June 2, 2012 Dewey Mullins Tribute Bass Tourney

Today's tourney started with some of the highest water we've seen in a while. One of the catwalks was completely submerged, and there was some water in the parking lot, too, from where it had spilled over the lip of the ramp. The other catwalk, however, still was above water, so Dewey gave everyone the "go" signal. We all launched, got our briefing from Dewey, and departed for the day's fishing.

Tournament Winners

First place among today's field of 12 boats and 18 anglers went to the team of Chris and Al Napier, with five bass weighing 12.60 lbs. They also won the lunker award, with a bass weighing 4.52 lbs.

Second place went to the team of Eddie Sapp and Paul Celentano, with a sack of five fish weighing 7.68 lbs.

(Left photo, l-r) Chris and Al Napier, 1st Place.
(Right photo, l-r) Eddie Sapp and Paul Celentano, 2nd Place.

Other Results

Here's how the rest of the anglers finished in terms of total weight: Gary Coderre, five fish, 7.58 lbs.; Dave Meers, five fish, 7.47 lbs.; the team of Rob Peppers and Jim Funk, five fish, 7.10 lbs.; the team of Bob Glass and J. P. Twohig, five fish, 6.37 lbs.; the team of John Matyiko and Mark Cable, five fish, 5.86 lbs.; Bobby Moore, three fish, 4.73 lbs.; Ken Testorff, three fish, 4.06 lbs.; and the team of Aaron Phillips and Tucker Blalock, two fish, 1.83 lbs. Anglers Steve Bailey and Skip Schaible didn't weigh any fish today.

Those 16 anglers in 10 boats who participated in the weigh-in accounted for a total of 43 bass crossing the scales today. The fish had a combined weight of 65.28 lbs.

Anglers besides Chris and Al Napier who weighed big fish included Dave Meers/2.55-lb. bass, the team of Rob Peppers and Jim Funk/2.48-lb. bass, Bobby Moore/1.94-lb. bass, Ken Testorff/1.86-lb. bass, Gary Coderre/1.83-lb. bass, the team of Eddie Sapp and Paul Celentano/1.81-lb. bass, the team of Bob Glass and J. P. Twohig/1.63-lb. bass, the team of John Matyiko and Mark Cable/1.39-lb. bass, and the team of Aaron Phillips and Tucker Blalock/1.09-lb. bass.

With today's tournament, a total of 14 anglers have qualified to fish our season-ending two-day Classic on Oct. 13-14. The list includes Gary Coderre, Steve Bailey, Eddie Sapp, Paul Celentano, Bob Glass, Randy Conkle, J. P. Twohig, Al Napier, Skip Schaible, Chris Napier, Joe McDevitt, Ken Testorff, John Matyiko, and Bobby Moore.

(Left photo, l-r) Rob Peppers and Jim Funk
(Right photo, l-r) Eddie Sapp and Paul Celentano

Next Event

For planning purposes, our next tourney is scheduled for Saturday, June 9. Start time will be safe light (or approximately 0600). Weigh-in will be at 1400. Here's hoping newcomers Aaron Phillips and Tucker Blalock, who fished with us for the first time today, will join us again next Saturday. Anyone with questions can email me at kenneth34@cox.net.

(Left photo) John Matyiko eases toward dock.
(Right photo) Gary Coderre holds up some of his day's catch.

(Left photo) Dave Meers (in foreground) digs his fish out of
the livewell for weigh-in. Chris Napier (farthest away) waits
to approach dock for weigh in.
(Right photo) Eddie Sapp (closest) waits for his partner to
weigh their fish. Rob Peppers and partner, Jim Funk, prepare
to weigh in.