Chapman Takes Pro Lead in $550,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Event.Sports Editors, Outdoor/Fishing Writers GALLATIN, Tenn.--(BW SportsWire)--May 16, 2002 Team Yamaha pro Brent Chapman of Shawnee, Kan., took the No. 1 spot heading into the Wal-Mart FLW FLW Frank Lloyd Wright FLW Forrest L Wood (fishing tournament) FLW Fort Leonard Wood (US Army) FLW Famous Last Words FLW Four Letter Word FLW Final Weight Tour's semifinal round on Old Hickory Lake Old Hickory Lake is a man-made lake in north central Tennessee. It is formed by the Old Hickory Lock and Dam, located on the Cumberland River at mile 216.2 in Sumner and Davidson Counties, approximately 25 miles (40 km) with a five-bass, 16-pound, 4-ounce catch that boosted his two-day, opening-round total to 10 bass weighing 30 pounds, 3 ounces Thursday. In opening-round action Wednesday, Chapman landed five bass weighing 13 pounds, 15 ounces to secure ninth place on a day when Rob Kilby of Hot Springs, Ark., caught the heaviest one-day stringer string·er n. 1. One that strings: a stringer of beads. 2. Architecture a. A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector. b. A stringboard. of the year -- five bass weighing 23 pounds, 1 ounce. In fact, opening day on Old Hickory Hickory, city, United States Hickory, city (1990 pop. 28,301), Burke and Catawba counties, W N.C., at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts.; inc. 1870. It is a processing and trade center for an abundant agricultural region (grain, soybeans, poultry, hogs, was good for most of the pro field. It produced 470 fish weighing 1,039 pounds, 14 ounces in the Pro Division, making it the third most productive day of the year. Only days one and two on Florida's fabled Lake Okeechobee Noun 1. Lake Okeechobee - a lake in southeast Florida to the north of the Everglades Okeechobee Everglade State, FL, Florida, Sunshine State - a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states topped it. Day two of the $550,000 Old Hickory tournament presented by Snickers
Snickers is a sweet bar made by Mars, Incorporated. was nearly as good for the pros as 450 bass weighing 1,010 pounds, 9 ounces were brought to the scale. It was an unfortunately day, however, for local pros David Womack of Gallatin, Tenn., and Yamaha's Rusty Rust of Hermitage Hermitage, museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Hermitage (ĕr'mētäzh`), museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art. It was reconstructed in the neoclassical style in the 19th cent. , Tenn. After finishing second and third respectively Wednesday, Womack and Rust fell to 26th and 25th place respectively. Womack zeroed Thursday and finished with five bass weighing 18 pounds, 15 ounces. Rust managed just two small keepers that boosted is two-day total to seven bass weighing 19 pounds, 1 ounce. Kilby slipped to No. 10 Thursday after spending a leisurely day on the water scouting for new areas and backup patterns. Frank Ippoliti of Mount Airy Mount Airy is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Weights are cleared for the top 20 pros and co-angler advancing to Friday's semifinal round. Only the top 10 pros will advance to Saturday's final round where weights are cleared and anglers fish for a $110,000 cash first-place award. Co-angler competition ends Friday with the winner earning $15,000 cash. Co-angler Danny Strand of Champaign, Ill., is the No. 1 seed heading into the final day of co-angler competition with a two-day total of six bass weighing 17 pounds, 11 ounces. Jason Abram of Bluff City, Tenn., qualified second with seven bass weighing 16 pounds, 3 ounces, and Katsutoshi Furusawa of Tokyo advanced in third with five bass weighing 15 pounds, 9 ounces. Friday's weigh-in begins at 5 p.m. at the Gallatin Wal-Mart. For complete results, visit www.FLWOutdoors.com. |
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