HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — A father-son duo brought in a winning stringer of 5-bass totaling just over 17 pounds at the midnight weigh-in for Lake Hamilton’s Friday Night Bass Club event on May 17.
The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission reported that among those fish caught by Brady Fite was a 9.02-pounder. However, the tourney’s big bass catch was brought in by Fite’s friend Ricky Williams: an 11-pound largemouth bass.
“Yeah, it was pretty hefty,” said Williams. “ I think last year, the big bass for the club was 10.7 pounds, maybe. There are usually one or two big ones caught each tournament. Once they move out to the brush piles (after the spawn), regularly somebody will weigh in a 7- to 9-pounder. But while it’s a pretty regular occurrence, it’s not all the time.”
Williams was fishing with a friend from Benton, Ty Marshall, and the pair finished second place overall in the tourney out of 35 boats.
“I was the only boat that weighed in that didn’t weigh five fish. Everybody else kept their dinks,” Williams said. “I’ve only been fishing this tournament series the last two years and I’ve only really been bass fishing for four or five years. I’m just getting in this game.”
