VA BASS Region 7 Hosts Open Team Bass Tournament

This was the scene at Munden Point Park in Virginia Beach today about 2:15, as competing anglers in the open tournament started returning from their day on the water.

Discussion with some of the early-returning participants revealed that a few of them had encountered tough conditions--to the point where not everyone even had a single fish to weigh. I heard one angler comment that he had logged a whole hour of running time in pursuit of Mr. Largemouth, only to come up empty-handed at the end of the day. And there were others registering similar remarks.

In a tournament that allows each team to weigh eight keeper bass, I saw several bringing bags to the scales with only two or three fish in them, but this wasn't one of them.








Among the common "thorns in the side" I heard expressed today were murky to downright muddy conditions and the fact the water was coming in hard all day. Predictably, however, a few found better conditions and managed to put together some dandy limits. Here are the day's winners:

1st Place - (from left) Joe Glazebrook and Mike Evans, led by their cheering section, Noah (with Mike's arm over his shoulder) and Ben Mayfield. These two boys, both of whom are anglers in their own right, are Mike's grandsons. Joe and Mike had a bag of eight bass weighing 22.73 lbs.

2nd Place - (from left) Chris Carmell and Charlie Reed. Their eight-fish limit, after a dead-fish penalty, totaled 18.48 lbs.

3rd Place - (from left) Kevin Mills and Rex Shell. Their eight-fish total weight was 15.98 lbs. This team also walked away with Big Fish honors for a bass that tipped the scales at 5.33 lbs.








Fourth Place today went to the team of Rob Peppers and Don Carter, who brought in a sack of eight fish weighing 15.77 lbs.

Once the fishing was over, all hands were ready to "chow down" on the hamburgers and hot dogs being prepared.

While some were polishing off their burgers and dogs, others were getting set for the usual raffle drawing that follows one of these events.

Some of the lucky raffle winners claim their prizes.







Sponsors for this tournament included: The Glass Baron, Surface Technologies Corporation, Ocean's East 2 Tackle Shop, Murphy's Prop Shop, Little Creek Bass Anglers, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Miller Oil Co., Lance, and Pepsi.

Today's event once again demonstrated the precision I've come to recognize as the norm for Region 7 tournaments. For what it's worth, I salute everyone who had a part--it was a job extremely well done.