ON TOUR
T-H MARINE FLW BASS FISHING LEAGUE
BFL REGIONAL | RED RIVER
BOSSIER CITY, LA.
By Jimmy Watson
photoS by Sandy eaKIn
WINNING ANGLER
jason sandidge
Centerton, ark.
Winning Weight:
31-12 (15 fish)
details:
oct. 19-21, 2017
presented by Quaker
State
hosted by Shreveport
bossier Sports Comm.
W
orking wood cover
just a stone’s
throw from the
launch site at the Red River
South Marina, Jason
Sandidge mined 31 pounds,
12 ounces of bass over
three days to earn the
Regional win.
Sandidge, who qualified
for his first All-American
with the victory, says the
shallow wood was near a
ditch about 15 feet deep.
“The bass would come
up and feed,” says
Sandidge, who fishes the
Okie Division. “In three
days, I burned less than a
quarter tank of gas.”
Sandidge flipped Zoom
Ultra-Vibe Speed Craws in
blue sapphire or green
pumpkin with the pincers
dipped in chartreuse.
“That was key because
the water was dirty with
about 2 inches of visibility,”
he says. “I worked about a
50-yard stretch.”
He also caught one
keeper on a spinnerbait.
bFL regional divisions:
arkie, Cowboy,
Mississippi, okie
On day one, Sandidge
caught an 8-10 limit within
the first 30 minutes on the
water, then backed off his
fish after letting his co-
angler catch a limit.
“I sat there and literally
guarded it because half these
guys saw me on it,” Sandidge
says. “Then I caught 9-1
Friday, but it was more of a
grind to get a limit.”
The fish were still there
on day three, and Sandidge
had five in the boat by 9:30
a.m., but his smallest was a
1-pounder. It wasn’t until
the very end that he
secured the win with a
3-pound kicker.
ALL-AMERICAN qUALIFIERS
boaterS Co-angLerS
2. Randy Deaver
Blanchard, La. 2. Jack Stegall
Carriere, Miss.
1. Jason Sandidge
Centerton, Ark.
3. Ben Blaschke
Muldrow, Okla.
4. Randy Despino
Colfax, La.
5. John Shore
Owasso, Okla.
6. Nick Lebrun
Bossier City, La.
january 2018 I flWfIshIng.com
1. Nathan Colwell
Pryor, Okla.
3. Bobby Call
Wagoner, Okla.
4. Cord Colwell
Pryor, Okla.
5. Keith Whipple
Iuka, Miss.
6. Mike Allen
Crystal Springs, Miss.
WINNING CO-ANGLER
nathan colwell
pryor, okla.
Winning Weight:
17-05 (9 fish)
Winning Program:
Colwell caught his
fish by throwing a frog
on a variety of types of
cover.
“The majority of my
weight came off brush –
stumps, logs, laydowns.
It was 99 percent
wood,” says Colwell.
“One fish came off lily
pads. I also used some
Big Bite Baits that look
like little crawfish.”
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