MOUNTAIN HOME, ARKANSAS – Anglers Carter McNeil and Cole Floyd of Bethel University had an 18-pound, 5-ounces weigh-in this past Saturday to win the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Regional presented by Bass
Pro Shops at Bull Shoals Lake near Mountain Home, Arkansas.
The Bethel Wildcat Bass Team now has six teams qualified to fish the Bassmasters National
Championship to be held in August.
The Bass Cats also have a record number of 11 boats qualified to fish the FLW National Championship
this upcoming June 5-7 in Maryland on the Potomac River.
The pair of McNeil and Floyd sat in 58 th place out of 198 boats from over 62 different schools after day one of the
competition. They were able to move to 6th place after day two.
Starting championship Saturday in 6th place, McNeil and Floyd brought in the biggest bag of the day,
second largest of the three-day event, to total 48 lbs. 6 ounces with their three day-fifteen fish limit. The
Bethel team finished 1 lb. 10 ounces ahead of day two leaders Joshua Boone and Blake Riley of Eastern
Kentucky University, who weighed their smallest bag of the week at 13 lbs. 15 ounces to total 46-12.
“This is a great thing for these two guys, and for our school,” said Coach Garry Mason of Springville, who has had
angler John Garrett of Union City, qualify for the 2017 Bassmaster Classic. “Carter and Cole have been very close to a
win everywhere we’ve competed. Now they’ve got huge win under their belt.”
Mason added, “They’re going to get to fish the Bassmasters National Championship again, so this a very
exciting time for Bethel University, and also for Carter and Cole. We appreciate how hard they work.”
Carter and Cole won second place in the 2017 Bassmasters National Championship held in Bemidji,
Minnesota. They also won the 2018 Cabela’s National Championship held in Florence, Alabama this past
June. That win vaulted the Bethel Wildcats to an ACA School of the Year Award, one of the highest
achievements awarded in collegiate bass fishing.
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