Minutes of the Meeting:
The January meeting of the Pensacola Hawg Hunters
was brought to
order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 18th of January at Founaris
Bros.
Greek Restaurant by our President
John Buck. We had 23 members present, 1 guest Kim - finace to
prospective member Bill Armstrong.
Old Business:
The minutes from the last
meeting were read and accepted.
The
treasury report was read and accepted.
Booray Report: The Booray pot is now up to $156 for
a 5.5 pound fish. See Buddy
for details.
The 50/50 was won by our prospective member Bill Armstrong.
2016 Slammer Award Presentation
Frank Dodge
Frank won last years Slammer award by showing us how the self
inflatable life vests really work when he did a half twist full gainer
into the Apalachicola River off Pete Potter's boat during the Fish Off.
Great Job Frank!
Updates on our members with medical issues: Ron Bridges is
back home after breaking his leg while battle other illnesses.
He's in great spirits and would love to see or hear from you.
Prospective Member
Bill Armstrong
Bill is retired military just moving back into the Pensacola area from
Tennessee. He started out Navy then finished up in the Army.
Thanks for your service Bill! Shown here with his
one fish he caught while fishing with us as a guest proves he listens
as most of us told him to be gentle on us. Bill found out
about us through our web page...so it proves someone out there is
reading it....lol.
Club Hats
A new order of club hats has arrived along with the
new price.
$20 be sure to get one before they run out.
New Business:
Cookouts
John passed around a sign up sheet for workers during
our club
cookouts. The fun we have requires a little bit of teamwork
and
it's greatly appreciated by all. Since our September
tournament is not conducive to cooking fish we voted to go with the big
chicken dinner.
From the Tournament Director:
The Florida after action report for the Escambia river was submitted
according to the state rules. Something we must do now that
Florida changed the fishing regulations. At least they are
allowing us tournament fishermen to posses more than one 16" fish
during the tournament.
Life jackets and kill switches.....real important when you operating
our high speed bass boats. Just look at what happened to some
other really lucky guys.
It
could happen to you!
click here
More milestones have been passed this month. Birthdays for
Marion, Jere, Jeff and Kevin!
Super Bowl Party
Mack has graciously invited us again this year to his house for the
annual Super bowl party. It promises to be a great time even
if you aren't interested in football. Their will be
plenty of food just bring your own drinks and don't park on the grass.
Starts 3pm on Super Bowl Sunday.
For those of you who don't know it....it's February 5th.
Call, text, email, Facebook or twitter Mack with your intentions so he
can make sure there is enough food.
Payouts were given for the December tournament. Congrats to all those
who received a payout!
The draw was conducted for the January tournament.
The meeting was adjourned 7:42pm.
Tournament:
The
January Tournament was held over in Alabama on Fish River at
the
Hwy 98 Bridge Landing. The weather was promising to be bad
and
scared one member off however it turned out to be a great day.
Sure we had some rain and even a bit of roling thunder but it
passed quickly. My partner and I found a real nice looking
empty
boat dock we sat under for about 20 minutes to let the storm pass.
Seems like the worst of it passed around us instead of
through
us. I guess Jeff's morning prayer long may it be really
helped.
We
had 17 Hawg Hunters brave enough and one guest/prospective member
fishing out of 11 boats. Yep if you do the math we had some without
partners, 4 in fact who choose to use our new rule. I heard
someone say...."looking more like a bass tournament than a
club
tournament". I on the other hand I felt good knowing I was
going
to be a boater since the beginning of the week instead of waiting till
Wednesday to see if I could pack the boat up or not. Well see
how
the year goes.
On to the results:
We had 4 limits, 54 fish caught with a combined weight of 80.94 lbs and
more importantly NO dead fish.
Tournament Results:
1st Place
Cliff Armstrong
Cliff opted to fish as a solo boater and wowed us all once again by
bringing in a limit of fish weighing 9.02 pounds! He even did it
with his eyes closed....just like in the picture..lol.
Cliff's kicker fish was a nice 3.89 brute. This is
Cliff's first club win that hasn't been attached to a fish-off so not
as much money won but I'm sure Cliff will take it anyway. I
guess after the comments our guest Kim made at the meeting he got riled
up and waxed us. What ever the motivation was, he is really
getting serious about this stuff.
Great Job!
Congrats Cliff!
2nd Place
Pete Potter
Ole "forgot to raise the trolling moter" Pete Potter also
brought a limit to the scales. His 5 fish weighed in at 8.44
pounds to take 2nd place. Pete choose to have a partner for
the tournament so he let Jere tag along and together they brought in
the most Boat total weight of 11.95 pounds for the tournament.
Looks like they were on fish.
Great Job!
Congratulations Pete!
3rd Place
Frank Kelly
This is Frank's first showing this season in the money slots and he did
it with only 4 fish. Of course one them was the Big Fish of
the Tournament. A 3.94 lb Hawg! Frank's total weight was 7.86
for the 4 fish.
