Total Year Standings
Total Fish Caught 449
Total Dead Fish 4
Total Limits 36
Big Fish 6.41
Total Fish Weight 686.88 lbs

Tournament Results

Once again our masterful wordsmith is gone.  This time he has taken several other Hawg Hunters with him to the land of the midnight sun, where ice hockey rules and summer is just a word in the dictionary.  Yes folks, John has gone fishing in Canada.  I’m sure with the proper encouragement we can get John (and his support group) to share, and share, and share, and share, and share and ssshhhaaarrreee their experiences chasing the smallies around the Canadian cold water lakes.   In the mean time we mere mortals have been left to enjoy the warm Alabama weather on the Tensaw River. 

June marked the clubs return to the Tensaw River after a weather imposed absence of seven months.  Our earlier scheduled tournaments had to be relocated due to flood waters and dangerous conditions.  Even now the fishing conditions are less than ideal.  Places where we were almost always able to find clean water were stained to muddy, and because of these conditions, the water temperatures were several degrees higher than normal.  After several trips to the Tensaw River system over the past several weeks, I decided that my best bet was to run to one of my favorite creeks.  At the Wednesday night club meeting I was fortunate in drawing Glen Kittrell as my partner.  I’ve fished with Glen on several occasions and have always enjoyed fishing with him. 

At the Saturday morning blast off, Glen and I quickly headed to my creek.  I would like to say that we were immediately successful, but it took about an hour before Glen was able to finally put the first keeper in the boat.  After Glen broke the ice, fishing picked up and stayed active for the rest of the day.  Many bites, many short fish, and a number of keepers that just refused to jump into the boat.  Probably the most amazing thing about the day was the number of gators that we observed, some of which would have felt right a home on lake Seminole. 

At the weigh-in I was able to bring a small limit of five fish to the scales, while Glen was able to produce two keepers.  When all was said and done, Tony Boyett, was able to produce a nice limit of five fish weighing 7.73 pounds to take top honors.  Kevin Simmons was close behind with the third limit of the day good for 7.27 pounds and second place.  Tony’s partner, Rick Howard brought four nice fish to the scales, which included the 3.48 pound lunker of the day.  Rick’s 6.48 pounds was also good enough for third place, while my little 5.56 pound limit allowed me to finish in fourth place, which I was very happy with. 

Most of Glen and my fish came on worms of the black and black grape variety.  Glen did have one fish on a white spinner bait and lost another keeper at the boat on a spinner bait. 

Our next tournament is on the Perdido River and is another of our summer two o’clock weigh-ins. Until then as John would say “keep your hooks sharp and your lines tight”.