D&R Sports Center Report
Neil Vande Biezen and Luke Gritter captured the D&R Sports Center season finale at White Lake in late August.
Vande Biezen and Gritter had a whopping 23.37 pounds that included a 5.62-pound bass that also won them big bass prize of the tournament.
Details on how the fish were caught were not made available.
Brian Burmania and Don Watts were second with 18.66 pounds anchored by a 4.67 pounder.
John Gipson and Evan De La Rosa finished a close third with 18.17 pounds.
Fourth place went to David Hoeker and Kyle Borst who had 17.53 pounds, anchored by a 5.16 pounder, the second biggest bass of the tournament.
Cole Zagrzebski and Branden Burrill were fifth with 16.51 pounds.
AOY Champs
In addition to the tournament, Randy VanDam and Myles Hanley clinched the season Angler of Year title.
They did it without utilizing forward facing sonar, grabbing a first, second, sixth 10th and 15th places in D&R Sports Events.
“We had a pretty good year,” said VanDam. “We caught fish at every event, and just scrapped out what we could get when it was tough. We primarily fished shallow stuff all year doing the ‘VanDam Power Fishing’ tactics. It still works, I guess.”