POTTSBORO, Texas. (April 24, 2006) - Boater Shonn Goodwin of Moore, Okla., earned $4,428 Saturday as winner of the Bass Fishing League Okie Division bass fishing tournament on Lake Texoma. The tournament was the second of five regular-season Okie Division events and featured 127 boaters vying for the win, which earned Goodwin 200 points in the Boater Division.
Goodwin's winning catch of five bass weighed 15 pounds, 4 ounces. He was throwing a black Red River Buzz Bait in 1 foot of water to catch them.
Rounding out the top five boaters are Al Fisher of Hackett, Ark. (five bass, 12 pounds, 3 ounces, $2,214); Marc Downs of Midwest City, Okla. (five bass, 12 pounds, 2 ounces, $1,478); Chris McCall of Jasper, Texas (five bass, 11 pounds, 12 ounces, $1,033) and Jason Reyes of Humble, Texas (five bass, 11 pounds, 2 ounces, $886).
Rodney Lowe of Tulsa, Okla., took Boater Division big-bass award honors, earning $317 for a 4-pound, 13-ounce bass.
Fisher also took home an additional $500 for being the highest placing Ranger Cup participant.
Clint Barnes of Sperry, Okla., won the co-angler division to earn $2,214 thanks to four bass weighing 9 pounds, 8 ounces that he caught while throwing a Texas-rigged white Senko around creek channel drops in 8 feet of water.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Jim Hargrave of Cushing, Okla. (four bass, 8 pounds, 9 ounces, $1,107); Mark Troyer of Edmund, Okla., (five bass, 8pounds, 8 ounces, $738); John Stottlemyre of Edmund, Okla. (three bass, 8 pounds, 7 ounces, $517); Lynn Dollar of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mike Hesson of Fort Smith, Ark. (four bass, 8 pounds, 1 ounce, $424).
Butch Baker of Tulsa, Okla., earned $317 as the co-angler big-bass award winner with a bass weighing 4-pounds and 6-ounces.
The Okie Division's next event will be held May 13 on Lake Eufaula near Eufaula, Okla., followed by an event on the Arkansas River near Muskogee, Okla., June 17. The Okie Division will wrap up its regular season Sept. 9-10 with a two-day Super Tournament on Grand Lake near Grove, Okla.