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Fishing News Latest Fishing News Kyle Rowe and Vince Neal win North-East Region Bass Champs Championship on Falcon Lake 
| Kyle Rowe and Vince Neal win North-East Region Bass Champs Championship on Falcon Lake |
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| Written by Bass Champs | |
| Wednesday, 24 October 2007 | |
 Vincent Neal and Kyle Rowe win the first ever Team Championship at Falcon Lake and take home $30,000. Photo by Bass Champs. Lake Falcon was chosen as a “neutral” lake for these regions. Every team who had fished all five events in their region qualified to fish this championship. One hundred eighty four teams participated, weighing in more than 4,000 pounds of bass. The anglers were faced with rising lake conditions, frontal systems, and high winds during both days of competition. After day one, the anglers of the year from the North Region, Shonn Blassingame and Shane Elmore were leading with 27.22 pounds, but the team was unable to repeat their day one efforts. When the scales finally closed Sunday afternoon, Neal and Rowe took home the first place check with a two-day total of 57.08 pounds. “It’s been an awesome weekend,” Neal said. “We came up to check out the lake the week before the off-limits and found some fish. We stumbled onto one spot that had a big mess of big fish. When we went back for them during the tournament, we couldn’t find them. Finally, at about 10 or 11 a.m., we did. They were 10-12 feet deep, with a line of brush that tapered out to about 15 feet.” The team was using 8-inch Texas-rigged Lake Fork Tackle worms. “The color didn’t really matter,” Neal said. “As long as you put the bait near the bass, they would go after it. They were holding in the brush, but the key was the 10- to 12-foot water level. Any deeper we couldn’t work them out of the brush.” The first day they brought in about 26 pounds with a 6-pound kicker. The final day, they brought in more than 28 pounds. The second-place team, Willie Bensley and Michael Hulsey, weighed in 50.94 pounds. “It was tough,” Bensley said. “The wind was howling for two days, and our fish were out on a main lake point with 3-foot swells.” The team fished the mid-lake area with one-ounce white spinnerbaits with nickel blades. “We’d throw it out there and let it go to the bottom, about 14- to 15-feet deep and slow roll it back to the boat,” Bensley said. Tommy Climer, Jr. and J.D. Laughery climbed their way from nearly 30th place on day one to win third place with 49.30 pounds. The biggest bass of the tournament was a 10.66-pound sow caught by Jeff Scifres of the East Region. “I caught her on my second cast on the first day,” he said.” Scifres was throwing a white Ľ-ounce spinnerbait between the bushes in about seven feet of water. Top 5 teams Vincent Neal & Kyle Rowe 57.08 lbs East Region $30,000 Willie Bensley & Michael Hulsey 50.94 lbs North Region $15,000 J.D. Laughery & Tommy Climer, Jr. 49.30 lbs North Region $10,000 Rick Scott & Roy Ellison 48.62 lbs East Region $ 5,000 Charles Bebber & Keith Caka 48.26 lbs East Region $ 4,000 |
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