VERY TOP PHOTO:  Gabe St. John (L) and Mason Dople (R)

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR (WLAF) – Campbell County Middle School Fishing Team members Mason Dople and Gabe St. John won the Bass Federation’s Junior State Championship in May on Chickamauga Lake in south Tennessee.   Their coach, Mike King, said, “They weighed in 12.59 lbs for the impressive win, and that sent them on to the Nationals in August on the Arkansas River.

Pro bass fisherman Hank Parker (M) takes time for a photo with St. John (L) and Dople (R).

The Nationals began Thursday at North Little Rock, Arkansas, with Dople and St. John representing Campbell County in the TBF FLW Junior World Championship.  It’s a three-day tournament.  (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 08/09/2019-6AM-PHOTO COURTESY OF COACH MIKE KING)