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Stren Series Northern Division heads to Lake Gaston
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SOUTH HILL, Va. (Sept. 17, 2009) - The $6.5 million Stren Seriesâ„¢ is headed to Lake Gaston Sept. 24-26 for a $260,750 bass tournament. As many as 400 pros and co-anglers will be competing in the fourth Northern Division tournament of the season for top awards of $65,000 and $30,000, respectively.

"The thing about Gaston is you can fish offshore structure or grass and never get real, real deep," said Team Land O'Lakes angler Ott Defoe of Knoxville, Tenn., who finished second in the 2007 Stren Series event on Lake Gaston and who currently is third in the Stren Series Northern Division points standings. "Dock patterns are also a way to make it to the top 10. There's truly so many ways to catch fish on Gaston, it's best just to pick a pattern that suits your style and just stick with it."

Defoe said he finds that Gaston fishes similar to his home-area waters of Fort Loudoun in that many different techniques and baits can be used to be successful. The only difference, Defoe said, is that Gaston has more grass than Loudoun. Defoe said popular baits for the tournament will include topwater plugs and soft-plastic offerings such as soft-plastic stickbaits and creature baits.

"If you catch 15 pounds a day, you could definitely win it," Defoe said. "But it could only take 13 a day. If a guy caught 12 to 12 1/2 pounds a day, he could definitely make the top 10."

Anglers will take off from Americamps Lake Gaston Resort located at 9 Lakeside Lane in Bracey, Va., at 7 each morning. Thursday and Friday's weigh-ins will be held at Americamps Lake Gaston Resort beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday's weigh-in will be held at Americamps Lake Gaston Resort beginning at 4 p.m. Takeoffs and weigh-ins are free and open to the public.

The Lake Gaston Stren Series tournament is hosted by the South Hill Chamber of Commerce.

Pros will fish for a top award of $25,000 plus a 198VX Ranger powered by an Evinrude or Yamaha outboard and equipped with a Minn Kota trolling motor and Lowrance electronics if Ranger Cup guidelines are met. If the winner is not a Ranger Cup participant, Ranger will award $7,500 to the highest-finishing Ranger Cup participant in the contingency program.

Co-anglers will cast for a top award of a 177TR Ranger powered by an Evinrude or Yamaha outboard and trailer. If the co-angler meets the Ranger Cup guidelines, they will earn an additional $5,000. If the winner is not a Ranger Cup participant, Ranger will award $2,500 to the highest-finishing Ranger Cup participant in the contingency program.

Competitors will also be vying for valuable points that could earn them a trip to the Stren Series Championship on Pickwick Lake in Florence, Ala., Nov. 5-7 for a shot at $150,000 in the Pro Division and $60,000 in the Co-angler Division. After four qualifying events are complete in each Stren Series division - Central, Northern, Southeast, Texas and Western - the top 40 pros and 40 co-anglers based on the points standings from each division will advance to the championship. The top 10 pros and 10 co-anglers from each division will also qualify for the 2010 Walmart FLW Tour® and Walmart FLW Series®, bass fishing's top professional circuits. The highest-finishing pro and co-angler from each division at the Stren Series Championship will also qualify for the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup.

In Stren Series competition, pros supply the boats, fish from the front deck against other pros and control boat movement. Co-anglers fish from the back deck and compete against other co-anglers. Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament earns points that determine angler standings. Two hundred points are awarded to the winner, 199 points for second, 198 points for third, and so on. The full field competes on days one, two and three, with the top 10 pros and 10 co-anglers advancing to day four based on their three-day accumulated weight. Winners are determined by the heaviest accumulated weight from all four days.

Total awards are based on a full field of 200 boats in every tournament.

FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, is the largest fishing tournament organization in the world. In 2009 alone the organization is offering more bass and walleye anglers from coast to coast the chance to win more than $33 million through 231 tournaments. FLW Outdoors also is taking fishing mainstream with FLW Fantasy Fishing, offering the largest awards possible in the history of fantasy sports, $10 million in cash and prizes. Sign up for Player's Advantage for only $10 to get your edge and win.

For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournaments, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000. For more information about FLW Fantasy Fishing and Player's Advantage, visit FantasyFishing.com.

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