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Grayson Brandt of the North Augusta Fishing Team brought in the heaviest sack of bass, and his teammates took five of the top six places at the South Carolina 2013 BASS Federation National State Junior Championship, held Nov. 2 on Lake Murray.

The announcement that the Forrest Wood Cup will return to Lake Murray next August has lit a fire in the competitive spirits of several South Carolina anglers who hope for a shot at the championship's $500,000 first prize. 

Tim Jones of North Augusta caught only nine bass during the two-day Bassmaster Weekend Series Division 9 championship tournament on Clarks Hill Lake this past weekend, but he still won the event by more than two pounds.

Skip Parker of Laurens and Columbia's Burl Fleming were one of only six teams that brought a five-fish limit to the scales of the Aug. 10 Lake Murray Seniors Fishing Tournament, and they won the contest by one pound

Christie Winge and Daniel Culpepper were the big winners in the 18th annual Big Kahuna Pier Fishing Tournament held Aug. 10 at Folly Beach Pier. Winge’s 2-pound, 14-ounces Spanish mackerel won the king mackerel category in the absence of any kings, and Culpepper had a five-fish aggregate catch of five pounds, one ounce, with a trout, two bluefish and two whiting.

Hot weather and high water greeted 30 teams for the Aug. 2-3 Cabela’s King Kat catfish tournament on the Santee Cooper lakes, and a pair of Midwestern fishermen came out on top with a two-day total of 130 pounds, worth $4,300.

Samuel Freeman of Pomaria teamed up with Columbia's Scott Farmer to win the July 23 Buddy's Marine Tuesday Night Tournament on Lake Murray with a 5-fish limit weighing 16.48 pounds.

Trevor Jeffers and Hunter Bragg, seniors at the Barnwell County Career Center, won the High School Fishing World Finals Championship on Arkansas’ Lake Dardanelle, topping 133 other high school teams from 20 states in the July 17-20 tournament.

Robert Olsen was named Outstanding Angler in the Charleston Coastal Anglers 30th annual fishing tournament, held July 20 in Charleston. He caught the two biggest king mackerel, fishing weighing 40.80 and 23.97 pounds, and he finished second and third in the black sea bass category with identical fish that weighed 1.52 pounds.