Bass Club
Issue: 05
Lee Brannon
Hawg Hunter E-Board
Lee Brannon
2019
Jeff Weaver
Dave Nason
Dave Bock
Bill Armstrong
Brian Nall
The March meeting of the Pensacola Hawg Hunters
was
brought to
order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 20th of March at
Founaris
Bros.
Greek Restaurant by Jeff Weaver. We had only 16 members present.
We were even honored to have our Secretary show up for his first
meeting this year.
The minutes of last months meeting were waived by the membership.
The treasury report was read and accepted.
The Booray pot is now up to $208 for a 6 pound Hawg.
This month's 50/50 was won by John Buck.
Roger Helm was in attendance so we "roasted" him and delivered his Slammer Award he so well deserved during last season. Here's a picture of what he did to earn the coveted award:
Congrats Roger "Tow Strap" Helm!
Speaking of Roger he was also gracious enough to bring in a bag of baits to raffle off to the club. The club netted a $20 gain. Thanks Roger!
Preparations for the March Fish Fry were hashed out as to who was bring what. Promises to be a great meal!
Our Assistant Tournament Director Brian Nall did a great job in his duties for the night. I don't think I heard a single "F-bomb" dropped all night.
Payouts for the February Tournament were handed out.
Congrats to all those who received a paycheck.
Great job!
The draw for the March Tournament was conducted.
Drawn out were 9 boaters with only 3 Co-Anglers for the two day Lay Lake Tournament.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:27 pm.
The March Tournament this year was held at Lay Lake up in Clanton Alabama. A change from us going to Lake Seminole every year. We had slim participation but still enough members to call it a tournament by our rules. We only need two boats and four members to call it a Club tournament.
Anyway we had 9 boats with 3 Co-Anglers and 6 empty seats make it up to Inn of Clanton where we were staying. Uneventful trip...not like last time we headed that way with Cliff Armstrong dragging a Talon on the highway.
Saturday morning we started out with them temps in the mid 40's a little on the cool side. Down at the lake we had a fog delay as the water was warmer than the air. Instead of blasting off we idled out and most of us filled in the little pockets south of the ramp trying to catch a fish before the fog cleared enough for us to run to our first spots. There was hardly any breeze so we had to wait about 2 hours for the sun to warm things up and get rid of the fog. The temps rose up to the low 70's come way in time.
Sunday morning was a little bit cooler but no fog. Water temp averaged around 58-59 degrees with some 61 degree water found in the backs of the creeks or pockets. A little bit too cold for the spawn yet.
At the weigh ins everybody caught fish both days!
On Saturday we were just 6 fish short from every one having their limits. We had 9 out of 12 limits weighed in. 54 fish caught weighing 104.28 pounds.
On Sunday we were 8 fish short. 52 fish caught weighing 97.53 pounds with 8 limits caught.
Two day total of 106 fish caught weighing 201.81 pounds with just 12 members. That more than doubles the fish caught and weights for the past 4 tournaments this year!
The fishing truly is better fishing up North.....lol.
Brian Nall and I, Dave Bock, decided on Sunday to have a little mini tournament for ourselves. After Brian caught his limit and I struggled to trying to catch mine we switched gears and went cat fishing for a little while to see who could catch the biggest one.
(click here to see the results)
was
brought to
order at 7:00 P.M on Wednesday the 20th of March at
Founaris
Bros.
Greek Restaurant by Jeff Weaver. We had only 16 members present.
We were even honored to have our Secretary show up for his first
meeting this year.The minutes of last months meeting were waived by the membership.
The treasury report was read and accepted.
The Booray pot is now up to $208 for a 6 pound Hawg.
This month's 50/50 was won by John Buck.
Roger Helm was in attendance so we "roasted" him and delivered his Slammer Award he so well deserved during last season. Here's a picture of what he did to earn the coveted award:
Congrats Roger "Tow Strap" Helm!
Speaking of Roger he was also gracious enough to bring in a bag of baits to raffle off to the club. The club netted a $20 gain. Thanks Roger!
Preparations for the March Fish Fry were hashed out as to who was bring what. Promises to be a great meal!
Our Assistant Tournament Director Brian Nall did a great job in his duties for the night. I don't think I heard a single "F-bomb" dropped all night.
Payouts for the February Tournament were handed out.
Congrats to all those who received a paycheck.
