2018 Season
Pensacola Hawg Hunters
Bass Club




2018 Season


Volume: 21
Issue: 02
Angler Of The Year
Pete Potter




Hawg Hunter E-Board
Big Fish Of The Year
Pete Potter
Nov
 2017


President
Jeff Weaver
Vice-President/Treasurer
Dave Nason
Secretary
Dave Bock
Tournament Director
Dave Dyess
Asst. Tournament Director
Bill Armstrong



Minutes of the Meeting:

The December meeting of the Pensacola Hawg Hunters
was brought to order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 13th of December at Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant by our  President Jeff Weaver. We had 25 members present and 2 guests.  One a prospective member named Mark Williams sponsored by Kevin Simmons and the other was Kim invited to oversee Bill Armstrong's birthday party.  She even brought cupcakes for the occasion!

Awards Banquet

The year end banquet was finalized and promised to be a good one.  

(Pictures can be seen here)

It really was a great one put on by our outgoing President John Buck and our incoming President Jeff Weaver.  John's always good in front of a crowd and Jeff did an outstanding job on the video slide presentation.  Also the pamphlet was a nice addition to this year's program.  We missed it last year.

It was also nice seeing all the ladies who support their husbands in our hunt for them bass.  Flowers for everyone!

No the draw was not rigged Dave Bock actually drew out a winning ticket with the number matching his wife's.   Reminds me of a time when Buddy Yates did the same thing a couple years back.


Old Business

The minutes from the last waived by the membership.

The treasury report was read and accepted.

Booray Report: The Booray pot keeps growing and since no one has won it in the past year the Weight drops down to 5 pounds.  .  It's now $720 for a 5.0 pound fish.  See Buddy for details.

This month's 50/50 was won by Brian Nall.

If you didn't get a tournament schedule here's the link to print one out.

2018 Tournament Schedule (click here)


New Business:

Mack says since the NFL players refuse to stand for our national anthem he is not having is annual super bowl party this year.  But he is inviting all of us over for a college football game on the 8th of January at 6:00 pm.  Same kind of party in the past years but it will be on the college level.  Ever wanted to go back to college?  FRAT Party at Mack's House!

All you need to do is bring your drinks and let Mack know if you are going to make it.   Call, Text or Email him with your plans or for our newer members if you don't know where he lives just ask him.  I would post his number but the NFL may be looking for him.

From the Tournament Director:


Payouts for the November tournament were handed out.   Congrats to all those who received a paycheck. Great job!

Remember if you want to be a boater in our tournaments you have to have your insurance policy on file with the Assistant Tournament Director - Bill Armstrong prior to the draw.

The draw was conducted for the December Escambia River tournament.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:34 pm.


December Tournament:


The December Tournament found us at the Swamp house on Escambia River in Florida.  It's been a while since we fished in Florida and we were all armed with a Florida State tournament exemption sheet.  Well the boaters anyway but fishing in the panhandle area we find it hard to catch them over 16 inch fish.  As a club we did manage to catch 2 out of the 64 fish caught.  Jere and Dave Nason were the lucky ones.
The morning launch was chaos as it looked like 2 or 3 more clubs decided to join us.  Or maybe we joined them as this wasn't our normal weekend after the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  Anyway it was crowded.  Most boats I've seen on the river but as I heard someone say the river will swallow them up.  Sure enough I didn't hardly see anybody the whole day.   (Maybe that's why I struggled catching fish)
The weather started out low 40's and climbed to the mid 60's by weigh in time.  A whole other ordeal as one of the other clubs had the same weigh in time as us.  But we made it.  Even Pete Potter after joining us with a quick tuck-n-roll showing us at 81 he's as fit as a fiddle.





Tournament Results:




1st Place
Jere Jaillite

Jere came in with a great bag of fish for December on the Escambia river.  His 5 fish limit weighed in at 9.84 pounds anchored by the tournament Big Fish of 2.99 pounds.  Jere said he also has a Booray fish up to the boat but it spit the hook out at him.  Seems he didn't even have it hooked but I'm sure Jere had a great day anyway.

Great Job!

Congrats Jere!


2nd Place
Dave Nason

Dave also brought in a bag over 9 pounds except he was fishing out of the back of a boat.  Dave's limit of 5 fish tipped the scales to 9.31 pounds.  A great day for Dave too!

Great Job!

Congratulations Dave!


