Bass Club
Issue: 10
Mack Cramer
Hawg Hunter E-Board
Buddy Yates
2016
John Buck
Buddy Yates
Dave Bock
Mack Cramer
Matt Brown
The August meeting of the Pensacola Hawg Hunters
was brought to order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 17th of August at Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant by our President John Buck. We had 24 members and one guest, Tony's wife Brenda.
The minutes from the last meeting were read and accepted.
The treasury report was read and accepted.
Booray Report: The pot is now up to $256 now for a 5 pound fish brought to the scales. See Buddy for details.
50/50 was won by Don Jahnke.
John pointed out that we need to keep our thoughts and prayers going for Ron Bridges as he battles his medical condition. Also to give Ron a call with your well wishes. He's not getting any younger or prettier.
In Memory...We lost one of our Lifetime members this past month. Jim Bailey Sr. He was a great friend and mentor to all of us. He was truly responsible for bringing the club into the 21st century by developing a web page for the club.
Pensacola News Journal Obituary for Jim
Our Hat & Shirt Committee Chairman Jeff Weaver
mentioned he is
having problems getting new shirts made for our new club members.
Anyone have any ideas contact Jeff.
(click Here)
Last call for changes and proposals was given at the meeting. All those changes turned in can be found
here by following
this
link. We will discuss them at the next meeting in
September starting early at 6:30pm then vote on the at the October
Meeting.
Nominations for E-board so far as follows.
Returning E-board members:
President : John Buck
Secretary : Dave Bock
Tournament Director : Mack Cramer
Asst. Tournament Director: Matt Brown
New Nominee's:
Vice President : Jere Jaillite
Tournament Director: Jeff Weaver
Nominations are still being accepted all the way up to the October meeting when the vote will be conducted.
It seems this year we are lucky enough to have two volunteer's for the Tournament Director position.
Gentlemen it's time to start campaigning!
(Ad space for a small fee will be available in the next issue of the Newsletter)
A very lively discussion of the Co-Angler of the Year award was held with most of the boaters having their say. A proposal was drafted in time to be included in the 2017 changes to be discussed in September and voted on in October.
September's Cookout promises to be a great one. Lee has graciously volunteed his time and energy to create a mouth watering, finger linking good time for our annual Mullet fish fry complete with deep fried Mullet backs...a Hawg Hunter tradition. All you have to do is show up during our September tournament at Lake Mitchell.
Remember your Alabama Fishing license is about to expire at the end of the August. Beginning Monday the 22nd you can buy your license on line for the 2016-2017 fishing season.
Purchase your Alabama Fishing License here
New fishing regulations took place 1 July 2016 in Florida. Biggest change is you can only keep one fish over 16 inches
unless you
are part of a tournament that has a permit.
The club has voted to apply for permits for all the Florida lakes we will be fishing. The Perdido River system is exempt as it borders Alabama.
For more information on the rules see the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision webpage.
myfwc.com
Payouts were given for the July tournament. Congrats to all those who received a payout!
The draw was conducted for the August tournament.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:04pm.
was brought to order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 17th of August at Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant by our President John Buck. We had 24 members and one guest, Tony's wife Brenda.
The minutes from the last meeting were read and accepted.
The treasury report was read and accepted.
Booray Report: The pot is now up to $256 now for a 5 pound fish brought to the scales. See Buddy for details.
50/50 was won by Don Jahnke.
John pointed out that we need to keep our thoughts and prayers going for Ron Bridges as he battles his medical condition. Also to give Ron a call with your well wishes. He's not getting any younger or prettier.
In Memory...We lost one of our Lifetime members this past month. Jim Bailey Sr. He was a great friend and mentor to all of us. He was truly responsible for bringing the club into the 21st century by developing a web page for the club.
Pensacola News Journal Obituary for Jim
Our Hat & Shirt Committee Chairman Jeff Weaver
mentioned he is
having problems getting new shirts made for our new club members.
Anyone have any ideas contact Jeff.(click Here)
Last call for changes and proposals was given at the meeting. All those changes turned in can be found
here by following
this
link. We will discuss them at the next meeting in
September starting early at 6:30pm then vote on the at the October
Meeting.Nominations for E-board so far as follows.
