Cooksey wins Cranberry championship

As I mentioned before, Bub Cooksey of Newark won the Cranberry Marsh Bass Club championship tournament Oct. 9 and 10 at Delaware and Alum Creek lakes. He did it with a cath of four bass weighing 6.78 pounds on Saturday at Delaware and four bass weighing 7.82 pounds Sunday at Alum Creek, for a ttal of 14.6 pounds. He also took big bass honors with a 3.27-pound fish caught at Alum.
Shaun Magers came in second with 10.09 pounds, which included five fish at Delaware weighing 7.16 pounds and three at Alum weighing 2.93 pounds.
Finishing third was Rick McDonald II with 9.61 pounds. He had five bass weighing 6.53 pounds Saturday and three weighing 3.08 pounds Sunday.
Jerry Mossman placed fourth with eight bass weighing 9.59 pounds. He had five bass weighing 6.67 pounds Saturday and three bass weighing 2.92 pounds Sunday.
Fifth place went to Otis McCloud with six bass weighing 8.07 pounds. he had five bass weighing 6.16 pounds Saturday and one weighing 1.91 pounds Sunday.
In all, 63 keeper bas were weighed in by the 13 members fishing, 49 of them at Delaware and 14 at Alum Creek. Six five-fish limits were weighed in, all of them at Delaware.