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SCHOONVELD LEADS STREN SERIES EVENT
ON
DEL RIO, Texas (March 21, 2007) – Pro Dan
Schoonveld of Mansura, La., caught a five-bass limit weighing 34 pounds, 12
ounces Wednesday to lead the opening day of the $275,225 Stren Series Texas
Division tournament presented by Yamaha on Lake Amistad.
“Things went really well today,” said
Schoonveld, who has amassed $20,755 in career earnings with FLW Outdoors.
“It started off kind of slow this morning. I tried a few new ideas and
expanded on those throughout the day. Everything just worked out well for
me. I just kept my nose to the grindstone.”
“I’m covering about 30 miles a day keying in on
about five main spots. I think I am around a lot of good fish. I don’t think
that I hurt my fish for the rest of the week because I only fished two of my
main spots. I prefished for about two weeks and I think it really paid off.”
“My plan for tomorrow is to just go back out
and try to duplicate what I did today.”
Rounding out the top five pros are Tim Reneau
of Seguin, Texas (five bass, 27-11); Terry Owens of Aliceville, Ala. (five
bass, 26-12); Harold Allen of Shelbyville, Texas (five bass, 26-9);
Earnest Humphries earned the Snickers Big Bass
award in the Pro Division thanks to an 8-pound, 5-ounce bass.
Overall there were 858 bass weighing 2,488
pounds, 5 ounces caught by 193 pros Wednesday. The catch included 144
five-bass limits.
Pros are competing for as much as $65,000,
including a 519VX Ranger powered by Evinrude or Yamaha if contingency
guidelines are met, and valuable points
toward qualifying for the $1 million Stren Series Championship in
Michael Herron of
“It’s great to be sitting in first place,” said Herron, who has amassed an incredible $61,584 by fishing mainly out of the back of the boat in FLW Outdoors events. “I am still a little nervous though because there is still two days left. It was awesome to weigh-in this big bag. It is the largest five-fish limit I have ever caught. I’m really happy with what I got. It was a really good day and I had a great partner.”
Herron is throwing a Texas-rigged Senko
targeting bedding bass to catch his quality-sized five-bass limit.
Rounding out the top five
Billy Yelberton earned the Snickers Big Bass
award in the Co-angler Division thanks to a 9-pound, 7-ounce bass he caught.
Overall there were 717 bass weighing 1,912
pounds, 2 ounces caught by 190 co-anglers Wednesday. The catch included 95
five-bass limits.
The top 40 co-anglers from each Stren Series
division will also advance to the championship, where they will fish for as
much as $70,000. The highest-finishing co-angler from each division at the
championship will then advance to the 2008 Forrest Wood Cup.
Anglers will take off at 6:30 each morning from
Lake Amistad Marina, East Diablo Launch Ramp, located at Hwy. 90 West HCR 3
in
Stren Series tournaments are four-day events
consisting of two rounds. The entire field competes Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. At the conclusion of Friday’s weigh-in, the field is cut to the top
10 pros
FLW
Outdoors historically maintains a 98 percent live release rate in all of its
bass tournaments.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger
Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart FLW Tour,
Wal-Mart FLW Series, Stren Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart
Texas Tournament Trail presented by Abu Garcia, Ranger Owners Tournament
Championship Series, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League,
Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Series, Wal-Mart FLW
Redfish Series and Wal-Mart FLW Striper Series. These circuits offer
combined purses of nearly $43 million through 241 events in 2007.
Wal-Mart and many of
For more information about FLW Outdoors and its
tournaments, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000.
