Dayton Boat Dock on Chickamauga Lake has become a popular headquarters for fishing tournaments large and small, and another FLW event will be held there next week.
It’s FLW College Fishing’s third and final Southeastern Conference regular-season tournament of 2016, and the winning team on Sept. 24 will get $2,000 and a place in the national championship event.
School teams can register until that morning, but nearly 60 two-person boats had entered as of Tuesday, including local anglers Robbie Moore and E.J. Crutcher from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Crossville residents Dylan Fehr and Wilson Tanksley in separate Tennessee Tech boats and Dalton’s Cody Cleary of Valdosta State.
Michael Neal from FLW’s top pro series is the operator of Dayton Boat Dock, and he predicted that the winners will have to total at least 24 pounds of bass in their five keepers.
“The lake is fishing a little tough right now, but it still took a five-bass limit weighing 24 pounds to win a tournament here this past weekend,” Neal said in an FLW release about the college tournament.