BY DAVE LINK Joe Vaulton and Walker LaRue of the Alcoa Fishing Team are rolling toward the finish line of their high school angling partnership. They’ll have new co-anglers in 2024-25 when Vaulton, a recent Alcoa graduate, begins his fishing … [Read more...]
FCA FISHING FILES: Alcoa angler Graham Willis combines love of fishing and technology into YouTube series
BY DAVE LINK Graham Willis is chasing his dream of fishing for a living. The home-schooled senior on the Alcoa Fishing Team has a passion for fishing and the outdoors and a knack for computer technology. And he’s an entrepreneur. Willis, … [Read more...]
FCA FISHING FILES: Olivet and Payne win on Cherokee Lake
BY DAVE LINK It’s not hard to distinguish Hunter Olivet from Justin Payne when they’re in a fishing boat. “He’s all muscle,” Payne says. “I’m the scrawny one.” Maybe. Compared to Olivet. Olivet (6-0, 175 pounds) started every football … [Read more...]
FCA FISHING FILES: Pair of Father-Daughter fishing duos win big at Alcoa Fishing’s New Year’s Eve Tournament
BY DAVE LINK Alcoa Fishing Team’s third annual New Year’s Eve Tournament Dec. 30 was a big hit again on Fort Loudon Lake. And it was an especially big day for two father-daughter teams. Grace Christian Academy senior Olivia Mauldin and her … [Read more...]
FCA FISHING FILES: Cherokee Chiefs fishing tandem notch first win
BY DAVE LINK Jacob Berryhill and Isaac Chandler of the Cherokee Chiefs Fishing Team should’ve known it was their lucky day a couple of Saturdays ago. The seniors at Cherokee High School were fishing in the third stop of the Tennessee BASS … [Read more...]
FCA Fishing Files: Hayden Barnett, Camdyn Cranfill win TN Bass Nation Southeast Division event at Chickamauga Lake
BY DAVE LINK Hayden Barnett and Camdyn Cranfill didn’t need much time to find their groove as new bass-fishing co-anglers. Not any time at all, really. In their second tournament fishing together for the Roane County (Kingston) High School … [Read more...]
FCA FISHING FILES: Kingston’s Will Bacon, Hayden Barnett honored for points-race win; Barnett going solo to Bassmaster HS National Championships
BY DAVE LINK Kingston’s Hayden Barnett and Will Bacon were honored and treated to dinner last Saturday for winning the Tennessee Bass Nation’s Bass Pro Shops-Sevierville points race. By winning the points race, Barnett and Bacon – along with … [Read more...]
FCA Fishing Files: Olivia Mauldin wins Bass Pro Shops Sevierville event; Tucker Larrance, Jaxson Pierce win Juniors
BY DAVE LINK Grace Christian Academy junior Olivia Mauldin got the fishing bug when she was a young girl, going often in summers with her dad Mark, brother Garrett, and his friend Efrem. She’s never shaken the bug. “When I was little,” … [Read more...]
Rhea County’s Owen Ray and Camdyn Cranfill ‘come out swinging’ and claim Tennessee Bass National Junior State Championship
BY DAVE LINK Owen Ray and Camdyn Cranfill of the Rhea County Eagle Anglers weren’t just motivated going into the Tennessee Bass Nation’s Junior State Championship on May 21. They were doubly motivated for the event on Woods Reservoir near … [Read more...]
Eli O’Hara, Sawyer O’Hara win MEGA Juniors; B.J. Collins and Banks Shaw take MEGA High School
Sawyer and Eli O’Hara don’t fish year-around, but when they do fish, watch out. The cousins for the Alcoa Fishing Team’s juniors primarily fish in the spring, and in four tournaments this season, have two victories. Sawyer is in the seventh … [Read more...]