Bunker HS Takes Title on Norman

The Bunker Hill High School duo of Dylan Lamm and Austin Blair brought a five-bass limit to the scale weighing 14 pounds, 13 ounces, to win the 2016 TBF/FLW High School Fishing North Carolina State Championship on Lake Norman. Photo by HighSchoolFishing.com.

June 18, 2016 • MLF • Archives

The Bunker Hill High School duo of Dylan Lamm and Austin Blair brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 14 pounds, 13 ounces, to win the 2016 TBF/FLW High School Fishing North Carolina State Championship on Lake Norman. The win earned the team trophies, the title of state champions and advanced the team to the High School Fishing Southeastern Conference championship on Lake Cumberland in Somerset, Kentucky, on September 16-17.

“We caught the majority of our fish in the morning on a River2Sea Whopper Plopper,” says Blair, who will be a junior at Bunker Hill this fall.

Forty-one teams competed in the tournament, which launched from launched from Blythe Landing in Cornelius.

1st: Bunker Hill High School, Claremont, N.C. – Dylan Lamm and Austin Blair, five bass, 14-13

3rd: Beddingfield High School, Wilson, N.C. – Tyler Dunn and Matthew Shrewsbury, five bass, 13-1

Rounding out the top 10 teams were:

6th: North Carolina Student Angler Federation – Carson Cochran, Denver, N.C., and Jacob Moore, Stanley, N.C., five bass, 10-10

8th: Perquimans County High School, Hertford, N.C. – Dylan Valousky and Timothy Estep, five bass, 10-8

10th: North Carolina Student Angler Federation – Hunter White, Black Mountain, N.C., and Bennett Bauer, China Grove, N.C., four bass, 10-4

The 2016 North Carolina State High School Fishing Championship was a two-person (team) event for students in grades 7-12. The top 10 percent from each TBF/FLW state championship field will advance to a High School Fishing conference championship along with the top three teams from each of the seven TBF/FLW High School Fishing Opens held this season. The top 10 percent of each conference championship field will then advance to the High School Fishing National Championship, coinciding with the TBF National Championship and an FLW Tour stop in the spring of 2017. The High School Fishing national champions will each receive a $5,000 college scholarship to the school of their choice.

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