2017 Season
Pensacola Hawg Hunters
Bass Club




2017 Season


Volume: 20
Issue: 03
Angler Of The Year
Jeff Weaver




Hawg Hunter E-Board
Big Fish Of The Year
Don Jahnke
Jan.
2017


President
John Buck
Vice-President/Treasurer
Jere Jaillite
Secretary
Dave Bock
Tournament Director
Mack Cramer
Asst. Tournament Director
Matt Brown



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



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