Jacksonville resident, Jacob Wall is on his way to win a $5,000 scholarship from his fishing prowess!
Congratulations to Jacksonville’s Jacob Wall, a junior at St. Mary’s School, who, along with Colby Pearson of Central Point, a senior at Crater High School, won the Oregon FLW High School qualifier team tournament on the Columbia River last spring. Wall and his team mate Pearson, then qualified to fish the FLW High School Western Regionals on lake Saguaro last fall where they landed a five bass limit amounting to fourteen pounds even.
Jacob Wall on left & Colby Pearson
“This was a great experience to go back and fish in Arizona, Colby and I really figured something out during that tournament and we executed very cleanly and didn’t have any major mistakes that came back to bite us.”
That victory gave Wall and Pearson a birth into the FLW High School Nationals this coming April, 15 on Lake Murray in South Carolina. Wall says, “This isn’t the first time that I have been to South Carolina for fishing, I know what to expect and believe Colby and I have the skills and knowledge to do well.”
Winning on Lake Murray this coming spring would reward 17 year-old Wall and 18 year-old Pearson with a combined 10,000 scholarship to the college of their choice.