Lake of the Ozarks Bass Fishing League 18 May 19

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Lake of the Ozarks Bass Fishing League 18 May 19

WARRENTON'S BOEHLE WINS T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE TOURNAMENT ON LAKE OF THE OZARKS PRESENTED BY NAVIONICS
Lake Lotawana's Carl Wins Co-angler Division
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (May 20, 2019) – Boater Adam Boehle of Warrenton, Missouri, caught five bass Saturday weighing 20 pounds, 12 ounces, to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) tournament on Lake of the Ozarks. Boehle pocketed $4,938 for his win in the event presented by Navionics and 250 points in the Ozark Division presented by Bassing Bob standings. The winner of the division's Angler of the Year title after five tournaments will win $3,000.
"The competition in the Ozark division is some of the best in the nation and to just compete alongside these guys is an honor, but to actually win is quite the feat," said Boehle, who earned his first career BFL victory. "It definitely feels real good and I'll be thinking about this tournament for awhile."
Boehle said he fished from the Glaize Arm of the lake to the dam, throwing a ¾-ounce green-pumpkin-colored Crock-O-Gator Reaction Jig with a Strike King Rage Structure Bug, a 5-inch shad-colored Zoom swimbait and a gizzard shad-colored 6th Sense crankbait.
"I was keying on the shad spawn in the morning, then switched to points," Boehle said. "I think I had 12 keepers throughout the day, with the majority coming on the swimbait. I made a bait change mid-morning and caught two big ones on the crankbait. I still needed a kicker, so I went flipping with the Crock-O-Gator jig and caught my biggest of the day, a 5½-pounder.
"I need to make sure to give credit to Jim Dill, owner of the Crock-O-Gator bait company," Boehle went on to say. "My jig order didn't come in before the event, and Jim was fishing in this event. He hooked me up with a couple of jigs, no big deal. That jig was what I caught my kicker on and turned out to be what won me the tournament."
.The top 10 boaters finished the tournament in:
                1st:           Adam Boehle, Warrenton, Mo., five bass, 20-12, $4,938
                2nd:          Mark Wiese, High Ridge, Mo., five bass, 20-7, $2,669
                3rd:          Jason Rhyne, Foristell, Mo., five bass, 19-3, $1,646
                4th:           James Dill, Sunrise Beach, Mo., five bass, 18-7, $1,452
                5th:           Cole Findley, Forsyth, Mo., five bass, 18-0, $988
                6th:           Rob Bueltmann, Osage Beach, Mo., five bass, 17-11, $964
                6th:           Lance Williams, Billings, Mo., five bass, 17-11, $964
                8th:           Chuck Austin, Saint Peters, Mo., five bass, 17-6, $741
                9th:           Mike Malone, Lake Ozark, Mo., five bass, 17-2, $658
                10th:        Dustin Lippe, Lampe, Mo., five bass, 17-0, $576
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Wes Proctor of Manhattan, Kansas, caught a 6-pound, 3-ounce bass – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day's Boater Big Bass award of $745.
Cody Carl of Lake Lotawana, Missouri, won the Co-angler Division and $2,436 Saturday after catching five bass weighing 16 pounds, 15 ounces.
The top 10 co-anglers were:
                1st:           Cody Carl, Lake Lotawana, Mo., five bass, 16-15, $2,436
                2nd:          Lang Yang, Miami, Okla., five bass, 16-7, $1,218
                3rd:          Johnny Ward Jr., Waynesville, Mo., five bass, 16-2, $1,181
                4th:           Brian Abella, Marshfield, Mo., five bass, 14-12, $568
                5th:           Michael Fey Sr., Cuba, Mo., five bass, 14-9, $487
                6th:           Malachi Raymer, Dittmer, Mo., five bass, 13-12, $447
                7th:           Michael Clark, Richland, Mo., five bass, 13-11, $406
                8th:           Lucas Basler, Desloge, Mo., four bass, 13-6, $565
                9th:           James Kelley, Maryland Heights, Mo., five bass, 13-5, $325
                10th:        Morgan McClain, Lenexa, Kan., five bass, 13-1, $284
Ward caught the largest bass in the Co-angler Division, a fish weighing in at 5 pounds, 10 ounces. The catch earned him the day's Co-angler Big Bass award of $367.
The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 24-26 BFL Regional Championship on Grand Lake in Grove, Oklahoma. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518L with a 200-horsepower outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518L with a 200-horsepower outboard.
The 2019 BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 128 tournaments throughout the season, five qualifying events in each division. The top 45 boaters and co-anglers from each division, along with the five winners of the qualifying events, will advance to one of six regional tournaments where they are competing to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the BFL All-American. The 2019 BFL All-American will be held May 30-June 1 at the Potomac River in Marbury, Maryland, and is hosted by the Charles County Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism and the Commissioners of Charles County. Top performers in the BFL can move up to the Costa FLW Series or even the FLW Tour.

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