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Volume: 17 |
Angler Of The Year |
Hawg Hunter E-Board |
Big Fish Of The Year |
July |
President |
Vice-President/Treasure |
Secretary |
Tournament Director |
Asst. Tournament Director |
Minutes of the Meeting: Old Business: Jeff
our Club Presidnet started out the meeting with a little humor.
Always good to have a little laugh to get things started. The Booray Pot has rolled over from last month so the pot is starting to grow with 21 members participating. See Bill Myrick for details. It was great to see Frank Kelly still among us after his recent stint in the hospital. He's looking good and feeling good....that's waht he says anyway. Bob Jones stepped up and told us a story about Last months tournament and why he got disqualifed while fishing out of the back of Jemery's boat. We now have an offical Slammer Award Nominee. Jeremy Burkart is being nominated for his "Fuel Tank Swithology Knowledge". Be sure to ask Jeremy all about it! New Business: Frank Dodge has some Pfluger reels for sale...contact him if you are interested. Bill Myrick has schedules for the Old & Ugly tournaments. I believe most of us fit in that category and would be eligible to fish the tournaments if you are interested. Contact Bill for more info. Changes are Due ! Proposals for changes are due at the August Meeting! Get your changes to one of the E-board members. (perferably typed up and e-mailed). Our Constitution and by-laws states: Changes must be submitted by the August meeting to be published in the August Newsletter. Discussion takes place during the September meeting for a vote to be held at the October meeting. Remember you have to have fished 6 tournaments prior to the October meeting to be eligible to vote. Help Wanted
(Secretary/Webmaster job is always open for the taking.) Remember 2:00pm weigh-ins for the June, July and August tournaments. June tournament results were given out and the draw was done for partners for the July Tournament at Perdido River.
The
Meeting was adjourned at 7:36 pm.
From the tournament Director:
Mack brought up at the meeting the importance of watching your
partner....no not what he's fishing but watch him for signs of Heat
Stress and Heat Stoke. These are two serious medical conditions
that if not detected early can result in death. As much as you
want to for outfishing you, you don't want to kill your
partner out there on the water.
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Tournament:
Tournament Results:
1st Place Dave Bock
Hooyah!
Yep, yours truly made it to the winners circle. Dave had 4
fish tipping the scales at 8.07 pounds with a nice kicker weighing 3.14
lbs. Since you all will cut me off at the meeting....I'll tell
you now the pattern I found. Rain....lots of rain. Because
of the rain and it being too dark to see my line to fish a fluke or
topwater I choose to chunk and wind a white spinner bait past laydown
timber. I had my first fish at 6am with 2 more coming by
8am....all during the heavy rain. So heavy in fact the rain
shorted out my trolling motor, then my mulit-meter while trying to
troubleshoot it so I had to run back to the landing for more
tools. By the time we returned the bite was gone and so was the
rain. About a half hour before weigh-in I found another keeper
which as it turns out wasn't necessary. Maybe my 5th keeper knew
that as he came unbuttoned halfway to the boat just before we left for
weigh-in. This is just Dave's second win in the past 5 years he's been a dues & entry fee paying member and Oh by the way...he only needed 4 fish that day too! Hooyah!
Congrats Dave!
Tony once again takes 2nd place honors this month by bringing in 3 fish weighing in at 5.29 pounds. He took 2nd last month too. So now Tony has been in the money twice this year and will maintain his 11th place spot in the AOY Standings. He could be in 8th had he been wearing his Hat and Shirt during each tournament. At least we got a good picture of him this month! Hooyah! Great job! Congrats Tony!
Buddy
only brought in two fish .....but they were beauties weighing in at
4.89 pounds. One of them was big enough to claim the big fish
honors beating out 2 others with over 3 pound fish. His big fish
tipped the scales at 3.63 pounds. Rumor has it he lost one that was even bigger. This jumps Buddy up 3 places to 12th in the AOY standings. Great Job! Congrats Buddy!
Congratulations Mack! Prospective Member Michael Johnson
Michael fished our guest tournament with us and would of took 2nd place
honor's with his 4 fish weighing 7.01 pounds before deducting dead fish
penalities of which he had 3. If welcomed into the club we'll
have to teach him how to keep them alive....he already knows how to
catch 'em....especially during a tough rainy tournament like Perdido.
If his last name sounds familar it's because his Dad, Marion
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Tournament Results:
Perdido
River was a tough rainy tournament with 13 out of 18
people catching
fish. With all the rain...at least we didn't have to worry about
the Heat Stress and Heat Stroke symptoms we all learned about at the
meeting. Come weigh-in time the weather cleared up and we had a
great weigh-in. Our President, Jeff, ever brought a surprise for
us to enjoy during the weigh-in. Two coolers full of watermelon
for a im-prompt-to watermelon eating contest.
AND The WINNER of the contest is: Hooyah! Thanks Jeff. Okay back to the tournament results. 13 of the 18 fisherment caught 25 fish for a 1.3 fish per person average. As for average weight it comes out to 1.53 pounds per fish from a total 38.21 pounds for the 25 fish caught. Big fish honors went to Buddy Yates with a 3.63 lb whopper. Member wise we got to release all our fish Alive! Great job! We always talk about big fish honors but I would like to take a moment to talk about the smallest fish weighed in. Looking back though this year's records seems we have a new little fish record. Here's how it's been since the start of the season for fish under a pound. November - Ron Bridges - 0.99 lbs December - Carlito Silvania - 0.94 lbs January - Jim Bailey - 0.85 lbs May - Kevin Simmons - 0.98 lbs July - Don Jahnke - 0.81 lbs Little Fish honors currently goes to Don Jahnke with a ity bitty 0.81 lbs! Don't laugh at him too much...because he also currently holds Big Fish Honors! This month our Top 4 places in the AOY standings remained the same but the gaps are tightning up. Jere Jaillite is still our current leader in the number one slot but Mack who is in second is closing down the gap to just 5 points now. Jeff, maintaining the 3rd position drops back by 1 point to be now 7 points behind 2nd place. Bill sits solidly in 4th place now 21 points ahead of 5th. Positions 5th thru 8th now has only a 9 point spread and is up for grabs. This month Kevin Simmons advanced up to 5th while Ron Bridges drops to 6th. Dave Bock with his win jumps up to 7th while Dave Dyess drops down to 8th. Rounding out the top 10 we find John Buck and Lee Brannon tied for 9th. We had 6 people advance their standing while 7 people declined. Biggest mover was Buddy Yates who jumped 3 places. Remember you can't improve your standings if you don't fish. Would help you if you caught a fish or two also. Can Jere hold off the charge from Mack and Jeff? Will Jeff's trip to Canada cost him the title this year? Who will lock in the 5th and 6th spots with only 3 tournaments left for the season? Will Jeremy lock up the Slammer Award? Come and fish the tournaments to see....... Does anyone ever read this far..... Tournament
Standings: 1st – Dave Bock - 4 fish – 8.07 lbs
2nd – Tony Boyett - 3 fish – 5.29 lbs
3rd – Buddy Yates - 2 fish – 4.89 lbs 6th – Bill Myrick - 2 fish – 2.60 lbs 10th - Matt Brown - 1 fish - 1.57 lbs 11th - Terry Smith - 1 fish - 1.30 lbs 12th - Ron Bridges - 1 fish - 1.19 lbs 13th - Don Jahnke - 1 fish - 0.81 lbs Also Fished: Cliff Armstrong, John Buck, Dave Dyess, Marion Johnson, Bob Jones
For The
Record: For the Year: August
Meeting:
Tournament Site:
Tides: High: 9:09am
Any questions should be addressed to
Jeff Weaver
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