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Article: CAROLINA TWOSOME WEIGHS IN WITH TOP LOOT; BROOKS, PETERS BEAT OUT LOCAL PAIR TO WIN NORTHEAST CARP FISHING TOURNEY.(Sports)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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Byline: David Figura Outdoors editor
Colin Peters sat back in his chair on the bank of the Seneca River to get a breather, confidently puffing on a Backwoods cigar.
"Getting down to the wire, ain't we," he said, smiling.
He and partner, Tom Brooks, a pair of carp fishing professionals from North Carolina, were in the final minutes of the third annual Northeast Regional carp fishing tournament on the Seneca River. Down with an hour to go, the two men survived a challenge from a pair of local men -- Eric Ames, of Constantia, and Steve Ware, of Fayetteville -- to grab the total weight prize worth $3,000.
The two men fished on the Strache ...