Bass Masters Returns To High Rock

May 15, 2007

Bass Masters will be in Greensboro this week for a four day tournament. I’ve never been to one of these events, and with my schedule this week I know I can’t make it, but I understand the weigh in is something to see. These will be happening at the Greensboro Coliseum every afternoon beginning at 4pm. Info from Bassmasters Website;

The Bassmaster American, one of three major tournaments on the nation’s oldest fishing circuit, will make a four-day appearance in the Triad, offering a total purse of $601,400 to the 51-man field, including a first-place prize of $250,000.
The pros will fish High Rock Lake, south of Lexington, on Thursday and Friday. After the second day of competition, the field will be cut to the 12 anglers with the heaviest two-day weight totals, and then the tournament will shift to Lake Townsend for Saturday’s third round.
The municipal lake will be divided into six fishing “holes” through which the dozen leaders will rotate, with the top six on Saturday returning for Sunday’s final round and another trip around the six-hole fishing course.
Daily weigh-ins will begin at 4 p.m. ET at the Coliseum. The field will blast off at 6:15 a.m. on Thursday and Friday from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Southmont Access Area off Route 8, and at 6:15 a.m. from Lake Townsend Marina on Saturday and Sunday. Those events are open to the public, as well as a fishing Expo at the Coliseum’s Special Events Center at 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

It’s great to see the professionals fishing municipal lakes where the average guy goes on the weekend to catch some as well. Wouldn’t it be nice to run into Bill Jordan or Jackie Bushman next deer season while hunting on public lands.