Great job!
The draw for the March Tournament was conducted.
Drawn out were 9 boaters with only 3 Co-Anglers for the two day Lay Lake Tournament.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:27 pm.
The March Tournament this year was held at Lay Lake up in Clanton Alabama. A change from us going to Lake Seminole every year. We had slim participation but still enough members to call it a tournament by our rules. We only need two boats and four members to call it a Club tournament.
Anyway we had 9 boats with 3 Co-Anglers and 6 empty seats make it up to Inn of Clanton where we were staying. Uneventful trip...not like last time we headed that way with Cliff Armstrong dragging a Talon on the highway.
Saturday morning we started out with them temps in the mid 40's a little on the cool side. Down at the lake we had a fog delay as the water was warmer than the air. Instead of blasting off we idled out and most of us filled in the little pockets south of the ramp trying to catch a fish before the fog cleared enough for us to run to our first spots. There was hardly any breeze so we had to wait about 2 hours for the sun to warm things up and get rid of the fog. The temps rose up to the low 70's come way in time.
Sunday morning was a little bit cooler but no fog. Water temp averaged around 58-59 degrees with some 61 degree water found in the backs of the creeks or pockets. A little bit too cold for the spawn yet.
At the weigh ins everybody caught fish both days!
On Saturday we were just 6 fish short from every one having their limits. We had 9 out of 12 limits weighed in. 54 fish caught weighing 104.28 pounds.
On Sunday we were 8 fish short. 52 fish caught weighing 97.53 pounds with 8 limits caught.
Two day total of 106 fish caught weighing 201.81 pounds with just 12 members. That more than doubles the fish caught and weights for the past 4 tournaments this year!
The fishing truly is better fishing up North.....lol.
Brian Nall and I, Dave Bock, decided on Sunday to have a little mini tournament for ourselves. After Brian caught his limit and I struggled to trying to catch mine we switched gears and went cat fishing for a little while to see who could catch the biggest one.
(click here to see the results)
Back to Back Wins!
Last month Jere whipped our butts and this month he did it again.
Jere brought in two nice limits of fish. On Saturday he had 10.42 pounds anchored by a 2.53lb Spot while on Sunday he upgraded to a 13.59 pound bad. Sunday he managed a 3.29 pound kicker which won him Big Fish money. Beating Jeff Weaver out of Big fish money by .01 pound which comes out to between 1/8 and 3/16 of an ounce.
His two day wining total was 24.01 pounds!
Great job!
Congrats Jere!
Brian also had a great tournament with two over 10 pound sacks for the
weekend. On Saturday he started culling around 2
o'clock to weigh in 10.66 pounds while Sunday he managed to cull
up to 10.39 pounds. His two day total was 21.05
pounds just 1 pound short of last year's amazing win at the October
Fish-off on this same Lay Lake.Great Job!
Congratulations Brian!
Roger managed to make the drive over from Jacksonville for our first
two tournament of the season. He found a sack of fish on Saturday
that went over 10 pounds and managed to stay in the money for the
weekend. His two day total was 18.62 pounds for 10 fish. He
finished 4th on Saturday for the golf ball draw and upgraded to 3rd
place for the weekend.Great Job!
Congratulations Jeff!
Wes had an exciting weekend. From not making it to the Fish River
tournament due to loosing a wheel off his trailer to Zeroing at the
Tensaw tournament to putting a whopping on us on Saturday. His
Saturday 5 fish limit weighed in at 13.37 pounds. He also managed
Big Fish of the Tournament with a 3.42 pound spotted bass.On Sunday....not so lucky. He only managed catch 3 fish and a stump.
Dropping him to 4th place with a two day total of 17.75 pounds.
I would be amiss if I didn't mention that Wes held Jeff Weaver back from 4th place by just .02 pounds which is double the 1/8 to 3/16 of an ounce we talked about earlier.
Great Job!
Congratulations Wes!
This month we have a Tie in the Angler of the Year Race!
John Russell and Jeff Weaver both have 85 total points. A mere flip of the coin could determine....oh wait that's only during weigh-ins.
If it was the end of the Season right now we'd have to break out the rules because you know we got lots of rules. Anyway we'd go to the next criteria which is The individual with the largest number of legal fish weighed in for the year. In this case John Russell would come up on Top with 21 fish while Jeff has only 20. Great job guys or should I say Jeff as he gained 6 points on John Russell to tie him.
