Bryan Dowdy Wins TBF Southern Divisional

Bryan Dowdy, representing the Tennessee Bass Federation, weighed in only four fish today for a weight of 13-11 pounds. That gave him a total of 48-03 pounds and was enough to hold on for the win at the Southern Divisional Championship at Santee Cooper Lakes. Bryan once again also had the biggest bas for the day. He weighed in a 7-07 brute on Day three for the Big Bass Award.
Less than three pounds behind him was Justin Lanier, from Georgia with 16-11 pounds today, giving him a final weight of 46-09 pounds. Michael Wasden of Tennessee weighed 15-04 today for a total weight of 42-04 pounds and a third place finish. Tracy Hewitt of South Carolina finished fourth after he weighed 12-01 today to give him 41-06 pounds. Fifth place belongs to Taylor Watkins of Alabama who had 7-02 pounds today and finished with 38-03 pounds.
In the state to state competition, Georgia edged out Alabama for the state championship title.

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Dowdy Takes Over Lead On Day 2 at Santee Cooper

Bryan Dowdy, representing the Tennessee Federation, caught a monster sack of bass to take over the lead on Day 2.  His five bass limit tipped the scales at 19-11 ounces.  That is a good sack on it’s own, but Bryan had a kicker fish in that bag also.  His biggest fish tipped the scales at 9-06 pounds.  That is a toad in anybody’s book.  That weight pushed Bryan up to 34-08 pounds and gives him a one pound lead going into the final day tomorrow.

Herman Vining of South Carolina lurks in second place with 33-09 pounds.  His limit today weighed 17-15 pounds.  He had one of the four limits that weighed over seventeen pounds today.

Third place belongs to Jason Hester of Alabama.  He turned in a solid limit today that weighed 15-12 pounds for a total of 33-02 pounds.  Fourth place was Taylor Watkins, also of Alabama with a sack that weighed 17-08 pounds to give him a total of 31-01 pounds.  Fifth place is Justin Lanier of Georgia with 19-08 pounds to give him 29-14 pounds.

Today there were only 11 limits that were weighed in.  A total of 169 fish were caught that weighed 431-10 pounds.  Today 63 anglers weighed in at least one bass.

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Southern Divisional Underway on Santee Cooper Lake

Jason Hester of Haleyville, AL emerged on top of the leader board after the first day of competition, in the TBF Southern Divisional today.  Of the 84 anglers, from seven states, Jason had one of only 13 limits weighed in on Santee Cooper on Wednesday.  Jason weighed 17-06 pounds to take just over a pound lead into Thursday’s competition.  Seventy of the 84 anglers weighed in at least one fish on Day one, with a total of 518-06 pounds being brought in all together.

Tracy Hewitt of Orangeburg, SC claimed the second spot with 16-01 pounds.   Another Alabama angler, Nathan Rowe sits in third place with 15-14 pounds.  Fourth place belongs to Herman Vining, of Gilbert, SC with 15-10 pounds.  The final spot in the top five goes to Steven Phillips, of Springfield, GA with 15-09 pounds.

The biggest bas of the day on Wednesday went to Barry Ward with a 7-05 pound giant.

In the state to state competition, the host state of South Carolina starts off strong with 107-13 pounds.  Four pounds behind them is the state of Georgia with 103-13 pounds.  Alabama racked up 99-01 pounds to stand in third place.  Tennessee has 57-00 pounds, while North Carolina has 54-15 pounds and Kentucky has 50-00 pounds while Florida has 45-12 pounds.

At the end of competition on Friday, the highest finishing two anglers from each of the seven participating states will advance to the 2017 TBF Federation National Championship.

For full results and photos from Day 1 CLICK HERE