win the Knockout Round (Group B) on Day 4 of the Major League Fishing (MLF) REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa Sunglasses, the Bass Pro Tour championship, on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees.

Joining Lee in Sunday’s Championship Round of competition in the top five are pros Michael Neal of Dayton, Dustin Connell of Clanton, Alabama, Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Florida, and Jacob Wheeler of Harrison, Tennessee. The five-day event, hosted by Tulsa Regional Tourism, features anglers competing for a total purse of $730,000, including a top cash prize of $300,000 to the winner.

“I’m feeling really good about the day and was super happy to have a good morning bite,” Lee said. “I was able to catch them in the same places as the other day, doing the same thing.”

Lee has been catching fish with various jerkbaits while watching his forward-facing sonar but did find a shallower bite late in the day.

“I used five or six different jerkbaits and my Lowrance ActiveTarget was key,” he said. “I don’t have unlimited spots, but everywhere I thought I could catch them today, I did. I eased up shallow later in the day and caught some on a jig and that was more fun than anything, but I don’t think I’ll be able to catch enough doing that to win.”

Tennessee pro Michael Neal ended the day with 12 for 31-9 but likely could have caught much more. After feeling that he had caught enough to safely advance, he left his main area and searched for more water.

“I laid off those fish about 30 minutes into the second period,” Neal said. “The winning fish are there and the only questions are if they will stay and if they cooperate tomorrow. I’ll be around the fish to win; I just don’t know what I’ll have to catch since I don’t know if everyone else let off their fish.”

Reigning REDCREST Champion Dustin Connell was the third angler with over 30 pounds on the day, with 10 for 31-5. He did it in the way he loves to fish, with a jerkbait and Lowrance ActiveTarget.

“It was a good day, and I caught them my favorite way,” Connell said. “I got a little pattern going but feel like I’m going to have to run new water if I have a chance to win. I have some places, but I don’t think it’s enough to beat these guys with what I have now.”

Connell is going all-in on the jerkbait tomorrow.

“I may crank a little in the morning, but I’ll have four jerkbait rods on the deck for the rest of the day,” he said.

The top five pros from Group B that made the cut and will advance to Championship Sunday on Grand Lake are:

1^st:          Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala., 11 bass, 33-2
2^nd:         Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn., 12 bass, 31-9
3^rd:         Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala., 10 bass, 31-5
4^th:         Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla., nine bass, 27-13
5^th:         Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., seven bass, 26-11

The five pros eliminated from competition Saturday are:

6^th:         Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark., eight bass, 21-8, $10,000
7^th:         Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C., two bass, 5-13, $10,000
8^th:         Greg Vinson, Wetumpka, Ala., two bass, 4-9, $10,000
9^th:         Scott Suggs, Alexander, Ark., one bass, 4-2, $10,000
10^th:       Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn., zero bass, 0-0, $10,000

Full results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 44 scorable bass weighing 186 pounds, 2 ounces caught by nine pros Saturday.

At REDCREST 2022, the full field of anglers competed in the two-day Qualifying Round on Days 1 (Wednesday) and 2 (Thursday) of the event. The field was cut to just the top 20 based on two-day total cumulative weight. The remaining 20 anglers were split into two groups for the Knockout Round – 10 (Group A) competed on Day 3 (Friday) and 10 (Group B) will compete on Day 4 (Saturday). The top five anglers from each group based on total single-day weight now advance to the Championship Sunday, where weights are zeroed and the angler that catches the highest total weight Sunday will be crowned the REDCREST 2022 champion and earn the top prize of $300,000.

Wheeler weighed a 5-pound, 11-ounce bass in Period 3 to earn Saturday’s Berkley Big Bass Award and earn the $1,000 prize. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler that weighs the biggest bass each day, and a $1,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the largest bass of the tournament.

The General Tire Take Off Ceremony will take place Sunday at 6:45 a.m. at the Wolf Creek Park and Boating Facility, located at 963 N. 16^th St. in Grove, Oklahoma. The final 10 anglers will depart at 7:30 a.m. from the park and return after competition ends at 4 p.m. Fans are welcome to attend all launch events and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLF NOW!® live stream and SCORETRACKER® coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees features anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

The 2021 Bass Pro Tour featured a field of 80 of the top professional anglers in the world competing across seven regular-season tournaments around the country. The top 41 anglers in the Angler of the Year (AOY) standings after the seven events qualified to compete in REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa.

The MLF NOW!® broadcast team of Chad McKee, Marty Stone and J.T. Kenney will break down the extended action on all five days of competition from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MLF NOW!® will be live streamed on MajorLeagueFishing.com and the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app.

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Late Entry From Erskine College Claims Victory In Bassmaster College Series Event On Norman

Avery Hammock and Garrett Smith of South Carolina's Erskine College have won the 2022 Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops with a two-day total of 31 pounds.

Photo by Kyle Jessie/B.A.S.S.

March 26, 2022

CORNELIUS, N.C. — Avery Hammock and Garrett Smith felt a gamut of emotions this week in winning the Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops.

They were hopeful because they came here with no guarantee of even competing in the derby. Then they were grateful when they made it from the waitlist into the tournament. They were excited when they jumped into fourth place on Day 1, and they were nervous when their Day 2 weight dropped.

In the end, however, the duo from Erskine College was ecstatic. Hammock and Smith weighed an even 31 pounds in the two-day event and won a cash prize of $2,601 to split evenly. Their victory also earned them a berth in the Bassmaster College Series National Championship to be held later this year.

The sophomores from Erskine College, which is located in Due West, S.C., caught a five-bass limit of 17-15 Friday but were a full 4 1/2 pounds behind Day 1 leaders Luke Glasgow and James Ikerd of Mississippi State. The leaders caught only three keepers on Day 2, however, while Hammock and Smith weighed another limit, this one for a steady 13-1.

That was just enough to hold off the competition. Joshua DeKoning and Dalton Mollenkopf of Adrian College in Michigan finished second with 10 bass for 30-9 and Glasgow and Ikerd placed third with eight bass for 30-7.

It was a thrilling win for the Erskine anglers — Hammock, 20, from Flowery Branch, Ga., and Smith, three days shy of his 20th birthday. He hails from Mt. Holly, N.C., only 15 minutes from the site of this week’s tournament.

“I had a test on Thursday and couldn’t get here before then,” Hammock said. “But (Smith) was here to register if we could.”

“They were packing up the sponsor tables when I walked in,” Smith said. “(Erskine) had the last three teams to get into the tournament.”

Strong start: Hammock and Smith were the second-to-last boat to take off on Day 1, but they made the most of their time Friday on this 32,000-acre reservoir of the Catawba River. Most of the big bites came using 5-inch Senko wacky rigs (green pumpkin) and a Megabass Magdraft (white) swimbait. After boating a 6-pounder cruising that morning, they punctuated their bag with a late 5-pounder.

All five of their Day 1 bass were largemouth. They fished in the backs of canals and inside pockets to shield themselves from steady winds.

“We had to be really slow and methodical,” Smith said.

Finished business: The duo had some ground to make up on Saturday and they did so early.

“We had a limit a lot quicker this morning, but we struggled to find the size,” Hammock said. “We just kept running our pockets with that wacky rig. I was in the back of the boat living or dying with a swimbait. A 4-pounder or so was our biggest today. We had our eye on a 6- or 7-pounder today, but we never could get her to eat.”

Hammock and Smith weighed three spotted bass and two largemouth Saturday, and doubted their chances of climbing into the pole position.

Feel the heat: Glasgow and Ikerd seemed likeliest to topple Hammock and Smith from the hot seats after catching 22-7 on Day 1, including a tournament-best 7-5 largemouth. But the Bulldogs team added only 8 pounds to their total and finished third.

Then and only then, could Hammock and Smith breathe a sigh of relief.

“That 22-pound bag they caught yesterday is insane,” Smith said. “I don’t know if a bag like that has been caught here in the last four or five years. That says a lot about how good the anglers in the tournament are.”

Second place: DeKoning and Mollenkopf caught 17-1 Friday, good enough for sixth place. They jumped to a podium finish with a 13-8-limit Saturday.

“We were throwing around a 5-inch (Megabass) Spark Shad, but they wouldn’t start eating it until about 2 o’clock,” DeKoning said. “Once the sun got on the docks on Day 1, we were getting bites. Today, it was more between docks.”

“They were more scattered today, but the sun was key,” Mollenkopf said. “We were putting shad-colored baits in their face. They couldn’t resist that.”

Third place: Glasgow and Ikerd were disappointed they only managed three bass on Day 2 but pleased to collect a check and grab a spot in the national tournament later this year.

“We decided to run some new water only having two fish earlier today,” Glasgow said. “The first cast, I caught a 2 1/4-pound spot. We thought we had the place to win it. But from that point on, we probably had 15 to 20 bites ...We were getting short strikes. But yesterday, the same bait got us two 5-pounders and that 7-pounder.”

Those fish were caught on a shad-colored Megabass Magdraft, as well.

Final thoughts: The Top 12 teams split a total cash purse of $8,967 and the leading 10% of the 211 total teams earned entry into the national title tournament.

The tournament on Lake Norman was the second of four two-day events in the Bassmaster College Series this year. A College Series Wild Card event also will precede the championship.

2022 Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops 3/25-3/26
Lake Norman, Cornelius NC.
(BOATER) Standings Day 2

