Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - November 2019

Justin Lane (left) and his partner Luke Mason (right) hold- ing up their 2nd place winning fish.

Jake Turnbloom (left) and his partner Jared Turnbloom (right) holding up their 3rd place winning fish.

Completing the top three is another group from the state of Alabama. The University of Alabama pairing of Jared Turn- bloom and Jake Turnbloom finish in third place with 22.69 pounds. “ It’s awesome, can’t complain about it. Should have done better, but it’s a national event. All of these guys are really really really good fishermen, can’t complain about top three, ” Jared explained. The two found one specific pattern that worked, and fished it con- sistently for both days. That consistency paid off to the tune of 11 pounds both days. “ The only place we could get bit was basically grass that grew off riprap walls up and down bridges. We would basi- cally just start and go up and down them all day. Eventually they would bite. You would go down a stretch three or four times and all of a sudden you would get five or six bites on one pass, ” said Jake. This was a great weekend here at Lake Dardanelle and Rus- sellville, AR. Although the weather threw the anglers a cur- veball, a large majority of the field put together several key bites to create an exciting and competitive event. Click here to view the complete standings and be sure to visit the website all week long as we’ll be sharing more re- caps from top finishing teams to include a complete break- down of the winners pattern.

John Owens (left) and his partner Garrett Warren (right) in line anxiously waiting to weigh their fish.

Garrett Warren holding his bass.