Alabama Fishing News

Athens, Alabama --"Alright Cooks - listen up", is not exactly a phrase you might expect to hear at the Bassmaster Weekend Series sign-in for their weekend tournament orientation meeting. But, get used to it, anglers, because American Bass Anglers and the Kansas City Barbeque Society have partnered together to promote - well, fishing tournaments and barbecue competitions. What could be more American!

EUFAULA, Alabama - Kim Carver of Milledgeville, Georgia, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League® Bulldog Division tournament on Lake Eufaula Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 21 pounds even. The victory earned Carver $5,024 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Lake Seminole Regional Championship in Bainbridge, Ga., Oct. 22-24, where he could ultimately win a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

DECATUR, Alabama - The Choo Choo Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Lake Wheeler in Decatur, Alabama, June 27 for the fourth of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

GADSDEN, Alabama - The Dixie Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Lake Neely Henry in Gadsden, Alabama, June 6 for the fourth of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

GUNTERSVILLE, ALABAMA - Fish-factory Lake Guntersville is like racing on a fast track, golfing on a short municipal course or bowling with those deflecting cushions. In other words, things can get a bit easier and infinitely more entertaining. On Thursday, Todd Faircloth of Jasper, Texas, smashed 31 pounds, 0 ounces, on Guntersville to lead the Marine Formula STA-BIL Southern Challenge, edging out a host of anglers who caught 28-plus pounds.

BASS announced Wednesday that the organization will head to Alabama, the state where it was founded more than 40 years ago, for the inaugural Bassmaster Elite Series postseason. The postseason, dubbed the Toyota Trucks Championship Week and set for September 10-18, will be played out on two productive Alabama fisheries, with the first leg set for Lake Jordan out of Wetumpka and the finale, the Evan Williams Bourbon Trophy Triumph, slated for the Alabama River from Montgomery.

LANETT, ALABAMA- The Bulldog Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit West Point Lake in Lanett, Alabama, May 16 for the third of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

DECATUR, ALABAMA - The Bama Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama, May 16 for the fourth of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

DECATUR, ALABAMA - Chris Payne of West Blocton, Alabama, relied on several different baits to amass the biggest bag of the day of 18 pounds, 8 ounces at the Bassmaster Southern Open presented by Oakley on Alabama's Wheeler Lake. Payne established a sizable margin Thursday of more than 4 pounds over second-place competitor Jimmy Mason of Rogersville, Ala.

Nearly one month after BASS veteran Tommy Biffle's nail-biter of a win at the Bassmaster Elite Series event on Alabama's Wheeler Lake, BASS will return to the popular fishery for the second Bassmaster Southern Open presented by Oakley, set for April 30-May 2. Fishing conditions just four weeks later, however, will be somewhat different.