Pisgah’s fishing duo, Brantley Barrentine and Dallon Phillips, in the first time at a B.A.S.S. Nation Tournament won the Trail’s Lake Wheeler Tournament. At the same time, Pisgah finished second in the six-man (three angler duos) team standings at Joe Wheeler State Park in Rogersville on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
According to Pisgah’s Fishing Coach Emily Smith, Pisgah’s anglers compete in both the Alabama B.A.S.S. Nation High School Trails and the Alabama Student Angler Bass Fishing Association – the two biggest student angler trails in Alabama.
In the Lake Wheeler Tournament, Pisgah’s team total was 14 fish weighing 31.02 pounds, narrowly behind first-place East Limestone (15 fish for 31.48 pounds).
Barrentine and Phillips took the top spot with five fish weighing 14.93 pounds. Their biggest fish was a 3.33 pounder. Also, for the Eagles, Parker Law and Bode Smith finished 14th with five fish weighing 10.83 pounds, while Cape Duncan and Madelyn Griffith had four fish for 5.26 pounds.
Scottsboro’s BassCats had four six-man teams in the Lake Wheeler Tournament, with two of them notching Top-20 finishes. Team 1 consisted of Buckner Anderson and Greyson Widgeon, Barclay Butler and Connor McLaughlin and Kolby Clark, and Landon Grider. They finished 6th in the tournament. Scottsboro Team 2 consisted of angler duos Holland Griggs and Reed Potter, Grant West and Lydia West, and Will Harrington and Trip Nelson, who finished in 18th place. The duo of Griggs and Potter had Scottsboro’s best finish in 11th place. They also finished 3rd in the Big Fish Standings with a 4.37-pounder.
Butler and McLaughlin finished in 21st place while Clark and Grider finished in 37th place, Anderson and Widgeon finished in 38th place, Luke Dixson and Tanner Rhymer finished in 95th place, Grant West and Lydia West finished in 110th place, John Will Potterfield and Jake Vance had one, and Lucas Jones and Palmer Norris also had one fish.
Skyline Vikings’ six-man Team 2 consisted of angler duos Elijah Edmonds and Matthew Venable, Bryant Kennamer and Daniel Olinger, Landon Rosseau and Brody Berninger. They posted 16th place in the team standings. Skyline’s top finishing angler duo was Edmonds and Venable, who finished in 46th place. Jordan Guest and Landon Guest placed 60th for Skyline while Sam Utter and Levi Wilkinson were in the 85th spot. Berninger and Rosseau finished in 89th place, Kennamer and Olinger finished 93rd, Kristian King and Eli Sanders finished 106th, Jacob Baugh and Scott York placed 131st, and Cody Carden and Gabriel Petty finished in the 133rd spot.
Section’s angler duo Dalton Brown and Travis Solt posted an 87th place finish.
