Oregon, Washington, Arizona, California, Idaho Anglers Take Top Five Slots in BASSMASTER Western Invitational Tournament.KENNEWICK, Wash.--(BW SportsWire)--Oct. 3, 1998-- -0- Pl Name Hometown, State Bass/Dead Lbs-Ozs Winnings 1. Levell Sneed Portland, Ore. 15/0 40-13 $30,750. 2. Gene Batey Jr. Pasco, Wash. 15/0 37-06 $25,000. 3. John Murray, Phoenix, Ariz. 14/0 33-08 $25,000. 4. Aaron Martens, Castaic, Calif. 15/0 31-03 $6,584. 5. Jason Blauvelt, Meridian, Idaho 15/0 30-14 $5,121. 6. Sean Minderman, Post Falls, Idaho 15/0 27-00 $4,023. 7. Chad West, Santa Maria, Calif. 13/0 26-03 $3,658. 8. Wayne Hinrichs, Novato, Calif. 10/1 26-01 $3,292. 9. Mike Folkestad, Yorba Linda, Calif. 10/1 24-03 $2,926. 10. Mitch Ratchford, Kennewick, Wash. 13/0 23-04 $2,707. -0- Levell Sneed, a 36-year-old pipe insulator insulator Substance that blocks or retards the flow of electric current or heat. An insulator is a poor conductor because it has a high resistance to such flow. Electrical insulators are commonly used to hold conductors in place, separating them from one another and from from Portland, Ore. used pure finesse to catch three limits of Columbia River Columbia River River, southwestern Canada and northwestern U.S. Rising in the Canadian Rockies, it flows through Washington state, entering the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Ore.; it has a total length of 1,240 mi (2,000 km). bass for a 40-pound, 13-ounce winning total at the Washington BASSMASTER Western invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. . Fishing a windswept wind·swept adj. Exposed to or swept by winds: windswept moors. windswept Adjective 1. flat where the mouth of the Yakima River Yakima River River, south-central Washington, U.S. Rising in the Cascade Range, it flows southeast for about 200 mi (320 km) to join the Columbia River near Kennewick. The Yakima and its tributaries irrigate about 460,000 acres (190,000 hectares) in the river valley. dumps into the Columbia, Sneed gently worked a splitshotted four-inch, green pumpkin Zoom lizard and a four-inch Zoom curl-tail worm in six to eight feet of water for the bulk of his catch of mostly smallmouth bass. Sneed, who fished shallower than most, also scaled down to 8-pound test Stren MagnaThin line and a standard, round 1/4-ounce splitshot. His delicate approach around the sparse clumps of weeds paid off during Saturday's final round with an 18-pound limit of smallmouth that outpaced day two leader, Gene Batey, Jr. of Pasco, Wash. by nearly 3 1/2 pounds. Although Batey had a solid 14-pound, 5-ounce limit by 9 o'clock on the final day, it was not enough to hold off Sneed's charge. Batey used 8-pound Berkley Trilene line rigged with a 1/2-ounce Mojo Carolina rig in order to make the proper presentations with either a Jerry's four-inch ring worm (white sand) or a green pumpkin/chartreuse tail lizard. He targeted the up-current end of slightly submerged main-river islands that narrowed as they sloped into deeper water. The key areas were in eight feet of water where clumps of grass offered small holding areas for feeding bass. Many of the other anglers struggled to catch fish in deeper water. The event will be covered in the November issue of B.A.S.S. TIMES and the December issue of BASSMASTER magazine. Next Up On the $6 Million BASSMASTER Tournament Trail: Kmart BASSMASTER Louisiana Top 150 pro am on the Mississippi Delta This article is about the geographic region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. For other uses, see Mississippi Delta (disambiguation). The Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo out of New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded Oct. 14-17, and the Kmart BASSMASTER Alabama Top 150 on Lake Logan Martin near Birmingham, Oct. 21-24. The next BASSMASTER Western Invitational Circuit is scheduled for California's Lake Shasta Nov. 19-21; Arizona's Lake Powell Noun 1. Lake Powell - the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River Mar. 18-20 and California's SanJoaquin River/Delta waterways March 18-20. B.A.S.S. Web site: http://www.bassmaster.com Releases available by e-mail: send name, company name, phone number and e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address to: annlewis@mindspring com. |
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