Angler Club/School Pts

1. Avery Hammock - Garrett Smith Erskine College 250
Day 1: 5 17-15 Day 2: 5 13-01 Total: 10 31-00
2. Joshua DeKoning - Dalton Mollenkopf Adrian College 249
Day 1: 5 17-01 Day 2: 5 13-08 Total: 10 30-09
3. Luke Glasgow - James Ikerd Mississippi State University 248
Day 1: 5 22-07 Day 2: 3 08-00 Total: 8 30-07
4. Connor Jacob - Sam Smith Auburn University 247
Day 1: 5 18-01 Day 2: 5 11-14 Total: 10 29-15
5. Robert Gee - Chad Sentell University of Tennessee 246
Day 1: 5 19-03 Day 2: 5 10-05 Total: 10 29-08
6. Conner Dimauro - Justin Botts Bryan College 245
Day 1: 5 11-01 Day 2: 5 17-14 Total: 10 28-15
7. Chance Schwartz - James Willoughby University of Montevallo 244
Day 1: 5 15-08 Day 2: 5 13-07 Total: 10 28-15
8. Jeremy Dellinger - Adam Seagle Erskine College 243
Day 1: 5 17-12 Day 2: 5 10-03 Total: 10 27-15
9. Tyler Lubbat - Hayden O'barr University of Alabama 242
Day 1: 5 13-00 Day 2: 5 14-07 Total: 10 27-07
10. Peyton Harris - Dalton Head Montevallo 241
Day 1: 5 16-03 Day 2: 5 10-04 Total: 10 26-07
11. Sam Hanggi - Sam Hoesley Auburn University 240
Day 1: 5 12-15 Day 2: 5 13-06 Total: 10 26-05
12. Matthew Benson - Nathanael Wright Emmanuel College 239
Day 1: 5 12-03 Day 2: 5 13-05 Total: 10 25-08
13. Louis Monetti - Michael Fugaro UNC Charlotte 238
Day 1: 5 12-14 Day 2: 5 12-05 Total: 10 25-03
14. Gunner Whitaker - Mitch Johnson Kentucky Christian University 237
Day 1: 5 13-15 Day 2: 5 10-13 Total: 10 24-12
15. Jake Monti - Samuel Dunson UNC Charlotte 236
Day 1: 5 10-03 Day 2: 5 14-08 Total: 10 24-11
16. Matthew Davis - Bryce Kostman Adrian College 235
Day 1: 5 12-11 Day 2: 4 11-10 Total: 9 24-05
17. Lane Bailey - Justin Eggers Catawba Valley Community College 234
Day 1: 5 11-03 Day 2: 5 13-01 Total: 10 24-04
18. Dustin Bauer - Wyatt Pearman Campbellsville University 233
Day 1: 5 12-00 Day 2: 5 12-03 Total: 10 24-03
19. Brody Robison - Jack Alexander University of Montevallo 232
Day 1: 5 15-05 Day 2: 5 08-04 Total: 10 23-09
20. Grayson Morris - Jacob Pfundt University of Montevallo 231
Day 1: 5 12-08 Day 2: 5 11-01 Total: 10 23-09
21. Andrew Rickman - Michael Postlewait Dallas Baptist University 230
Day 1: 5 10-10 Day 2: 5 12-10 Total: 10 23-04
22. Rob Lindsey - Mason Cizek Bryan College 229
Day 1: 5 15-10 Day 2: 3 07-09 Total: 8 23-03
23. Chase Carey - Dylan Akins Emmanuel College 228
Day 1: 5 12-06 Day 2: 5 10-09 Total: 10 22-15
24. Chase Sansom - Tyler Drown Marshall University 227
Day 1: 5 09-14 Day 2: 5 13-00 Total: 10 22-14
25. Cody Griffith - Drew Jennings Auburn University 226
Day 1: 5 14-14 Day 2: 5 07-15 Total: 10 22-13
26. Ben Brockwell - Justice Gayhart Kentucky Christian University 225
Day 1: 5 09-06 Day 2: 5 13-04 Total: 10 22-10
27. Jacob Butts - Mark Kershaw Erskine College 224
Day 1: 5 13-15 Day 2: 5 08-09 Total: 10 22-08
28. Mitchell Gunn - Kyle Kunst Grand Valley State University 223
Day 1: 5 11-13 Day 2: 5 10-08 Total: 10 22-05
29. Ben Rand - Mason Grossbauer Davenport University 222
Day 1: 5 12-12 Day 2: 5 09-07 Total: 10 22-03
30. Zach Mcnary - Trenton Penninga Grand Valley State University 221
Day 1: 5 11-10 Day 2: 5 10-05 Total: 10 21-15
31. Nick Pemberton - Brennan Berglund University of Montevallo 220
Day 1: 5 14-11 Day 2: 3 07-03 Total: 8 21-14
32. Robert Cruvellier - Carson Maddux Auburn University 219
Day 1: 5 11-05 Day 2: 5 10-08 Total: 10 21-13
33. Brooks Anderson - Parker Guy Emmanuel College 218
Day 1: 5 12-06 Day 2: 5 09-02 Total: 10 21-08
34. Will Carnes - Tavin Hodgens campbellsville university 217
Day 1: 5 12-01 Day 2: 5 09-07 Total: 10 21-08
35. Cole Hopson - Nicholas Robinson Georgia College 216
Day 1: 5 11-12 Day 2: 5 09-12 Total: 10 21-08
36. Beau Browning - Jake Peck Drury University 215
Day 1: 5 10-02 Day 2: 5 11-02 Total: 10 21-04
37. Tyler Cory - Scott Sledge University of Montevallo 214
Day 1: 5 13-01 Day 2: 4 08-02 Total: 9 21-03
38. Hunter Keller - Carson Eckard Catawba Valley Community College 213
Day 1: 5 09-10 Day 2: 5 11-09 Total: 10 21-03
39. Reece Martin - Mark Harris Dallas Baptist University 212
Day 1: 5 12-09 Day 2: 5 08-08 Total: 10 21-01
40. Aaron Shumaker - Hunter Enlow Lander University 211
Day 1: 5 12-10 Day 2: 5 08-05 Total: 10 20-15
41. Sam Harvey - Jordan Brewer Auburn University 210
Day 1: 5 08-15 Day 2: 5 11-12 Total: 10 20-11
42. Drake Hemby - Carter Koza Carson-Newman University 209
Day 1: 5 14-13 Day 2: 4 05-09 Total: 9 20-06
43. Seth Jenkins - TJ McKenzie Emmanuel College 208
Day 1: 5 09-14 Day 2: 5 10-06 Total: 10 20-04
44. Austin Woody - Bryce Fowler East Carolina University 207
Day 1: 5 10-04 Day 2: 5 10-00 Total: 10 20-04
45. Logan Parks - Tucker Smith Auburn University 206
Day 1: 5 08-13 Day 2: 5 11-00 Total: 10 19-13
46. Brycen Hendriks - Gavin Ange UNC Charlotte 205
Day 1: 5 12-15 Day 2: 5 06-12 Total: 10 19-11
47. Tyler Altizer - Dylan Thomson King University 204
Day 1: 5 10-02 Day 2: 5 09-09 Total: 10 19-11
48. Ryan Thomas - Solomon Glenn University of Montevallo 203
Day 1: 5 13-01 Day 2: 2 06-08 Total: 7 19-09
49. Jacob Welch - Lee Lambrecht Drury University 202
Day 1: 5 08-07 Day 2: 5 11-01 Total: 10 19-08
50. Lafe Messer - Matt Messer Kentucky Christian University 201
Day 1: 5 09-08 Day 2: 5 09-14 Total: 10 19-06
51. Hagan Marlin - Tanner English University of Montevallo 200
Day 1: 5 09-12 Day 2: 5 09-09 Total: 10 19-05
52. Anderson Jones - Lander University 199
Day 1: 5 07-03 Day 2: 5 12-01 Total: 10 19-04
53. Brock Williams - Brandon Johnson Ohio State University 198
Day 1: 5 11-07 Day 2: 5 07-10 Total: 10 19-01
54. Brady Duncan - Stevie Mills Carson-Newman University 197
Day 1: 5 07-15 Day 2: 5 11-02 Total: 10 19-01
55. Lawson Blake - Caden Fuller Marshall University 196
Day 1: 5 09-11 Day 2: 5 09-06 Total: 10 19-01
56. Brandon Martin - Emmanuel College 195
Day 1: 4 06-14 Day 2: 5 12-02 Total: 9 19-00
57. Britt Myers - Tyler Anderson Lander University 194
Day 1: 5 06-12 Day 2: 5 12-02 Total: 10 18-14
58. Nolan Yeager - Riley Aebi Stephen F. Austin State Universi 193
Day 1: 5 10-11 Day 2: 5 08-03 Total: 10 18-14
59. Mark Burnham - Adam Green Greenville University 192
Day 1: 5 08-03 Day 2: 5 10-10 Total: 10 18-13
60. Carson Palmer - Cole Rankin Carson-Newman University 191
Day 1: 5 09-00 Day 2: 5 09-11 Total: 10 18-11
61. Max Pierlott - Mike Pierlott UNC Charlotte 190
Day 1: 5 12-08 Day 2: 5 06-02 Total: 10 18-10
62. Joey Williams - Evan Thomas Liberty University 189
Day 1: 5 08-15 Day 2: 5 09-10 Total: 10 18-09
63. Hunter MCClaskey - King University 188
Day 1: 5 09-02 Day 2: 5 09-07 Total: 10 18-09
64. Drew Gill - Jonah Potts Wabash Valley College 187
Day 1: 5 11-11 Day 2: 5 06-13 Total: 10 18-08
65. Colby Kerr - Jonathan Fitch Kentucky Christian University 186
Day 1: 5 14-09 Day 2: 3 03-14 Total: 8 18-07
66. Weston Hollar - Jordan Pennington University of Montevallo 185
Day 1: 4 08-00 Day 2: 5 10-06 Total: 9 18-06
67. Jacob Witkowski - Hunter Jenkins Dallas Baptist Univesity 184
Day 1: 5 10-13 Day 2: 4 07-05 Total: 9 18-02
68. Drew Traffanstedt - Dakendrick Patterson University of Montevallo 183
Day 1: 5 11-03 Day 2: 4 06-13 Total: 9 18-00
69. Cole Thompson - John Heacock University of North Alabama 182
Day 1: 5 08-03 Day 2: 5 09-13 Total: 10 18-00
70. Nate Lesch - Tennessee Tech University 181
Day 1: 5 11-01 Day 2: 3 06-14 Total: 8 17-15
71. Seth Elkins - Dale Hansard Jacksonville State University 180
Day 1: 5 07-15 Day 2: 5 09-15 Total: 10 17-14
72. Storm Cline - Ely Dennison Carson-Newman University 179
Day 1: 5 09-04 Day 2: 4 08-09 Total: 9 17-13
73. JD Clarke - Hunter Muncrief Stephen F Austin State Universit 178
Day 1: 5 07-12 Day 2: 5 09-13 Total: 10 17-09
74. Joseph Bissing - Jackson Paden University of Tennessee 177
Day 1: 5 09-12 Day 2: 5 07-13 Total: 10 17-09
75. Alex Richmond - Riley Bowen Grand Valley State University 176
Day 1: 5 10-09 Day 2: 5 06-15 Total: 10 17-08
76. Grant Dohle - Wyatt Montle Missouri State University 175
Day 1: 5 08-03 Day 2: 5 09-05 Total: 10 17-08
77. Lucas Smith - Dalton Mize Jacksonville State University 174
Day 1: 3 06-08 Day 2: 5 10-12 Total: 8 17-04
78. Nate Triplett - Cy Lambert University of North Alabama 173
Day 1: 5 10-02 Day 2: 5 07-02 Total: 10 17-04
79. Brian Linder - Nathan Thompson Minnesota State - Mankato 172
Day 1: 4 07-03 Day 2: 5 09-15 Total: 9 17-02
80. Jackson Stephens - Maxwell Trotter Mckendree University 171
Day 1: 5 09-05 Day 2: 4 07-13 Total: 9 17-02
81. Walker Brown - Chandler Brewer University of North Alabama 170
Day 1: 5 08-13 Day 2: 5 08-03 Total: 10 17-00
82. Alec Berens - Joseph Bruener Mckendree University 169
Day 1: 5 08-06 Day 2: 4 08-10 Total: 9 17-00
83. Lukas Mckinney - Sam Moll Murray State University 168
Day 1: 5 10-09 Day 2: 5 06-06 Total: 10 16-15
84. Nathan Burdett - Andrew Davis Troy University 167
Day 1: 5 07-09 Day 2: 4 09-06 Total: 9 16-15
85. Chase Mundhenke - Blake Milligan Auburn University 166
Day 1: 5 09-09 Day 2: 5 07-05 Total: 10 16-14
86. Easton Fothergill - Nick Dumke University of Montevallo 165
Day 1: 5 07-02 Day 2: 5 09-11 Total: 10 16-13
87. John Ortman - Emmanuel 164
Day 1: 5 08-06 Day 2: 5 08-07 Total: 10 16-13
88. Wesley Smith - Grant Harris Catawba Valley Community College 163
Day 1: 4 06-09 Day 2: 4 10-03 Total: 8 16-12
89. Connor Hicks - Austin Wadzinski University of Tennessee 162
Day 1: 5 07-15 Day 2: 5 08-12 Total: 10 16-11
90. Bryant Marsh - Tyler Hill Blue Mountain College 161
Day 1: 5 08-12 Day 2: 3 07-15 Total: 8 16-11
91. Blair Cox - Zach Adamec Missouri State University 160
Day 1: 4 05-08 Day 2: 5 11-02 Total: 9 16-10
92. Blake Bullock - Blue Mountain College 159
Day 1: 5 08-13 Day 2: 5 07-09 Total: 10 16-06
93. Caden Sweeten - Samuel Heichel Bemidji State University 158
Day 1: 5 08-08 Day 2: 5 07-14 Total: 10 16-06
94. Hunter Bailey - JR Young Jr Jacksonville State University 157
Day 1: 4 07-03 Day 2: 5 09-02 Total: 9 16-05
95. Logan Bozeman - Andrew Fryer Southern Union State Community C 156
Day 1: 5 09-04 Day 2: 5 06-15 Total: 10 16-03
96. Stone Payne - Hayden Baxter University of Tennessee- Knoxvil 155
Day 1: 5 09-03 Day 2: 4 07-00 Total: 9 16-03
97. Matthew Zdrazil - Easton Lindus Emmanuel College 154
Day 1: 5 10-07 Day 2: 3 05-11 Total: 8 16-02
98. Ryan Park - Samuel Niemeyer Murray State University 153
Day 1: 4 07-02 Day 2: 5 09-00 Total: 9 16-02
99. Dalton Coleman - Joe Bob Burchett Kentucky Christian University 152
Day 1: 3 09-02 Day 2: 3 06-11 Total: 6 15-13
100. Parker Lambert - Koby Horn Lander university 151
Day 1: 5 08-01 Day 2: 5 07-10 Total: 10 15-11
101. Whit Edmonds - Julia Levister Lander University 150
Day 1: 5 08-03 Day 2: 5 07-07 Total: 10 15-10
102. Brodie Curvin - Connor Handley wallace state 149
Day 1: 5 07-09 Day 2: 5 08-01 Total: 10 15-10
103. Blake Stringer - Colby Joseph Campbellsville University 148
Day 1: 5 10-00 Day 2: 3 05-07 Total: 8 15-07
104. Conner Crosby - James Cobbs Auburn University 147
Day 1: 5 10-08 Day 2: 2 04-14 Total: 7 15-06
105. Isaac Irvin - Mason Gross wabash valley college 146
Day 1: 3 05-10 Day 2: 5 09-10 Total: 8 15-04
106. Steve Kinard - Jimmy Mitchum Lander University 145
Day 1: 5 07-13 Day 2: 5 07-02 Total: 10 14-15
107. Adam Troyer - Andrew Yazdi Indiana University 144
Day 1: 5 07-06 Day 2: 5 07-09 Total: 10 14-15
108. Andrew Thompson - Jacob Swanson Montevallo 143
Day 1: 5 14-13 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 14-13
109. Cj Jobe - James Stillwell Western Carolina University 142
Day 1: 4 07-12 Day 2: 5 07-01 Total: 9 14-13
110. Landon Howe - Makalie King Georgia Southern University 141
Day 1: 5 14-08 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 14-08
111. Bo Thomas - Mason Vernia Western Michigan University 140
