What a good, tough decision made by Tournament Director Jim Lowe to move this past weekends tournament to Lake Ferguson from Lake Washington. The prefishing reports were bad, I mean real bad. You know when guys like JJ, Greg, RB, Larry, Mike, and Jim prefish a lake and don’t even touch a bass – things are not good! Therefore after several days of pre-fishing lake Washington to no avail the decision was made to move to Lake Ferguson. Ofcourse, anytime you make a last minute change like this there is always some who don’t like it. I will admit, initially I was one of them. But the more I thought about it, I came to realize that every tournament, whether scheduled or not, benefits some and puts some at a disadvantage. That’s just the way it is. Only thing to do is adjust, go fish and have fun. And that is exactly what we did as a club. We adjusted and ended up having one of the better days of our club year in terms of number of fish caught. Overall thirteen anglers weighed in limits and in total we weighed 76 fish for a total of 124.66 lbs for an average fish of 1.64 lbs. This is the second most fish weighed in a tournament this year (most is the April tournament on Barnett – 80).
RB Shephard and Scott Goza found a section of the lake that held some big fish and ended up 1st and 2nd (respectively) on the Angler side. Goza’s live well pumps went out costing them serious point deductions for dead fish, but in the end it didn’t hurt them as RB won with 15.22 lbs (was 16.47lbs) and Goza came in 2nd with 12.95 lbs (was 13.95lbs). On the co-angler side - George Thrash pulled out back to back wins with 5 fish that weighed 9.20 lbs! With the win he and Randy are now tied for the Co-Angler division lead. With only 4 tournaments left – this race is going to be a fun one to watch!
Below are the top anglers from this weekend.
Angler Division:
1st Place – RB Shephard 15.22 Lbs
2nd Place – Scott Goza 12.95 Lbs
3rd Place – Austin Banks, Jr. 10.39 Lbs
4th Place – Steven Bailey 10.17 Lbs
5th Place – Carl Sandberg 9.54 Lbs
Co-angler Division:
1st Place – George Thrash 9.20 Lbs
2nd Place – Kevin Daigle 6.40 Lbs
3rd Place – Randy Mills 6.25 Lbs
4th Place – Bill Mays 1.12 Lbs
Lunker honors were taken by RB Shephard with a 4.13lb fish. Congratulations to all these fishermen. Thanks for being flexible and making Ferguson such a good trip. JJ’s team won, again. JJ - go ahead and order your jackets!!
Upcoming Events in August
• Board of Directors Meeting at Sal and Phils Tuesday August 2nd
• General Membership meeting at Sal and Phils Tuesday August 16th
• Point tournament on Lake Chotard Saturday August 20th
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