{"id":11879,"date":"2025-05-07T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanbassanglers.com\/news\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:48:06","slug":"tom-and-missy-bancroft-take-the-win-on-clarks-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanbassanglers.com\/news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/tom-and-missy-bancroft-take-the-win-on-clarks-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom and Missy Bancroft take the win on Clark\u2019s Hill!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 3, 2025, McCormick, South Carolina\u2014Clark\u2019s Hill was the site of the 9th tournament of the American Bass Anglers Couples Series, South Carolina Division #11. Twenty-six teams were greeted with partly cloudy and mild temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom and Missy Bancroft took the win with five bass for a total weight of 12.96 pounds, earning first-place prize money of $878 and 200 points. \u00a0Tom and Missy had a \u00bd day of practice starting at 11:30 and catching a quick limit on a Texas rigged worm, cementing our game plan for tournament day.\u00a0 With an earlier start on tournament day, we tried to catch an early topwater bite, but with no success, we returned to the worm bite we found in practice.\u00a0 Although Clark\u2019s Hill is noted for being a shad and herring bite, we were catching bass feeding on bream using watermelon or scuppernong worms with dyed ultra-vibe tails to imitate bream.\u00a0 Fortunately, Tom was able to catch a 5-pounder, and Missy put a 3-pounder in the boat to anchor their bag.\u00a0 We caught lots of keeper,s but most were on the small side.\u00a0 We fished painfully slow in one creek all day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In second place were Bart and Che Gore, who weighed five bass for a total of 12.63 pounds. Earning the team $488 in prize money and 199 points.\u00a0 Bart shared that they had a decent practice, especially since they had never been on Clark\u2019s Hill before.\u00a0 They just did some old-school worm fishing and let the good lord handle the rest. Thanks to our directors for the work they put in and to the great group of people to fish with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cole Taylor and Addyson Hale claimed third place with a total of 11.73 pounds, earning $291 in prize money and 198 points. Cole and Addy started their day fishing the herring spawn with flukes, doing most of their damage. Then, that bite went away, and they fished wind-blown banks with spinnerbaits and offshore brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fourth place went to John and Susan Mills with five bass weighing 10.58 pounds.\u00a0 The Mills won $195 in prize money and 197 points. \u00a0John and Susan fished shallow crank baits, shaky head, and Texas rigged trick worms in shallow depths to 14 feet of water to catch their bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fifth place went to Troy Crippen and Tina Berg with five bass weighing 9.33 pounds.\u00a0 Troy and Tina won $98 in prize money and 196 points. This is the first year for Troy and Tina fishing tournaments together, and the first time they\u2019ve placed in any tournament.\u00a0 They are hoping they\u2019re getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missy Bancroft caught the Ladies Big Bass weighing in at 3.41 pounds and earned $130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bart Gore weighed in the Men\u2019s Big Bass with a weight of 6.44 pounds and earned $130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final Results<\/p>\n

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