1000 Islands Bass Fishing League 6 Sept 14

[Mike Cork]

BUCK WINS WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE NORTHEAST DIVISION EVENT AT 1000 ISLANDS

Carnahan wins co-angler title

CLAYTON, N.Y. (Sept. 8, 2014) – Grae Buck of Perkiomenville, Pa., weighed a two-day total of 10 bass totaling 50 pounds, 10 ounces to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Northeast Division super tournament at 1000 Islands Sunday. For his victory, Buck earned $6,349.

"It was pretty crazy," said Buck, who previously fished the FLW College Fishing circuit for Penn State University. "I couldn't believe the size of the fish I was catching, it was amazing.

"I was up there about three weeks ago with some friends and we were just out looking around on Lake Ontario," Buck explained. "We found a spot on a point that was just loaded with big fish. I practiced on Friday and went there and caught two that were about 5 pounds and then left the area. I spent the rest of the day just looking around for something similar, and I found one spot on the way back into the St. Lawrence Seaway that had a bunch of 3-pounders on it.

"I caught all my fish on Saturday on the spot that I had found three weeks ago, but they weren't there on Sunday," said Buck. "I pulled up on my other spot and my co-angler and I caught eight big ones between us in about a half an hour.

"I think I weighed in just one bass that weighed less than 5 pounds over two days. It was just incredible."

Buck said he was running about 30 miles to his primary spot, and that he caught all of his fish drop-shotting a Jackall Crosstail Shad and a Lake Fork Hyper Finesse Worm.

Rounding out the top 10 pros were:

                2nd:          Joseph Fonzi, Gasport, N.Y., 10 bass, 41-3, $3,175
                3rd:          Chris Blanc, Cos Cob, Conn., 10 bass, 39-8, $2,117 + $300 Evinrude Bonus
                4th:           Kenny Garippa, Tobyhanna, Pa., 10 bass, 39-6, $1,481
                5th:           Richard McCrory, North Hero, Vt., 10 bass, 39-5, $1,270
                6th:           Tom Tarasoff, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 10 bass, 38-8, $1,164
                7th:           Michael Durbak, Woodbourne, N.Y., 10 bass, 38-4, $1,058
                8th:           Frank Guarascio, Marcy, N.Y., 10 bass, 37-7, $952
                9th:           Joe Zombek II, Scranton, Pa., 10 bass, 37-4, $847
                10th:        Michael Drumsta, Clarks Summit, Pa., 10 bass, 36-11, $741
               
Complete results can be found at FLWOutdoors.com.

Dennis Carnahan of Cazenovia, N.Y., weighed in a two-day total of 10 bass totaling 37 pounds, 14 ounces to win $3,175 in the co-angler division Sunday.

Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers were:

                2nd:          Richard Levesque, Swanton, Vt., 10 bass, 36-13, $1,587
                3rd:          David Ehrentraut, Locke, N.Y., 10 bass, 35-4, $1,059
                4th:           James Weible, Jonestown, Pa., 10 bass, 34-12, $741
                5th:           Chad Dorney, Macungie, Pa., 10 bass, 34-6, $635
                6th:           Kyle Gabriele, Baltimore, Md., 10 bass, 34-0, $582
                7th:           Cody Cutter, Harveys Lake, Pa., 10 bass, 33-3, $529
                8th:           Tom Cole, Mechanicsville, Md., 10 bass, 32-8, $476
                9th:           Wyatt Morris, Little Falls, N.Y., 10 bass, 31-0, $423
                10th:        Eric Ashley, Little Falls, N.Y., 10 bass, 30-15, $370

The top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 2-4 Regional Championship on the James River in Richmond, Va. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a Chevy Silverado, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.

The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 40 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and compete to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the Rayovac FLW Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.

[Dark3]

Yea as always, T.I. is getting credit for an Ontario fishery. Same thing happened last year with BASS at waddington. Palanick was making runs of 70 miles one way per day OUT of what we know as thousand islands and he was smart to do it. I believed he earned the win fishing  henderson harbor and chamount bay

[Mike Cork]

Lots of fisheries like this now, the only thing limiting you to where you have to fish is your gas tank and wallet. Of course time.