Returning E-board members:
President : John Buck
Secretary : Dave BockTournament Director : Mack Cramer
Asst. Tournament Director: Matt Brown
New Nominee's:
Vice President : Jere Jaillite
Tournament Director: Jeff Weaver
Nominations are still being accepted all the way up to the October meeting when the vote will be conducted.
It seems this year we are lucky enough to have two volunteer's for the Tournament Director position.
Gentlemen it's time to start campaigning!
(Ad space for a small fee will be available in the next issue of the Newsletter)
A very lively discussion of the Co-Angler of the Year award was held with most of the boaters having their say. A proposal was drafted in time to be included in the 2017 changes to be discussed in September and voted on in October.
September's Cookout promises to be a great one. Lee has graciously volunteed his time and energy to create a mouth watering, finger linking good time for our annual Mullet fish fry complete with deep fried Mullet backs...a Hawg Hunter tradition. All you have to do is show up during our September tournament at Lake Mitchell.
Remember your Alabama Fishing license is about to expire at the end of the August. Beginning Monday the 22nd you can buy your license on line for the 2016-2017 fishing season.
Purchase your Alabama Fishing License here
New fishing regulations took place 1 July 2016 in Florida. Biggest change is you can only keep one fish over 16 inches
unless you
are part of a tournament that has a permit.The club has voted to apply for permits for all the Florida lakes we will be fishing. The Perdido River system is exempt as it borders Alabama.
For more information on the rules see the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision webpage.
myfwc.com
Payouts were given for the July tournament. Congrats to all those who received a payout!
The draw was conducted for the August tournament.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:04pm.
The August Tournament was hot one held on the Tensaw River out of Hubbard's Landing. Our last summer time short tournament with the weigh-in at 1pm. We had 18 members brave enough to handle the heat fishing our of 9 boats. A real tough tournament with only 10 anglers catching a total of 16 fish. No one even had a limit it was that tough. Too add to the misery it started raining while we did the weigh-in...but thanks to Jeff's early moring prayer it cleared right up and cooled off a little so we could enjoy a meal hot dogs, chili, chips and drinks put on by Don, Mack and Jere. Thanks I beleive everyone got their belly full.
Jeff does it again! He's back in the winners circle for the 4th time this season. Once again I got to see how he does it. Mostly from the back of his own boat! Jeff's great decision making skills truly accounted for this win as he gambled on making a long 19 mile run to his not so secret spot. Can you guess what color worms he was throwing? Come to the meeting next month to find out. Anyway Jeff caught 2 nice quality fish that tipped the scales at 4.38 pounds. In fact one of them was the lunker of the tournement at 2.25 pounds earning him $90.
Way to go Jeff!
Great Job!
Congrats Jeff!
John caught the most fish of anyone this time....well keeper fish that
is. He brought in 3 fish to the scales that weighed 3.83
pounds.
Good enough for 2nd Place! This is John's 3rd
second place
finish this season.Great Job!
Congratulations John!
Dave Dyess is back with us from his Canada trip where catching 100 fish
a day is nothing. Compared to here I'll bet it was a long day
for
him (and Jere too)....but he did managed to keep it together and catch
2 fish that weighed in at 2.46 pounds. Great Job....ay!
Congratulations Dave!
Rounding our our top 4 is Mack who managed to get 2 bites for 2 keeper
fish. His fish tipped the scales to 2.41 pounds.
This is
Mack's 4th trip into the money slots this season.Great Job!
Congratulations Mack!
Since you all are probaby going to vote me in for back to back slammer awards...I would like to point out a little something that happened during the August Tournament.
It happened in a place far, far away....at a place called Hubbards' landing. Seems it was so far away there was enough time for corrosion to take place.
Our Assistant Tournament Director the infamous Matt Brown who is in no relation to famous Dr. Emit Brown who travels Back to or from the Future drew out as a boater for the tournament. Instead of bringing his high speed boat which travels at a speed too fast for corrosion to set in he brings his smaller slower Alumunim boat. Still a mighty fine rig but a little hard to fish out of when you can't get it off the trailer. Yep that's right try as he might Matt couldn't get the tie down strap to let go of the boat. Seems corrosion had a good hold of it for longer than 20 minutes! Wait I'm not done.....that was just the beginning at the weigh-in there was more to come.
