Beech Tree News Network

Butler County Bassmasters held the first Annual Green River Catfish Festival Open Bass Tournament at the Aberdeen Boat Ramp on Green River. "We had a great day on the water at our inaugural event," said Daniel Cardwell.

Roger Flener and Jacob Mudd took home the $1000 top prize with 5 fish weighing 10.46 lbs., as well as big fish with a nice 4.00 lb largemouth. The total purse for the event came in at $1800.00 cash and prizes.

Other winners were:

2nd Travis Warren and Chad Morris with 9.77 lbs.

3rd Chris Phelps and Danny Cardwell with 9.64 lbs.

4th Jimmy and Brian Vincent with 7.70 lbs.

5th was Daniel Cardwell and Nathan Neighbors with 6.92 lbs.
Cabelas was the title sponsor for this event Saturday June the 27th.

"BCB would also like to thank everyone who fished this Saturday at Green River. It was a great day to be on the water under tough conditions but, we had 15 boats participate with 38 fish being caught for a total weight of 61.00 lbs. with all fish being released alive to be caught again another day. We look forward to seeing everyone at Barren River Lake for our next points tournament event of the year, on July the 10th 6:30 PM to 3:00 AM. For more information on fishing with us or keeping up with club activities you can visit us on our Facebook page or the club web site at www.butlercountybassmasters.webs.com.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors who helped to make this event possible and BCB hopes to make this an annual Catfish Festival event," said Daniel Cardwell.