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The Coughlins win the Ameriprise 1st place on Douglas
Story by Steve Jennings

The fourth East Tennessee Fishers of Men Tournament was held on Douglas Lake. 

Leadvale Baptist Church was the host church again this year.  Ginger and the Ladies of the church do an awesome job making everyone welcome and provide some of the best lasagna you will ever eat.  After a great meal came a message from Pastor Brandon Cates, where we had one young man get saved.

Saturday morning came with a mixed morning of overcast skies and then the sun came but about an hour before weigh-in the rain began and did not let up until after the weigh-in was over.  With Saturday being a completely different day weather wise fishermen were wondering if the changes would affect the fishing.  Maybe it did but there was a lot of fish good fish caught and there were 21 limits weighed in, so it was a good day to fish.

The Ameriprise First place went to the father and son team of Matt and Bob Coughlin.  This team reported catching the lunker of the tournament on the first cast of the day and then caught only 2 more fish cranking and at 11:30 put the big plug down and went to flipping.  By weigh-in time they returned to the scales with 5 fishing weighing in at 20.01 pounds

 Second place went to the team of Marty Steward and Bobby Ferguson who managed to catch 17.69 pounds of fish for their high finish.

Third place went to Eddie Ball and Kenny Holt who reported catching over 25 fish during the day on Strike King deep diving crankbaits and Caroline rig fishing as deep as 25 feet on rocky points.

Fourth place went to the team of Kenny Sexton and J. C. Loveday who had 14.08 pounds of fish.  This knowable team ran the Mercury powered BassCat all over Douglas Lake to catch their fish flipping bushes.
 
The Lucky Dawg award which is White Pine Marine pays the next entry for the team that finished one place out of the money.  This time goes to the team of Rod Garrett and Paul Rogers.
Eugene Randolph and George Galyon got the Berkley Cast for Cash $250 this time with a nice bag of bass weighing in at 12.82 pounds.
East Tennessee Fishers of Men would like to thank it local sponsors that make everything possible this year Bill Freeman and Randy White with Ameriprise Financial, White Pine Marine, Dixie Custom Tackle, Mack’s Auto Glass Express and Custom Body Shop 865-566-4320, Tennessee Overhead Door and B&M Tires.
Fishers of Men would like to thank all our fine sponsors; BassCat Boats, Mercury, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Spiderwire, Shakespeare, Strike King Lure Company, Power-Pole, TH Marine, Jim Hudson Toyota, Sportsman's Warehouse, Duckett Fishing, BassBoat Technologies, Buckeye Lures, Gator Guards, Kistler Rods, Amphibia Eyewear, Jacobs Glass.

Roster Information:

Douglas - 05/04/19

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	24139	Matt Coughlin Bob Coughlin	5	5.82	20.01	0	20.01	200
2	24383	Marty Stewart Bobby Ferguson	5	5.33	17.69	0	17.69	199
3	24544	Eddie Ball Kenny Holt	5	5.16	15.92	0.25	15.67	198
4	10287	Ken Sexton J C Loveday	5	4.53	14.08	0	14.08	197
5	23374	Trinity Cawood Bill Humbard	5	0	13.97	0	13.97	196
6	1117	Paul Rogers Rod Garrett	5	0	13.31	0	13.31	195
7	22616	Eugene Randolph George Galyon Jr.	5	0	12.82	0	12.82	194
8	21523	George Headdon Rick Ellis	5	0	12.64	0	12.64	193
9	23852	Bobby Cardwell Michael Cantrell	5	0	12.6	0	12.6	192
10	1100	Kenny Bishop Ed Kyte	5	0	11.68	0	11.68	191
11	23841	Ronny Jones Bailey Fain	5	0	11.66	0	11.66	190
12	15906	Chester Wooton Timothy Vanover	5	0	11.77	0.25	11.52	189
13	23858	Jason White David Burgess	5	0	10.12	0	10.12	188
14	15003	Tim Leonard Tom Leonard	5	0	10.07	0	10.07	187
15	23896	Robert Satterfield Rebecca Satterfield	5	0	10.01	0	10.01	186
16	23853	Cory Stuart Trey Utter	5	0	9.64	0	9.64	185
17	12123	John Long Karen Taylor	5	0	10.33	1	9.33	184
18	22557	William Freeman Michael Melton	5	0	8.94	0	8.94	183
19	1121	Michael Smith Brian Jordan	5	0	8.6	0	8.6	182
20	1118	Jeff Beach William Maggard	5	0	8.38	0	8.38	181
21	18712	Chris Sexton Mason Sexton	5	0	8.1	0.25	7.85	180
22	15074	Benjamin Boggs Bobby Boggs	4	0	7	0	7	179
23	23225	Randy Osborne Rodney Satterfield	3	0	7	0.25	6.75	178
24	3869	Greg Cope Donnie Wormsley	5	0	5.98	0.25	5.73	177
25	24542	William Kissinger Tom Helton	3	0	5.18	0	5.18	176
26	21829	Calvin Murphy Steve Terry	3	0	4.44	0.25	4.19	175
27	21525	Nathan Crisp Jason Holder	0	0	0	0	0	174
28	24203	Tate Rice Robert Banks	0	0	0	0	0	174
29	8490	Randall White Randall White II	0	0	0	0	0	124
Kenny Sexton J.C Loveday 4th placed 2nd place

Kenny Sexton J.C Loveday 4th placed 2nd place