John Buck | John's
Club Report Covering The Pensacola Hawg Hunters 2013 Season Email: John Buck |
Founded In 1975 |
October Tournament Total Fish Caught 104 Total Dead Fish 0 Total Limits 11 Big Fish 3.36 Total Fish Weight 125.47 lbs |
Total Year Standings |
Mack Cramer 3.36 lbs |
Apalachicola River
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Don Janhke 6.41 lbs |
1st
Place Mack Cramer 10 Fish 14.07 lbs |
2nd
Place Jeff Weaver 10 Fish 11.84 lbs |
3rd
Place Roger Helm 10 Fish 11.18 lbs |
4th
Place Dave Dyess 9 Fish 10.98 lbs |
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Tournament Results Also Fished: Hooyah! Everyone Caught Fish BOTH Days!
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TOURNAMENT
REPORT
Apalachicola River | October 19 & 20, 2013 |
Pine Log Road |
The Apalachicola River
delta was the site for our October tournament and annual Fish-off. We had a front moving in from the west that
brought heavy rains on Saturday but did not last too long. For the most part the water was stained in
the main river and some creeks were clear and some others were stained. Water temps were in the mid to upper 70’s. Sunday we had cloudy skies and cool temps but it
was very pleasant. I drew out behind Dave
Bock. We decided on a plan, and on
tournament day we headed out to a bank he likes in Wimico. We found many fish there but they were all
small. The only baits we could get to
work for us were an assortment of dark plastics. We fished hard all day there
and by the end of the day I had 4 small keepers and he had 2 small
keepers. At the scales there were
several guys with limits. It seemed if
you found keepers then both guys in the boat caught a limit of keepers. Even though many fish were weighed in the
fish were all small. Mack Cramer did have a 3.36 lb lunker for big fish. He
also had the lunker the 2nd day @ 1.42 lbs. I have listed the order
of the 10 places for this tournament below as this fish-off did pay out 10
places. Day 1 results 1st- Mack
Cramer 5 @8.92 lbs 2nd Jim Bailey
Sr 5 @ 6.51 lbs 3rd Dave Dyess
5 @ 6.36 lbs 4th Buddy Yates
5 @6.32 lbs 5th Roger Helm
5 @ 6.25 lbs 6th Jeremy
Burkhart 5@ 6.03 lbs 7th Jeff
Weaver 5 @ 5.77 lbs 8th Ron
Bridges 4 @ 5.09 lbs 9th Bob Jones
5 @ 4.88 lbs 10th John Buck
4 @ 4.79 lbs Really this was very
small “pickins” for this site and only small fish were found. But the stage was set for a tight race in day
2. Saturday night the club
provided the meal, our annual “president’s dinner” and we had steaks and baked
potatoes, and salad. I think everyone
had a great time and really enjoyed the food.
We were also treated to a special dessert from Jeff’s better half, Brenda. She made a big pan of banana pudding and also
some great brownies. A really special
thank you goes out for her and also lots of pats on the back because she does
put up with Jeff. Also thank you to Dave
Bock, Dave Dyess and Jere Jaillite for their efforts to acquire the food and
bringing the grill and other needs we
use in the cook outs. To all those who
helped in clean up and special thank you also.
This kind of outing with these social times really makes our club
special and so much enjoyable. Day 2 of the tournament
arrived with cooler temps and light winds from the north. We had an outgoing
tide running hard. Dave and I decided to
go for broke and try to find bigger fish because we did not think the small
bite would hold up. We were wrong. Even
the biggest fish brought to the scales on Sunday weighed only 1.42 lbs. We fished downstream areas and we caught even
smaller fish than in the day before. I think we each probably caught 10-15 fish
but we had only 1 keeper between the two of us. Those guys who stayed with the
small bites they had on Saturday had that bite repeat on Sunday. Day 2 FINAL RESULTS
(included totals from day 1) 1st Mack Cramer
10 fish @ 14.07 lbs 2nd Jeff
Weaver 10 fish @ 11.84 lbs 3rd Roger Helm
10 fish @11.18 lbs (Tournament place. Roger did not fish in the fish-off) 3rd Dave Dyess
9 fish@ 10.98 lbs 4th Jeremy Burkhart
9 fish @ 10.1 lbs 5th Bob Jones
8 fish @ 8.07 lbs 6th Ron
Bridges 6 fish @ 7.6 lbs 7th Buddy Yates
6 fish @ 7.57 lbs 8th Jere Jaillite
7 fish @ 7.46 lbs 9th Jim Bailey
Sr 6 fish @7.38 lbs 10th Don Jahnke
5 fish @ 7.12 lbs. Congratulations to the
winners! This was also our final
tournament for 2013 and the final standings did change a bit for the Top six
fishermen. Congratulations to all. 1st place Club
Champion for 2013—Jere Jaillite 2nd place Jeff
Weaver 3rd place Mack
Cramer 4th place Lee
Brannon 5th place John
Buck 6th place
Brian McCarthy Congratulations to the
“top Six” and Jere had such a lead in the standings that all he had to do was
show up and he would win. That is a feat
in itself to garner that big of a lead during the year. Great job Jere. While I am spreading
“kudos” I need to mention that once again our e-board did a great job with the
club this past year. If you did not submit your tournament suggestions to them
please get in contact with one of the new e-board members and let them know
your suggestions. Don Jahnke will be the
only member not returning to the e-board. Don served as our tournament director
for the past 2 years. Thank you Don for your efforts and time with all the
tournaments. The 2014 e-board will be
President -Jeff Weaver. Secretary- Dave
Bock. Treasurer- Buddy Yates. Tournament director- Mack Cramer. Asst
tournament director- Carlito Sylvania.
One more “thank you“ is in order also and that is for ALL of the members
who helped make this such a great bass
club. One person does not make a club or even a few. It takes all the members
working together to make it run smoothly and be enjoyable. Let’s keep the good
times going again in the coming year. November will start our
new tournament season. The tournament
will be held on the Tensaw River so make your plans to attend. I will not be here in Nov as I will be
hunting bambi in Nebraska that time but I will see you again in December. Until next month…Keep your hooks sharp! John |