24 entries, July 12, Ledge Rock access, Falls Lake,

TOP BASS FINISHERS: 1, Ken Wall, Asheboro, and Chad Craven, Raleigh, five bass, 22.32 pounds, $810; 2, Jay Garrard, Durham, and Rhonda Cheatham, Durham, four fish, 18.73, $440; 3, Barry Kleinfelter, Durham, and Bob Rogers, Durham, five fish, 18.58, $300; 4, Make Salguero, Durham, four fish, 16.15, $220; 5, Randy Johnson, Hillsborough, and Gary Johnson, Hillsborough, five fish, 15.36, $150; big fish: David Matthews, Creedmoor, and Bobby Matthews, Durham, 6.99, $240

NEXT: July 26, Jordan Lake, Farrington Point access

INFORMATION: Phil McCarson (919) 471-1571, philsflags@msn.com, www.geocities.com/piedmontcrappieclassics

WAL-MART FLW TOUR

200 boaters, 200 co-anglers, July 10 -13, Detroit River, Detroit, Mich.

Professional angler Alvin Shaw of State Road, N.C., is not a flashy or brash kind of guy. In a room full of people, he's likely one of the last ones you would notice.

So when Shaw entered the Wal-Mart FLW Tour Chevy Open on the Detroit River, many never gave him a second thought as a potential winner.

Even after Shaw qualified for the top 10 on Friday afternoon, he hid in the shadows of much more heralded smallmouth experts from Michigan and Ohio.

On the final day, Shaw brought in 18 pounds, 13 ounces of smallmouth to defend his day-three lead with a tournament winning total of 39-11 -- just three ounces more than runner-up Vic Vatalaro of Kent, Ohio.

"This feels great," Shaw said after collecting $200,000. "You know, I led after day two at the Wal-Mart Open a couple of months ago and shot myself in the foot during the finals with some bad decisions and ended up ninth. I haven't forgotten about that since -- it's the kind of thing that haunts you, but it also motivates you. So it feels good to kind of redeem myself here after dropping the ball at Beaver."

Shaw reeled in his win from the Miles Road area of Lake St. Clair in about 15 feet of water. He found his most productive spots on the calmest days in practice when his depthfinder would reveal the most detail about the bottom.

Despite a 19-7 final-day limit, Vatalaro finished second with a two-day total of 39-8 to collect $50,000.

"Three ounces!" he exclaimed in a whisper. "Man! It kills me! It just makes me think about what I could have done different, and the answer is really nothing. I only lost one fish in the last two days. I did come in about 30 minutes too early yesterday because I wanted to make sure I made it back in time. Maybe I could have culled one more time out there yesterday, who knows. But what can you do? I fished my best."

TOP PROS: (Days 3 and 4) 1, Alvin Shaw, State Road, N.C., 10 bass, 39 pounds, 11 ounces, $200,000; 2, Vic Vatalaro, Kent, Ohio, 10 fish, 39-8, $50,000; 3, Mark Modrak, China Township, Mich., 10 fish, 31-4, $40,000; 4, Kim Stricker, Howell, Mich., 10 fish, 26-4, $35,000; 5, J.T. Kenney, Port Charlotte, Fla., nine fish 25-1, $30,000; 6, David Reault, Livonia, Mich., eight fish, 21-14, $28,000; 7, Michael Bennett, Lincoln, Calif., eight fish, 21-8, $26,000; 8, Keith Monson, Burgin, Ky., eight fish, 18-11, $24,000; 9, Keith Combs, Del Rio, Texas, six fish, 16-13, $22,000; 10, David McCrone, Minnetonka, Minn., two fish, 6-15, $20,000

TOP CO-ANGLERS: (Day 3) 1, Mark Frickman, Grand Ledge, Mich., five bass, 19-4, $30,000; 2, Mike Weidman, Burton, Mich., five fish, 17-9, $10,000; 3, J.B. Young, Deer Park, Texas., five fish, 16-3, $9,000; 4, Jerry Weisinger, Wyandotte, Okla., three fish, 11-8, $8,000; 5, Andrew Lemle, Perrysburg, Ohio, five fish, 11-7, $7,000; 6, Diane Delagarza, Garland, Texas, four fish, 10-4, $6,000; 7, Scott Gibson, Biloxi, Miss., three fish, 6-11, $5,000; 8, Ron Fabiszak, South Bend, Ind., one fish, 4-2, $4,000; 9, Hector Delagarza, Garland, Texas, one fish, 2-9, $3,000; 10, Todd Robbins, Romulus, Mich., one fish, 1-13, $2,000

TOP N.C. CO-ANGLER: 18, Burley Hamill III, Wake Forest, 10 bass, 30-7, $1,400

INFORMATION: (270) 252-1000, www.flwoutdoors.com