Total Year Standings
Total Fish Caught 36
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 3
Big Fish 2.79
Total Fish Weight 47.44 lbs

Tournament Results

November means different things to different people.  To many it means Thanksgiving and the start of Christmas shopping, but to the Pensacola Hawg Hunter’s it means the end of the hurricane season and the beginning of a new fishing year.  Our illustrious “master of the word” John (the wordster) Buck has once again chosen this time to forsaken us and travel to the great void of Nebraska is search of white-tail.  White-tail Deer that is.  I don’t think his quest for a Bambi burger was as successful as John would have liked last year, so we can only hope that it is more to his liking this year. 

At the November meeting I was paired with Carlito Silvania.  I was really looking forward to this pairing because not only is Carlito a fun partner, he lives right around the corner from me.  Although we had fished together before, this would be our first time to partner in a club tournament.  While discussing where we wanted to fish, Carlito stated that since he was relatively new to the Tensaw River system he was willing to allow me to select the spots where we went.  The fact that I had some success in picking spots last year might have had something to do with his decision also.

At blast-off we quickly headed to my #1 “secret” hole.  This hole is so secret that only our “Grand FooBob” Jeff Weaver and I know of it.  Well only Jeff and I and about two thousand other fishermen.  Arriving at secret hole #1, we were greeted by a sight that I had never seen before.  The creek was covered bank to bank with floating Duck Weed, and had only a rare open spot to fish.  Jeff soon arrived and we both came to the same conclusion.  These waters were unfishable.  Jeff quickly left and headed for spots unknown and I followed shortly behind him. 

While trying to come up with a plan B, and not disappoint Carlito, we passed a spot that our much missed member, Wally Cassiano, use to fish.  I hadn’t fished this spot, nor seen anybody else, fish it since Wally’s passing ten years ago.  We decided to give it a try and immediately started to put fish in the boat.  Most were small, but at least we were getting our string pulled.  Carlito put the first keeper in the boat and I followed shortly thereafter with a couple of my own.  After exhausting “Wally’s” hole we made a short run to a creek that Jim Sr. and I like.  With the tide running out, the fish were biting and I quickly finished my limit.  Carlito matched me fish for fish, but unfortunately his were all short.  Also, unfortunately the tide stopped running and the fish stopped biting.  We tried several other spots but were only able to produce short fish for the rest of the day.

At weigh-in it became apparent that while most people found fish, most people struggled to get past the one or two keeper fish.  When all was said and done only three limits were brought to the scales.  Mack Crammer started the new year the same way he ended the old year.  Mack’s five fish limit which weighed 9.48lbs was good for first place and his big fish of 2.79lbs was the tournament lunker.  That’s two months in a row for Mack.  My five fish limit of 5.70lbs was good enough to beat Kevin Simmons’ limit of 5.65lbs for second, while Kevin finished in third.  Frank Kelly began the new year with a strong showing of 4 fish for 4.76lbs and fourth place. Congratulations to the top four.

Next month we journey to the mighty Escambia River for our December tournament.  Remember that our meeting will be held early (December 11^th) and the tournament is on December 14^th.  Last year the Escambia tournament produced two fish over five pounds and one of those was a six pound beauty.  Everyone make plans now for fishing this tournament.

DON’T FORGET:  December 6^th is the club’s award banquet.  Here’s hoping to see everyone and their sweethearts at 6:00 p.m. on that Friday night at the Cock of the Walk. Until then be safe.