July 29, 2013 07:29:43
Posted By Hawgsrus
|
“This was our last chance to qualify for the national championship,” said Gillenwater, who recently graduated with a degree in Management. “We both just graduated, and neither of us have been there before. I knew that we had a pretty good bag today, but I definitely didn’t think that we had enough to get the win.”
The Hoosier bass club said that they fished the same spot on both days of competition – a shallow rock bar in the Detroit River. The duo said that all 10 of the fish that they weighed in came on a green pumpkin-colored tube.
“We really didn’t know what we were going to do coming into the tournament,” Gillenwater added. “Neither of us had been here before, and we didn’t get any practice time, either. But I grew up fishing for smallmouth with my dad and I am comfortable fishing tubes.
“It was very rough out there on both days,” Gillenwater went on to say. “Our Mercury outboard was crucial to our success. It ran perfectly all week, and was 100 percent a factor in our win today.”
The top 3 teams that advanced to the College Fishing National Championship are:
1st: Indiana University – Sean Gillenwater, Bloomington, Ind., and Josh Collier, Ellettsville, Ind. (10 bass, 31-10, $4,000)
2nd: Georgetown College – John Hunter, Shelbyville, Ky., and Vincent Timperio, Corbin, Ky. (10 bass, 31-9, $2,000)
3rd: University of Nebraska-Omaha – Ben Milliken, Bennington, Neb., and Ben Kroeger, Omaha, Neb. (10 bass, 31-9, $1,000)
FLW College Fishing teams compete in four qualifying events in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top 15 teams from each regular-season tournament will qualify for one of five conference invitational tournaments. The top 10 teams from each conference invitational tournament will advance to the 2014 FLW College Fishing National Championship.
Visit CollegeFishing.com to sign up or to start a club at your school. Courtesy of FLWOutdoors.com
|