City Of Athens Relay For Life Bass Tournament Fishing Winners

ATHENS-The third annual City of Athens Relay for Life Team Bass Fishing Tournament today (May 10) at Ingalls Harbor raised $7,000 for the American Cancer Society.

That brings the total raised for this Relay campaign by the city’s team to $17,000, nearly a $3,000 increase from last year’s campaign.

The Athens Gas Department grilling crew cooked over 600 pieces of chicken all day Friday for first responders and tornado victims, and then was asked to cook more later Friday night. Despite that long day and night of cooking, the grilling crew came out to support the fishing tournament and grill hamburgers and hot dogs for the boaters.

“This tournament is special to us because the man who helped us get it started so we could ‘fish for a cure,’ Al Dutton, died from cancer last

year,” said Relay Team Captain Holly Hollman. “This is our largest team fundraiser, and we are indebted to Al and his friends in the Limestone Lunkers for helping us with the tournament.”

This year’s big fish winners were Eddie Jewell and Shane Jewell (photo attached) with a 4.49 pound bass. The duo also finished 9th overall.

The top 10 winners were:

Michael Daniel and Chris Downs, first place, 16.54 pounds

Richard Hayes, second place, 16.53 pounds

Wes Ward and Grant Hopson, third place, 16.11 pounds

Harlow Fikes and Andrew Fikes, fourth place, 13.24 pounds

Scott Mungenast and Ash Ghoja, fifth place, 13.21 pounds

Danny Johnson and Phil Terry, sixth place, 12.12 pounds

Ricky Hughes and Colby Hughes, seventh place, 11.92 pounds. This duo barely missed out on the big fish pot with a bass weighing 4.48 pounds.

Harold Turner, eighth place, 11.9 pounds

Eddie Jewell and Shane Jewell, ninth place, 11.47 pounds

Donnie Peacock and Austin Ball, 10th place, 11.04 pounds