KENT ANGLER WINS RED MAN TOURNAMENT ON GRAND - Major League Fishing
KENT ANGLER WINS RED MAN TOURNAMENT ON GRAND
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KENT ANGLER WINS RED MAN TOURNAMENT ON GRAND

September 12, 1999 • MLF • Press Releases

ST. MARY’S, OH., (September 13,1999) Vic Vatalaro of Kent, Ohio, took first place, $2310, plus 50 CITGO Challenge Points for winning the Red Man Buckeye Division qualifier held Sunday on Grand Lake. Vatalaro brought in five bass weighing 12 pounds, 7 ounces to top a field of 131 anglers competing for $7877. Vatalaro fished the main lake using a Berkley Power Bait around rocks on points to catch his winning stringer.

Second place and $1155 went to Aaron Moser of Wapakoneta, Ohio, for five bass weighing 10-4.

Moser fished main lake pockets with a homemade , 1/4 ounce spinnerbait around laydowns.

Rounding out the top positions were: (3) Robrt Otto, Dayton, OH, five bass, 9-0, $678; (4) Mike Spicer, Bellbrook, OH, four bass, 8-3, $434; (5) David Scales, West Liberty, OH, three bass, 7-5, $412.

Rob Yurko of Cleveland, Ohoi, won the Abu Garcia Big Bass Award of $1,000 for a 3 pound, 8 ounce bass.

James Bensch of Toledo, OH, is leading the Buckeye Division’s Ranger Millennium big bass race for the year with a bass weighing 5 pounds, 13 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.

Larry Daniel Dobransky of N. Canton, OH, bond also won the Berkley Powerbait award a package of baits valued at $325 for the highest weight caught on Powerbait or Frenzy lures with 11 pounds, 7 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 a 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.