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News: 01/01/12

Rick Duren and Kent McLure Win the Anvil Jaw New Year's
Day Open on Lake Hamiliton













             Kent McLure and Rick Duren Win on Lake Hamilton

Story provided by Ron Plate

43 Teams were up bright and early on New Year’s Day to fish the Annual
Anvil Jaw Bass Club Tournament.  The teams were greeted to 2012 with
cooler temps and a strong wind for the 1st  fishing tournament of 2012.  As
most folks know the Alabama rig has been the talk of the town for the last
few weeks and once again they did their thing (commercial made or
homemade) as 9 bags of fish came to the scales over 15 lbs with lots of talk
of folks with 12+ lbs of fish who didn’t even waste their time weighing in as
they knew they were not in the money.  So after the weighing fest was over,
the team of Rick Duren and Kent McLure came to the top with a weight of
24.51 lbs for the 1st place win.

1st -Rick and Kent said they caught fish all day using the A-Rig - $760













                         
    2nd Place - Don Brown/Larry Vaughn

2nd -
Don Brown and Larry Vaughn weighed 21.39 lbs using the Spindarella - $450














                          



                       
       3rd place - Gary Howard/Larry Ford

3rd - Larry Ford and Gary Howard weighed-in 19.98 lbs using a home made
version of the A-rig  - $290

Balance of the top ten were:

4. Doug Thompson/Hoyt Akins  - 19.81 lbs - $145
5. Jeremiah Kindy/Timmy Poe  - 18.34 lbs  - $90
6. Gentry Depreist/Brent Williams - 16.24 lbs - $70
7. Justin Swayze - 16.04 lbs
8. Brady Bradford/Rick Harabka  - 15.97 lbs
9.Keith Green - 15.01 lbs
10.Duane Paquette/Joe Carrior  - 14.23 lbs















                 
    Big Bass - Gentry DePriest/Brent Williams

1st Place big bass - Gentry Depreist/Brent Williams - 7.33 lbs - $410   
2nd Place big bass  -Brady Bradford/Rick Habarka  - 6.11 lbs.  2 Deep
South Fishing Rods

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