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Outdoors Notebook: Anglers try to end Rose’s streak this weekend, Bryan signs two girls

Hollie Reagan from Walters State Community College, left, and Briana Tucker of Hartselle (Ala.) High School recently became the first female signees for the Bryan College fishing program.
Hollie Reagan from Walters State Community College, left, and Briana Tucker of Hartselle (Ala.) High School recently became the first female signees for the Bryan College fishing program. Hollie Reagan from Walters State Community College, left, and Briana Tucker of Hartselle (Ala.) High School recently became the first female signees for the Bryan College fishing program.

By Ron Bush 3 min read

The third 2017 tournament in the FLW Tour series begins today on the Harris Chain of lakes in Central Florida, after February events on Lake Guntersville in northeastern Alabama and Lake Travis in Texas.

Mark Rose of West Memphis, Ark., and Bryan Thrift of Shelby, N.C., finished first and second in both tournaments last month. In the Tour’s 20-year history, no one ever had won back-to-back tournaments in Fishing League Worldwide’s top series, and having the same runner-up makes the achievement all the more remarkable.

That’s $250,000 in winnings so far this year for Rose, by the way.

Former Ooltewah resident Jay Kendrick of Grant, Ala., is 17th in the point standings, and Dayton’s Michael Neal is 19th. Wesley Strader of Spring City and Andy Morgan of Dayton, the Tour’s angler of the year three of the last four seasons, are 33rd and 34th.

Bryan signs two girls