TAVARES, Fla. (March 20, 2006) - Boater David Givens of Hernando, Fla., earned $3,426 Saturday as winner of the Bass Fishing League Seminole Division bass fishing tournament on the Harris Chain of Lakes. The tournament was the second of five regular-season Seminole Division events and earned Givens 200 points in the Boater Division.
Givens' winning catch of five bass weighed 21 pounds, 10 ounces. He was throwing a watermelon plastic worm in Lake Griffon to catch his bass. He earned an additional $1,000 as winner of the Ranger Cup award.
Rounding out the top five boaters are Randy Hadden of Jacksonville, Fla. (five bass, 21 pounds, 7 ounces, $1,713); Trevor Fitzgerald of Ocala, Fla. (five bass, 20 pounds, 5 ounces, $1,141); Eric Lewis of Fruit Cove, Fla. (five bass, 19 pounds, 13 ounces, $799) and John Kremer of Sanford, Fla. (five bass, 17 pounds, 13 ounces, $685).
Hadden took Boater Division big-bass award honors, earning $430 for a 10-pound, 3-ounce bass he caught on a Bass Assassin Paddle Tail shad. Dennis Badzinski of Kissimmee, Fla., earned $1,561 as the co-angler winner, thanks to five bass weighing 14 pounds, 15 ounces that he caught on a Chatterbait and a Zoom worm.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Stephen McKinnie of Umatilla, Fla. (five bass, 14 pounds, 9 ounces, $781); Cedric Perry of Tallahassee, Fla., (three bass, 13 pounds, 3 ounces, $521) Brad Bedgood of Ocala (three bass, 10 pounds, 6 ounces, $364) and Steven Brown of Altamonte Springs, Fla. (five bass, 10 pounds, 4 ounces, $312).
Perry earned $187 as the co-angler big-bass award winner, thanks to a 10-pound, 3-ounce bass he caught on a watermelon red Senko.
Seminole Division anglers will next visit the Apalachicola River in Wewahitchka, Fla., April 8 for their third regular-season event, followed by an event on Lake Seminole in Snead, Fla., April 29. A two-day Super Tournament, the division's fifth and final event, will be held on the St. Johns River in Palatka, Fla., Sept. 23-24.