Archive for May 20th, 2012

Edward Rude III arrived in La Crosse, Wis., by way of a 16-hour drive from his hometown of Falling Waters, W.Va. He was in an unfamiliar town to fish in a tournament on an even more foreign body of water. It was the Mississippi River, a complex fishery to understand for an angler from the [...]

National Guard pro Scott Martin hasn’t had a big fish in his weigh bag since the first day of competition at the Walmart FLW Tour on the Potomac River presented by the National Guard. His consistency is making up for the lack of a big fish, however, and he has now led all three days [...]

In his first BFL All-American appearance, Brian Maloney of Osage Beach, Mo., went wire-to-wire to win the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy with five bass weighing 13 pounds, 6 ounces. In a championship that came down to ounces, Maloney’s three-day total of 15 bass weighing 43-4 beat Dick Shaffer of Rockford, Ohio, by only [...]

South Dakotans Rick Olson & Tom Wiehoff finished strong to win a big-fish shootout by more than four pounds. They competed among 160 anglers from 13 states and one Canadian province at the Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit’s Lake Erie tournament out of Huron, Ohio. “We’re very excited; any tournament you win is great and the [...]