Day 1: 5 07-09 Day 2: 5 06-15 Total: 10 14-08
112. Nathan Smith - Cabe Mackey Catawba Valley Community College 139
Day 1: 5 11-03 Day 2: 2 03-04 Total: 7 14-07
113. Calvin Landsberg - Jack Palaia University of Alabama 138
Day 1: 3 04-14 Day 2: 4 09-09 Total: 7 14-07
114. Jacob Highley - Autumn Belcher Kentucky Christian University 137
Day 1: 5 11-01 Day 2: 3 03-05 Total: 8 14-06
115. Bailey Mckinney - Levi Smith Marshall University 136
Day 1: 5 07-05 Day 2: 5 07-01 Total: 10 14-06
116. Cole Holloway - Taylor Mcmullen Emmanuel College 135
Day 1: 5 07-11 Day 2: 5 06-10 Total: 10 14-05
117. Austin Sloan - Mason Cary Illinois State University 134
Day 1: 5 08-12 Day 2: 3 05-08 Total: 8 14-04
118. Riley Lawson - Chris Baker Kentucky Christian University 133
Day 1: 5 12-01 Day 2: 1 01-13 Total: 6 13-14
119. Emily Freeman - Cole Hadlock Murray State University 132
Day 1: 2 02-15 Day 2: 5 10-15 Total: 7 13-14
120. Spencer Black - Caleb Lonca Catawba Valley Community College 131
Day 1: 2 04-13 Day 2: 2 09-01 Total: 4 13-14
121. Brock Blazier - Matthew Wilson Southern union state community c 130
Day 1: 4 06-08 Day 2: 3 07-06 Total: 7 13-14
122. Bailey Rene - John Phipps Indiana University Southeast 129
Day 1: 5 08-13 Day 2: 4 05-00 Total: 9 13-13
123. Sam Schmitz - Braden Lewis University of North Alabama 128
Day 1: 5 07-10 Day 2: 4 05-15 Total: 9 13-09
124. Ryan Boggs - Hayden Fuhr Lander 127
Day 1: 5 07-03 Day 2: 5 06-06 Total: 10 13-09
125. Brock Lederman - Kyle Schwibinger University of Wisconsin- Stevens 126
Day 1: 5 08-09 Day 2: 3 04-15 Total: 8 13-08
126. Evan Rice - Sawyer Mccullough Troy University 125
Day 1: 5 09-07 Day 2: 3 04-00 Total: 8 13-07
127. Morgan Miracle - Jake Thornbury Campbellsville University 124
Day 1: 5 09-00 Day 2: 3 04-07 Total: 8 13-07
128. Will Lutes - Jacob Middleton Ohio State University 123
Day 1: 4 04-11 Day 2: 5 08-11 Total: 9 13-06
129. Anthony Ethridge - Trey Carr III Murray State University 122
Day 1: 5 09-11 Day 2: 2 03-06 Total: 7 13-01
130. Andrew Ready - Vince Maffei Webber International University 121
Day 1: 5 08-15 Day 2: 3 03-13 Total: 8 12-12
131. Haydan Quesenberry - Ryan Diskin Auburn University 120
Day 1: 3 04-11 Day 2: 4 08-01 Total: 7 12-12
132. Braedon Metzgar - Hayden Schneider Texas AM University 119
Day 1: 5 08-14 Day 2: 3 03-11 Total: 8 12-09
133. Cameron Dials - Jonathan Fraley Kentucky Christian University 118
Day 1: 3 05-15 Day 2: 5 06-10 Total: 8 12-09
134. Hagen Robinson - Grayson Perkins Western Carolina University 117
Day 1: 5 08-08 Day 2: 2 04-00 Total: 7 12-08
135. Weston Bison - Austin Gregory Lander University 116
Day 1: 4 06-13 Day 2: 2 05-11 Total: 6 12-08
136. Kyle Knoll - Luke Morgan Southern Union State Community C 115
Day 1: 5 07-15 Day 2: 3 04-06 Total: 8 12-05
137. Cole Taylor - Hunter Temples Lander 114
Day 1: 4 08-03 Day 2: 2 04-00 Total: 6 12-03
138. Austin Goins - Bryan college 113
Day 1: 5 09-06 Day 2: 2 02-10 Total: 7 12-00
139. Brock Bila - Dylan Chambers Drury University 112
Day 1: 4 08-14 Day 2: 2 02-15 Total: 6 11-13
140. Elliot Torode - Logan Plueger University of Montevallo 111
Day 1: 5 08-05 Day 2: 2 03-05 Total: 7 11-10
141. Adrian Urso - Corbin Templon Murray State University 110
Day 1: 5 07-05 Day 2: 3 04-05 Total: 8 11-10
142. Turner Hart - Summer Dees Bryan College 109
Day 1: 4 08-07 Day 2: 2 03-00 Total: 6 11-07
143. Kaden Liles - Hunter Lepping University of North Alabama 108
Day 1: 4 07-03 Day 2: 3 04-03 Total: 7 11-06
144. Eion Patterson - Nathan King UNC Charlotte 107
Day 1: 2 03-11 Day 2: 5 07-08 Total: 7 11-03
145. Gavin Clevenger - Chase Hastings Carson-Newman University 106
Day 1: 1 02-09 Day 2: 5 08-08 Total: 6 11-01
146. Connor Cartmell - Andrew Vereen Coastal Carolina University 105
Day 1: 5 08-07 Day 2: 1 02-01 Total: 6 10-08
147. Austin Marley - Noah Simmons Georgia Southern University 104
Day 1: 1 01-08 Day 2: 4 08-13 Total: 5 10-05
148. John Garrett Pearson - Rudy Pearson IV Georgia College 103
Day 1: 3 04-12 Day 2: 3 05-08 Total: 6 10-04
149. Christopher Kistler - Malcolm Patton Calhoun Community College 102
Day 1: 3 02-09 Day 2: 5 07-10 Total: 8 10-03
150. Ben Tschoerner - Chance Thompson Stephen F Austin State Universit 101
Day 1: 5 07-09 Day 2: 2 02-07 Total: 7 10-00
151. Josh Rouse - Avery Doughty Carson-Newman University 100
Day 1: 2 06-04 Day 2: 2 03-06 Total: 4 09-10
152. Caleb Jacob - Illinois State University 99
Day 1: 4 06-04 Day 2: 2 03-02 Total: 6 09-06
153. Brantley Anders - Will Rooker Kentucky Christian University 98
Day 1: 3 05-08 Day 2: 3 03-13 Total: 6 09-05
154. Bryar Chambers - Clent Blackwood Wallace State Community College 97
Day 1: 5 08-04 Day 2: 1 00-15 Total: 6 09-03
155. Logan Pumphrey - Andrew Hadley Indiana South East 96
Day 1: 5 09-02 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 09-02
156. Jack York - Jacob Miller stephen f austin state universit 95
Day 1: 5 09-01 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 09-01
157. Tanner Maness - Chandler Ellis Lander University 94
Day 1: 5 08-15 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 08-15
158. Nick Staub - Lake Norsworthy Blue Mountain College 93
Day 1: 1 01-04 Day 2: 4 07-10 Total: 5 08-14
159. Ethan Vue - Colton Kentopp University of North Carolina at 92
Day 1: 1 01-13 Day 2: 4 06-15 Total: 5 08-12
160. Lucas Oliver - Nathan Dellinger Catawba Valley Community College 91
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 5 08-07 Total: 5 08-07
161. Garrett Warren - Hayden Marbut Auburn University 90
Day 1: 2 03-08 Day 2: 2 04-14 Total: 4 08-06
162. Austin Smith - Jacob Lambert Carson-Newman University 89
Day 1: 2 03-15 Day 2: 3 04-07 Total: 5 08-06
163. Victor Alford - Dylan Johnson bryan college 88
Day 1: 2 03-06 Day 2: 2 04-14 Total: 4 08-04
164. Caleb Bridges - Jacob Davidson bryan college 87
Day 1: 4 07-00 Day 2: 1 01-01 Total: 5 08-01
165. Andrew Mega - Brennan Kenison UNC CHARLOTTE 86
Day 1: 5 08-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 08-00
166. Garrett Thompson - Ethan Perry West Virginia University 85
Day 1: 4 07-15 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 4 07-15
167. Owen Januszewski - Nick Owens Adrian College 84
Day 1: 3 03-13 Day 2: 3 04-02 Total: 6 07-15
168. Conner Johnson - Jake Thomas Georgetown college 83
Day 1: 5 07-11 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 07-11
169. Caleb Sheldon - Chase Beale Lander University 82
Day 1: 4 06-06 Day 2: 1 01-04 Total: 5 07-10
170. Matthew Pufahl - Alex Ripplinger Bemidji State University 81
Day 1: 3 04-08 Day 2: 2 03-01 Total: 5 07-09
171. Shane Nelson - Aaron Jagdfeld Adrian College 80
Day 1: 5 07-07 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 07-07
172. John Pope - Walker Leslie UNC Charlotte 79
Day 1: 2 00-02 Day 2: 5 07-02 Total: 7 07-04
173. Chris Drum - Kaleb Davis Lenoir Rhyne University 78
Day 1: 5 07-02 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 07-02
174. Thomas Mingle - Nathan Couch Univerity of Tennessee 77
Day 1: 3 04-11 Day 2: 2 02-07 Total: 5 07-02
175. John Sells - Cooper Hesling Georgia Southern University 76
Day 1: 5 07-01 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 07-01
176. Braden Cox - Joel Berelsman Ohio State 75
Day 1: 4 07-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 4 07-00
177. Kyle Dillon - Kolby Kindley Western Carolina University 74
Day 1: 5 06-14 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 5 06-14
178. Zach Cruze - Daniel Schroeder Murray state 73
Day 1: 4 06-12 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 4 06-12
178. Tyler Finley - Lane Lassiter University of North Alabama 73
Day 1: 4 06-12 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 4 06-12
180. Evan Barker - Lane Pohlman Campbellsville University 71
Day 1: 4 05-02 Day 2: 1 01-08 Total: 5 06-10
181. Kyle Kreger - Elliott Pritchett Southern Illinois University Car 70
Day 1: 2 03-13 Day 2: 2 02-07 Total: 4 06-04
182. James Romig - Colton Morris Florida Gateway College 69
Day 1: 3 03-09 Day 2: 2 02-03 Total: 5 05-12
183. Jordan Turner - Davian Smith University of Montevallo 68
Day 1: 2 02-11 Day 2: 2 03-01 Total: 4 05-12
184. Camdon Lewis - TJ Edwards Jr Blue Mountain College 67
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 4 05-11 Total: 4 05-11
185. Riley Underwood - Chandler Olivier University of Montevallo 66
Day 1: 3 04-04 Day 2: 1 01-07 Total: 4 05-11
186. Hunter Waldrop - Reese Melven University of South Carolina 65
Day 1: 3 05-10 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 3 05-10
187. Isaac Carlson - Blaine Mattingly Campbellsville University 64
Day 1: 1 01-03 Day 2: 3 04-01 Total: 4 05-04
188. Garrett Huddleston - Riley Voltz Auburn University 63
Day 1: 3 04-10 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 3 04-10
189. Thomas Mcelwaney - Colby Mason Georgia Southern University 62
Day 1: 2 04-08 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 2 04-08
190. Austin Curry - Milton Johnston III Lenoir Rhyne University 61
Day 1: 1 01-06 Day 2: 3 02-15 Total: 4 04-05
191. Landon Brown - Maycee Lyons Morehead State University 60
Day 1: 2 03-05 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 2 03-05
192. Andrew Pittman - East Carolina University 59
Day 1: 1 02-15 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 02-15
193. Ben Hutchins - Clay Burch North Carolina State University 58
Day 1: 2 02-12 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 2 02-12
194. Cameron Lake - Hunter Luke University of Alabama 57
Day 1: 1 01-03 Day 2: 1 01-09 Total: 2 02-12
195. Dawson Burton - Trent Keltner Kentucky Christian University 56
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 1 02-10 Total: 1 02-10
196. Lane Bradley - Holden Kauble Wabash Valley College 55
Day 1: 1 01-06 Day 2: 1 01-03 Total: 2 02-09
197. Blayner Leeman - Noah Hurford Kentucky Christian University 54
Day 1: 2 02-08 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 2 02-08
198. Nicholas Owens - Jeff Thomas Ohio State University 53
Day 1: 1 02-01 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 02-01
199. Chris Brooks - David Bartlett Greenville University 52
Day 1: 1 01-14 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 01-14
200. Harrison Heins - Luke Fraley Tennessee Tech University 51
Day 1: 1 01-05 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 01-05
201. Daniel Cosby - Kendale Utter Coastal Carolina University 50
Day 1: 1 01-04 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 01-04
201. Clay Henderson - Zachary Ward Drury University 50
Day 1: 1 01-04 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 1 01-04
203. Logan Anderson - Tyler Little North Carolina State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Jacob Conyers - Spencer Pergrem Morehead State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Parker Domschke - Harper Burkeen McKendree University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Patrick Henry - Jared Minor Ohio State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Noah Jones - Chance Konrad Coastal Carolina University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Jake Kimbrough - Chandler Pruett Blue Mountain College 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Jacob Silver - Ben Bales Western Carolina University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Cameron Smith - Jacob Blackburn Ohio State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
203. Elijah Walker - Jess Taylor AUBURN 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 132 842 1700-00
2 98 698 1334-15
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230 1540 3034-15

