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Volume: 17 |
Angler Of The Year |
Hawg Hunter E-Board |
Big Fish Of The Year |
February |
President |
Vice-President/Treasure |
Secretary |
Tournament Director |
Asst. Tournament Director |
Minutes of the Meeting:
The Booray Pot has rolled over again with 20 members participating. It will probably fall to one of you lucky Hawg Hunters during the up coming March tournament at Lake Seminole. Same place it was won last year by Don Jahnke. See Bill Myrick for details. New Business:
The Cookouts are coming! Get ready to Volunteer for duties to make our two day tournament a great success. Sign up sheets will be available at the March meeting. We'll be cooking Hambugers and hot dogs....or maybe Brat's if we can talk Dave Dyess into them again like last year. Trails End at Lake Seminole is back open so as a club we voted to go there and try out their fine southern hospitality.
From the tournament Director: January tournament results were given out and the draw was done for partners for the February Tournament at Fish River. The
Meeting was adjourned at 7:37 pm. a whole 3 minutes longer than last month.
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Tournament:
The weather was warming than last month but still on the nippy side in the mid 40's but warmed up to mid 60's by the weigh-in. We had a pretty big turn out as this was a local tournament mustering 21 Hawg hunters fishing out of 11 boats. Tournament Results:
1st Place Frank Kelly After calling in sick last month Frank came back strong and healthy to win the tournament with only 1 fish tipping the scales at 4.28 pounds. He also captured big fish money. You could say he took the whole "kit and caboodle". Frank's win prevented Jeff Weaver from a 3-peat. Nice to see someone else in the winner's circle. Now if I had more time.....I'd look up all the past records of 1st places to see if anyone has ever won a club tournament with just one fish in the past. To my recollection in the last 5 years we haven't. Some of you old timers may know if we have....but I'd like to congratulate Frank on his record book win. Congrats Frank!
P.S. Please take lessons from Buddy Yates on how to hold your fish up so we can get a better view of that monster.
Dave takes 2nd place honors with the most fish caught by any angler during the tournament. He managed to find 3 keepers that weighed in at 3.57 pounds. This second place finish will jump Dave up 6 places in the AOY standings. Great Job Dave! Congratulations Dave!!!
Third place went to Kevin who caught 2 fish weighing 3.51 pounds. Interesting enough the top three places were won by back seaters this tournament. Maybe I'll leave my boat home next tournament....lol. This also moves Kevin up 6 places in the AOY race. Congratulations Kevin!!!
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Tournament Results:
This
tournament was a challenge for all. We had a total of 21 Hawg
Hunters braving the 45-65 degree weather with only 9 fishermen catching
fish. Big fish honors went to our Frank Kelly who also won the
tournament with his 4.28 pound beauty. So far that's the biggest
fish we've seen this season. Those 9 fishermen brought in 13 fish
to the scales. Probably our worst tournament at Fish River in
some time. It didn't help that we had a cold front run though 2
days prior with lots of rain that really muddied up the water.
Good thing was that all 13 fish made it back safely to the water
keeping the clubs fish mortality rate to zero.
As a club we averaged .61 fish per person. At that rate it's good we threw them back as 1/2 a fish just isn't enough food for me. As for total weight of the 13 fish was 23.61 pounds which comes out to a decent 1.8 pound per fish average. The yellow ball remained hidden this month during the golf ball draw....Carlito, are you sure it was in the bag? We had 8 anglers advance in the AOY standings and 13 decline. Seems those of us who showed up still declined because we didn't catch any fish.....at least I'm in good company in the "Also Fished" category.
Well here's my suggestion for getting out of the "Also Fished" category: 1. Pull the Pin.
2. Throw it far from the boat. 3. Net the stunned and dead fish. Just don't do what these guys did. They forgot step 2. Click on the link to witness first hand what NOT to do.
Okay, so maybe that's not a good idea....How about fishing with a Net? How about leaving the rods at home and do some hillbilly hand fishing... Tournament
Standings: 3rd – Kevin Simmons - 2 fish – 3.51 lbs 6th – Bill Myrick - 1 fish – 2.18 lbs Also Fished: Cliff Armstrong, Jim Bailey, Dave Bock, Tony Boyett, John Buck, Don Jahnke, Jere Jaillite, Marion Johnson, Bob Jones, Glenn Kittrell, Carlito Silvania, & Jeff Weaver For The
Record:
March
Meeting:
Tides: High: NA
Any questions should be addressed to
Jeff Weaver
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