3rd Place
Lee Brannon

Lee's been on a roll ever since rolling into that ditch a couple of months back.  He's consistently placed in the money since then and is steadily paying off that fence repair.  Lee's 5 fish limit weighed 7.84 pounds.  Good enough for 3rd place!

Great Job!

Congratulations Lee!



4th Place
Tony Boyett

Hooyah!  Finally a current picture of Tony.  Tony also found a limit of fish.  His fish weighed 6.81 pounds good enough for 4th place.  Oh yea and he did it out of the back of Lee's boat!

Great Job!

Congratulations Tony!


AOY Analysis


2 down 10 to go in the new season.  A whole lot of shuffling going on.  This month we find a different Top Six with 3 anglers dropping down and 3 new ones rising to the top.
To begin with we have a tie for First place with Jere and Lee both having 39 points.  As our rules state we can have ties all the way up until the last tournament of the year then the tie breakers become..
.
1. most fish caught
 2. most live fish caught
3. heaviest stringer caught  

Apply that now and Jere would win....but the season has just begun.  Plenty of fishing yet to go with some great places scheduled for great times of the year.

In 3rd place for now is a Co-Angler named Dave Nason jumping up from 7th to 3rd.

In 4th is another Co-Angler by the name of Thom Labelle who won last months tournament but only placed 13th this month so he dropped.

In 5th is Jeff Weaver who is no stranger to the Top Six.  He jumped up from 10th last month to hold 5th this month.  Strangely enough he also finished 5th during this months tournament.

And rounding out our Top Six is Mack Cramer who managed to keep his 6th place standing from last month to this month.

No mention of our Reigning Champion Pete Potter yet as he's had two tough tournament so far this year.  A 12th place and then a 10th place finish during the first two tournaments.   But he's only 5 points away from the Top Six group and I'm sure he'll jump up there soon.









CO-AOY Analysis:


For Co-Anglers we have a change in the lead.  Dave Nason jumps ahead of last months leader Thom Labelle by 5 points.  Thom didn't do so well and Dave did great during the tournament.
Staying in 3rd place is Brian Nall.




Tournament Standings:

Escambia River @ Swamp house Landing

1st – Jere Jaillite - 5 fish – 9.84 lbs
2nd – Dave Nason - 5 fish – 9.31 lbs
3rd – Lee Brannon - 5 fish – 7.84 lbs
4th – Tony Boyett - 5 fish – 6.81 lbs
5th – Jeff Weaver - 5 fish – 6.60 lbs
6th – Buddy Yates - 5 fish – 6.56 lbs
7th - Bill Armstrong - 5 fish - 6.13 lbs
8th – John Buck - 5 fish – 6.05 lbs
9th – Dave Dyess – 5 fish - 5.71 lbs
10th - Pete Potter - 4 fish - 4.63 lbs
11th - Mack Cramer - 2 fish - 4.00 lbs
12th - Brian Nall - 3 fish - 3.40 lbs
13th - Thom Labelle - 2 fish - 2.45 lbs
14th - Frank Kelly - 1 fish - 2.14 lbs
15th - Dave Hall - 2 fish - 1.89 lbs
16th - Kevin Murphy - 1 fish - 1.65 lbs
17th - Pete Mistich - 1 fish - 1.47 lbs
18th - Dave Bock - 1 fish - 1.28 lbs
19th - Kevin Simmons - 1 fish - 1.08 lbs
20th - Randy Cole - 1 fish - 1.08 lbs

Also Fished:

Bob Jones & John Schaeff




For the Record:

Escambia River/Swamp house Landing

Total Number Fished Tournament 22
Total Fish Caught 64
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 9
Total Fish Weight 89.92 lbs
Big Fish: Jere Jaillite 2.99 lbs

For the Year:

Total Number Fished For Year 41
Total Fish Caught 110
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 14
Total Fish Weight 163.21 lbs
Big Fish 3.72 lbs
Dave Nason
Miller's Ferry -November

January Meeting

Location: Founaris Bros.
 January 17, 2018
Time: 7:00 pm

January Tournament

January 20, 2018

Tournament Site:

Fish River
Hwy 98 Bridge Landing

From the Daily Planner:

Sunrise: 6:45 am

Full Moon:

01/02/18

Tides

01/20/18

High: 3:30 am
Low: 2:00 pm




Any questions should be addressed to:

Dave Bock
E-Mail the Secretary





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