by AnglersChannel

Luke Clausen Wins Knockout Round at REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa Sunglasses on Grand Lake

Spokane, Washington Pro Leads the Charge as Montgomery, Evers, Thrift and Birge also Advance to Championship Sunday, 10 Anglers Set for Saturday

TULSA, Okla. (March 25, 2022) – Bass Pro Tour angler Luke Clausen of Spokane, Washington, weighed nine scorable bass totaling 24 pounds even to win the Knockout Round (Group A) on Day 3 of the Major League Fishing (MLF) REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa Sunglasses , the Bass Pro Tour championship, on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. The five-day event, hosted by Tulsa Regional Tourism, features anglers competing for a total purse of $730,000, including a top cash prize of $300,000 to the winner.

Also advancing along with Clausen to Sunday’s Championship Round of competition are pros Andy Montgomery of Blacksburg, South Carolina, Edwin Evers of Talala, Oklahoma, Bryan Thrift of Shelby, North Carolina, and Zack Birge of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

“I went out there today not knowing if I might zero or I might catch them all day long,” said Clausen. “Right now this lake is changing so much – these fronts come through, the water is coming up, it’s changing colors everywhere across the lake. The key is figuring out how to catch them, right now, by the minute.

“The first period was rough for me,” Clausen continued. “It came together when I started running a little bit of wind. When I started fishing that wind, I was able to get those bites and the second period was crucial with that little breeze. I knew I needed to make hay when I could, and I really leaned on them in the second period.”

Hometown favorite Edwin Evers of Talala, who led the first day of competition, was disappointed with his performance but still happy to be advancing to the Championship Round.

“Man, I didn’t drink that much coffee today but I felt like I was jerking my jerkbait away from every fish out there,” the Oklahoma pro said. “I needed to slow down, and I just didn’t get it done today. But we’re moving on to the Championship Round, so it was enough. It just wasn’t like I was hoping it would be.

“Today with the water coming up, it threw me off a little bit,” Evers continued. “I’ve been really nervous about the water rising – I need the fish to stay where they’re at and I don’t need them to swim up to the bank. Hopefully tonight they start pulling a little bit of water and we can get it down a bit.

“I want to win this one really, really, really bad and bring this REDCREST trophy home to Oklahoma.”

Fellow Okie Zack Birge of Blanchard also made the cut but was definitely feeling the pressure of SCORETRACKER® as time ticked down.

“It was a stressful day to say the least – I’m still shaking from the last 20 minutes,” said Birge. “Every time my official would make a noise I’d turn around and be like ‘just don’t give me an update, please…’ But it was enough and I’m really happy to move on to the Championship Round.

“The key for me today was just trying to move around and stay with the cleaner water,” Birge said. “If I got in the dirty water, I didn’t get many bites. But I’m throwing something I’m confident in and keeping it in places that I’m confident in getting bit. Hopefully we’ve saved our best day for the last day.”

The full field of anglers competed in the two-day Qualifying Round on Days 1 (Wednesday) and 2 (Thursday) of the event. The field was cut to just the top 20 based on two-day total cumulative weight. The remaining 20 anglers were split into two groups for the Knockout Round – 10 (Group A) competed on Day 3 (Friday) and 10 (Group B) will compete on Day 4 (Saturday). The top five anglers from each group based on total single-day weight will advance to the Championship Round, the fifth and final day of competition (Sunday) where weights are zeroed and the angler that catches the highest total weight on the final day will be crowned the REDCREST 2022 champion and earn the top prize of $300,000.

The top five pros from Group A that made the cut and will advance to Championship Sunday on Grand Lake are:

1^st:          Luke Clausen, Spokane, Wash., nine bass, 24-0
2^nd:         Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C., seven bass, 20-6
3^rd:         Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla., six bass, 15-11
4^th:         Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., five bass, 12-13
5^th:         Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla., five bass, 12-9

The five pros eliminated from competition Friday are:

6^th:         Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky., four bass, 11-0, $10,000
7^th:         Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan, three bass, 10-0, $10,000
8^th:         Fletcher Shryock, Guntersville, Ala., two bass, 9-4, $10,000
9^th:         Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn., two bass, 4-15, $10,000
10^th:       James Elam, Tulsa, Okla., one bass, 2-12, $10,000

Full results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 44 scorable bass weighing 123 pounds, 6 ounces caught by the 10 pros Friday.

Shryock earned Friday’s Berkley Big Bass Award, weighing in a 6-pound, 7-ounce largemouth in Period 1 to win the $1,000 prize. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler that weighs the biggest bass each day, and a $1,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the largest bass of the tournament.

The 10 anglers that will compete in the Group B Knockout Round on Saturday are:
Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn.
Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala.
Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C.
Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla.
Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn.
Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala.
Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn.
Greg Vinson, Wetumpka, Ala.
Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark.
Scott Suggs, Alexander, Ark.

The General Tire Take Off Ceremony will begin each day at 6:45 a.m. at the Wolf Creek Park and Boating Facility, located at 963 N. 16^th St. in Grove, Oklahoma. Anglers will depart daily at 7:30 a.m. from the park and return after competition ends at 4 p.m. Fans are welcome to attend all launch events and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLF NOW!® live stream and SCORETRACKER® coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees will feature anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

by AnglersChannel

Mississippi State Duo Takes Lead In Bassmaster College Series Event On Lake Norman

Luke Glasgow and James Ikerd of Mississippi State University are leading after Day 1 of the 2022 Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops with 22 pounds, 7 ounces.
Photo by Kyle Jessie/B.A.S.S.
March 25, 2022

Mississippi State Duo Takes Lead In Bassmaster College Series Event On Lake Norman

CORNELIUS, N.C. — Luke Glasgow was in disbelief. There was no way he and Mississippi State University angling partner James Ikerd just weighed a 22 pound, 7 ounce limit to storm to the Day 1 lead of the Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops.

And there certainly was no way Glasgow had a personal-best bass in the livewell.

But the duo did, in fact, bring five hefty bass to the scales at Blythe Landing Friday afternoon, including a 7-5 largemouth that was the heaviest of the day and the heaviest ever caught by the 21-year-old engineering major.

“(Ikerd) said ‘That’s an 8- to 10-pounder,’” Glasgow recalled of the mid-afternoon catch. “I thought maybe it was 5 pounds or so. I was shaking so badly, like I’ve never done before in a fishing tournament. No matter what happens here, this place will always be special to me because of that fish.”

The heavy bag was no certainty at lunchtime when the Bulldogs team had four bass in the boat for about 8 pounds. They kept with their junk fishing strategy, though, covering as much water as they could and throwing a variety of lures.

“We had to keep plugging,” Ikerd said. “It finally paid off.”

The team’s fortunes changed when they hooked a pair of 5-pounders shortly after noon. Those upgrades provided the boost of positive energy the duo needed, and they set the tone for Glasgow’s giant later in the day.

His previous best was a 6-9 first caught on Pickwick Lake, a weight he’s matched twice since. And of course, he smashed the PB on Friday.

“We didn’t catch a single keeper yesterday in practice,” said Glasgow, who hails from Guin, Ala. “So, I never imagined we’d have this today. I know I’m talking, but I really am speechless.”

In all, 211 tandems from around the U.S. are competing on this 32,000-acre impoundment of the Catawba River. They’ll all fish again on Saturday, with nearly $9,000 in cash prizes to be awarded. The winning tandem will collect $2,601, or $1300.50 each.

Robert Gee and Chad Sentell of the University of Tennessee are in second place with a 19-3 limit, and Connor Jacob and Sam Smith of Auburn University are third with an 18-1 total. Erskine College of South Carolina holds the fourth and fifth spots – Avery Hammock and Garrett Smith with 17-15 and Jeremy Dellinger and Adam Seagle with 17-12.

The second and final day of the college derby will begin at 7:10 a.m. ET at Blythe Landing. The final weigh-in will take place beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET. Coverage can be found at Bassmaster.com.

