Flw Day 2 Results

[Quillback]

Stacey King now in 2nd place.

BRANSON, Mo. – The pressure mounted Friday at the FLW Tour Major on Table Rock Lake as a full field of pros continued their four-day battle for a top cash award of up to $125,000. But nobody told Friday’s rookie pro leader that professional bass fishing was supposed to be difficult.

Nineteen-year-old Kyle Welcher of Opelika, Ala., took the lead after weighing a five-bass limit for a massive 24 pounds, 8 ounces. Welcher’s two-day catch of 10 bass weighing 44 pounds, 4 ounces gives him a 2-pound, 4-ounce lead heading into the third day of the tournament.

“This is so far beyond my expectations,” said Welcher, who is fishing in only his second FLW Tour event. “It’s overwhelming. There’s 159 of the best (pros) behind me and I just had the good fortune to inch them out after day 2.

“I’ve been recording “FLW” TV on my DVR since I was 10 years old,” Welcher added. “It’s amazing to be leading this thing. I’m not trying to ignore that I’m leading this, but leading after the fourth day is what really matters.”

Welcher, who took Thursday’s big bass honors with a 7-6 giant, said his day began slowly Friday and his co-angler boated the first fish of the day, a 6-pound, 2-ounce lunker, after Welcher had made only four casts. Welcher went two or three hours without a 15-inch keeper fish. At 1 p.m. Welcher caught his first 5-pounder of the day. More quality fish followed after that.

“I think the fish are moving up still where I’m fishing,” Welcher said. “As soon as the wind died down, the water warmed up a bit more and the fish came straight to the bank and started eating.”

Despite his inexperience at the Tour level, Welcher displayed confidence in his abilities and his shot at a FLW Tour title.

“I’m more confident in my area today than I was yesterday,” Welcher said. “I feel like my area’s actually improving. Tomorrow I’m going to go out and stay in that right area with an open mind and eventually the fish will tell me where they’re at, how they’re positioned and maybe I can string together another good sack.”

Veteran pro Stacey King of Reeds Spring, Mo., is in the No. 2 spot with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 42-0.

Rounding out the top 20 pros that will fish Saturday on Table Rock Lake are:

3rd: Spencer Shuffield, Bismarck, Ark., 10 bass, 40-4

4th: Day 1 leader Blake Nick, Adger, Ala., 10 bass, 37-15

5th: Jason Christie, Park Hill, Okla., 10 bass, 37-7

6th: Brent Long, Cornelius, N.C., 10 bass, 36-12

7th: John Devere, Berea, Ky., 10 bass, 35-14

8th: Clent Davis, Montevallo, Ala., 10 bass, 35-8

9th: Chris Baumgardner, Gastonia, N.C., 10 bass, 34-14

10th: Terry Bolton, Paducah, Ky., 10 bass, 33-14

11th: Clint Brownlee, Tifton, Ga., 10 bass, 33-14

12th: Anthony Gagliardi, Prosperity, S.C., 10 bass, 33-14

13th: Scott Canterbury, Springville, Ala., 10 bass, 33-4

14th: Robert Behrle, Hoover, Ala., 10 bass, 33-3

15th: Dan Morehead, Paducah, Ky., 10 bass, 33-3

16th: Glenn Browne, Ocala, Fla., 10 bass, 32-6

17th: Craig Dowling, Nashville, Tenn., 10 bass, 32-3

18th: Troy Morrow, Eastanollee, Ga., 10 bass, 32-1

19th: Christopher Brasher, Spring, Texas, 10 bass, 32-0

20th: Tom Monsoor, LaCrosse, Wis., 10 bass, 31-14

King won the day’s big bass award with a fish weighing 8-0 on the pro side to win $500.

Pros are competing for a top award of up to $125,000 this week plus valuable points in the hope of qualifying for the 2012 Forrest Wood Cup. The top 35 anglers in the point standings from the six Walmart FLW Tour Major tournaments will qualify.

Patrick Bone of Cleveland, Ga., leads the co-angler division with a two-day total of nine bass weighing 23 pounds, 10 ounces, followed by Brock Bertrand of Fayetteville, Ark., in second place with seven bass weighing 22-15.

