Wooten Wins Bass Fishing League Tournament on Lake Gaston
BRACEY, Va. (Oct. 1, 2007) - Boater Patrick Wooten of Wake Forest, N.C., won the Bass Fishing League Piedmont Division Super Bass Fishing Tournament on Lake Gaston with a two-day catch of 10 bass weighing 29 pounds, 11 ounces. The victory earned Wooten $5,741 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Potomac River Regional Championship in Marbury, Md., Oct. 11-13, where he could ultimately win a new 519VX Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.
Wooten caught his bass throwing a Senko in and around grass.
Rounding out the top five boaters are Joe Nichols Jr. of Ahoskie, N.C. (10 bass, 29-10, $3,378); Christopher Burns of Durham, N.C. (nine bass, 23-13, $2,255); Rodney Sorrell of Stokesdale, N.C. (10 bass, 22-06, $1,576) and Scott Smith of Apex, N.C. (eight bass, 22-00, $1,351).
Gary Love of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., took home the Boater Division Big Bass award, earning $982 for a 5-pound, 7-ounce bass that he caught on a Senko.
Jamie Denison of Winston Salem, N.C., earned $3,378 as the co-angler winner thanks to seven bass weighing 21 pounds, 14 ounces that he caught while fishing a jig near rocks and grass.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Rodney Stevens of Garner, N.C. (seven bass, 17-03, $1,689); Ben Dacey of Chesterfield, Va. (six bass, 13-08, $1,127); Jim Nichols of Chapel Hill, N.C. (five bass, 12-08, $788) and Orlando Giles of Lexington, N.C. (five bass, 11-14, $676).
Denison earned $491 as the co-angler Big Bass winner after catching a 6-pound bass.
