John Crews laid a wet bag filled with flopping fish onto the scale and stood back. 

He just needed to see the number 16 appear. When the final weight leveled out, he didn't even bother to look at the ounces.  Fists and fish in the air, the fisherman from Salem, Virginia looked out to the crowd victorious.  In this episode of Hometown Stories, John Crews joins us from the bow of his boat as the newly crowned Bassmaster Elite champ.