2016 Season
Pensacola Hawg Hunters
Bass Club




2016 Season
 

Volume: 19
Issue: 07
Angler Of The Year
Mack Cramer




Hawg Hunter E-Board
Big Fish Of The Year
Buddy Yates
May
2016


President
John Buck
Vice-President/Treasure
Buddy Yates
Secretary
Dave Bock
Tournament Director
Mack Cramer
Asst. Tournament Director
Matt Brown

Minutes of the Meeting:

The May meeting of the Pensacola Hawg Hunters was brought to order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 18th of May at Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant by our President John Buck. We had 16 members present.

Old Business:


Reading of the minutes from the last meeting was waived.

 The treasury report was read and accepted.


Booray Report: No one won the Booray pot so it's getting bigger if you catch a 5 pound fish. See Buddy for details.

Unaminous vote was conducted to add Brian Nall to the club.   Hooyah!  Welcome Back!

New Business:

Senior passes are availabel for Federal Parks which include Ellis Island.  Availabe at Johnson Beach and Fort Pickens.

Idle speed only from Ellis Ramp to the main river.

From the Tournament Director:

Don Jahnke will be acting tournament Director for the Miller's Ferry Tournament in May.

Payouts were given for the April tournament. Congrats to all those who received a payout!


The draw was conducted for the May tournament.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:30pm.





Dave's Maintenance Corner

I'd like to take the time to point out another problem area on your boats.  Wiring.  I found this on my boat after having problems with my graph's electrical power connection.  The graph kept telling my "low voltage".  Turns out I had only 10 volts going to the graph when it should of been 12 volts which is standard on all of your electrical except your trolling motor which may be 24 or 36 volts.  

Using a tool called a Power Probe


I was able to troubleshoot the wiring and find the culprit. The voltage drop of the 2 volts that I was missing.  This is what I found......

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In the power wire way up under my console I found where corrosion had taken root.  It appears sometime in the past someone had nicked the insulation off the wire.  I think it was probably during manufacture because I bought the boat brand new and have never been in that spot before.  Most likely when someone was trying to read voltage on the wire using a clip tool which damages the insulation.

This wire also controlled (gave power to) my livewell pump out and recirculate pumps which quit working on me too.   The corrosion introduces high resistance in the wire causing the voltage to drop.  In this case it was from 12 volts down to 10 volts.

Word of caution.....don't nick you wires to try and read them out and by the way only use ABYC (American Boating & Yatch Council) approved wiring in your boat.  Marine grade wiring is tinned and protected against the hazardous environments your boats are operated in.  DONT use automotive wiring!


Hooyah!




 Tournament:

The May Tournament was held at Miller's Ferry out of the Ellis Landing Ramp.   We had 7 boats with 14 members fishing.  A rather small tournout for Miller's Ferry.  For the guys who left early Friday moring they had to drive through the rain to get there....for my partner and I whole left 2 hours later it was clear all the way with no rain.

The Hawg Hunters really had a great tournament.  The weights were kinda small but everyone caught fish and plenty of them.  In fact we almost caught our club limit of 70 fish.  We were just 3 fish short of everyone having a limit for the 14 members.  Someone with more time on their hands than me should look it up and see if that's a club record.  That's a 95.7 percent catch rate.    I recall last April at Jordan on the first day we caught 65 out of a possible 70 for 14 anglers for a 92.8% rate.  Great job guys!

The weights were pretty close this tournament with dead fish penalities having an impact on the placings.  Please take care of your fish.

Tournament Results:



1st Place
Jere Jaillite

Jere had a great day catching more that a limit of fish.  His top 5 fish weighed in at 10.94 pounds anchored by the Lunker of the tournament of 3.57 pounds.  This is Jere's 3 time up in the money slots and his first win this year.

Way to go Jere!

 Great Job!

Congrats Jere!



2nd Place
Michael Johnson

Michael caught a limit of fish weighing in at 10.41 pounds.  Thats a nice 2 pound average.  This is Mike's first trip to the money slots after having only fished 3 tournaments with us so far this season.  Awesome!

Great Job!

Congratulations Michael!



3rd Place
John Schaeff

John's back!  John caught a limit of fish and even beat his boater.  John's limit weighed in at 7.94 pounds.  He's been struggling all season but his persistance has paid off.  Maybe he stopped fishing the braided line.  Anyway this is John's first fish he's caught this season  and he wow'ed us with his great catch.  Hooyah!

