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BURTON
WINS
WAL-MART BASS FISHING LEAGUE SUPER TOURNAMENT ON
LAKE
OKEECHOBEE
CLEWISTON,
Fla.
(
Oct. 3, 2005
) – Boater Rick Burton of
Wellington
earned $5,839 Saturday as
winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Everglades Division Super
Tournament event on
Lake Okeechobee
. The tournament earned
Burton
300 points in the Boater
Division.
Burton
’s winning catch of 10 bass
weighed 34 pounds, 7 ounces.
Burton
flipped grass mats in the
Belle Glade
area with a black
and
blue silver-flake craw to
catch his bass. The win was
Burton
’s second on
Lake Okeechobee
for the year, making him the
points leader in the Everglades Division for the 2005 season.
Rounding
out the top-five pros are Jimmy McMillan of Belle Glade (10 bass, 33 pounds,
14 ounces, $2,850); Mark Lamb of West Palm Beach (10 bass, 33 pounds, 7
ounces, $1,390); Jim Medlin of West Palm Beach (10 bass, 31 pounds, 3 ounces,
$1,251);
and
Daryl Deka of
Wellington
(10 bass, 30 pounds, 6
ounces, $1,112).
Lamb
earned $1,100 as winner of the big-bass award in the Boater Division, thanks
to an 8-pound, 9-ounce bass. He earned an additional $500 as winner of the
Ranger Cup award.
James
Trudel of Lighthouse Point earned $2,920 as the
co-angler
winner, thanks to 10 bass weighing 28 pounds, 10 ounces that
he caught on Rat-L-Traps
and
Yamamoto Senkos.
Rounding
out the top five
co-angler
s are Michael Cass of Lake
Worth (10 bass, 25 pounds, 7 ounces, $1,425); Greg Sorrell of Estero (10 bass,
23 pounds, 13 ounces, $695); Brian Peterson of Jupiter (10 bass, 22 pounds, 1
ounce, $626);
and
Wyatt Boyd of Winter Haven
(10 bass, 22 pounds, 1 ounce, $556).
David
Stout of Okeechobee earned $550 as the co-angler big-bass award winner with a
7-pound, 1-ounce bass.
Following
the regular season, the Everglades 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.
The
top 40 Everglades Division boaters
and
co-angler
s based on year-end points st
and
ings will advance to the Lake
Martin Regional near Alex
and
er City, Ala., Oct. 18-22
where they will compete against Gator, Mississippi
and
Savannah River 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-angler
s are randomly paired, with
boaters supplying the boat and fishing against other boaters and
co-angler
s fishing from the back deck
against other
co-angler
s. 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.
Editor’s
Note: Complete results and angler profiles are available in the
Media
Center
located
at the top of FLWOutdoors.com. Ranger Cup award winners are pending
verification by Ranger Boats and thus are unofficial at this time.
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