
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 7, 1990                   TAG: 9005070291
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BILL COCHRAN
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SALEM, VINTON ANGLERS REEL IN TOURNEY WINNERS

Russell Matney plugged his way into the winner's circle of the Cave Spring Optimist Club fishing tournament Sunday with a 5.75-pound largemouth bass.

Matney, from Salem, entered his fish at 4:10 a.m. Sunday after casting a plug to the Gills Creek section of Smith Mountain Lake most of the night.

The bass unseated a 5.30-pound largemouth that had been leading the tournament since Friday.

Sunday's winners included a couple of repeat champions. Buster McRoy of Vinton, who won the crappie category with a 2.05-pound catch, also was the top crappie angler in 1987.

Ray Ratliff of Grundy was first in the smallmouth division this year and in 1981. His bass, landed late Saturday on a spinnerbait in the Beacon Marina area, weighed 3.45 pounds.

The winners:

Largemouth - 1, Russell Matney, Salem, 5.75; 2, Steve Dalton Sr., Hurt, 5.30 pounds; 3, Johnny Wright, Sandy Levels, 5.

Smallmouth - 1, Ray Ratliff, Grundy, 3.45; 2, Bill Bumgarner, Richlands, 3.15; 3, William Monk, Richlands, 3.15.

Walleye - 1, Clarence Carden, Radford, 4.20; 2, Gary Wilson, Rocky Mount, 4.

Crappie - 1, Buster McRoy, Vinton, 2.05; 2, Perry Brown, Penhook, 1.85; 3, Michael Toney, Wirtz, 1.80.

Catfish - 1, Mike Tuck, Moneta, 10.45.

Youth carp - Amanda Rehnborg, Rocky Mount, 4.50.

Youth bluegill - Chad Thomas, Abingdon, .55.

by CNB