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1st place boater Larry Sisk
BLOOMINGTON,
IND. (Sept. 25, 2006) - Boater Larry Sisk of Evansville, Ind.,
earned 300 points and $5,329 Sunday as the winner of the Wal-Mart
Bass Fishing League Hoosier Division Super Tournament on Lake
Monroe.
Sisk's
two-day winning catch of eight bass weighed 14 pounds, 10 ounces.
Sisk caught his fish on a War Eagle Spinnerbait in the Paynetown
area in water ranging from one to five feet deep.
Rounding
out the top five boaters are Don Spillane Jr., of Liberty
Township, Ohio (five bass, 12 pounds, 3 ounces, $2,664); Ryan Deal
of Haubstadt, Ind. (four bass, 12 pounds, 3 ounces, $1,777);
Kenneth Bortlein of West Harrison, Ind. (four bass, 11 pounds, 7
ounces, $1,243) and Tom Forrester of Bloomington, Ind. (four bass,
10 pounds, 14 ounces, $1,066).
Deal
also took home $500 for being the highest placing Ranger Cup
participant.
Tim
Barkley of
Indianapolis
won the Boater Division Snickers Big Bass award with a 5-pound,
12-ounce bass that earned him $682.
1st place co-angler Rick
Hoskins
Rick
Hoskins of
Linden
,
Ind.
, earned $2,664 as the co-angler winner thanks to three bass
weighing 9 pounds, 13 ounces that he caught on a spinnerbait made
by Abbott's Outdoors.
Rounding
out the top five co-anglers are Danny Robinson of Fairland, Ind.
(three bass, 9 pounds, 7 ounces, $1,332); George osha of Steger,
Ill. (four bass, 8 pounds, 8 ounces, $889); Elvin Shinolt of
Columbus, Ind. (three bass, 7 pounds, 15 ounces, $622); and Rob
Campbell of Martinsville, Ind. (two bass, 7 pounds, 8 ounces,
$533).
Nick
Cummins of
Lawrenceburg
,
Ind.
, earned $341 as the co-angler Snickers Big Bass winner with a
7-pound, 7-ounce bass.
The
top 40 Hoosier Division boaters and co-anglers based on year-end
points standings will now advance to the no-entry-fee Kentucky
Lake Regional Championship near Gilbertsville, Ky., Oct. 19-21,
where they will compete against Bama, Buckeye and Mountain
Division anglers for a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck in the
Boater Division plus six slots in the no-entry-fee 2007 Wal-Mart
BFL All-American presented by Chevy. With a total purse of $1
million and a potential $140,000 cash going to the winning boater
and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American is
one of the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
The
Boater Division points champion who advances the farthest at the
All-American will earn $10,000 as the Yamaha "Be the
Best" points champion. The co-angler points champion who
advances the farthest will earn $5,000 as the Yamaha "Be the
Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
For
complete Hoosier Division standings, visit FLWOutdoors.com.
The
$8.8 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League features 28 divisions
nationwide. In BFL competition, boaters and co-anglers are
randomly paired, with boaters supplying the boat and fishing
against other boaters and co-anglers fishing from the back deck
against other co-anglers.
Named
after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW
Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Series,
Stren Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas
Tournament Trail presented by Abu Garcia, Stratos Owners'
Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye
League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Series,
Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series and Wal-Mart FLW Striper Series. These
circuits offer combined purses exceeding $37.9 million through 249
events in 2006.
For
more information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or
visit FLWOutdoors.com.
Wal-Mart
and many of
America
's largest and most-respected companies support FLW Outdoors and
its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed on as an FLW Outdoors
sponsor in 1997 and today is the world's leading supporter of
tournament fishing. For more information about Wal-Mart, visit
Wal-Mart.com.
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