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Dan Milligan (Bremen) and Kris Shipley (Syracuse) won ($240)in the Hoosier Pro event on Dewart Lake last weekend with 14.34 pounds.
The winners also won the big bass pot ($60) with a 4.36-pound largemouth. Second place ($166) went to Jim Harness (Lucerne, Ind.) and Dave Lautt (Leiters Ford, Ind.) with 9.66 pounds while Mike and Kyle Sass (Winamac) were third ($96) with four fish weighing 8.45 pounds.
The next event will be Sept. 7 at Lake Maxinkuckee. For more information, call Mitch Hayes, 219-716-4808.
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DETROIT, Mich. After leading the first day, then falling into Mark Davis wake on the second and third days, Chris Lane kicked it into high gear Sunday to win the Bassmaster Elite Series Plano Championship Chase.
Through the win, Lane, the 2012 Bassmaster Classic champ, got his 2014 Bassmaster Classic ticket punched what he came into the Chase to achieve. From Guntersville, Ala., he was set on qualifying for the 2014 world championship on his home water of Lake Guntersville.
The win was also his first in the Bassmaster Elite Series and a $100,000 payday.
Lane landed the Chase title by weighing 82 pounds 4 ounces of smallmouth bass in four days of competition. His margin of victory was 5-7 over Davis of Mount Ida, Ark.
Davis, the 1995 Classic winner who also owns three Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year trophies, led on Days 2 and 3. On Day 4, one bass shy of a five-fish limit, Davis weight was 13-3. He finished at 76-13 in the runner-up spot.
The Classic champ of 2008, Alton Jones of Lorena, Texas, jumped from 12th place to take third with 76-6. Jones weighed the days largest bag of 22-3.
Ending in fourth place was the 2004 Classic winner, Takahiro Omori of Emory, Texas, with 76-0, including the days biggest of 5-11. Rounding out the Top 5 at 75-11 was Michigan native Nate Wellman of Newaygo.
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DETROIT, Mich. Mark Davis came to Michigan for the Aug. 22-25 Bassmaster Elite Series Plano Championship Chase ready to risk all to bag his 17th Bassmaster Classic qualification.
Saturday, leading the Chase for the second consecutive day, the 1995 Classic champ from Mount Ida, Ark., put himself in position to do just that. His risk was a round-trip daily run of 180 miles that left him soaking wet, hat to shoes, and shaken like a James Bond martini.
It was definitely the Classic berth that drove me to do it, Davis said.
The risk he took to get to Erie and back without a time penalty or mishap paid off. Davis weighed 20 pounds, 15 ounces Saturday to retain the Chase lead with a three-day total of 63-10.
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DETROIT, Mich. Mullygrubs?
Yup. Mark Davis said he had them on Thursday, the first day of the Bassmaster Elite Series Plano Championship Chase out of Detroit, Mich. He said he caught the mullygrubs after not boating two big smallmouth bass he hooked. He settled for second place.
He shook off those mullygrubs Friday. Not hard to do after spending a great day on the water, weighing 20 pounds, 10 ounces of smallmouth bass and taking the Chase lead with a two-day tally of 42 pounds, 11 ounces.Mullygrubs, the pro from Mount Ida, Ark., explained, is an old Arkansas term that means something that falls between the grumps and the blues, and maybe is tangled with regrets over missed chances.
No mullygrubs today, everything was good. Everything went pretty well. I caught a limit pretty quick. I did lose one huge fish, but you arent going to catch all these big smallmouth, said Davis, the 1995 Classic winner who also took the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year title that same season. He went on to claim another AOY crown in 1998 and a third in 2001.
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DETROIT, Mich. Make no mistake, Chris Lane is driven.
The 2012 Bassmaster Classic champ wants to qualify for the 2014 Classic because its on his adopted home water, Alabamas Lake Guntersville. Winning the Aug. 22-25 Plano Championship Chase and the Classic berth that comes with the event title is his best chance to get on the list for Guntersville.
The Florida native, who now lives in Guntersville, Ala., made the most of that chance by landing the first-day lead in the Chase on Thursday. His weight of 22 pounds, 9 ounces led Mark Davis of Mount Ida, Ark., by 8 ounces. Davis took second place with 22-1.
In third place with 21-14 was Aaron Martens of Leeds, Ala. In the No. 4 spot with 21-2 was Michael Simonton of Fremont, Ohio. Fifth place was a tie at 20-7 between Kotaro Kiriyama of Moody, Ala., and Brandon Palaniuk of Rathdrum, Idaho.
Kalamazoo anglers Jonathon VanDam and Kevin VanDam had a tough first day in the tournament with JVD finishing the day at number 47 and KVD coming in at the 49th spot. Both hope to do much better in the second day of competition and with the knowledge they have of this fishery, neither can be counted out of the race yet
The competition is north of Detroit, Mich., on Lake St. Clair, the fishery thats No. 1 on Bassmaster Magazines 2013 list of 100 Best Bass Lakes. Adjoining rivers and Great Lakes are also fair playing grounds.