| Sealy Outdoors 10.90 lb McBass Wins $250,000  25th Annual McDonalds Big Bass Splash. |  |
| by Ed Snyder / Ed Snyder Outdoors |
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The 10.90 lb big bass weighed in by Larry McNeese on Saturday held to the relief of Larry and his family though after Bob Sealy drove the 1st place award, a brand new Grand Star motor home tailoring a brand new fully rigged Triton/Mercury 21HP 225 bass boat, into the weigh-in area. Larry also received a new Dodge 4 door pickup truck and a new Stealth 4wheeler. His first place prize package was valued at slightly over $250,000. McNeese, from College Station, was fishing Indian Creek Saturday when he hooked his prize bass from a willowy buck-brush area on a TX rigged 10" black power worm. A 10.55 lb big bass was weighed-in during the 9- to 10am hour on Sunday by Joel Villali of Pollock LA. Claimed the 2nd place $100,000 award package. A very nervous Joel explained that he was fishing a TX rigged watermelon/seed lizard within a 16-17ft hydrilla clump up in the 5 Fingers area when he set the hook on his 8:15am big bite. Top 5 Big Bass Anglers;
This 25th Annual event paid $384,400 in hourly payouts with $2500 on top and $500 on the bottom of 12 places per-hour, per-day. Plus two bonus T-shirt hours that doubled the $2500 pay out to $5,000 for those who bought the bonus T-shirts for the 6-7am hour and the 1-2pm hour of each day. All exact weight boats that weren’t claimed were "luck-o-the-draw" boats on the final day. This event paid out slightly over MILLION in cash and prizes. As a special note; one of the McBass anglers out on the lake was none other than baseball hall of famer Roger Clemens who was fishing with motion picture actor, Mathew McConahay’s son as his fishing partner. No reports of how Roger done however. "Dedicated to Dad, Bob Sealy announced to the thousands of spectators and anglers who were watching the final moments of the 25th Annual. For he was my hero and taught me to be successful in life. He passed away 3 months ago at the age of 91 and I’ll miss him greatly." Bob then greeted Ronald McDonald and handed him a check for $37,755 to be added to the already millions of dollars the McBass anglers had donated over the past 25 years from fishing his tournament. We made history here today, Bob continued, with 7,551 entries for this event beating our old record set back in 1993 of 6,636 anglers. We drew anglers from 42 states and 5 countries’ Bob reviewed, and we were the ONLY tournament to be featured on a recent National Geographic program. We’ve made history in many ways over these past 25 years, Bob stated, and I promise you all that you haven’t seen nothing yet!!! "Mark your calendars for April 16-17-18 of 2010 for the 26th Annual McDonalds Big Bass Splash, Bob announced, and as the sounds of Nashville recording artist Blake Shelton began to reverberate across the Umphrey Pavilion tournament site, the 25th Annual McDonalds Big Bass Splash eased into big bass history. Sunday Results- A 9.24 lb big bass weighed-in by Steve Ray of Deridder LA, managed to take T-shirt bonus of $5,000. Steve caught his big bite at 6:30am when it hit a Carolina rigged 14" black/blue BM Bayou worm. The Black Forest was the area and a 15ft clay ridge provided the bass for Steve’s bonus check. Harry Andrews of Bridge City TX, caught the exact weight 4.0 bass that would put the keys to a fully rigged $25,000 Triton bass boat in his tackle pack. This was to be the 2nd win for the lucky angler who landed an exact weight bass boat in the 1985 big bass splash event. Keith Kellum of Valley Mills TX, landed a 9.42 lb big bass while fishing 5ft grass-patch in the Needmore Point area with a 1oz tiger orange Trap. Keith would also take home the T-shirt bonus of $5,000 for his lucky catch. Mike Shaw of Hemphill TX, took the exact weight 3.0 to win a fully rigged $25,000 Triton bass boat. Skip Netherland of Overton TX, took a $25,000 Triton Bass boat after weighing a 5.0. "I just guessed the bass weighed 5lbs, Skip told the press, so I brought it in to see if it was an exact weight 5.0 bass.
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