Last year at the first Bass Fisherman League (BFL) tournament of the year at Lake Seminole, Roger Morrow placed 20th and had big fish with an 8 pound, 11 ounce lunker. This year he did a little better, placing second overall in that tournament.

Roger has lived in the Griffin area for about 8 years and is a member of the Flint River Bass Club. He and his wife fished the Guys and Dolls circuit for a while, then he started concentrating on bigger tournaments. This year he is signed up to fish the new BASS Georgia circuit as well as the BFL Bulldog division.

In the Seminole tournament Roger went into the timber in Spring Creek during practice last Friday. In one area with some deeper water around the trees, he lowered a Zoom Finesse worm down to the base of a tree on a drop shot rig. When he landed a 3 pound bass he thought he might be onto something.

After fishing the area for a short time he circled back to that same tree and caught another three pounder. That told him all he needed to know, he had found the spot he would fish in the tournament the following day.

When he and his draw partner arrived at Roger’s honey hole, the partner quickly caught two bass and Roger thought he might catch all the fish. But by sticking with it Roger managed to land four bass weighing 17 pounds, 6 ounces and got
second out of 148 boaters. His partner ended up with 3 bass weighing 4.09 pounds, good for 12th place in the no-boater category.

With about an hour left to fish, Roger noticed some of his electronics acting up and checked his cranking battery. The motor would not turn over and he did not have any jumper cables with him. Fortunately, Tony Roberts, another Griffin resident and Flint River Bass Club member, was fishing nearby and had some. With Tony’s help, Roger got his boat cranked and went in early to make sure he would make it.

Tony ended up with 5 bass weighing 10.1 pounds and placed 12th on the boater side of the tournament. It is interesting that two fishermen from Griffin, in the same bass club at home, ended up fishing close enough to each other to talk between boats on a 37,500 acre lake. They had not talked about where they were fishing or made plans together.

Although Roger probably could have switched a trolling motor batter and cranked his boat, it was much easier with jumper cables.

Congratulations to Roger and Tony. They started out the year in great form finishing that high in such a big tournament.