Carnell Leads Field into Semifinal Round of $185,000 EverStart Series Tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir.Sports Editors/Outdoor Writers & Fishing Writers JASPER, Texas--(BW SportsWire)--April 5, 2001 After two days of competition on a swollen Sam Rayburn Reservoir Sam Rayburn Reservoir is a reservoir in the United States located in Southeast Texas, 70 miles (130 km) north of Beaumont. The reservoir is fed by the Angelina River, the major tributary of the Neches River. The capacity of the reservoir is 3,997,600 acre-feet (4. , Jim Carnell stands atop the leaderboard lead·er·board n. A board that displays the leaders in a competition. leaderboard Noun a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament with an opening-round total of 10 bass weighing 33 pounds, 10 ounces. The pro from Muskogee, Okla., will lead 30 of the nation's top professional bass anglers into Friday's semifinal round at the $185,000 EverStart Series tournament on the lake. Carnell caught five bass weighing 17 pounds, 9 ounces Wednesday to finish in second place then turned in five bass weighing 16 pounds, 1 ounce Thursday to finish the opening round on top of the 172-angler Pro Division. Friday the top 30 pros and co-anglers will start from zero and fish for one day to determine the top 10 anglers who will advance to Saturday's final round for a shot at top awards of $15,000 and a Mercury- or Yamaha-powered Ranger boat in the Pro Division and $6,000 in the Co-Angler Division. "The lake is up 9 feet, so the fish keep moving," said Carnell, who caught the majority of his bass by flipping a tubebait and Gene Lerew Hoo-Daddy to wood. "I'm going back and fishing the same area in the south end of the lake to try to catch five more." Pro Bob Sealy of Sam Rayburn, Texas, caught 10 bass weighing 29 pounds, 14 ounces over two days to secure the No. 2 spot in Friday's competition. Rounding out the top five pros were Greg Hackney Hackney, inner borough (1991 pop. 164,200) of Greater London, SE England, on the Lea River. Clothing manufacture (in Hackney) and printing and furniture making (in Shoreditch) are the borough's chief industries. London's first theater was built in Shoreditch (c.1575). of Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, city (1990 pop. 27,310), Anderson and Roane counties, E Tenn., on Black Oak Ridge and the Clinch River; founded by the U.S. government 1942, inc. as an independent city 1959. , La., with 10 bass weighing 28 pounds, 12 ounces; Jim Eakins James Scott Eakins (born May 24 1946, in Sacramento, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'11" center from Brigham Young University, Eakins played eight seasons (1968-1976) in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Oakland of Nixa, Mo., with 10 bass weighing 28 pounds, 11 ounces; and Derek Fulps of Broken Arrow Broken Arrow a series depicting Indian–white man exploits. [TV: Terrace, I, 122] See : Wild West (communications) broken arrow - The error code displayed on line 25 of a IBM 3270 terminal (or a terminal emulator emulating a 3270) for , Okla., with 10 bass weighing 28 pounds, 9 ounces. Fulps also landed the big bass award of $750 in the Pro Division with an 8-pound, 2-ounce largemouth. In the 172-person Co-Angler Division, Anthony Cain of Alexandria, La., claimed the top spot with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 22 pounds, 9 ounces. A total of 889 bass were caught Thursday including 89 five-bass limits. More than 97 percent of the bass were released alive. Competition begins at 7 a.m. each day at the public boat launch near Twin Dikes Marina in Jasper. Friday's weigh-in begins at 3 p.m. at the boat launch, and Saturday's final weigh-in will be held at the Wal-Mart Supercenter located at 800 West Gibson Road in Jasper at 4 p.m. The 4-year-old EverStart Series now includes three divisions--Eastern, Central and Northern--with four events each plus a year-end championship. Tournament winners and the top 50 pros and top 50 co-anglers from each division will earn a spot in the championship, which will be held Nov. 7-10 on Pickwick Lake Pickwick Lake is the reservoir created by Pickwick Landing Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Pickwick Landing Dam to Wilson Dam. in Florence, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. . For complete results, visit www.everstartseries.com. |
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