Cheney boy headed for bass fishing nationals

CHENEY – A local boy is among the best bass fishermen in the nation.

Mason Bridges, a Cheney Middle School eighth-grader, is headed for the Big Bass Zone Junior Championship World Finals in Branson, Mo., after winning the state title for biggest 5-bass limit.

Bridges will join 53 other anglers from across the nation Saturday, Oct. 20, to compete in one of the most prestigious events in the world for teenage fishermen.

Bridges will represent Washington state.

According to his mother, Bridges has been fishing "since he could hold a rod," under the guidance of his father in dozens of tournaments...