2022 Strike King Bassmaster College Series at Lake Norman presented by Bass Pro Shops 3/25-3/26
Lake Norman, Cornelius NC.
(BOATER) Standings Day 1

Angler Club/School Pts

1. Luke Glasgow - James Ikerd Mississippi State University 250
Day 1: 5 22-07 Total: 5 22-07
2. Robert Gee - Chad Sentell University of Tennessee 249
Day 1: 5 19-03 Total: 5 19-03
3. Connor Jacob - Sam Smith Auburn University 248
Day 1: 5 18-01 Total: 5 18-01
4. Avery Hammock - Garrett Smith Erskine College 247
Day 1: 5 17-15 Total: 5 17-15
5. Jeremy Dellinger - Adam Seagle Erskine College 246
Day 1: 5 17-12 Total: 5 17-12
6. Joshua DeKoning - Dalton Mollenkopf Adrian College 245
Day 1: 5 17-01 Total: 5 17-01
7. Peyton Harris - Dalton Head Montevallo 244
Day 1: 5 16-03 Total: 5 16-03
8. Rob Lindsey - Mason Cizek Bryan College 243
Day 1: 5 15-10 Total: 5 15-10
9. Chance Schwartz - James Willoughby University of Montevallo 242
Day 1: 5 15-08 Total: 5 15-08
10. Brody Robison - Jack Alexander University of Montevallo 241
Day 1: 5 15-05 Total: 5 15-05
11. Cody Griffith - Drew Jennings Auburn University 240
Day 1: 5 14-14 Total: 5 14-14
12. Drake Hemby - Carter Koza Carson-Newman University 239
Day 1: 5 14-13 Total: 5 14-13
12. Andrew Thompson - Jacob Swanson Montevallo 239
Day 1: 5 14-13 Total: 5 14-13
14. Nick Pemberton - Brennan Berglund University of Montevallo 237
Day 1: 5 14-11 Total: 5 14-11
15. Colby Kerr - Jonathan Fitch Kentucky Christian University 236
Day 1: 5 14-09 Total: 5 14-09
16. Landon Howe - Makalie King Georgia Southern University 235
Day 1: 5 14-08 Total: 5 14-08
17. Jacob Butts - Mark Kershaw Erskine College 234
Day 1: 5 13-15 Total: 5 13-15
17. Gunner Whitaker - Mitch Johnson Kentucky Christian University 234
Day 1: 5 13-15 Total: 5 13-15
19. Tyler Cory - Scott Sledge University of Montevallo 232
Day 1: 5 13-01 Total: 5 13-01
19. Ryan Thomas - Solomon Glenn University of Montevallo 232
Day 1: 5 13-01 Total: 5 13-01
21. Tyler Lubbat - Hayden O'barr University of Alabama 230
Day 1: 5 13-00 Total: 5 13-00
22. Sam Hanggi - Sam Hoesley Auburn University 229
Day 1: 5 12-15 Total: 5 12-15
22. Brycen Hendriks - Gavin Ange UNC Charlotte 229
Day 1: 5 12-15 Total: 5 12-15
24. Louis Monetti - Michael Fugaro UNC Charlotte 227
Day 1: 5 12-14 Total: 5 12-14
25. Ben Rand - Mason Grossbauer Davenport University 226
Day 1: 5 12-12 Total: 5 12-12
26. Matthew Davis - Bryce Kostman Adrian College 225
Day 1: 5 12-11 Total: 5 12-11
27. Aaron Shumaker - Hunter Enlow Lander University 224
Day 1: 5 12-10 Total: 5 12-10
28. Reece Martin - Mark Harris Dallas Baptist University 223
Day 1: 5 12-09 Total: 5 12-09
29. Grayson Morris - Jacob Pfundt University of Montevallo 222
Day 1: 5 12-08 Total: 5 12-08
29. Max Pierlott - Mike Pierlott UNC Charlotte 222
Day 1: 5 12-08 Total: 5 12-08
31. Brooks Anderson - Parker Guy Emmanuel College 220
Day 1: 5 12-06 Total: 5 12-06
31. Chase Carey - Dylan Akins Emmanuel College 220
Day 1: 5 12-06 Total: 5 12-06
33. Matthew Benson - Nathanael Wright Emmanuel College 218
Day 1: 5 12-03 Total: 5 12-03
34. Will Carnes - Tavin Hodgens campbellsville university 217
Day 1: 5 12-01 Total: 5 12-01
34. Riley Lawson - Chris Baker Kentucky Christian University 217
Day 1: 5 12-01 Total: 5 12-01
36. Dustin Bauer - Wyatt Pearman Campbellsville University 215
Day 1: 5 12-00 Total: 5 12-00
37. Mitchell Gunn - Kyle Kunst Grand Valley State University 214
Day 1: 5 11-13 Total: 5 11-13
38. Cole Hopson - Nicholas Robinson Georgia College 213
Day 1: 5 11-12 Total: 5 11-12
39. Drew Gill - Jonah Potts Wabash Valley College 212
Day 1: 5 11-11 Total: 5 11-11
40. Zach Mcnary - Trenton Penninga Grand Valley State University 211
Day 1: 5 11-10 Total: 5 11-10
41. Brock Williams - Brandon Johnson Ohio State University 210
Day 1: 5 11-07 Total: 5 11-07
42. Robert Cruvellier - Carson Maddux Auburn University 209
Day 1: 5 11-05 Total: 5 11-05
43. Lane Bailey - Justin Eggers Catawba Valley Community College 208
Day 1: 5 11-03 Total: 5 11-03
43. Nathan Smith - Cabe Mackey Catawba Valley Community College 208
Day 1: 5 11-03 Total: 5 11-03
43. Drew Traffanstedt - Dakendrick Patterson University of Montevallo 208
Day 1: 5 11-03 Total: 5 11-03
46. Jacob Highley - Autumn Belcher Kentucky Christian University 205
Day 1: 5 11-01 Total: 5 11-01
46. Nate Lesch - Tennessee Tech University 205
Day 1: 5 11-01 Total: 5 11-01
48. Conner Dimauro - Justin Botts Bryan College 203
Day 1: 5 11-01 Total: 5 11-01
49. Jacob Witkowski - Hunter Jenkins Dallas Baptist Univesity 202
Day 1: 5 10-13 Total: 5 10-13
50. Nolan Yeager - Riley Aebi Stephen F. Austin State Universi 201
Day 1: 5 10-11 Total: 5 10-11
51. Andrew Rickman - Michael Postlewait Dallas Baptist University 200
Day 1: 5 10-10 Total: 5 10-10
52. Lukas Mckinney - Sam Moll Murray State University 199
Day 1: 5 10-09 Total: 5 10-09
52. Alex Richmond - Riley Bowen Grand Valley State University 199
Day 1: 5 10-09 Total: 5 10-09
54. Conner Crosby - James Cobbs Auburn University 197
Day 1: 5 10-08 Total: 5 10-08
55. Matthew Zdrazil - Easton Lindus Emmanuel College 196
Day 1: 5 10-07 Total: 5 10-07
56. Austin Woody - Bryce Fowler East Carolina University 195
Day 1: 5 10-04 Total: 5 10-04
57. Jake Monti - Samuel Dunson UNC Charlotte 194
Day 1: 5 10-03 Total: 5 10-03
58. Tyler Altizer - Dylan Thomson King University 193
Day 1: 5 10-02 Total: 5 10-02
58. Beau Browning - Jake Peck Drury University 193
Day 1: 5 10-02 Total: 5 10-02
58. Nate Triplett - Cy Lambert University of North Alabama 193
Day 1: 5 10-02 Total: 5 10-02
61. Blake Stringer - Colby Joseph Campbellsville University 190
Day 1: 5 10-00 Total: 5 10-00
62. Seth Jenkins - TJ McKenzie Emmanuel College 189
Day 1: 5 09-14 Total: 5 09-14
62. Chase Sansom - Tyler Drown Marshall University 189
Day 1: 5 09-14 Total: 5 09-14
64. Joseph Bissing - Jackson Paden University of Tennessee 187
Day 1: 5 09-12 Total: 5 09-12
64. Hagan Marlin - Tanner English University of Montevallo 187
Day 1: 5 09-12 Total: 5 09-12
66. Lawson Blake - Caden Fuller Marshall University 185
Day 1: 5 09-11 Total: 5 09-11
66. Anthony Ethridge - Trey Carr III Murray State University 185
Day 1: 5 09-11 Total: 5 09-11
68. Hunter Keller - Carson Eckard Catawba Valley Community College 183
Day 1: 5 09-10 Total: 5 09-10
69. Chase Mundhenke - Blake Milligan Auburn University 182
Day 1: 5 09-09 Total: 5 09-09
70. Lafe Messer - Matt Messer Kentucky Christian University 181
Day 1: 5 09-08 Total: 5 09-08
71. Evan Rice - Sawyer Mccullough Troy University 180
Day 1: 5 09-07 Total: 5 09-07
72. Ben Brockwell - Justice Gayhart Kentucky Christian University 179
Day 1: 5 09-06 Total: 5 09-06
72. Austin Goins - Bryan college 179
Day 1: 5 09-06 Total: 5 09-06
74. Jackson Stephens - Maxwell Trotter Mckendree University 177
Day 1: 5 09-05 Total: 5 09-05
75. Logan Bozeman - Andrew Fryer Southern Union State Community C 176
Day 1: 5 09-04 Total: 5 09-04
75. Storm Cline - Ely Dennison Carson-Newman University 176
Day 1: 5 09-04 Total: 5 09-04
77. Stone Payne - Hayden Baxter University of Tennessee- Knoxvil 174
Day 1: 5 09-03 Total: 5 09-03
78. Hunter MCClaskey - King University 173
Day 1: 5 09-02 Total: 5 09-02
78. Logan Pumphrey - Andrew Hadley Indiana South East 173
Day 1: 5 09-02 Total: 5 09-02
80. Dalton Coleman - Joe Bob Burchett Kentucky Christian University 171
Day 1: 3 09-02 Total: 3 09-02
81. Jack York - Jacob Miller stephen f austin state universit 170
Day 1: 5 09-01 Total: 5 09-01
82. Morgan Miracle - Jake Thornbury Campbellsville University 169
Day 1: 5 09-00 Total: 5 09-00
82. Carson Palmer - Cole Rankin Carson-Newman University 169
Day 1: 5 09-00 Total: 5 09-00
84. Sam Harvey - Jordan Brewer Auburn University 167
Day 1: 5 08-15 Total: 5 08-15
84. Tanner Maness - Chandler Ellis Lander University 167
Day 1: 5 08-15 Total: 5 08-15
84. Andrew Ready - Vince Maffei Webber International University 167
Day 1: 5 08-15 Total: 5 08-15
84. Joey Williams - Evan Thomas Liberty University 167
Day 1: 5 08-15 Total: 5 08-15
88. Braedon Metzgar - Hayden Schneider Texas AM University 163
Day 1: 5 08-14 Total: 5 08-14
89. Brock Bila - Dylan Chambers Drury University 162
Day 1: 4 08-14 Total: 4 08-14
90. Walker Brown - Chandler Brewer University of North Alabama 161
Day 1: 5 08-13 Total: 5 08-13
90. Blake Bullock - Blue Mountain College 161
Day 1: 5 08-13 Total: 5 08-13
90. Logan Parks - Tucker Smith Auburn University 161
Day 1: 5 08-13 Total: 5 08-13
90. Bailey Rene - John Phipps Indiana University Southeast 161
Day 1: 5 08-13 Total: 5 08-13
94. Bryant Marsh - Tyler Hill Blue Mountain College 157
Day 1: 5 08-12 Total: 5 08-12
94. Austin Sloan - Mason Cary Illinois State University 157
Day 1: 5 08-12 Total: 5 08-12
96. Brock Lederman - Kyle Schwibinger University of Wisconsin- Stevens 155
Day 1: 5 08-09 Total: 5 08-09
97. Hagen Robinson - Grayson Perkins Western Carolina University 154
Day 1: 5 08-08 Total: 5 08-08
97. Caden Sweeten - Samuel Heichel Bemidji State University 154
Day 1: 5 08-08 Total: 5 08-08
99. Connor Cartmell - Andrew Vereen Coastal Carolina University 152
Day 1: 5 08-07 Total: 5 08-07
99. Jacob Welch - Lee Lambrecht Drury University 152
Day 1: 5 08-07 Total: 5 08-07
101. Turner Hart - Summer Dees Bryan College 150
Day 1: 4 08-07 Total: 4 08-07
102. Alec Berens - Joseph Bruener Mckendree University 149
Day 1: 5 08-06 Total: 5 08-06
102. John Ortman - Emmanuel 149
Day 1: 5 08-06 Total: 5 08-06
104. Elliot Torode - Logan Plueger University of Montevallo 147
Day 1: 5 08-05 Total: 5 08-05
105. Bryar Chambers - Clent Blackwood Wallace State Community College 146
Day 1: 5 08-04 Total: 5 08-04
106. Mark Burnham - Adam Green Greenville University 145
Day 1: 5 08-03 Total: 5 08-03
106. Grant Dohle - Wyatt Montle Missouri State University 145
