Archive for May 12th, 2012

Low water levels on Kentucky/Barkley lakes may have diminished this week’s weights at the EverStart Series Central Division tournament presented by Evinrude, but it didn’t diminish Randy Haynes victory on Saturday. Haynes, a resident of Counce, Tenn., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 19 pounds, 10 ounces on the final day of the tournament to win [...]

Since winning the National Guard FLW Walleye Tour on Lake Erie presented by Dr. Pepper in 2005, Walmart pro Dean Arnoldussen hadn’t been able to tally a top-10 finish fishing out of Port Clinton. After Friday, Arnoldussen can now concentrate on trying to become the first angler to win this event twice, as he leads [...]

Today was to have been the day for Mook Miller and Kyle Billingsley to walk across the stage of Bud Walton Arena and receive their undergraduate diplomas at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Instead, the two Arkansans walked across the B.A.S.S. weigh-in stage on the shoreline of Oklahoma’s Fort Gibson Lake and received their [...]

Postspawn bass on the move are notoriously hard for an angler to pattern. Add a lake’s rapidly falling water to the mix, and solving the bass fishing equation becomes a mind-boggling challenge. Oklahoma State University’s Zack Birge and Blake Flurry aren’t math majors, yet they found a common denominator in locating bass dispersing from backwater [...]

Coming into the National Guard FLW Walleye Tour on Lake Erie presented by Dr. Pepper only two anglers could state that they had won three FLW Walleye Tour events – Walmart pro Dean Arnoldussen and National Guard pro Bill Shimota. On Saturday, pro Kevin McQuoid of Isle, Minn., added his name to that elite list [...]