So off Matt and his partner Dave Nason who is fairly new to the club go to fish the mighty Tensaw River out of his little boat. However he forgot the one Golden Rule but more about that in a minute. After a tough day where one fish could really make a difference at the scales Matt was empty handed. But his partner Dave was all smiles as he dumped his 1 lonely fish into the weigh-in tub. From there our Head Tournament Director.....you know him....he takes the fish and measures it only to find it comes up short and disqualifies the fish from the tournament.
Talking to Matt and Dave we find out that Matt, aka Assistant Tournament Director forgot the Golden Rule....ruler that is! Yep he and Dave guessed the fish would measure because they had no ruler. Imagine that!
So yes, I'd like to Nominate Matt as a Slammer Nominee. Hooyah!
Okay the end of the season is fast approaching if you haven't noticed.
Only 2 more tournaments to go and they promise to be good
ones...not like the one we just fished at Tensaw. Remind me
why we went there.....oh yea the Hot Dog Cookout!
Looks like we had 9 members advance their standing while 14 of us dropped. Biggest movers and shakers were Frank Kelly and Marc Churchwell who each jumped 5 places. Of course it's easier to move up way down at the bottom than those who claim the top spots. Biggest way to do that is fish the tournament but these two guys caught fish too!
On to the analysis....in First place for the AOY is Jeff Weaver who managed to gain some ground on Second place Mack Cramer. Jeff now stands at 183 points with Mack at 164. Thanks a 19 point spread with only 2 tournaments to go. Since the max points you can get next month is 24 points (2-meeting,1-hat&shirt, 6-2 day fishing points, and 15-first place finish) Jeff could possible sew this thing up in September. If Jeff can beat Mack by 5 maybe 6 places next month he wouldn't even have to show up for the October tournament. I'm sure Mack will do everything in his power to try and stop that since we would like Jeff to come with us to Appalachicola especially if he brings Brenda's brownies. I guess we are just gonna have to fish the tournament at Lake Mitchell in September to see the drama unfold. Will Jeff sew it up? or will Mack make Jeff prospone it for even greater drama at the Fish Off in October.
The real fight that we won't know until the last day of the season is what's happening between 3rd, 4th and 5th place. They are 18 points behind Second place but bunched up nice and tight with only a 5 point spread between the three of them. Jumping up to 3rd this month is John Buck followed by Pete Potter then Jere Jaillite. For the last 3 months they have been changing places but staying very close to each other. We won't be able to figure this one out until all the fish are weighed and safely release. Just 2 more Sunday weigh-ins to go.
26 points down the leader board is Carlito sitting solidly in 6th Place. He's 9 points ahead of 7th place Lee Brannon. If Carlito continues keeps it up he could find himself with a nice pretty 6th place Plaque. I cherish mine....since it's not easy for most of us to get there especially from the back seat like Carlito is doing.
Well this month our top 3 co-anglers didn't change from last month since they all showed up to the tournament scales empty handed. Carlito is still leading the pack by 27 points and should be able to wrap up the Co-AOY Trophy during the next tournament. I hope he has already made plans to attend in September. Cliff Armstrong in 2nd and Bob Jones in 3rd are too close to call with only a 3 point difference. Every Hat & Shirt point counts when you get this close.
1st – Jeff Weaver - 2 fish – 4.38 lbs
2nd – John Buck - 3 fish – 3.83 lbs
3rd – Dave Dyess - 2 fish – 2.46 lbs
4th – Mack Cramer - 2 fish – 2.41 lbs
5th – Frank Kelly - 2 fish – 2.16 lbs
6th – Marc Churchwell - 1 fish – 1.33 lbs
7th – Lee Brannon - 1 fish – 1.32 lbs
8th – Pete Potter - 1 fish – 1.17 lbs
9th - Jere Jaillite - 1 fish – 1.03 lbs
10th - Dave Bock - 1 fish - 0.94 lbs
Cliff Armstrong, Tony Boyett, Matt Brown, Don Jahnke, Bob Jones, Thom Labelle, Dave Nason, Carlito Silvania
Total Number Fished Tournament 18
Total Fish Caught 16
Total Dead Fish 2
Total Limits 0
Total Fish Weight 21.03 lbs
Big Fish: Jeff Weaver 2.25 lbs
Total Number Fished For Year 180
Total Fish Caught 4501
Total Dead Fish 19
Total Limits 49
Total Fish Weight 847.47
Big Fish 8.42
Don Jahnke
Lake Seminole - March
Location: Founaris Bros.
