Terry LaChance of Fredericktown, MO and Steve Francis of Brooklyn, TX take 1^st place easily with a limit weighing 15.32 lbs. Terry said that they fished from Sulpher Springs to Cozart point and  just fished any area where he thought there were stumps.

Steve, a friend of Terry’s visiting from Texas, said that Terry has been fishing Wappapello for years, so I’m sure he has located plenty of stump flats over the years.

The team reported using a wide variety of baits which included dark colored worms, brush hogs, flukes, and even a finesse worm. They reported a very light bite. The kind of bite where you tell your partner, Hey... I think I have a bite!, but I’m not sure.

All of their bites came in 8 to 12 feet of water.

Terry and Steve also had Big Bass of the tournament. A Wappapello Whopper weighing in at 5.76 lbs.

Second place went to the Farmington, MO team of Clarence Murphy and Helen Phelan with four bass weighing in at 10 lbs. even. Clarence said they fished way up the river and concentrated on points most of the day.

They threw crawdad colored crankbaits and watermelon candy brush hogs with the bite coming from 3 to 8 feet of water. Helen boated two of their nicer keepers on back to back casts with one of them being the second big bass of the day weighing 4. 54 lbs.

Third place went to the Ironton, MO team of Mark Browers and Derek Bennett with a 5 fish limit weighing 9.96 lbs. They fished from Holiday Landing to Chaonia, concentrating their efforts on channel edges. Mark reported that they used 6" watermelon worms and white spinner baits with most of their bites coming in around 5 feet of water.

Fourth place went to the team of Brian Hutson and Jeff Johnson with a limit weighing 9.28lbs.