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 Wal-Mart Bass
Fishing League
Okie
Division
March 2005
Grand Lake
RAMSEY WINS WAL-MART BASS FISHING
LEAGUE EVENT ON GRAND LAKE
GROVE, Okla. (March 7, 2005) Boater Wade
Ramsey of Midwest City earned
$4,143 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League
Okie Division
event on Grand Lake. The tournament was the first of five regular-season
Okie Division events and featured 133 boaters vying for the win,
which
earned Ramsey 200 points in the Boater Division. Ramsey also
won the Ranger
Cup Award worth $1,000.
Ramsey,s winning catch of four bass weighed 17
pounds, 13 ounces. He fished
the mid-lake area with a crankbait on windy points.
Finishing second was Keith Conley of Ponca City
with five bass weighing 17
pounds, 7 ounces that earned him $2,072. Jason Christie of Park
Hill claimed
$1,356 as the third-place finisher thanks to five bass weighing
15 pounds, 2
ounces. In fourth was James Carper of Wright City with five bass
weighing 14
pounds, 6 ounces worth $1,055, and finishing fifth and earning
$866 was
Craig Torkleson of Mannford, with four bass weighing 13 pounds,
7 ounces.
Conley also took Boater Division big-bass award honors, earning
$665 for a
6-pound, 10-ounce bass. He caught his big bass on a spinnerbait
around
main-lake rocks.
Kansans weighing in on Boater side
13 James Sprague ~ Kansas City, KS ~ 5 ~ 10-10
47 Steve Potter ~ Conway Springs, KS ~ 2 ~ 4-01
52 Corky Serrault ~ Manhattan, KS ~ 1 ~ 3-10
Ryan Wilbanks of Wagoner won the Co-angler Division
to earn $2,072, thanks
to four bass weighing 10 pounds, 7 ounces that he caught on a
spinnerbait
fished around shallow wood.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are David
Lenard of Owasso (three bass,
8 pounds, 3 ounces, $1,036); Tim Hickson of Cleveland (two bass,
6 pounds,
15 ounces, $677); John Delago of Wichita Falls, Texas (one bass,
6 pounds,
14 ounces, $527); and James Victory of Coweta (three bass, 5
pounds, 15
ounces, $433).
Kansans weighing in on Co-Angler side
21 Jason Thompson ~ Galena, KS ~ 1 ~ 3-10
Delago also earned $333 as the co-angler big-bass
award winner with a
6-pound, 14-ounce bass he caught on a Long A Bomber on a rocky
point in 8-10
feet of water.
The Okie Division,s next event will be held April
9 on Eufaula Lake near
Eufaula, followed by an event on Ft. Gibson Lake near Sequoyah
May 7. The
fourth qualifying event will be held at Grand Lake near Monkey
Island June
4. The Okie Division will wrap up its regular season Sept. 17-18
with a
two-day Super Tournament on Grand Lake near Grove.
Following the regular season, the Okie 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 Okie Division boaters
and
co-anglers based on year-end points standings will advance to
the Lake
Ouachita Regional near Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 18-22 where they
will compete
against Cowboy, Louisiana, and Ozark 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.
The $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League features
28 divisions
nationwide. In BFL competition, boaters and co-anglers are randomly
paired,
with boaters supplying the boat and fishing against other boaters
and
co-anglers fishing from the back deck against other co-anglers.
For more
information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or
visit
FLWOutdoors.com.
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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