DeGrandcourt Wins Bass Fishing League Tournament on Kerr Lake

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HENDERSON, N.C. (April 8, 2019) – Boater R.J. DeGrandcourt of Clarksville, Virginia, caught five bass Saturday weighing 18 pounds, 7 ounces, to win the Bass Fishing League (BFL) Shenandoah Division tournament on Kerr Lake. For his catch, DeGrandcourt took home $2,585. According to post-tournament reports, DeGrandcourt caught his bass fishing flats on the upper end of the lake with a Bomber Speed Shad crankbait.

The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:

               1st:          R.J. DeGrandcourt, Clarksville, Va., five bass, 18-7, $2,585

               2nd:         Ben Dalton, Keeling, Va., five bass, 16-5, $1,175

               3rd:          Travis Lugar, McGaheysville, Va., five bass, 15-9, $784

               4th:          Jack Dice, Lynchburg, Va., five bass, 15-0, $759

               4th:          Thomas Svec, Chesapeake, Va., five bass, 15-0, $509

               6th:          Curtis Talbott, Forest, Va., five bass, 14-15, $631

               7th:          Michael Delvisco, Dandridge, Tenn., five bass, 14-1, $392

               8th:          Derik Hudson, Concord, Va., five bass, 13-11, $752

               9th:          Rick Hawkins, Roanoke, Va., five bass, 13-10, $313

               10th:        Craig Wright, Rustburg, Va., four bass, 13-1, $150

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DeGrandcourt also caught a 6-pound, 9-ounce bass – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $235. Kyle Richardt of Raleigh, North Carolina, won the Co-angler Division and $1,175 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 12 pounds, 7 ounces.

The top 10 co-anglers were:

               1st:          Kyle Richardt, Raleigh, N.C., five bass, 12-7, $1,175

               2nd:         Trey Grow, Mechanicsville, Va., five bass, 11-6, $587

               3rd:          Louis Britos, Disputanta, Va., five bass, 10-10, $393

               4th:          Jamie Newton, Falls Church, Va., four bass, 10-9, $254

               4th:          Timothy Kinder, Manassas, Va., five bass, 10-9, $354

               6th:          Brandt Thompson , Richmond, Va., five bass, 10-7, $215

               7th:          Gregory Chuhta, Germantown, Md., five bass, 10-5, $196

               8th:          Danny Crickenberger, Charlottesville, Va., four bass, 10-0, $293

               9th:          Billy Brown, Dahlgren, Va., five bass, 9-13, $157

               10th:        Al Berkley, Madison Heights, Va., five bass, 9-12, $50

Crickenberger caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 4 pounds, 12 ounces. The catch earned him the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $117.