Boss Wins Walmart Bass Fishing League Event on Kentucky & Barkley Lakes
Category: press release
Jun 22nd, 2009 by OutdoorsFIRST
Modified Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 AM
GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (June 22, 2009) – Sam Boss of Paducah, Ky., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League® LBL Division tournament on Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 23 pounds, 12 ounces. The victory earned Boss $4,618 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Fort Madison Regional Championship in Fort Madison, Iowa, Oct. 1-3, where he could ultimately win a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.
“I usually fish Kentucky Lake but it’s had a lot of pressure lately so I decided to go practice on Lake Barkley,” said Boss. “I got lucky enough to find three spots during practice and get on two of them during the tournament because there are just boats everywhere these days.”
Boss said he caught all of his fish on a Strike King Series 6 crankbait and a Strike King Sexy Shad spoon fishing mid-lake on Lake Barkley.
Rounding out the top five boaters are Brent Anderson of Kingston Springs, Tenn. (five bass, 21-9, $2,309); Scott Brummett of Brentwood, Tenn. (five bass, 21-9, $2,309); Donald Cordle Jr. of Hendersonville, Tenn. (five bass, 19-14, $1,078); and Bobby Kilzer of Paris, Tenn., and Joe Moya of Jasper, Ind. (five bass, 19-2, $885 each).
Anderson and Moya split the Boater Division Big Bass award, each earning $340 for a pair of 7-pound, 2-ounce bass.
Lyndsey Atchley of Scottsboro, Ala., earned $2,309 as the co-angler winner Saturday thanks to five bass weighing 18 pounds, 6 ounces.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Keith Wilkins of Morganfield, Ky. (five bass, 18-0, $1,155); Jerry Goheen of Benton, Ky. (five bass, 17-9, $654); Tim Jones of Fairland, Ind. (five bass, 17-9, $654); and Dirk Livingston of Advance, Mo. (five bass, 15-14, $462).
Terry Koerper of Greenup, Ky., earned $340 as the co-angler Big Bass winner after catching a 6-pound, 12-ounce bass.
The next LBL Division event will be held on Kentucky/Barkley Lakes in Gilbertsville, Ky., Sept. 12-13.
The top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers in each of the BFL’s 28 divisions at the end of the season advance to a no-entry-fee Regional Championship where boaters fish for a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck and co-anglers fish for a new Ranger boat. Seven regional championships will each send six boaters and six co-anglers to the no-entry-fee Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy, which features a $1 million purse and a top award of $140,000 in the Boater Division and $70,000 in the Co-angler Division. Anglers who compete in all five regular-season events within a division but do not advance to a Regional Championship are eligible to compete in the Chevy Wild Card, which will also send six boaters and six co-anglers to the All-American for a total of 48 boaters and 48 co-anglers advancing through BFL competition.
The winning boater and winning co-angler at the All-American will advance to the no-entry-fee $2.5 million Forrest Wood Cup in Atlanta in 2010. This event, featuring a top award of $1 million, is the most lucrative tournament in all of competitive bass fishing. In all, the BFL offers weekend anglers the opportunity to qualify for three no-entry-fee championships with total cash awards exceeding $3.5 million. Plus, the top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers from each BFL division may move up to the Stren Series™ for 2010 while All-American champions have the option to advance directly to the Walmart FLW Tour®.
In BFL competition, boaters supply the boat and compete from the front deck against other boaters. Co-anglers compete from the back deck against other co-anglers.
As the nation’s leading provider of affordable, close-to-home weekend tournaments, the BFL is widely credited with opening competitive bass fishing to the masses. It also serves as a steppingstone for anglers who wish to advance to the Stren Series and ultimately the FLW Tour – bass fishing’s most lucrative tournament circuit.
Total awards are based on a full field of 200 boats in every tournament.
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