The Big Fish: Connelly Springs native earns bass fishing win

Boater Travis Ruff, of Connelly Springs, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 18 pounds Saturday to win the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) North Carolina Division event on Kerr Lake in Henderson, according to a press release. “I had an awesome day,” Ruff said. “I fished the shad spawn in Nutbush Creek all day long, throwing a Lucky Craft Sammy around the bushes. I caught probably a dozen fish total, with eight or nine […]