Fairmont State wins College Fishing tourney

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June 26, 2011

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Sun Jun 26, 2011, 03:23 AM EDT

PLATTSBURGH — The Fairmont State University team of Brent Dodrill and Wil Dieffenbauch won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Northern Division tournament on Lake Champlain Saturday.

The duo caught five bass weighing 16 pounds, 2 ounces. The victory earned the team $10,000 to be split between the university and the university's bass fishing club — $7,500 for the bass club and $2,500 for the school. The win also helped the two anglers advance to the Northern Division Regional Championship.

"We are real excited," said Dodrill, a sophomore occupational safety major. "We had a 12-hour drive, and this was my first time on Lake Champlain, what a thrill. Wil and I came up here with what we thought was a pretty good game plan, and things seemed to work out for us.

"It was windy pretty much all day, lots of big waves," Dodrill said. "We fished three rock points that produced all our fish. I was drop-shotting a Jackall Cross Tail on a casting rod. The rod is what really made the difference for me because I could feel every bite."

This is the third consecutive year the team from Fairmont State qualified for the Northern Regional Championship.

"I was on Champlain one other time," said Dieffenbauch, a junior in civil engineering. "I had a pretty good idea of what the lake was like. We picked a few areas on the map that looked like they would hold smallmouth and went fishing."

Ramapo College took second place with a total weight of 15-3, and Christopher Newport took third with five bass totalling 14-1. Those teams, Castleton State College and North Carolina State University also qualified for the regional championship.

Plattsburgh State, comprised of Mark Rexford and Brendan Bolis, took 32nd overall with one bass totalling 2-2.

The top five teams from each tournament qualify for the regional championship, where the first-place team will win $12,500 cash for its school and $12,500 cash and a Ranger 177TR bass boat with a 90 horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard wrapped in school colors for the fishing club.

The top five teams from each regional tournament advance to the national championship, where the first-place team will win $25,000 for its school and $50,000 cash and a Ranger 177TR bass boat with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard wrapped in school colors for the fishing club.

The next National Guard FLW College Northern Division tournament is scheduled for July 30 at 1000 Islands in Clayton.