KUTTAWA , Ky., (June 28,1999) Terry Brown of Normal, Illinois, took first place, $3162, plus 50 CITGO Challenge Points for winning the Red Man LBL Division qualifier held Sunday on Kentucky Lake. Brown brought in a five bass limit weighing 14 pounds, 7 ounces to top a field of 203 anglers competing for $11,657.50. Brown fished Lake Barkley using a 3/8 ounce Gambler Ninja spinnerbait and a Big Gambler lizard in 1 foot of water around buck brush to catch his fish.
Second place and $1581 went to Herbie Booher of W. Paducah, KY, for four bass weighing 13-8. Booher used a ounce black/blue jig on ledges in 12-14 feet of water. Rounding out the top positions were: (3) Larry Noel, Cadiz, KY, five bass, 12-15, $928. (4) Jim Manahan, Michie, TN, five bass, 12-13, $595; (5) Daniel York, Benton, KY, four bass, 11-11, $564.
Mike Saleeba of Manitou, KY, won the Abu Garcia Big Bass Award of $1,000 for a 7 pound, 1 ounce bass. Teddy Wynn of Benton, KY, is leading the LBL Division’s Ranger Millennium big bass race for the year with a bass weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces. The Ranger boat owner who catches the largest bass in each Red Man division over the course of the season, will qualify to enter the Ranger M1 millennium tournament.
Billy Rawson of Pevely, MO, won the berkley powerbait award a package of baits valued at $325 for the highest weight caught on Powerbait or Frenzy lures with 10 pounds, 9 ounces.
At the completion of the six Red Man qualifying events, the top 30 anglers, determined on a basis of pounds and points, will move onto Regional Championship competition. There they will compete against the top 30 fishermen from three other divisions for a Dream Rig consisting of a Chevy truck and a full-rigged Ranger bass boat powered by an Evinrude or Johnson outboard (only two divisions compete in the Western Regional for fully-rigged Ranger bass boat) and a spot in the Red Man All-American in Hot Springs, Arkansas, May 8-13, 2000, where the winner will receive $100,000.
The rookie advancing farthest along the Red Man Trail will win the Old Milwaukee NA Rookie-of-the-Year Award. All Red Man tournaments are catch and release events. Operation Bass historically maintains a 98 percent live release rate throughout the tournament season.
Sponsors of the 1999 Red Man Tournament Trail include: Evinrude Outboards, Evinrude Electrics, CITGO Petroleum, Ranger Boats, Humminbird Fishfinders, Stren Fishing Lines, Abu Garcia Rods and Reels, Chevy Trucks, ENERGIZER Marine Batteries, Old Milwaukee NA, Black & Decker, David Seeds, Coleman Products, Land O Lakes, BC Powder, Eveready, Wheaties, Chex Mix, Hamburger Helper, Wrangler, US Bank-VISA, Powerbait, and Frenzy.