Day 1: 5 08-03 Total: 5 08-03
106. Whit Edmonds - Julia Levister Lander University 145
Day 1: 5 08-03 Total: 5 08-03
106. Cole Thompson - John Heacock University of North Alabama 145
Day 1: 5 08-03 Total: 5 08-03
110. Cole Taylor - Hunter Temples Lander 141
Day 1: 4 08-03 Total: 4 08-03
111. Parker Lambert - Koby Horn Lander university 140
Day 1: 5 08-01 Total: 5 08-01
112. Andrew Mega - Brennan Kenison UNC CHARLOTTE 139
Day 1: 5 08-00 Total: 5 08-00
113. Weston Hollar - Jordan Pennington University of Montevallo 138
Day 1: 4 08-00 Total: 4 08-00
114. Brady Duncan - Stevie Mills Carson-Newman University 137
Day 1: 5 07-15 Total: 5 07-15
114. Seth Elkins - Dale Hansard Jacksonville State University 137
Day 1: 5 07-15 Total: 5 07-15
114. Connor Hicks - Austin Wadzinski University of Tennessee 137
Day 1: 5 07-15 Total: 5 07-15
114. Kyle Knoll - Luke Morgan Southern Union State Community C 137
Day 1: 5 07-15 Total: 5 07-15
118. Garrett Thompson - Ethan Perry West Virginia University 133
Day 1: 4 07-15 Total: 4 07-15
119. Steve Kinard - Jimmy Mitchum Lander University 132
Day 1: 5 07-13 Total: 5 07-13
120. JD Clarke - Hunter Muncrief Stephen F Austin State Universit 131
Day 1: 5 07-12 Total: 5 07-12
121. Cj Jobe - James Stillwell Western Carolina University 130
Day 1: 4 07-12 Total: 4 07-12
122. Cole Holloway - Taylor Mcmullen Emmanuel College 129
Day 1: 5 07-11 Total: 5 07-11
122. Conner Johnson - Jake Thomas Georgetown college 129
Day 1: 5 07-11 Total: 5 07-11
124. Sam Schmitz - Braden Lewis University of North Alabama 127
Day 1: 5 07-10 Total: 5 07-10
125. Nathan Burdett - Andrew Davis Troy University 126
Day 1: 5 07-09 Total: 5 07-09
125. Brodie Curvin - Connor Handley wallace state 126
Day 1: 5 07-09 Total: 5 07-09
125. Bo Thomas - Mason Vernia Western Michigan University 126
Day 1: 5 07-09 Total: 5 07-09
125. Ben Tschoerner - Chance Thompson Stephen F Austin State Universit 126
Day 1: 5 07-09 Total: 5 07-09
129. Shane Nelson - Aaron Jagdfeld Adrian College 122
Day 1: 5 07-07 Total: 5 07-07
130. Adam Troyer - Andrew Yazdi Indiana University 121
Day 1: 5 07-06 Total: 5 07-06
131. Bailey Mckinney - Levi Smith Marshall University 120
Day 1: 5 07-05 Total: 5 07-05
131. Adrian Urso - Corbin Templon Murray State University 120
Day 1: 5 07-05 Total: 5 07-05
133. Ryan Boggs - Hayden Fuhr Lander 118
Day 1: 5 07-03 Total: 5 07-03
133. Anderson Jones - Lander University 118
Day 1: 5 07-03 Total: 5 07-03
135. Hunter Bailey - JR Young Jr Jacksonville State University 116
Day 1: 4 07-03 Total: 4 07-03
135. Kaden Liles - Hunter Lepping University of North Alabama 116
Day 1: 4 07-03 Total: 4 07-03
135. Brian Linder - Nathan Thompson Minnesota State - Mankato 116
Day 1: 4 07-03 Total: 4 07-03
138. Chris Drum - Kaleb Davis Lenoir Rhyne University 113
Day 1: 5 07-02 Total: 5 07-02
138. Easton Fothergill - Nick Dumke University of Montevallo 113
Day 1: 5 07-02 Total: 5 07-02
140. Ryan Park - Samuel Niemeyer Murray State University 111
Day 1: 4 07-02 Total: 4 07-02
141. John Sells - Cooper Hesling Georgia Southern University 110
Day 1: 5 07-01 Total: 5 07-01
142. Caleb Bridges - Jacob Davidson bryan college 109
Day 1: 4 07-00 Total: 4 07-00
142. Braden Cox - Joel Berelsman Ohio State 109
Day 1: 4 07-00 Total: 4 07-00
144. Kyle Dillon - Kolby Kindley Western Carolina University 107
Day 1: 5 06-14 Total: 5 06-14
145. Brandon Martin - Emmanuel College 106
Day 1: 4 06-14 Total: 4 06-14
146. Weston Bison - Austin Gregory Lander University 105
Day 1: 4 06-13 Total: 4 06-13
147. Britt Myers - Tyler Anderson Lander University 104
Day 1: 5 06-12 Total: 5 06-12
148. Zach Cruze - Daniel Schroeder Murray state 103
Day 1: 4 06-12 Total: 4 06-12
148. Tyler Finley - Lane Lassiter University of North Alabama 103
Day 1: 4 06-12 Total: 4 06-12
150. Wesley Smith - Grant Harris Catawba Valley Community College 101
Day 1: 4 06-09 Total: 4 06-09
151. Brock Blazier - Matthew Wilson Southern union state community c 100
Day 1: 4 06-08 Total: 4 06-08
152. Lucas Smith - Dalton Mize Jacksonville State University 99
Day 1: 3 06-08 Total: 3 06-08
153. Caleb Sheldon - Chase Beale Lander University 98
Day 1: 4 06-06 Total: 4 06-06
154. Caleb Jacob - Illinois State University 97
Day 1: 4 06-04 Total: 4 06-04
155. Josh Rouse - Avery Doughty Carson-Newman University 96
Day 1: 2 06-04 Total: 2 06-04
156. Cameron Dials - Jonathan Fraley Kentucky Christian University 95
Day 1: 3 05-15 Total: 3 05-15
157. Isaac Irvin - Mason Gross wabash valley college 94
Day 1: 3 05-10 Total: 3 05-10
157. Hunter Waldrop - Reese Melven University of South Carolina 94
Day 1: 3 05-10 Total: 3 05-10
159. Blair Cox - Zach Adamec Missouri State University 92
Day 1: 4 05-08 Total: 4 05-08
160. Brantley Anders - Will Rooker Kentucky Christian University 91
Day 1: 3 05-08 Total: 3 05-08
161. Evan Barker - Lane Pohlman Campbellsville University 90
Day 1: 4 05-02 Total: 4 05-02
162. Calvin Landsberg - Jack Palaia University of Alabama 89
Day 1: 3 04-14 Total: 3 04-14
163. Spencer Black - Caleb Lonca Catawba Valley Community College 88
Day 1: 2 04-13 Total: 2 04-13
164. John Garrett Pearson - Rudy Pearson IV Georgia College 87
Day 1: 3 04-12 Total: 3 04-12
165. Will Lutes - Jacob Middleton Ohio State University 86
Day 1: 4 04-11 Total: 4 04-11
166. Thomas Mingle - Nathan Couch Univerity of Tennessee 85
Day 1: 3 04-11 Total: 3 04-11
166. Haydan Quesenberry - Ryan Diskin Auburn University 85
Day 1: 3 04-11 Total: 3 04-11
168. Garrett Huddleston - Riley Voltz Auburn University 83
Day 1: 3 04-10 Total: 3 04-10
169. Matthew Pufahl - Alex Ripplinger Bemidji State University 82
Day 1: 3 04-08 Total: 3 04-08
170. Thomas Mcelwaney - Colby Mason Georgia Southern University 81
Day 1: 2 04-08 Total: 2 04-08
171. Riley Underwood - Chandler Olivier University of Montevallo 80
Day 1: 3 04-04 Total: 3 04-04
172. Austin Smith - Jacob Lambert Carson-Newman University 79
Day 1: 2 03-15 Total: 2 03-15
173. Owen Januszewski - Nick Owens Adrian College 78
Day 1: 3 03-13 Total: 3 03-13
174. Kyle Kreger - Elliott Pritchett Southern Illinois University Car 77
Day 1: 2 03-13 Total: 2 03-13
175. Eion Patterson - Nathan King UNC Charlotte 76
Day 1: 2 03-11 Total: 2 03-11
176. James Romig - Colton Morris Florida Gateway College 75
Day 1: 3 03-09 Total: 3 03-09
177. Garrett Warren - Hayden Marbut Auburn University 74
Day 1: 2 03-08 Total: 2 03-08
178. Victor Alford - Dylan Johnson bryan college 73
Day 1: 2 03-06 Total: 2 03-06
179. Landon Brown - Maycee Lyons Morehead State University 72
Day 1: 2 03-05 Total: 2 03-05
180. Emily Freeman - Cole Hadlock Murray State University 71
Day 1: 2 02-15 Total: 2 02-15
181. Andrew Pittman - East Carolina University 70
Day 1: 1 02-15 Total: 1 02-15
182. Ben Hutchins - Clay Burch North Carolina State University 69
Day 1: 2 02-12 Total: 2 02-12
183. Jordan Turner - Davian Smith University of Montevallo 68
Day 1: 2 02-11 Total: 2 02-11
184. Christopher Kistler - Malcolm Patton Calhoun Community College 67
Day 1: 3 02-09 Total: 3 02-09
185. Gavin Clevenger - Chase Hastings Carson-Newman University 66
Day 1: 1 02-09 Total: 1 02-09
186. Blayner Leeman - Noah Hurford Kentucky Christian University 65
Day 1: 2 02-08 Total: 2 02-08
187. Nicholas Owens - Jeff Thomas Ohio State University 64
Day 1: 1 02-01 Total: 1 02-01
188. Chris Brooks - David Bartlett Greenville University 63
Day 1: 1 01-14 Total: 1 01-14
189. Ethan Vue - Colton Kentopp University of North Carolina at 62
Day 1: 1 01-13 Total: 1 01-13
190. Austin Marley - Noah Simmons Georgia Southern University 61
Day 1: 1 01-08 Total: 1 01-08
191. Lane Bradley - Holden Kauble Wabash Valley College 60
Day 1: 1 01-06 Total: 1 01-06
191. Austin Curry - Milton Johnston III Lenoir Rhyne University 60
Day 1: 1 01-06 Total: 1 01-06
193. Harrison Heins - Luke Fraley Tennessee Tech University 58
Day 1: 1 01-05 Total: 1 01-05
194. Daniel Cosby - Kendale Utter Coastal Carolina University 57
Day 1: 1 01-04 Total: 1 01-04
194. Clay Henderson - Zachary Ward Drury University 57
Day 1: 1 01-04 Total: 1 01-04
194. Nick Staub - Lake Norsworthy Blue Mountain College 57
Day 1: 1 01-04 Total: 1 01-04
197. Isaac Carlson - Blaine Mattingly Campbellsville University 54
Day 1: 1 01-03 Total: 1 01-03
197. Cameron Lake - Hunter Luke University of Alabama 54
Day 1: 1 01-03 Total: 1 01-03
199. John Pope - Walker Leslie UNC Charlotte 52
Day 1: 2 00-02 Total: 2 00-02
200. Logan Anderson - Tyler Little North Carolina State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Dawson Burton - Trent Keltner Kentucky Christian University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Jacob Conyers - Spencer Pergrem Morehead State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Parker Domschke - Harper Burkeen McKendree University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Patrick Henry - Jared Minor Ohio State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Noah Jones - Chance Konrad Coastal Carolina University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Jake Kimbrough - Chandler Pruett Blue Mountain College 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Camdon Lewis - TJ Edwards Jr Blue Mountain College 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Lucas Oliver - Nathan Dellinger Catawba Valley Community College 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Jacob Silver - Ben Bales Western Carolina University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Cameron Smith - Jacob Blackburn Ohio State University 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
200. Elijah Walker - Jess Taylor AUBURN 0
Day 1: 0 00-00 Total: 0 00-00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 132 842 1700-00
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132 842 1700-00

