There is an Alabama Bass Trails event on another location of the Tennessee River that same weekend as the Invitational. The Guntersville event will depend heavily on local anglers and out of state participants who do not engage themselves in major circuits.The Home Town, home lake advantage will be minimized by those having to follow the other events. Please read further as to why out of state participants should be excited to attend. For those not aware of the Invitational, first place has been a new Bass Cat for 30 years, and the drawing among all teams will be for a shiny new Premium model with a Mercury engine. They also have a rubber duck worth a V6 Mercury outboard, and a MotorGuide trolling motor on another duck. Following the they have Wild Card spots throughout the field that pay out the same cash as the placement does in the Top 25. For example finishing in 247th place was $753.00, placing 101st was good for $899 and first out of the money or smallest stringer awards were $1,000.00. Guntersville should be a nice draw from outside of Alabama and the hard core Bama gang will be mostly wrapped Up in the Alabama Team Trails on the TN River that same weekend. The good anglers in the area will be forced to follow the ABT for points toward their Classic. The locals participating will be those main stream anglers who just love to fish. The hard core anglers will be engaged in other circuits. The home lake advantage will be minimized by the travel to follow ABT. This is going to be a great event! BCB
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