September 21, 2016
Time: 6:30 pm
Starting early so we have more time for discussing the proposed rule changes September 24/25, 2016 Lake Mitchell
Higgins Ferry Landing Sunrise: 6:39am
High: NA
Low: NA
Any questions should be addressed to:
Dave Bock
E-Mail the Secretary
Looks like we had 9 members advance their standing while 14 of us dropped. Biggest movers and shakers were Frank Kelly and Marc Churchwell who each jumped 5 places. Of course it's easier to move up way down at the bottom than those who claim the top spots. Biggest way to do that is fish the tournament but these two guys caught fish too!
On to the analysis....in First place for the AOY is Jeff Weaver who managed to gain some ground on Second place Mack Cramer. Jeff now stands at 183 points with Mack at 164. Thanks a 19 point spread with only 2 tournaments to go. Since the max points you can get next month is 24 points (2-meeting,1-hat&shirt, 6-2 day fishing points, and 15-first place finish) Jeff could possible sew this thing up in September. If Jeff can beat Mack by 5 maybe 6 places next month he wouldn't even have to show up for the October tournament. I'm sure Mack will do everything in his power to try and stop that since we would like Jeff to come with us to Appalachicola especially if he brings Brenda's brownies. I guess we are just gonna have to fish the tournament at Lake Mitchell in September to see the drama unfold. Will Jeff sew it up? or will Mack make Jeff prospone it for even greater drama at the Fish Off in October.
The real fight that we won't know until the last day of the season is what's happening between 3rd, 4th and 5th place. They are 18 points behind Second place but bunched up nice and tight with only a 5 point spread between the three of them. Jumping up to 3rd this month is John Buck followed by Pete Potter then Jere Jaillite. For the last 3 months they have been changing places but staying very close to each other. We won't be able to figure this one out until all the fish are weighed and safely release. Just 2 more Sunday weigh-ins to go.
26 points down the leader board is Carlito sitting solidly in 6th Place. He's 9 points ahead of 7th place Lee Brannon. If Carlito continues keeps it up he could find himself with a nice pretty 6th place Plaque. I cherish mine....since it's not easy for most of us to get there especially from the back seat like Carlito is doing.
Well this month our top 3 co-anglers didn't change from last month since they all showed up to the tournament scales empty handed. Carlito is still leading the pack by 27 points and should be able to wrap up the Co-AOY Trophy during the next tournament. I hope he has already made plans to attend in September. Cliff Armstrong in 2nd and Bob Jones in 3rd are too close to call with only a 3 point difference. Every Hat & Shirt point counts when you get this close.
1st – Jeff Weaver - 2 fish – 4.38 lbs
2nd – John Buck - 3 fish – 3.83 lbs
3rd – Dave Dyess - 2 fish – 2.46 lbs
4th – Mack Cramer - 2 fish – 2.41 lbs
5th – Frank Kelly - 2 fish – 2.16 lbs
6th – Marc Churchwell - 1 fish – 1.33 lbs
7th – Lee Brannon - 1 fish – 1.32 lbs
8th – Pete Potter - 1 fish – 1.17 lbs
9th - Jere Jaillite - 1 fish – 1.03 lbs
10th - Dave Bock - 1 fish - 0.94 lbs
Cliff Armstrong, Tony Boyett, Matt Brown, Don Jahnke, Bob Jones, Thom Labelle, Dave Nason, Carlito Silvania
Total Number Fished Tournament 18
Total Fish Caught 16
Total Dead Fish 2
Total Limits 0
Total Fish Weight 21.03 lbs
Big Fish: Jeff Weaver 2.25 lbs
Total Number Fished For Year 180
Total Fish Caught 4501
Total Dead Fish 19
Total Limits 49
Total Fish Weight 847.47
Big Fish 8.42
Don Jahnke
Lake Seminole - March
Location: Founaris Bros.
September 21, 2016
Time: 6:30 pm
Starting early so we have more time for discussing the proposed rule changes September 24/25, 2016 Lake Mitchell
Higgins Ferry Landing Sunrise: 6:39am
High: NA
Low: NA
Any questions should be addressed to:
Dave Bock
E-Mail the Secretary