by AnglersChannel

REDCREST Rewards - Costa Compete + Conserve

Courtesy of Luke Stoner - Dynamic Sponsorships

GROVE, Okla. – There wasn’t an abundant amount of sunshine on Grand Lake throughout the first two days of REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa, but today the sun crested the east horizon without a cloud in the sky and this weekend calls for better, more springlike weather. Even the sun has been largely absent, sunglasses haven’t been far from the 41 competing anglers’ minds this week both literally and figuratively thanks to the Costa Compete + Conserve contingency program.

Compete + Conserve rewards the highest finishing angler wearing Costa shades in any supported tournament with a cash bonus (or prize package). The payout for REDCREST is an incredible $7,500 to the angler who finishes the highest on Sunday along with an additional $1,000 being donated to one of five conservation partners of the anglers’ choosing.

The conservation component of this one-of-a-kind contingency program is included for every single sanctioned tournament whether it’s the Bass Pro Tour, a team tournament trail, or high school and college fishing. Bass Pro Tour standout Ott DeFoetook home the REDCREST rewards in 2021 and is a huge proponent of what Compete + Conserve stands for.

“It’s great to see an industry leader like Costa put together a program like Compete + Conserve,” said DeFoe. “Not only do anglers get paid to wear the best sunglasses on the water, but you support groups looking after our rivers, lakes, and reservoirs in the process. That’s what makes this program truly special.”

To make things even better, Costa recently added over 200+ grassroots events to Compete + Conserve, so there are more opportunities to take part than ever. The program is 100% free to register for, you just need to own a pair of Costas and compete in an eligible tournament.

For more information on the program, a full list of supported tournaments, or to get yourself registered before you hit the water this weekend click this link - https://www.costacompeteandconserve.com/ or shoot [email protected] an email.

by AnglersChannel

KVD at REDCREST: Gracious and giving in defeat

Courtesy of Alan McGuckin - Dynamic Sponsorships

Thursday afternoon brought an end to Kevin VanDam’s 2022 MLF REDCREST competition because the Grand Lake he loves, and has twice claimed victory on, just didn’t seem to love him back this week.

“I’m pretty perplexed and super disappointed to be honest,” said VanDam, while stowing his tackle at the Wolf Creek boat ramp in preparation for the 90-mile drive back to Tulsa. “Everything that seemed like it should work, based on my experience here, just never really materialized. It’s definitely frustrating,” he added.

But even amid the frustration and perplexion of defeat, VanDam was kind and gracious to fans and media gathered near his boat in the parking lot, as he smiled for cell phone photos, autographed hats, and provided thoughtful insight during interviews. Plus, he has big plans to generously give back to the Northeast Oklahoma community this weekend.

Q: What surprised you most about the way Grand Lake fished this week?

KVD: Not only how fast the water rose after the rain hit Monday, but also that the water didn’t get muddy in the mid-lake region I was fishing. In my mind, it actually got cleaner as it rose. So instead of the bass pushing shallower to the shoreline, like I thought they would, they just never did.

Q: Show us the two lures you used most during Wednesday and Thursday’s competition.

KVD: You bet. Grand Lake has a ton of shad. So as long as I was seeing balls of shad on my Humminbird MEGA Live screen, then I felt like I was around feeding bass. So, I threw a Strike King Series 3 crankbait on 12-pound fluorocarbon in sexy shad, and a Strike King 300 series jerkbait, also in sexy shad.

Q: What was the primary pattern you tried to execute on Grand this week?

KVD: I was targeting secondary points in the creeks of the mid-lake region, and also the creek channel swings inside pockets.

Q: The whole week featured cold air, rain, and a ton of cloud cover, but I noticed you still wear sunglasses. Why is that?

KVD: Because even on really cloudy days the Sunrise Silver Mirror lenses in my Costas allow for more light transmission, which really lightens things up on dark cloudy days, which allows me to see little changes in water clarity and shallow water targets better.

Q: What are some of the details of the generous plans Sherry and you have planned for the Northeastern Oklahoma community this weekend?

KVD: Yep, we have a really fun fan appreciation prize giveaway in the Nitro Boats booth at the REDCREST Expo inside Tulsa’s SageNet Center all three days of the show. We’re calling it the “Blast Off. Cast Off.” They’ll be $15,000 worth of gift cards and merchandise fans can sign up to win, but you have to be present to win.

Plus, I’m really excited about the grant money we are giving away through the Kevin VanDam Foundation to fund three different projects that will ultimately fund habitat restoration and the stocking of F-1 strain largemouth bass in Grand Lake.

by AnglersChannel

Michael Neal Tops Qualifying Round of Major League Fishing’s REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa Sunglasses on Grand Lake

Oklahoma Pros Edwin Evers (2^nd), Zack Birge (3^rd) and James Elam (19^th) all Advance in Top 20 – 10 Fish Friday, 10 Fish Saturday, Top Five from Each Group Compete on Championship Sunday

TULSA, Okla. (March 24, 2022) – Bass Pro Tour angler Michael Neal of Dayton, Tennessee, weighed in a two-day total of 20 bass weighing 57 pounds, 7 ounces to win the Qualifying Round of the Major League Fishing (MLF) REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa Sunglasses, the Bass Pro Tour championship, on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. Neal narrowly edged out two Oklahoma favorites – Talala’s Edwin Evers, who weighed in 17 bass for 55-8 to end the round in second place, and Blanchard’s Zack Birge, who boated 15 scorable bass for 47-8, good for third.

The field is now cut to 20, and weights are zeroed as competition moves into the Knockout Round. A field of 10 anglers (Group A) will compete on Friday and the remaining 10 anglers (Group B) will compete Saturday. The top five anglers from each day advance to the fifth and final day of competition, Championship Sunday. The five-day event, hosted by Tulsa Regional Tourism, features anglers competing for a total purse of $730,000, including a top cash prize of $300,000 to the winner.

“Well, the top of the leaderboard is a good place to be,” said Neal, who is competing in his third career REDCREST championship and finished second in the event last year. “I would have rather finished in second or third, because that would mean I would be fishing tomorrow. But I’m going to enjoy my day off tomorrow and get ready to get back out there on Saturday.

“Today was totally unexpected – I totally changed from yesterday,” the Tennessee pro continued. “Yesterday was all about cranking. Today was all about finding the suspended fish that were out chasing bait. I found one little area that had a lot of fish on it. I caught them on a Damiki rig, using a 3/8-ounce Big Bite (Baits) Swimmer head with a ¾-inch Big Bite (Baits) Jerk Minnow.”

Although Neal spent his day chasing the suspended fish chasing bait, it was mainly because he wanted to conserve his other areas for the Knockout and Championship Rounds.

“I was worried about those fish. I wasn’t sure I could go down there and catch one. They were there, and they’ve been there since practice started (last Sunday). So, I feel like one extra day won’t hurt them too bad and hopefully they’re still there Saturday and Sunday for the Championship Round.”

The top 20 pros that made the Qualifying Round cut and will advance in competition on Grand Lake are:

1^st:          Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn., 20 bass, 57-7
2^nd:         Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla., 17 bass, 55-8
3^rd:         Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla., 15 bass, 47-8
4^th:         Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala., 14 bass, 43-14
5^th:         Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C., 12 bass, 40-6
6^th:         Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., 14 bass, 39-13
7^th:         Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan, 12 bass, 38-2
8^th:         Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla., 12 bass, 36-5
9^th:         Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn., 12 bass, 36-0
10^th:       Luke Clausen, Spokane, Wash., 11 bass, 35-11
11^th:       Fletcher Shryock, Guntersville, Ala., 10 bass, 34-1
12^th:       Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala., 11 bass, 33-12
13^th:       Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., 10 bass, 33-11
14^th:       Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn., 10 bass, 32-10
15^th:       Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky., 11 bass, 32-3
16^th:       Greg Vinson, Wetumpka, Ala., eight bass, 29-3
17^th:       Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark., 10 bass, 28-12
18^th:       Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C., 10 bass, 28-8
19^th:       James Elam, Tulsa, Okla., 10 bass, 28-4
20^th:       Scott Suggs, Alexander, Ark., nine bass, 27-12

Finishing in 21^st through 41^st are:

21^st:       Mark Rose, Wynne, Ark., 10 bass, 27-7, $5,000
22^nd:      Alton Jones, Lorena, Texas, nine bass, 27-6, $5,000
23^rd:      Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark., seven bass, 25-5, $5,000
24^th:       Brent Chapman, Lenexa, Kan., nine bass, 25-1, $5,000
25^th:       Adrian Avena, Vineland, N.J., nine bass, 24-2, $5,000
26^th:       Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Ala., eight bass, 22-14, $5,000
27^th:       Ott DeFoe, Blaine, Tenn., seven bass, 21-15, $5,000
28^th:       David Dudley, Lynchburg, Va., eight bass, 20-7, $5,000
29^th:       Alton Jones Jr., Waco, Texas, seven bass, 20-2, $5,000
30^th:       Jeff Sprague, Wills Point, Texas, six bass, 20-1, $5,000
31^st:       Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif., seven bass, 19-10, $5,000
32^nd:      Kevin VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich., seven bass, 19-1, $5,000
33^rd:      Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif., seven bass, 18-13, $5,000
34^th:       Jesse Wiggins, Addison, Ala., six bass, 16-12, $5,000
35^th:       Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala., six bass, 16-4, $5,000
36^th:       Gerald Spohrer, Gonzales, La., five bass, 15-9, $5,000
37^th:       Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., five bass, 15-8, $5,000
38^th:       Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz., three bass, 12-9, $5,000
39^th:       Shin Fukae, Osaka, Japan, four bass, 11-12, $5,000
40^th:       John Cox, DeBary, Fla., three bass, 11-12, $5,000
41^st:       Anthony Gagliardi, Prosperity, S.C., four bass, 9-13, $5,000

Full results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 162 scorable bass weighing 489 pounds, 10 ounces caught by 37 pros Thursday.

Favorite Fishing pro Dustin Connell of Clanton, Alabama, won Thursday’s $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Award, weighing in a 5-pound, 12-ounce largemouth during Period 3. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler that weighs the biggest bass each day, and a $1,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the largest bass of the tournament.

All 41 Anglers competed on Days 1 (Wednesday) and 2 (Thursday) of the event. After two days of competition, the field is now cut to just the top 20 based on two-day total cumulative weight. The remaining 20 anglers are split into two groups – 10 in Group A compete on Day 3 (Friday) and 10 in Group B compete on Day 4 (Saturday). The top five anglers from each group based on total single-day weight will advance to the fifth and final day of competition (Sunday), where weights are zeroed and the angler that catches the highest total weight on the final day will be crowned the REDCREST 2022 champion.

The 10 anglers that will compete in the Group A Knockout Round on Friday are:
Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla.
Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla.
Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C.
Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan
Luke Clausen, Spokane, Wash.
Fletcher Shryock, Guntersville, Ala.
Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn.
Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky.
Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C.
James Elam, Tulsa, Okla.

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by AnglersChannel

Bass Will Have Spawning On Their Minds During Bassmaster Southern Open At Cherokee

Tennessee's Cherokee Lake will host the St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open presented by Mossy Oak Fishing March 31-April 2, 2022.

Photo by Shane Durrance/B.A.S.S.

March 24, 2022

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — With spring water temperatures rising faster than usual, Bassmaster Elite Series pro David Mullins believes there will be plenty of bass caught during the 2022 St. Croix Bassmaster Southern Open at Cherokee Lake presented by Mossy Oak Fishing.

But finding a few quality bites will be the key to catching the winning bag.

“Everybody is going to have 10 to 13 pounds,” the East Tennessee native said. “A 4-pounder goes a long way on this lake. It is almost like fishing a New York smallmouth fishery. The weights are so tight. There are so many 2 to 2 3/4-pound fish that everyone can catch. It is just a matter of separating yourself with a big one or two.”

Competition days will be March 31-April 2. Anglers will take off from Cherokee TVA Dam Boat Launch each day at 7 a.m. ET and return for weigh-in at 3 p.m. The Top 10 boaters after Day 2 will advance to the championship round while the co-angler champion will be crowned at the conclusion of the Day 2 weigh-in. Full coverage can be found on Bassmaster.com.

The Holston River impoundment stretches 59 miles through the hills of East Tennessee and covers around 30,000 acres. Made up of mostly rock structures, Cherokee features all three species of bass, with largemouth and smallmouth making the most impact on tournament results.

“The only thing Cherokee has is rock and mud. There is nothing else,” Mullins said. “Usually one side of the lake will be flat and the other side has a bluff. There’s not a tremendous amount of cover you have to go through. No grass or standing timber and very little brush.”

Cherokee Lake has hosted several Bassmaster events, including an Elite Series event in 2017, a College Series event in 2018 and most recently a Bassmaster Open in 2020.

During 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the event until the end of October and current Elite Series angler Matt Robertson claimed the trophy with 40-12. The bass caught during that fall event were largely found in deeper water, some as deep as 30 and 40 feet.

That will likely not be the case this time around, as warm weather will be coaxing the bass to the shallows to spawn, according to Mullins.

“This historically will be a prespawn bite. But as warm as I’ve seen it already, the water temperature is in the mid- to upper 50s, there is a high chance it will be all spawn when (anglers) get there. The bass will be really close to where they want to spawn, whether that is in pockets or just off the channel in the flats. There may even be some postspawn.”

