Southern Garrett students to be featured on Outdoor Channel show

DECATUR, Ala. — Two Garrett County high school students will star on the Outdoor Channel’s “Fishing University.”

Joe McClosky and Trent Lohr, students at Southern Garrett High School, competed with 781 other high school two-student teams from across the U.S. and Canada by posting fishing stories on social media.

Their 1,421 posts put them in the top two to actually film an entire episode with co-hosts and angling legends Charlie Ingram and Ray Brazier. 

The show will be filmed in Ellijay, Georgia, on Carter’s Lake in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Dec. 12-15. The pair will compete against a team from Kentucky for a $10,000 cash college scholarship as well as a $28,000 full four-year tuition scholarship to Bethel University in Tennessee that includes automatic placement on the Bethel University Wildcat bass fishing team. 

McClosky and Lohr, teammates on the Southern Garrett Bass Slayers Team, have loved fishing since they were toddlers. “This is a chance of a lifetime,” said McClosky, “and I think we are ready.”

“Our parents are equally excited,” said Lohr, “and our coach, Bret Winegardner, will be going with us as well. Just to get to fish alongside these two great legends is exciting in itself, but knowing we could win our college tuition fully paid for is unbelievable,” he concluded. 

The show will be seen on the Outdoor Channel three times during the first six months of 2017 and on WFN-World Fishing Network 12 times from July through December.

The show airs in all 50 states and 52 countries. More than 63 million viewers will watch the show during 2017.

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Posted on 12/02/2016 in Uncategorized