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January 23, 2010
            Bull Shoals Lake
            Boats:  29
Air Temp: 45-50
Water Temp: 45
Lake Level: 654
Big Bass – 6.51 lbs – Chad Whited & Carl Schuh
1st Place –23.77 lbs – Tim Fleetwood & Mike Merrell
2nd Place –21.55 lbs – Randy Zeigler & Justin Tyler
3rd Place –20.66 lbs – Bob & Andy Foster

WOW!—Absolutely amazing! The final tournament of the season for the
Mid-Central Buddy
Winter Bass Tournaments was exciting to say the least with 25 limits
weighed in.
With many teams bringing their five fish to the scales thinking they
would win or at the
very least take a check.  One by one their hopes were dashed as the
fish just kept getting
bigger and bigger. The prior week 15 pounds took a check but this
tournament told a different
story, taking over 20 pounds to get in the money. “Bull Shoals is alive
and well”
As the anglers were weighing their fish the most of them had the same
story to tell, “We caught our
fish on a jerkbait” and we had a limit by 8:30 or 9:00.

Tim Fleetwood and Mike Merrell from Forsyth, Missouri took top honors
with 23.77 pounds, folks
this is truly amazing for Bull Shoals Lake, it is alive and the Bass
are big and healthy. There biggest
Bass weighed in at 5.99 pounds and then they had a 5.76 pounder to go
along with it. Culling out
several bass in the three pound range.

Second place went to Randy Zeigler and Justin Tyler with 21.55 pounds.
This Arkansas team gave the
Same story, we caught ‘em on a jerkbait.

The father and son team of Bob and Andy Foster took third place with
20.66 pounds. You guessed it,
they caught their fish on a jerkbait.

Chad Whited and Carl Schuh cashed the Big Bass check of the day with a
6.51 pound bass, they had a
Slightly different story on the big one, it was caught on a crankbait.
Their five fish limit weighed
in at 19.68 pounds.

4th Place:  20.63 pounds – Eric Toliver & Zack Lawrence
5th Place:  20.13 pounds – Mike Sanders & Bryan Deardoff
Thank you to all the anglers that fished this past season, without you
there would be no tournament.
Also thanks to all the sponsors for supporting the tournament circuit.

We will see you all in November on Bull Shoals and Norfork Lakes.
For more information contact Darrell Mitchell at 417-546-4522 or
bssin640@aol.com