Our 2nd tournament of the year was held on Lake Washington this weekend. In an effort to try and keep things positive – I will simply say it was tough (brutal is more appropriate). In total we had 20 anglers fishing. We had 11 zeros, 5 who weighed in one fish, and 3 that weighed in 2 fish. Only one man brought more than 2 fish to the scales and that was your winner – RB Sheppard! RB weighed 4 fish totaling 8.23lbs. Big time congrats go out to RB for figuring out a way to put fish in the boat when most everyone else could not. In total we weighed 15 fish weighing a whopping 34.52 lbs. On the brighter side - this tournament will end up making a huge difference in the Angler of the Year points race – so to the 9 guys who found a way to weigh a fish I say Congratulations – job well done!
1st Place – RB Sheppard 8.23 Lbs
2nd Place – TJ Hare, Jr. 6.49 Lbs
3rd Place – Johnny Baker 6.04 Lbs
4th Place – Joel Peeler 4.89 Lbs
5th Place – Scott Goza 2.66 Lbs
Lunker honors were taken by Joel Peeler with a 3.71lb fish.
It is obviously worth noting that this was our first tournament without JJ. There were a lot of JJ stories shared this weekend and I thought Greg did a great job of recognizing JJ’s absence before we blasted off Saturday. And it is obvious JJ is still with us as just about every one of his team members weighed a fish and his team beat up on the Strike King and Slurpie teams this weekend! Congrats to the Dead Ringers and way to represent your Captain this weekend. I know he was smiling down on yall!
I will also note that after this weekend TJ Hare, Jr. is leading this Angler of Year points race with a pretty big margin. (no this is not a typo). TJ is off to a fast start this year with a 3rd place finish and a 2nd place finish in our first two tournaments of the year. For the rest of us – we better step our game up quickly unless you want to listen to his mouth the rest of the year!!!! In all seriousness though – Congrats TJ!
Upcoming events
- The April general membership meeting is TOMORROW night at Sal and Phils. Hope to see you there. We have something awesome to share that you will want to hear about so make plans to be there. Also – Chevrons and plaques from the Bruin tournament will be handed out.
