GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (April 9, 2018) – Boater Drew Boggs of Lebanon, Tennessee, caught a 23-pound, 8-ounce limit of bass Saturday to win the FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) LBL Division event on Kentucky and Barkley lakes. For his efforts, Boggs earned $4,244. Boggs spent the majority of his day working a 50-yard ditch. He said he was able to put together a limit within his first hour of fishing and culled twice as the day went on.
“The ditch was 3 to 12 feet deep and the fish were between 4 and 7 feet,” said Boggs, who earned his sixth career win in BFL competition –third on Kentucky and Barkley lakes. “I ended up weighing four from an umbrella rig and one on a jig.”
Boggs’ umbrella rig had a custom grub on top, a Zoom Swimmin’ Super Fluke Jr. on the bottom and a custom 5½-inch swimbait in the middle. All of the baits were white expect for the swimbait, which was chartreuse. Boggs’ jig was a green-pumpkin-colored V&M Cliff Pace Pacemaker Football Jig with a Strike King Rage Tail Craw of the same color.
The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
1st: Drew Boggs, Lebanon, Tenn., five bass, 23-8, $4,244
2nd: Cole Floyd, Leesburg, Ohio, five bass, 20-13, $2,322
3rd: Dan Morehead, Paducah, Ky., five bass, 20-0, $1,813
4th: Michael Wasden, Paris, Tenn., five bass, 19-12, $990
5th: Bill Schroeder III, Paducah, Ky., four bass, 18-15, $849
6th: Anthony Hagewood, Herndon, Ky., five bass, 17-12, $778
7th: Jim Eakin, Clarksville, Tenn., five bass, 13-8, $707
8th: Cody Bertrand, Dyer, Ind., four bass, 13-6, $637
9th: Cody Santel, Benton, Ky., four bass, 12-12, $566
10th: Ron Shearer, Nicholasville, Ky., three bass, 10-11, $495
Chad Biddle of Shelbyville, Kentucky, brought a 6-pound, 14-ounce bass to the scale – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $600. Ryan Kirkpatrick of Benton, Kentucky, won the Co-angler Division and $2,222 Saturday after bringing four bass weighing 13 pounds, 1 ounce to the scale.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
1st: Ryan Kirkpatrick, Benton, Ky., four bass, 13-1, $2,222
2nd: Thomas White, Iron City, Tenn., two bass, 8-11, $934
2nd: Daniel Pope Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, two bass, 8-11, $884
4th: Ricky Boehringer, Troy, Ohio, two bass, 8-7, $495
5th: Spencer Clark, Maryland Heights, Mo., two bass, 8-5, $424
6th: Wendy Kmucha, Harrisburg, Ill., two bass, 8-1, $389
7th: Dick Brown, Smithland, Ky., three bass, 7-8, $354
8th: Greg James, Carterville, Ill., two bass, 7-2, $318
9th: Brad Williams, Kokomo, Ind., one bass, 6-15, $583
10th: Aaron Gray, Vandalia, Ill., two bass, 6-14, $248
Williams caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division weighing in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $300.