GALLATIN, Tenn. (May 5, 2003) - Adam Wagner of Cookeville claimed $3,199 as the winner of the Bass Fishing League Music City Division's third regular-season bass fishing tournament, held on Old Hickory Lake near Gallatin. Wagner led the field of 105 boaters with a five-bass catch weighing 17 pounds, 3 ounces.
Wagner caught his bass Saturday flipping a Green Pumpkin Killer jig in shallow water. Rounding out the top five boaters are Gary Clouse of La Vergne (five bass, 15 pounds, 7 ounces, $1,600); Tim Staley of Dowelltown (five bass, 15 pounds, $1,088); Greg Fender of Odin, Ill. (five bass, 14 pounds, 10 ounces, $832); and Dave Rigsby of Lebanon (four bass, 14 pounds, 7 ounces, $704).
As the highest-finishing participant in the Ranger Cup incentive program, Fender also claimed a $500 bonus from Ranger Boats.
G.W. "Nancy" Kemp of Castalian Springs topped 103 Co-angler Division competitors with a five-bass catch weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces that she caught flipping a Rat-L-Trap in shallow grass. Kemp earned $1,569 for the win.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are John Marshall of Murfreesboro (four bass, 7 pounds, 3 ounces, $784); Chris Hicks of Hendersonville (two bass, 6 pounds, 10 ounces, $533); Gary Reynolds of Lebanon (two bass, 6 pounds, 6 ounces, $408); and Dustin Hadley of Nashville (three bass, 5 pounds, 15 ounces, $345).
Eddie Stover of Nashville earned boater big-bass honors and $525 with a 6-pound, 1-ounce bass, and Alan Piacentine of Powder Springs, Ga., earned co-angler big-bass honors and $258 in his division with a 4-pound, 13-ounce bass.