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 Wal-Mart Bass
Fishing League
Arkie
Division
April 2005 - DeGray Lake
BRESHEARS WINS WAL-MART BASS
FISHING LEAGUE EVENT ON DEGRAY LAKE
Arkadelphia, Ark. (April 11, 2005)
Boater Stanley Breshears of Rogers
earned $3,711 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing
League
Arkie Division event on DeGray Lake. The tournament was the second
of
five regular-season Akie Division events and earned Breshears
200 points
in the Boater Division.
Breshears' winning catch of five bass weighed 15
pounds, 1 ounce.
Breshears concentrated on catching bedding bass with a jig.
Finishing second was Erik Ambort of Mabelvale with
five bass weighing
14 pounds, 5 ounces that earned him $1,855. Paul C. Helton of
Russellville claimed $1,215 as the third-place finisher thanks
to five bass
weighing 13 pounds, 13 ounces. In fourth was Joe Dorr of Waldron
with five
bass weighing 12 pounds, 6 ounces worth $945, and finishing fifth
and
earning $776 was Brandon Rhoden of Sheridan with five bass weighing
12
pounds, 5 ounces.
Helton earned an additional $750 as winner of the
Ranger Cup and
Powered by Yamaha awards.
Gabe Herrington of Malvern took Boater Division
big-bass award honors,
earning $570 for a 5-pound, 7-ounce bass. He caught his big bass
on a
grey ghost-colored Horny Toad.
Kristy Bryant of Mount Ida earned $1,823 as the
co-angler winner,
thanks to three bass weighing 9 pounds, 9 ounces that she caught
on a Zara
Spook.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Michael
Blackwell of Cordova,
Tenn. (three bass, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, $911); Russell Richmond
of
Benton (five bass, 7 pounds, 14 ounces, $596); Steele Jones of
Maumelle
(five bass, 7 pounds, 12 ounces, $464); and J. Brandon Guice
of Conway
(four bass, 7 pounds, 9 ounces, $381).
Randy Crites of Plainview earned $280 as the co-angler
big-bass award
winner with a 5-pound, 8-ounce bass he caught on a Carolina-rigged
lizard.
The Arkie Division's next event will be held May
7 on Greers Ferry
Lake near Greers Ferry, followed by an event on Lake Dardanelle
near
Russellville June 18. The Arkie Division will wrap up its regular
season
Sept. 24-25 with a two-day Super Tournament on Lake Hamilton
near Hot
Springs.
Following the regular season, the Arkie Division
boater with the most
points will earn $1,000 as the Yamaha "Be the Best"
points champion.
The co-angler amassing the most points will earn $500 as the
Yamaha "Be
the Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament
earns points,
with 200 points going to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for
third, and
so on except for Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to
the
winner, 299 for second, 298 for third, and so on. The top 40
Arkie Division
boaters and co-anglers based on year-end points standings will
advance
to the Ohio River Regional near Paducah, Ky., Oct. 11-15 where
they
will compete against Hoosier, Great Lakes, and Michigan division
anglers
for one of six slots in the 2006 All-American. With a total purse
of $1
million and a potential $140,000 cash prize going to the winning
boater
and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American
is one of
the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
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DEGRAY LAKE TO HOST WAL-MART
BASS FISHING LEAGUE ARKIE DIVISION TOURNAMENT
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (March 29, 2005) The Arkie
Division of the $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League will
visit DeGray Lake near Arkadelphia April 9 for the second of
five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers
are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as
much as $39,000 in cash, including as much as $5,500 to the Boater
Division winner.
Iron Mountain Lodge and Marina in Arkadelphia will
host the takeoff and
weigh-in at 6:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., respectively. Anglers will
compete for
prize money as well as points that count toward postseason competition.
Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament earns
points, with
200 points going to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for third,
and so on
except for the season-ending Super Tournaments, which award 300
points to
the winner, 299 points for second, 298 for third, and so on.
If the winner is a participant in the Ranger Cup
incentive program, he
will receive a $1,000 bonus from Ranger Boats and $500 from Yamaha
if his
boat is powered by Yamaha. (Ranger will award $500 to the highest-finishing
Ranger Cup participant if not the winner, and Yamaha will kick
in $250 if
the boat is powered by Yamaha.) If the winning boater uses only
Garmin
electronics during the event and at least one product is a qualifying
unit,
Garmin will also award a $1,000 bonus. Bombardier will award
$1,000 to the
winning boater if the winner,s boat is equipped with a qualifying
Evinrude
Direct Injection outboard. That,s a potential top award of $8,500
for
anglers who meet contingency guidelines.
The winning co-angler will earn as much as $2,750
cash. The angler who
catches the biggest bass of the day in the Boater Division will
earn as much
as $1,000, and the co-angler big-bass winner will earn as much
as $500.
The top 40 boaters and co-anglers in each of the
BFL,s 28 divisions at
the end of the season are eligible to advance to regional competition.
Seven
$110,000 regional championships will each send six boaters and
six
co-anglers to the 2006 All-American championship, which will
feature a $1
million purse and a top award as high as $140,000. Anglers who
compete in
all five regular-season events within a division but do not advance
to
regional competition are eligible to compete in the Wild Card,
which will
also send six boaters and six co-anglers to the All-American
for a
championship field of 48 boaters and 48 co-anglers.
The top 40 Arkie Division boaters and co-anglers
will advance to the
Ohio River Regional near Paducah, Ky., Oct. 11-15 and will compete
against
anglers from the Hoosier, Great Lakes and Michigan divisions
for an
All-American slot. The top 40 anglers from each division may
also advance to
the EverStart Series in 2006.
Arkie anglers will next visit Greers Ferry Lake
in Greers Ferry May 7
for their third regular-season event, followed by an event on
Lake
Dardanelle in Russellville June 18. A two-day Super Tournament,
the
division,s fifth and final event, will be held on Lake Hamilton
in Hot
Springs Sept. 24-25. For more information or to enter a tournament,
call
(270) 252-1000 or visit FLWOutdoors.com.
If the April 9 tournament is not yet full, entries
will be accepted at
tournament registration, which will be held April 8 from 4 to
7 p.m. at the
Wal-Mart located at 109 WP Malone Drive in Arkadelphia. Entry
fees are $200
for boaters and $100 for co-anglers.
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 EverStart Series and ultimately the Wal-Mart
FLW Tour
" bass fishing,s most lucrative tournament series. Former
BFL anglers who
have become fishing superstars on the Wal-Mart FLW Tour include
Kellogg,s
pro Clark Wendlandt, Ranger pro Tommy Biffle and four-time FLW
Tour champion David Fritts.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats,
Forrest L. Wood, FLW
Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League and seven
other
national tournament circuits offering a combined $30 million
in awards
through 214 events in 2005. The 27-year-old organization is the
purveyor of
America,s largest and most prestigious fishing tournaments, including
the
Wal-Mart FLW Tour, EverStart Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League,
Wal-Mart
Texas Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW
Walleye
League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Wal-Mart and many of America,s largest and most
respected companies
support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed
on as title
sponsor of the FLW Tour in 1997 and today is the title sponsor
of all FLW
Outdoors events. For more information on Wal-Mart, visit Wal-Mart.com.
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