Logan Wins on Ohio River
Howard takes co-angler title in Buckeye Division season opener
Bob Logan of Waynesfield, Ohio, caught five bass weighing 12 pounds, 4 ounces, Saturday to win the 2018 T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Buckeye Division opener on the Ohio River presented by Navionics. For his victory, Logan earned $6,000.
“I was fishing down by the dam, near Craig’s Creek,” says Logan, who earned his second career win in BFL competition. “During practice on Thursday and Friday I worked my way down the river and caught a bunch of little males that were setting up on the nests. I knew the females would be coming in, so that’s where I concentrated my time during the tournament.
“I couldn’t sight fish, because the water wasn’t clean enough,” Logan continues. “So, I would just make blind casts to those areas where I knew the beds were and the females were setting up. I managed to catch six keepers.”
Five of Logan’s keepers came on a Zoom Brush Hog, green-pumpkin with a chartreuse-dyed tip, Texas-rigged with a 3/16 ounce weight. His sixth keeper came on a black-and-blue-colored Reaction Innovation’s Smallie Beaver, rigged the same as the Brush Hog.
The top 10 boaters:
1st: Bob Logan, Waynesfield, Ohio, five bass, 12-4, $4,000 + $2,000 Ranger Cup
2nd: Michael Powell Jr., Greendale, Ind., five bass, 11-6, $2,200
3rd: Dick Shaffer, Rockford, Ohio, five bass, 10-13, $1,334
4th: Pat White, Batavia, Ohio, five bass, 10-9, $933
5th: Ken Garbe, Wyoming, Ohio, five bass, 10-5, $800
6th: Cody Seeger, Bellefontaine, Ohio, five bass, 9-14, $833
7th: Douglas Lyon, Cincinnati, Ohio, five bass, 9-7, $667
8th: Mark Dove, North Vernon, Ind., five bass, 8-11, $600
9th: Chris Wilkinson, Farmersburg, Ind., five bass, 8-10, $533
10th: Sean Wieda, Florence, Ky., five bass, 8-5, $467
Complete results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Steve Hengehold of Cincinnati, Ohio, caught a bass weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces – the heaviest of the event in the Boater Division – and earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $540.
Howard wins co-angler title
Trevor Howard of Union, Kentucky, won the Co-angler Division and $2,228 Saturday after catching a five-bass limit weighing 11 pounds, 5 ounces. Howard earned $2,228 for his victory.
The top 10 co-anglers:
1st: Trevor Howard, Union, Ky., five bass, 11-5, $2,228
2nd: Dennis Hughes, Bethel, Ohio, three bass, 8-7, $981
3rd: Jonathan Fulton, Ray, Ohio, five bass, 8-0, $855
4th: Hunter Fillmore, Waynesville, Ohio, five bass, 7-12, $508
5th: Ryan Sykes, Hamilton, Ohio, five bass, 7-2, $393
6th: John Lane, Findlay, Ohio, five bass, 6-13, $360
7th: Remington Throckmorton, Otway, Ohio, five bass, 6-9, $327
8th: Clint Brodsky, Burlington, Ky., five bass, 6-6, $294
9th: Joshua Wright, Arcanum, Ohio, four bass, 5-10, $262
10th: Frank Aldridge, Wheelersburg, Ohio, five bass, 5-5, $229
The top 45 boaters and co-anglers in the region based on point standings, along with the five winners in each qualifying event, will be entered in the Oct. 11-13 BFL Regional Championship on the Chesapeake Bay in North East, Maryland. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $20,000, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard.