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BY STEVE VANTREESE A Memphis angler won while a Benton man scored big at the recent Walmart Bass Fishing League Chevy Wild Card tournament on Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. Tennessean Larry Jenkins topped the Boater Division competition with two five-bass limits and 37 pounds, 9 ounces over the two fishing days. Along with a $3,621 pot. Jenkins won one of six boater qualifications into the BFL All-American tournament. One of those new qualifiers for the All-American is Marty Johnson of Benton, whose 10 bass and 33-3 weight was good for fourth place in the wild card meet. Another west Kentuckian, Duane Snyder of Hanson, also positioned himself to compete in the All-American by placing sixth among boaters with 10 bass and 32-6. Danny Mosely of Collinsville, Miss., won in the Co-Angler Division with 10 bass and 27-2 in weight. Top boater Jenkins continued the recent phenomenon of the multi-lure umbrella rig, the Alabama rig version of which the previous week was used by Paducahan Dan Morehead to win the EverStart Series Championship on Kentucky Lake. Jenkins motored from the Kuttawa launch into Kentucky Lake where he cast a five-hook umbrella rig posing a baitfish school look with the five three-inch soft plastic swimbaits on his wire leaders. Jenkins, who had never before fished an umbrella rig before the wild card tournament, caught all his fish on the multi-hook offering. He used a heavyweight flipping stick and 60-pound braided line to throw the bulky umbrella rig, which first came to public attention in a big way when it was used two weeks earlier to win an FLW Tour event on Alabama’s Guntersville Lake.
The Paducah Sun
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