Arkansas Angler Takes Opening Day Lead in EverStart Series Bass Event on Lake Sam Rayburn.Sports Editors/Outdoor & Fishing Writers JASPER, Texas--(BW SportsWire)--March 8, 2000 James Stricklin, 28, of Little Rock, Ark., is leading the pro field with an opening day catch of five bass weighing 19 pounds, 15 ounces at the $164,000 EverStart Batteries Series Central Division opener on Lake Sam Rayburn. Stricklin, a former car salesman who is pursuing a professional fishing career, caught the majority of his bass on a Carolina Rig rig see cryptorchid. around grass and sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. stumps in the south end of the lake. His largest bass tipped the scales at 7 pounds, 4 ounces and earned him $500 for big bass in the Pro Division. "I think I'll need another 5 or 6 pounds to make the top 30," says Stricklin about his odds of making his first top 30 cut. "I'm going to fish a few new areas tomorrow and hopefully catch a little limit, then if I make the cut, I'll go back to the area where I caught bigger fish. I think it will be even better in two days." In the Co-Angler Division, Melvin Henslee of Beaumont, Texas Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 113,866. , is leading the field in a bid for the top prize of $6,000 with five bass weighing 19-2. Henslee, who is fishing his first EverStart tournament, also had big bass in the Co-Angler Division, an 8-pound, 7-ounce largemouth worth $300. The lucrative bass competition features 350 of North America's top bass anglers - 175 pros and 175 co-anglers - including Darrel Robertson of Jay, Okla., who made the trip in hopes of winning $10,000 cash and an Evinrude- or Johnson-powered Ranger Ranger Any of a series of unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by NASA. The project was NASA's earliest attempt to explore the Moon's surface. Ranger 4 (1962) became the first U.S. spacecraft to hit the Moon, crash-landing on its surface as planned. bass boat in the Pro Division. Robertson won $600,000 in November at the Ranger M1 Millennium at Cypress Gardens This article is about the Florida theme park. For the South Carolina botanical garden, see Cypress Gardens (South Carolina). Cypress Gardens Adventure Park (formerly Cypress Gardens) is a theme park near Winter Haven, Florida in the United States. , Fla. -- the richest bass tournament in history. He is currently in 41st place with five bass weighing 13-3. Competition begins at 7 a.m. each morning at Twin Dykes Marina Marina “a piece of virtue.” [Br. Lit.: Pericles] See : Virtuousness on Highway 255 two miles east of the Sam Rayburn Dam dam, barrier, commonly across a watercourse, to hold back water, often forming a reservoir or lake; dams are also sometimes used to control or contain rockslides, mudflows, and the like in regions where these are common. . Thursday's and Friday's weigh-in begin at 3 p.m. at the same location. Saturday's final weigh-in will be held at the Wal-Mart Supercenter located at 800 West Gibson in Jasper at 4 p.m. For complete Pro and Co-Angler Division results, visit www.everstartseries.com. |
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