Dudley Dredges Up 15-02, Edges Martin By 1-04

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He said the fish he lost yesterday was around 4 pounds. He onlyweighed four fish yesterday, and lost to Dudley by exactly 4pounds.
5th: Cherry Happy Too
"I'm happy with it," Cherry said. "I pretty much knew going intotoday that I couldn't win, unless those guys screwed up. So I wentand fished for big fish and had a lot of fun. I stayed on thechannel, but fished the bank. I didn't go out on the ledges.
"As the week went on in practice, each day got a little better andbetter," he added. "I thought I had a legitimate chance to win. Ididn't know if I'd catch enough to win, but I thought if I caught13 to 15 a day, that would be about the range. I wasn't quite therethe last 2 days, but the first 2 days were all right."
One possible regret concerns yesterday. The water dropped, but hestayed tight to the bank. "Maybe I could have caught a couple extrafish if I moved (out a little). You live and learn."
Additional Notes
Following are some highlights from today's weigh-in.
> 6th: Craig Powers  "I've been friends with Dave a long time, and we were fishingsomething totally different, so I didn't feel like I was hurtingmyself by helping him out (with a custom paint job). And for him todo what he did on the crankbaits I painted, that's a compliment tomyself, and I'm tickled to death for him and awful proud of him."
> 7th: Andy Montgomery  "I messed up a little bit yesterday swimming my jig. I was goingup the lake and was going to run some new water yesterday. I gothalfway up there and turned around and came back down the lake. Boythat was a dumb decision. Today at like 10:30 I didn't have a bite,so I took off up there. I stopped on the first dock and caught oneof those good ones. The next cast I caught another good one. I losta good one off that dock, then started catching them."
> 8th: Andy Morgan  "I've been pretty much on a downhill slide since the first day.I didn't really have an area that was outstanding. I just had tohustle around and fish. I basically ran new water today and fisheddocks all day and covered a lot of water. That's what we used to dohere back years ago, and I just said 'Hey, I'll go give it a shottoday' and I caught 11 pounds."
> 9th: Jerry Green  "They just kind of played out on me today. (My area) was uparound Turkey Creek. There's three major bays that are real closeto it, and also a loading ramp that a lot of tournaments go out of.Between the three bays, and a lot of fish coming back to theloading ramp from other tournaments, there's just a lot of fish inthat area."
> 10th: Ramie Colson, Jr.  "I'm very tickled to get my first FLW Tour Top 10. I finallybroke the ice this year, and finally won a tournament (in) the FLWSeries. Yesterday was disappointing. I only caught two, but there's190 other people that would love to be in my shoes, so I just wentfishing today and caught five."
Notable
> Day 4 stats  10 anglers, 8 limits (same as yesterday), 1four, 1 three.
> FLW Outdoors changed its weigh-in format today. Instead ofeach angler weighing fish until he retires the leader or retireshimself, the final three anglers (Dudley, Martin and Ferguson)weighed one fish each, then another fish each, and so on. Thejury's out on whether it's an improvement.
> Morgan, as noted the previous 2 days, retained his AOY lead.To view the updated standings, click here .
Day 4 (Final) Standings
1. David Dudley -- Lynchburg, Va -- 5, 14-09 -- 5, 15-02 -- 10,29-11 -- $100,000 + $25,000
2. Scott Martin -- Clewiston, Fl -- 5, 13-10 -- 5, 14-13 -- 10,28-07 -- $50,000
3. Art Ferguson III -- St. Clair Shores, Mi -- 5, 19-02 -- 4, 7-11-- 9, 26-13 -- $40,000
4. Brandon Coulter -- Knoxville, Tn -- 4, 8-09 -- 5, 17-02 -- 9,25-11 -- $30,000
5. Hank Cherry -- Maiden, Nc -- 5, 7-13 -- 5, 13-13 -- 10, 21-10 --$20,000
6. Craig Powers -- Rockwood, Tn -- 5, 11-05 -- 5, 10-01 -- 10,21-06 -- $19,000
7. Andy Montgomery -- Blacksburg, Sc -- 5, 8-04 -- 5, 11-11 -- 10,19-15 -- $18,000
8. Andy Morgan -- Dayton, Tn -- 5, 7-08 -- 5, 11-04 -- 10, 18-12 --$17,000
9. Jerry Green -- Del Rio, Tx -- 5, 8-07 -- 3, 7-14 -- 8, 16-05 --$16,000
10. Ramie Colson, Jr. -- Cadiz, Ky -- 2, 2-08 -- 5, 7-14 -- 7,10-06 -- $15,000

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