With very little cover in the lake, Mullins said the bass will spawn on different types of rock structure, whether that is bigger rocks, pea gravel or slate banks. He added that smallmouth and largemouth can be found close to the same areas and don’t have much separation in their spawns.

“The largemouth tend to be in the pockets and creeks, whereas smallmouth tend to be close to the main channel. But with it being this time of the year, they will be in the same areas,” Mullins said.

With gizzard and threadfin shad being the main forage in the lake, Mullins said he expects topwaters, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and other moving baits to play a big factor for prespawn bass while shaky heads and drop shots have been historically productive for spawners.

With the water rising pretty much every day during the spring months, anglers will likely not be able to see the bass on their beds.

Mullins expects it will take around 16 pounds a day to take home the trophy.

With one Southern Open completed at the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, Tennessee native Brandon Lester leads both the Bassmaster Opens Angler of the Year race and Southern Opens standings with 200 points, followed by Joey Cifuentes III (199) and Tom Frink (198).

by AnglersChannel

Edwin Evers Leads Day 1 of Major League Fishing’s REDCREST 2022 Presented by Costa Sunglasses

Oklahoma Superstar Catches 13 Bass Weighing 39 Pounds, 11 ounces to Pace Field on Day 1, Full field of 41 Anglers to Compete Again Thursday

TULSA, Okla. (March 23, 2022) – A field of the top 41 pro anglers from the Major League Fishing (MLF) Bass Pro Tour descended on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees Wednesday morning for Day 1 of MLF’s REDCREST 2022 presented by Costa Sunglasses, the Bass Pro Tour championship. The five-day event, hosted by Tulsa Regional Tourism , features anglers competing for a total purse of $730,000, including a top cash prize of $300,000 to the winner.

After the final fish had been tallied on the SCORETRACKER® leaderboard, local bass-fishing superstar Edwin Evers of Talala, Oklahoma, sits atop the leaderboard with 13 bass totaling 39 pounds, 11 ounces. Right behind Evers in second and third place are the two anglers many consider to be the hottest on the planet at the moment – Dayton, Tennessee’s Michael Neal, who boated 12 bass totaling 35-10 – and Academy Sports + Outdoors pro Jacob Wheeler of Harrison, Tennessee, who caught nine bass for 29-14.

Competition will continue Thursday, as the 41 anglers will again catch as much weight as possible before the field is cut to the top 20 after competition concludes tomorrow.

“I’m really happy with how the day turned out,” said Evers, who won the inaugural REDCREST championship in 2019 and is seeking to become the first angler to ever win two. “I focused on jerkbaiting in 6 to 15 feet of water. I didn’t lose any fish today, and my plan all seemed to come together.”

Evers said that he threw one jerkbait on two different setups. He used a Berkley Stunna 112, one with 10-pound-test fluorocarbon line, and one with 12-pound-test fluorocarbon line. He threw them on a Johnny Morris 6-foot, 8-inch medium-action rod with a high speed 8:3:1 gear ratio reel.

“The big key for me today was watching the bait on my (Lowrance) ActiveTarget to know what depth I needed to keep my jerkbait in when I got near the structure,” Evers said. “And they’re still biting the jerkbait, which I like. I was kind of afraid they were getting off of that bite.

“I feel like if I can catch just a couple of more fish tomorrow, I should be safe and moving into the Knockout Round,” Evers went on to say. “I’ve got a couple of areas that I found in practice that I didn’t touch today, so we’ll find out how good those spots are. I feel really good about this event so far and I am looking forward to getting back out here.”

The standings after Day 1 on Grand Lake are:

1^st:          Edwin Evers, Talala, Okla., 13 bass, 39-11
2^nd:         Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn., 12 bass, 35-10
3^rd:         Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., nine bass, 29-14
4^th:         Scott Suggs, Alexander, Ark., nine bass, 27-12
5^th:         Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn., nine bass, 27-2
6^th:         Bobby Lane, Lakeland, Fla., eight bass, 26-12
7^th:         Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., nine bass, 24-14
8^th:         Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan, six bass, 21-3
9^th:         Fletcher Shryock, Guntersville, Ala., six bass, 20-15
10^th:       Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky., seven bass, 20-4
11^th:       Zack Birge, Blanchard, Okla., seven bass, 19-9
12^th:       David Dudley, Lynchburg, Va., seven bass, 18-6
13^th:       Greg Vinson, Wetumpka, Ala., five bass, 17-12
14^th:       Dustin Connell, Clanton, Ala., six bass, 16-6
15^th:       Luke Clausen, Spokane, Wash., five bass, 16-6
16^th:       Brent Chapman, Lenexa, Kan., five bass, 16-0
17^th:       Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., five bass, 15-8
18^th:       Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C., four bass, 14-15
19^th:       Jeff Sprague, Wills Point, Texas, four bass, 14-6
20^th:       Jesse Wiggins, Addison, Ala., five bass, 14-5
21^st:       Kevin VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich., five bass, 13-13
22^nd:      Mark Rose, Wynne, Ark., five bass, 12-10
23^rd:      James Elam, Tulsa, Okla., four bass, 12-10
24^th:       Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif., four bass, 12-10
25^th:       Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz., three bass, 12-9
26^th:       Alton Jones, Lorena, Texas, four bass, 12-8
27^th:       Ott DeFoe, Blaine, Tenn., four bass, 12-6
28^th:       Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark., three bass, 11-12
29^th:       John Cox, DeBary, Fla., three bass, 11-12
30^th:       Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C., four bass, 11-3
31^st:       Adrian Avena, Vineland, N.J., five bass, 10-9
32^nd:      Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn., three bass, 10-9
33^rd:      Gerald Spohrer, Gonzales, La., three bass, 10-2
34^th:       Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala., three bass, 9-0
35^th:       Alton Jones Jr., Waco, Texas, three bass, 8-13
36^th:       Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark., three bass, 8-12
37^th:       Shin Fukae, Osaka, Japan, three bass, 8-0
38^th:       Anthony Gagliardi, Prosperity, S.C., three bass, 7-13
39^th:       Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif., three bass, 7-10
40^th:       Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala., two bass, 5-3
41^st:       Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Ala., two bass, 4-10

A complete list of results can be found each day at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 213 scorable bass weighing 652 pounds, 8 ounces caught by the 41 pros Monday.

Wheeler caught a 6-pound, 10-ounce bass in Period 2, throwing a jerkbait near boat docks to earn the day’s $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Award. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler who weighs the heaviest bass each day, and a $1,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the heaviest bass of the tournament.

All 41 Anglers compete on Days 1 (Wednesday) and 2 (Thursday) of the event. After two days of competition, the field is cut to just the top 20 based on two-day total cumulative weight. The remaining 20 anglers are split into two groups – 10 compete on Day 3 (Friday) and 10 compete on Day 4 (Saturday). The top five anglers from each group based on total single-day weight will advance to the fifth and final day of competition (Sunday), where weights are zeroed and the angler that catches the highest total weight on the final day will be crowned the REDCREST 2022 champion.

Proud sponsors of the MLF Bass Pro Tour include: 13 Fishing, Abu Garcia, A.R.E. Truck Caps, B&W Trailer Hitches, BallyBet, Bass Cat, Bass Pro Shops, Berkley, Covercraft, Favorite Fishing, Garmin, General Tire, Googan Baits, Grundéns, Guaranteed Rate, Humminbird, Lowrance, Luminox, Mercury, Minn Kota, Mossy Oak, Nitro Performance Boats, Onyx, Plano, Power-Pole, Power Stop, Rapala, Starbrite, Toro, Toyota, Wrangler, Yellowstone Bourbon and Zoom.

by AnglersChannel

Jordan Lee Ready for a Marathon

Courtesy of Luke Stoner - Dynamic Sponsorships

GROVE, Okla. – Jordan Lee looked about as calm as he could be this morning just a few minutes before blast-off for the 2022 REDCREST presented by Costa on Grand Lake in northeast Oklahoma. As he pulled a few of his signature series Jordan Lee Baitcast combos out of his rod locker, you could tell the 31-year-old bass fishing phenom was taking it all in and remaining focused.

“Today and tomorrow (Thursday) are all about staying above that cut line and surviving,” Lee said. “I’m just trying to make the first cut to fish on Friday with a smaller field. That’s when it all starts to go down. This tournament will be a marathon, not a sprint.”

The full field of 41-anglers will be on the water during the first two days of competition this week. When Lines Out signals on Thursday afternoon, the bottom 21-pros will be headed to the Expo in Tulsa and the remaining 20-anglers will be split into two groups of ten to fish Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Lee said his practice didn’t go extremely well, but it also didn’t go poorly. With just two days of practice to break down the 41,000+ acre behemoth that is Grand Lake, J. Lee wasn’t stressing the things that were out of his control.

“I got a few bites each afternoon (of practice) and feel like I know what type of rock I’m looking for,” Lee explained. “I’m just hoping I can get a few bites early to calm me down a little bit and get the momentum building. The mornings have been tough for me during practice so getting off to a decent start would be great. Either way I’m going to cover water and just keep fishing… that’s all you can do.”

The baits Lee lined out on the front deck of his boat would make any old-school angler smile. Big black and blue jigs threaded with meaty Berkley chunk trailers, a few different crankbaits like the Frittside, and a couple of big-bladed spinnerbaits. Lee has proven countless times throughout his career he can catch fish with any technique or technology, but he’s not afraid to admit he favors the old-school.

With air temperatures in the mid 30s, spitting rain, and a howling northwest wind Lee knew this first day of competition played into his power fishing prowess. To combat the cold Lee started the morning bundled up in about every layer of Carhartt gear he brought to Oklahoma.

He’s a big fan of the Base Force layers Carhartt offers and said they are key to staying warm and focused in frigid conditions. Lee’s second secret to staying warm came in the form of family medicine via his wife and 5-month year old son.

“With that wind blowing in my face I was struggling to shake the cold from my brain this morning until I saw Kristen and Baker walking down the dock… that’ll warm you up,” Lee said with a big smile.

Lee hasn’t lit up the Scoretracker like he’d like to today, but he’s caught enough to hang around the cut-line and is keeping pace for the marathon he’s been preparing for.

by AnglersChannel

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KVD at REDCREST: Mental focus, hand warmers, and a lotta gloves

Courtesy of Alan McGuckin / Dynamic Sponsorships

Even after 32 years of competitive bass angling, Kevin VanDam admits he spent a large portion of Tuesday night tossing and turning in a downtown Tulsa hotel room as his mind raced with thoughts of how to attack Day 1 of REDCREST on Grand Lake amid 38-degree air temps, spitting rain, and a ripping north wind.

“I said that Monday’s final day of practice featured weather for the ducks. Well today might be better suited for geese,” grinned the always classy pro from Kalamazoo.

But don’t think for a minute Northeastern Oklahoma’s raw weather had him defeated before the first cast.

Razor sharp mental focus

“Conditions like this make the mental part of this sport super important. You have to accept the weather conditions for what they are, do what you gotta do to stay warm, and believe with razor focus that the next cast is going to produce a bite,” says VanDam.

It’s about a 90-minute drive from his hotel in Tulsa to the boat ramp on Grand, and VanDam says he never even turned on the radio in his 2022 Toyota Tundra. Instead, choosing to spend the 95-mile commute thinking about wind direction, lure selection, and focusing on shorelines that should produce bites on a raw Wednesday morning.

Gotta have a lotta gloves

A huge part of VanDam’s success in staying warm is packing plenty of thin gloves in his Nitro. He’s got six pair in the boat with him Wednesday. When one pair gets wet, he takes them off, and trades for dry ones.

He also keeps a long-lasting air activated Hot Hands Mossy Oak camo hand warmer fired-up in the pocket of his jacket to grab hold of throughout the day.

What KVD says fans should watch for on Day 1 –

“Pay attention to the guys who get on a decent roll in the first couple hours of the day. In the MLF format, especially in these weather conditions, getting off to a good start will be pretty critical. But I’ll also say, the fishing should get better as the air temps warm up a little throughout the day,” says the Team Toyota angler.

As of 9:30 a.m. Grand Lake time, two hours into REDCREST competition, VanDam’s intense mental focus, handwarmers, and dry gloves had him sitting solidly inside the Top 10.

by AnglersChannel

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