Murray State Wins College Fishing National Championship

WKMS | By Liam Niemeyer

Published June 7, 2019 at 3:14 PM CDT

The Murray State University bass anglers team won the Fishing League Worldwide College Fishing National Championship on Thursday in Maryland.

Rising Juniors Blake Albertson and Adam Puckett caught a total 51 pounds and three ounces of fish on the Potomac River by the end of the three-day championship.

The duo edged out the second place team from Bethel University by three ounces, the smallest margin of victory in the championship’s history.

The championship wins the duo a brand new boat and outboard and more than $27,000 dollars of prize money. Albertson and Puckett will also get a chance to compete in the 2019 FLW Cup, considered to be the world championship of bass fishing, in August.

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Liam Niemeyer

"Liam Niemeyer is a reporter for the Ohio Valley Resource covering agriculture and infrastructure in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia and also serves Assistant News Director at WKMS. He has reported for public radio stations across the country from Appalachia to Alaska, most recently as a reporter for WOUB Public Media in Athens, Ohio. He is a recent alumnus of Ohio University and enjoys playing tenor saxophone in various jazz groups."

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