With his 3rd place finish Frank climbs up 5 places in the AOY
Standings to sit 10th overall.
Great Job!
Congratulations Frank!
4th Place
Jeff Weaver
No stranger to the top 4 is Jeff who's 2 for 2 this year and 9 for 11
last year of the tournaments he's fished. We should start
sending him a W2 form to fill out with his taxes for all the winnings
he takes from us. Jeff had 3 real nice fish tipping the
scales at 7.54 with his biggest one weighing 3.5 pounds.
Great Job!
Congratulations Jeff!
AOY Analysis
Once again we have movement in the top six anglers as it's
still early in the season. Nobody's really
breaking away from
the pack yet but the names are changing. This months leader
in the AOY race is Pete Potter who replaces Jere Jaillite.
Pete jumped up from 3rd.
Tied for 2nd this month is
Brian Nall and Jere just 2 points behind Pete. Climbing up
one slot to 4th is Mack Cramer. Next we have Cliff Armstrong
leaping up from 11th last month to 5th this month
after crushing us at the scales. Rounding out the top six we
have Don Jahnke and Jeff Weaver sharing 6th place. Don didn't
move up or down but Jeff climbed up 3 places to tie.
CO-AOY Analysis:
Brian Nall holds on and stays in the lead for the CO-AOY race
but really increases the point spread on Bob Jones whos in 2nd or the
Silver position. Brain went from a 4 point lead to a 13 point
lead. With this tournament in the record books Frank Kelly
climbs over Terry Smith and Dave Nason to put him in the Bronze/3rd
place position.
Great Job Guys!
Slammer Nominee
Well we have another Slammer Nominee this month. Here's what
happened at the tournament as told to me.....Lee Brannon and Carlito
drew out together again this month. They started out in high
spirits even though last month they had a dismal showing where Lee was
the only one able to catch fish between the two at Escambia.
Heck they even drew first boat out this month.
Anyway at blast off...off they went. Halfway through the day
they were struggling finding fish maybe because Carlito was fishing up
in the trees. Seems Lee had enough of it so during one such
occasion as Carlito was squirrel hunting in the trees again Lee
only backed the boat up a smidgen. Carlito short as
he is anyway couldn't reach the heights of the trees so he very gently
eases out on to the back of Lee's Skeeter and quitely eases himself
into water to go get his bait. At least that's
what it looked like to Lee. Ask Carlito and he'll say he
slipped. I really don't know because fishermen tend to
exaggerate but getting into the water in January surely deserves a
slammer nomination. At least Carlito had the decency to
remove his club shirt and hat before swimming with the fishes so at the
weigh-in he could represent properly.
Pete I don't think your off the hook yet because trying to recover your
boat with the trolling motor down with hundred's of witnesses at the
ramp kinda beats Carlito's mishap with no witnesses.
Tournament Standings:
Fish River @
Hwy 98 Bridge Landing
1st – Cliff Armstrong - 5 fish – 9.02 lbs
2nd – Pete Potter - 5 fish – 8.44 lbs
3rd – Frank Kelly - 4 fish – 7.86 lbs
4th – Jeff Weaver - 3 fish – 7.54 lbs
5th – Randy Cole - 5 fish – 5.45 lbs
6th – Brian Nall - 5 fish – 5.42 lbs
7th - Dave Bock - 3 fish - 5.10 lbs
8th – Mack Cramer - 4 fish – 4.89 lbs
9th – Terry Smith - 3 fish – 4.79 lbs
10th - Don Jahnke - 3 fish - 3.79 lbs
11th - Jere Jaillite - 3 fish - 3.51 lbs
12th - Tony Boyett - 3 fish - 3.50 lbs
13th - Carlito Slivania - 2 fish - 3.30 lbs
14th - Marion Johnson - 2 fish - 3.05 lbs
15th - Lee Brannon - 2 fish - 2.81 lbs
16th - Bob Jones - 1 fish - 1.33 lbs
17th - Buddy Yates -1 fish - 1.14 lbs
Also Fished:
Guest Bill Armstrong - 1 fish - 2.09 lbs
For the Record:
Fish River/Hwy 98 Bridge
Landing
Total Number Fished Tournament 17
Total Fish Caught 54
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 4
Total Fish Weight 80.94 lbs
Big Fish: Frank Kelly 3.94 lbs
For the Year:
Total Number Fished For Year 50
Total Fish Caught 134
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 11
Total Fish Weight 197.71 lbs
Big Fish 4.76 lbs
Don Jahnke
Escambia River - December
February Meeting
Location: Founaris Bros.
February 15, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm
February Tournament
February 18, 2017
Tournament Site:
Tensaw River
Cliff's Landing
From the Daily Planner:
Sunrise: 6:26am
Full Moon:
02/10/17
Tides
01/21/17
High: 7:43 pm
Low: 8:55 am
Any questions should be addressed to:
Dave Bock
E-Mail
the Secretary