Fujifilm's Blaukat Leads Top-10 Anglers in $3.64 Million Ranger M1 Bass Tournament; Co-Angler Tim Hurst Wins $170,000.Sports Editors Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper & Fishing/Outdoors Writers MOBILE, Ala.--(BW SportsWire)--March 1, 2002 Team Fujifilm's Randy Blaukat from Lamar, Mo., will lead the top-10 Ranger M1 pros into Saturday's final round on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta with five bass weighing 14 pounds, 8 ounces. These anglers will start from zero as they cast for up to $1 million in the world's most lucrative fishing tournament. Blaukat, who is qualified to win $700,000, advanced to Friday's semifinal round in fifth place after landing nine bass weighing 19 pounds, 12 ounces in the two-day opening round. The top-20 pros and co-anglers started from zero Friday. "I feel pretty good about the final round, but I'll have to let the day unfold," Blaukat said. "I'm just going to take it one cast at a time and fish just like I was fishing with a friend. I'm just going to relax and not think about the money." Blaukat caught his bass casting a Megabass crankbait in the opening round and flipping a Luck `e Strike Enforcer Series lizard and black/blue Lunker lunk·er n. Informal Something, especially a game fish, that is large for its kind. [Origin unknown.] Lure rattle back jig jig, dance of English origin that is performed also in Ireland and Scotland. It is usually a lively dance, performed by one or more persons, with quick and irregular steps. When the jig was introduced to the United States, it was often danced in minstrel shows. with a black trailer in the semifinal round. He has fished the same area, which he says is packed with underwater cover, each day of competition. Rounding out the top-five pros advancing to the final round are Team Castrol's David Dudley, Manteo, N.C. (four bass, 9 pounds, 11 ounces); Mark Rose, Marion, Ark. (four bass, 8 pounds, 10 ounces); local favorite Jason Kilpatrick, Satsuma Satsuma (säts  `mä), peninsula, Kagoshima prefecture, SW Kyushu, Japan. It gives its name to a famous porcelain, Satsuma ware, which was first manufactured there by Korean artisans in , Ala. (five bass, 8 pounds, 8 ounces); and Dion Hibdon, Stover stoverstalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. , Mo. (three bass, 6 pounds, 10 ounces). While pros were casting for a berth in the final round Friday, co-anglers were shooting for a spot in the record books. Co-angler Tim Hurst, Oxford, Ala., eventually claimed a $170,000 winner's check with four bass weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces, but not before second place co-angler David Millsaps, Woodstock, Ga., wowed the crowd and took a run at the title with a 7-pound, 8-ounce largemouth. Unfortunately for Millsaps, he only had the one bass that turned out to be worth $62,000. Hurst, a regular competitor in the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, advanced to the final day of co-angler competition in fourth place with a two-day, opening-round total of five bass weighing 8 pounds, 5 ounces. His biggest win prior to Friday was in 1996 when he won $2,871 in a BFL BFL Body for Life BFL Bass Fishing League (sponsored By Wal-Mart) BFL Brothers for Life BFL Bharat Forge Ltd. (Pune, India) BFL Back Focal Length tournament on Alabama's Wheeler Lake Wheeler Lake is located in north Alabama between Rogersville and Huntsville. Created by Wheeler Dam along the Tennessee River, it stretches 60 miles (96.5 km) from Wheeler Dam to Guntersville Dam. It is Alabama's second largest lake at 67,100 acres (272 km²). . Ryan Deal, Haubstadt, Ind. (three bass, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, $25,000); Shannon Devere, Berea, Ky. (two bass, 5 pounds, 3 ounces, $14,500); and John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. , Alexander City, Ala., (two bass, 3 pounds, 11 ounces, $10,000) rounded out the top-five co-anglers. The Mobile Convention Center will host Saturday's final weigh-in starting at 2 p.m. For additional information, visit www.FLWOutdoors.com or call 270/362-4880. |
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