Rounding out the top 20 co-anglers are:

3rd: Hector Delagarza, Rockwall, Texas, eight bass, 22-3

4th: Steven Meador, Bella Vista, Ark., nine bass, 21-4

5th: Tom Spangler, Corryton, Tenn., eight bass, 20-12

6th: J.R. Wright Truckee, Calif., nine bass, 19-15

7th: Kevin Spooner, Vero Beach, Fla., seven bass, 19-4

8th: Steve Redwine, Blue Ash, Ohio, six bass, 18-14

9th: Max Wilson, Everton, Mo., seven bass, 18-14

10th: Mark Shelton, Fayetteville, Ark., six bass, 18-1

11th: Jerry Reagan, Byrdstown, Tenn., seven bass, 17-8

12th: Bryan New, Belmont, N.C., eight bass, 17-2

13th: Chad Pipkens, Holt, Mich., seven bass 17-1

14th: Kevin Gordon, Aiken, S.C., seven bass, 16-15

15th: Nick Hensley, Cumming, Ga., seven bass, 16-14

16th: J.B. King, Byrdstown, Tenn., eight bass, 16-11

17th: Casey Martin, New Market, Ala., six bass, 15-13

18th: Jeff Sprague, Forney, Texas, seven bass, 15-10

19th: Derek Yamamoto, Boulder City, Nev., five bass, 15-9

20th: Mike Helton, Jeffersonville, Ind., six bass, 15-9

Bob Pender of Mission, Kan., won the day’s big bass award with a fish weighing 7-3 in the co-angler division to win $250.

Co-anglers are fishing for a top award of $25,000 this week plus valuable points that could help them qualify for the 2012 Forrest Wood Cup. The top 35 co-anglers in the point standings from the six FLW Tour Major tournaments will qualify.

Anglers will take off from Table Rock State Park Marina located at 380 State Park Marina Road in Branson at 7 a.m. each morning. Saturday and Sunday’s final weigh-ins will be held at the Walmart located at 1101 Branson Hills Pkwy. in Branson beginning at 4 p.m.

[Champ188]

Those bedding fish have to be seriously flaky for Robbie Dodson not to be high on the leaderboard. Seen him catch some ungawdly sacks this time of year on TR. Nobody always catches em anywhere but I would have bet a fair chunk of money that he'd have made both cuts to fish the last day.

[Feathers and Fins]

Bedding fish are seriously flakes on Beaver Champ. I was out last night with a friend in preperation for this weeks tournament and we found fish from 2 to 6 pnds on beds but you ger near them and they were bailing off fast. Im betting TR is the same.

[Bill Babler]

Thanks Quill for posting this stuff. Yes champ I'm with ya. Noticed Stacy fishing some pretty off color water. Bet he is up at Buzzard and in that area.

Would just about bet, we have seen the end of the 20 pound plus bags. Also just a thought, but I believe the 8 pounder deal is over. Stacy got one yesterday, but it was 8 pounds even. Not as big as the CPA fish.

Think about this, All those big fish weighed in the the CPA two weeks are are still swimmin, cause nobody has even touched that kind of fishin, for those monster sows. 95% of those big gals were suspended stagging fish, that were not remotely near the bank.

Would not be suprised to see it under or right at 18 pounds today and maybe 16 or 17, for both days.

Just got to think that Stacy will catch 5 both days this weekend and that I believe will do it. The Kid has done fantastic, I mean really good, but it is gona be tough to catch 10 more solid fish. Get rid of Stacy's 8 yesterday and slip a 3 pounder in there and he would have had 17. Probably what it will be

You flop another 34 pounds on 42 and you got 76 pounds. That is a 19 pound per day average. UnReal.

[dtrs5kprs]

^{Expect it to get tougher for the flippers if the water continues to come down. Eventually the bushes will be dry enough for the fish to bail out of them.}

^{Bill...do you think there are still better fish staging (as in the CPA type fish)? Looks kind of like most of the FLW'ers saw fish up and took the obivous choice to work them.}

[Bill Babler]

I don't care how warm it is, the spawn on Table Rock is not over April 1st. I have caught them on beds the last week of May in extremely warm water. Mother Nature does not put all her eggs in one basket.

[dtrs5kprs]

I don't care how warm it is, the spawn on Table Rock is not over April 1st. I have caught them on beds the last week of May in extremely warm water. Mother Nature does not put all her eggs in one basket.

That is the basket I keep putting my eggs in. There are too many fish in the lake for them to all spawn at once.

[Fat Boy]

I fished below Cape Fair all day down to pt 12 caught fish all day and seen no FLW boats, or at least any with a pair of sticks hanging off the back and all decked out in fancy grapics. If the kid can't win it which it looks like his fish has dried up, give them hell Stacy and would not mind seeing Jason Chirstie walk away seems to be a great guy.

[dtrs5kprs]

From the video interviews at the flw site, one of the leaders from the past couple of days let slip he was in Long Creek. There was also somehting about several of the leaders being within 3 miles of each other. Looks like square bill water.

[Tfsh4bass]

From the video interviews at the flw site, one of the leaders from the past couple of days let slip he was in Long Creek. There was also somehting about several of the leaders being within 3 miles of each other. Looks like square bill water.

Saw some video of the young kid who led after 2 days and I am pretty sure he was throwing a jerkbait in one video and a crank in another. Saw some other guys throwing a square bill though and Stacy looked like he was throwing a bigger deep bill crank. Shuffield was throwing some modified version of the A-Rig.