Great Job!

Congratulations John!


4th Place
Jeff Weaver

Jeff also caught his standard limit of 5 fish.  This time weighing in at 7.76 pounds.  Bet he caught them on his standard black worm.....or at least that's what he'll tell you.  Doesn't matter he always has fish which is why he's on top of our AOY leader board.  This is Jeff's 5 time out of 6 tournaments fished where he has placed in the money.   Seems like he's getting paid to fish.  I just hope he's reporting it to the IRS as income.

Great Job!

Congratulations Jeff!



AOY Analysis

Well this season is turning out to be interesting in the AOY race.  It seems all of our top anglers have taken one tournament off.  Only Jere and Pete have fished them all but they each had a skunk they wish they could throw out.
Staying on Top of the leader board is Jeff Weaver with 124 points to date with 6 out of 7 tournaments fished.  He has a commanding 14 point lead over second place.

John Buck jumps up to 2nd place even though he doesn't believe it.  He two has only fished 6 tournaments but he's done well in each of those.  Two seconds and a first place will get you lots of points.

Dropping to 3rd due to missing the May tournament is Mack Cramer with 106 points just 4 points behind John who has 110.

Jere Jaillite stays in 4th place but is closing the gap from 14 points last month to just 5 points this month.

New to the top six is Carlito Silvania who jumps up to 5th place this month.  Way to go Carlito!

Tied for 5th last month, Pete Potter now sits in 6th place just 1 point behind.

And there you have the top six fishermen so far this year but it's still too early to call who will come out on top.  One thing is for sure...you can't afford to miss any more tournaments if you want to stay there now.

 

CO-AOY Analysis:

Our top 3 Co-Angler's have changed out a bit but Carlito is still holding on to the top spot.  A boater in disguise actually.  The Co-AOY award was designed to get the non-boaters to participate more not for the boaters to leave their boats at home.  We almost had a boat short this month.  No one wants to be left behind.  Anyway Carlito is leading the pack by a good 22 points ahead of second place in the Co-AOY category.  Great job Carlito!

Maintaining second place is Cliff Armstrong another boater in disquise.

Moving up to 3rd place is a true non-boater unless you want to fish out of a salt water boat is Bob Jones.  Bob caught a limit of fish this time out and managed to jump ahead of 3 other non-boaters this trip.


Tournament Standings:

Miller's Ferry @ Ellis Landing

1st – Jere Jaillite - 5 fish – 10.94 lbs
2nd – Michael Johnson - 5 fish – 10.41 lbs
3rd – John Schaeff - 5 fish – 7.94 lbs
4th – Jeff Weaver - 5 fish – 7.76 lbs
5th – Thom Labelle - 4 fish – 7.76 lbs
6th – John Buck - 5 fish – 7.61 lbs
7th – Carlito Silvania - 5 fish – 7.23 lbs
8th – Tony Boyett - 5 fish – 6.81 lbs
9th - Pete Potter - 5 fish – 6.53 lbs
10th - Don Jahnke - 5 fish - 6.52 lbs
11th - Bob Jones -5 fish - 6.11 lbs
12th - Brian Nall - 5 fish - 5.84 lbs
13th - Dave Bock - 5 fish - 5.40 lbs
14th - Cliff Armstrong - 3 fish - 4.92 lbs

Also Fished:

Everyone caught fish!




For the Record:

  Miller's Ferry/Ellis Landing

Total Number Fished Tournament 14
Total Fish Caught 67
Total Dead Fish 8
Total Limits 12
Total Fish Weight 101.65 lbs
Big Fish: Jere Jaillite 3.57 lbs



For the Year:

Total Number Fished For Year 123
Total Fish Caught 419
Total Dead Fish 14
Total Limits 44
Total Fish Weight 729.83
Big Fish 8.42
Don Jahnke
Lake Seminole - March

June Meeting

Location: Founaris Bros.
June 15, 2016
Time: 7:00 pm

June Tournament

June 18, 2016

Tournament Site:

Tensaw River
Live Oak Landing

From the Daily Planner:

Sunrise: 5:57am

Full Moon:

06/20/16

Tides

06/18/16

High: 1:35 pm
Low: 1:07 am



Any questions should be addressed to:

Dave Bock
E-Mail the Secretary


 

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