Hooks & Lures: · Team Chevy angler Anthony Gagliardi’s fourth career win put him even closer to the $1 million mark. Gagliardi now has won more than $970,800 in FLW Outdoors events.
· Professional bass fishing’s first instant millionaire, Team Folgers angler Scott Suggs, posted his highest FLW Tour finish (2nd place) since his historic $1 million win in the 2007 Forrest Wood Cup in Hot Springs, Ark. · Scott Canterbury notched his second consecutive top-10 finish (3rd place) in 2009. He currently is ranked second in the Land O’Lakes Angler of the Year points race.
· Dan Morehead’s fourth-place finish marked his strongest effort since a win at Beaver Lake in 2003, the year he won the Land O’Lakes Angler of the Year title.
· Team BP angler David Walker continues his phenomenal beginning to the 2009 season with a fifth-place finish at Table Rock Lake that followed a sixth-place effort at Lake Guntersville. Walker currently leads the Land O’Lakes Angler of the Year points race.
· Glenn DeLong, the rookie who finished 13th at the season-starting Lake Guntersville event, posted a 45th-place finish at Table Rock Lake.
· Team BP angler Shinichi Fukae’s 10th-place finish marks his highest finish since the 2008 season opener at Lake Toho, where he finished fifth.
· Team Berkley rookie Stetson Blaylock has notched a 23rd-place finish and a 35th-place finish in 2009 and stands 12th in the Land O’Lakes Angler of the Year points race. Blaylock’s move to the front of the boat this season follows a five-year stint in the co-angler side of FLW Tour competition. Blaylock racked up four wins and 18 top-10 finishes and more than $183,000 in FLW Outdoors winnings prior to the 2009 season.
· The next Tour event will be the National Guard Open at Lake Norman April 23-26. Sean Hoernke won the 2008 Charlotte, N.C., event. The Texas angler won that event by more than four pounds.
· The highest finish by a North Carolina angler at the 2008 National Guard Open at Lake Norman was a 10th-place effort by Chris Baumgardner. Only two other North Carolinians cracked the top 50, proving that home-lake advantage may not apply at Lake Norman.
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