Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 11, 1995 TAG: 9505110099
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BILL COCHRAN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
``I'll treat him like anyone else. He's just another competitor,'' David Dudley said of his dad, James.
Both the Dudleys, from Lynchburg, have earned a spot on the 12-man Virginia State B.A.S.S. Federation team. They will go rod-to-rod with one another in the Eastern Division Federation competition late September on Lake George, N.Y. That is one of the stops on the road to the 1996 BASS Masters Classic.
David Dudley already is in the 1995 Classic, set for High Rock Lake out of Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 3-5. The 19-year-old assured himself a berth by finishing third two weekends ago in the BASS Master Virginia Invitational on Kerr Lake.
In the same tournament, during three days of competition, James Dudley could find only four bass willing to hit his lures. That gave him a three-day total of 7 pounds, 11 ounces.
Last weekend, James Dudley was casting to the same closed-mouthed Kerr bass and landed a two-day catch of just over 25 pounds during the Virginia B.A.S.S. Federation Six-Man Teams competition. That gave him a second-place finish and qualified him for Virginia's federation team. David had made the team earlier by winning the Virginia Federation Regional Classic.
While the on-the-water competition between the Dudleys will be fierce in New York, and maybe beyond, there will be sharing of information in the evenings, David said. Even through the message right now is ``I'm not going to hold back,'' David said he would be proud to see his dad make the Classic one more time (James Dudley competed in the 1986 Classic).
Other members who have qualified for the Virginia team are Tim Newman of Lynchburg, who won the weekend Kerr tournament with 26.82 pounds, Tim Wilson of Natural Bridge, Raymond Tweedy of Appomattox and Cameron Copp of Woodstock. Additional tournaments will determine the other members.
STRIPERS STRIKING: Smith Mountain Lake has produced another huge striped bass, this one a 41-pound, 4-ounce trophy landed Monday by Rick Van Hoy of Raleigh, N.C.
Other stripers are being caught in the Roanoke (Staunton) River where it can appear that every fish in Kerr Lake suddenly has crowded into the stream. River fishermen are using cut and live shad, six-inch Rebel lures and bucktails to hook the stripers.
Big largemouth bass continue to be caught in Briery Creek Lake, where James Robinson of Chesterfield weighed a 10-pound, 7-ounce catch on a minnow. Bill Chassin of Chesterfield used a plastic lizard to catch a 9-pound, 14 1/2-pound bass.
Trophy smallmouth bass are being hooked at Claytor Lake, where Rick Lawson of Newport News got a 5-pounder.
Garthfield O'Quin of Nora caught and released six Moomaw Lake smallmouths that weighed up to 4 pounds. For the handful of fishermen who know where to find them, Moomaw also is yielding hefty size crappie at 12- to 15-foot depths.
Van Daniels of Forest caught a 6.10-pound rainbow trout on a Joe's Fly in the Hidden Valley stretch of the Jackson River.
RECORD APPROVED: The 2-pound, 3-ounce yellow perch caught at Lake Moomaw by Donald Crouse Jr. of Alleghany County has been approved as a state record. The fish measured 14 1/2 inches. The former record was a 2-pound, 2-ounce New River fish.
by CNB