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Meet pro-angler Leslie Lively
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Grapeland, Texas
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2008 Official WBT Rules
2008 Women's Bassmaster Tour
Competition Dates
# 1 - April 10-12 - Complete
Lake Lewisville - Texas
Pro-Angler results
Co-Angler results
# 2 - May 22-24 - Complete
Lake Neely Henry - Gadsden, Ala
Pro-Angler Results
Co-Angler Results
# 3 - June 19-21 - Complete
Old Hickory - Hendersonville, Tenn
Pro-Angler Results
Co-Angler Results
# 4 - September 18-20
Clarks Hill Lake - Evans, Georgia
Wildwood Park Ramp
6212 Holloway Rd.
Appling, GA 30802
Registration and Briefing
Academy Sports & Outdoors
4210 Washington Rd.
Evans, GA 42044
706.210.6100
2008 WBT Championship
October 23-25
Lake Hamilton - Hot Springs, Ark
A.G.F.C. Hulsey Hatchery Access
350 Fish Rd.
Hot Springs, AR. 71931
Registration and Briefing - TBA
Bassmaster Classic
Red River - Shreveport, LA
February 20 - 22, 2009
Birmingham, Alabama
February 19 - 21, 2010
New Orleans, LA
February 18 - 20, 2011
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"Sarah's Namebrella"
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“Will you
sign my umbrella?” asked Sarah
Busby of Grand Lake, Louisiana
as women anglers from across the
U. S. and around the world
registered for the final
tournament of the 2006 Women’s
Bassmaster Tour on Bull Shoals
Lake, in Theodosia, Missouri in
September. Her enthusiasm was
contagious and her mission was
apparent as she stood patiently
waiting for autographs to be
placed on the umbrella she had
won at a drawing at the Lake
Dardanelle tournament
registration in Russellville,
Arkansas just three weeks
earlier.
Renee Brisendine, co-angler from Eden, NC
adds her autograph to Sarah's "Namebrella".
Sarah, a co-angler on
the WBT tour, is also a fan of all the women anglers. Her reason
for fishing the tour was to meet veteran anglers and learn more
about the battles women have had to endure in their quest to be
recognized in the sport of bass fishing. She was delighted at
the first tournament of the season on Neely Henry in Gadsden,
Alabama to be paired on Day 1 with Christie Thomas from Africa
and on Day 2 at the Lake Lewisville, Texas tournament with Tami Kashiwabara from
Japan. When she got Tami’s autograph, she insisted that Tami
sign it in her native Japanese writing style.
Dwight Busby, Sarah’s
husband has been her biggest fan and supporter ever since she
decided to fish the inaugural year of the WBT. Her dream almost
didn’t happen. While many of us were preparing for the premier
WBT tournament on Lake Lewisville, Texas last October 2005,
Sarah and her family were re-building their lives after losing
their home and most of their personal belongings to Hurricane
Rita. During the hurricane, they had evacuated to Mississippi
with only a few photos, some clothes and their bass boat.
Sarah was introduced
to bass fishing on a delayed honeymoon in Florida when she and
Dwight hired a guide and she hooked a “huge” bass. Despite the
coaching from the guide and Dwight, she lost the lunker, but the
memory and the thrill of the battle to get it to the boat was
enough to inspire her. Her mother hunted and the family went
crabbing when she was growing up in Jennings, Louisiana. Sarah
started bass fishing in 1993 and started tournament fishing in
1997. In addition to fishing with her husband in the Angler’s
Choice couples tournaments, she was also a member of the Lake
Area Lady Anglers.
Sarah is excited about
the 2007 WBT Tour, especially the tournament scheduled on the
Red River in Shreveport, Louisiana in September. It will be the
first event that her husband will be able to attend. Dwight is a
heavy equipment operator and has been working non-stop, helping
with the clean-up and re-building from Hurricane Katrina.
The “Namebrella” is
Sarah’s inspiration to fish the tour. She is in the process of
finding a way to preserve it so that the signatures do not fade.
She wants to be able to show it to her children and
grandchildren and point to each signature and share her
experiences and let them know that they should always follow
their dream because anything is possible.
She will be sponsored
in 2007 by Tommasi Brothers of Lake Charles, Michael J. LeBlanc
Construction Company, Gina LeBlanc of Little Angels Photography
and Ray Thibodeaux. Sarah always takes a gift back to her
sponsors from each tournament.
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In The News
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A memorial service
and celebration of
the life
of WBT angler and
Lady Bass Angler
founder
Madeline
Smith
will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July
25, 2008, at Community of Joy
Church, Hot Springs Village,
Arkansas.
Memorial contributions
may be made in her name to the St.
Mary’s Hospice House, P.O. Box 6588,
Athens, GA 30604.
See what pro angler
and guide
Debra Hengst
has been up to on
Falcon Lake.
Click here.
Sam Cam - Episode
1
starring WBT pro
angler Sammie Jo
Denyes is now
showing on
youtube.com.
Click here to view
Attention Triton
boat owners!
A new website called
tritongirl.com
is now up and
running. It was
created and designed
by pro-angler
Dana Beavers
of Alabama and is
all about anything
Triton.
WBT Pro-anglers
Robin Babb
of Texas and
Angie
Douthit
of Florida are
featured in an
article in the
July/August issue of
BassMaster Magazine.
Check out the great
article beginning on
page 74 by Robert
Montgomery titled
"Modifying the Mann
Killer".
Sport Fishing
Ventures Unlimited
is now doing a $200
monthly product
giveaway. SFVU
recently added pro
angler
Marsha Gipson
of Arkansas to their
pro staff.
When you fill out
the entry form
online, please
reference Marsha as
the direct reason
you visited.
Also, if you go to
Fishermensheaven.com
and would like to
make a purchase,
enter coupon code
888MG444 to receive
a discount at
checkout. This lets
them know that you
were referred by
Marsha.
On Saturday Aug.
16,
pro anglers
Christiana
Bradley
of Bealeton,
Virginia and
Bridget Allen
of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania along
with
several other professional
anglers will
participate in a
benefit tournament
on the Upper
Chesapeake Bay for a
young angler named
Ron Phillips. He's
a wonderful young
man who's fighting
Leukemia. Visit
this site to read
Ron's story and for
information about
the tournament: Ron
Phillips Benefit
Tournament
On August 23rd,
Christiana will be
at the Virginia
Outdoor Sportsmens
Classic Summer
Edition, in Roanoke,
VA doing a couple of
tank seminars.
On September 6th
Christiana will
appear at the GEICO
Motorcycle
Bikers For Tykes
fundraiser event in
Virginia Beach,
Virginia.
The event helps
raise money for the
Children's Hospital
of the King's
Daughters.
Pro angler
Melinda Mize
of Arkansas is the
first WBT angler to
win Bonus Bucks
through the Toyota
Tundra Contingency
Program offered to
all anglers who
drive a Toyota
Tundra truck and are
members of BASS.
WBT pro angler
Sheri Glasgow
of Muskogee, Okla.,
took
delivery Friday,
July 18, on a 2008
Toyota Tundra, her
prize for being the
2007 Toyota Women’s Bassmaster Tour
Angler of the Year.
Recycled Fish is
hoping to sign up
2500 new pledge
takers this summer.
Have you taken the
Pledge?
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