John Buck maintains his 3rd place ranking but just 1 point behind is Kevin Simmons who jumped over Mack this month. Kevin sits in 4th Place just 10 points behind our current leaders while Mack drops all the way down to 7th Place due to no participation. Ouch!
Jere with his back to back wins slides up from 7th to take over 5th place with 71 points. Great job Jerry Jere !
Rounding our our Top Six is last years Angler of the Year Lee Brannon.
Great job to the Top Six!
Our Co-Angler of the year race is not really a race at all this year. John Russell made a killing early on and now is cruising through to Victory. We still have a lot of fishing to go and if he continues to participate he just may make it. Why you say....well right now he has a 39 point lead!
Could we have a Co-Angler of the Year also win the Club Angler of the Year? John Russell's definitely has the opportunity but there's some pretty good "sticks" nipping at his heals.
Jumping up into the Silver/2nd place spot is Brian Nall who now has 46 points. Brian's 2nd place finish at Lay Lake this month really helped him move up. Of course the other two guys Dave Hall and Dave Nason didn't show so Brian had an easy advantage.
Sliding down to the Bronze/3rd place spot is Dave Hall with 41 points.
Hooyah! So this month we have two slammer nominees. The first one occurred on Saturday. Ole John Russell "dock" Buck. In his eagerness to help launch the many solo-boaters we had during the tournament he managed to back Wes Chancery's truck into the boat dock.
Left a couple of scratches on the bumper he did. Now I know it was really foggy Saturday morning when we launched but 8 other boats and trucks managed to miss it. How do you hit the middle of boat/trailer combination unless you come down the ramp like a snake walk.
Our second nominee is none other than Wes "stump" Chancery. Also know as Wes "no spare" Chancery from a previous nomination just two months ago.
So picture this....Wes joins the club in December, does his guest tournament, gets voted in, draws out as a boater then doesn't show due to not having a spare wheel after throwing his off on the way to January tournament. Then zero's at the February tournament to be the hero on Saturday with a kick-ass 13 pound bag during the March tournament. Did I mention it was Wes's truck that was involved in John Russell's snake walk down the ramp.
So Sunday Wes was running though Paint Creek to get back to his fish and slams into a stump with his pretty boat and lower gear case as seen here:
(click on picture for larger image)
Wes tore some fiberglass off the bottom and also bent his prop shaft on that stump he hit.
Oh and to top it all off.....the crank bait bite he had going on Saturday ended with him losing the only lure he had. So he ran 30 miles down to Prattville to the Bass Pro Shops and Academy to buy a bunch more. Well they didn't work on Sunday as he only managed to find 3 little fish for 4 pounds.
One thing we can say for sure.....our new younger club members have sure added excitement to our club!
1st – Jere Jaillite - 10 fish – 24.01 lbs
2nd – Brian Nall - 10 fish – 21.05 lbs
3rd – Roger Helm - 10 fish – 18.62 lbs
4th – Wesley Chancery - 8 fish – 17.75 lbs
5th – Jeff Weaver - 10 fish – 17.73 lbs
6th – Kevin Simmons - 10 fish – 17.24 lbs
7th - Lee Brannon - 10 fish - 16.86 lbs
8th – Dave Bock - 6 fish – 16.77 lbs
9th – Dave Dyess – 10 fish - 15.93 lbs
10th - John Buck - 8 fish - 14.01 lbs
11th - John Russell Buck - 8 fish - 12.61 lbs
12th - Terry Ferdinandt - 6 fish - 9.23 lbs
Hooyah! Everyone caught fish...Lots of them!
Total Number Fished Tournament 12
Total Fish Caught 106
Total Dead Fish 0
Total Limits 17
Total Fish Weight 201.81 lbs
Big Fish: Wes Chancery - 3.42 lbs
Total Number Fished For Year 68
Total Fish Caught 217
Total Dead Fish 2
Total Limits 21
Total Fish Weight 341.41 lbs
Big Fish 4.71 lbs
Jeff Weaver
Escambia River - December
Location: Founaris Bros.
April 24, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
April 27/28, 2019
Lake Jordan
Boy Scout Ramp
Sunrise: 6:14 am
April 19, 2019 High: NA
Low: NA
Any questions should be addressed to:
Dave Bock
E-Mail the Secretary