When it came time to bring your fish to the scales today, it quickly became apparent that everyone's game plan had worked to some degree. The 22 anglers in 14 boats weighed a grand total of 57 bass, for a combined total weight of 129.85 lbs. The average weight per fish was 2.27 lbs., and the average weight per boat was 9.27 lbs.
Those who took home pay envelopes today included the following:
1st Place, the team of (from left) Ken Testorff and Dave Anderson, five fish, 17.49 lbs. total weight, 3.93-lb. big bass.
2nd Place, the team of (from left) Chris Napier and Allen Napier, five fish, 15.83 lbs. total weight, 4.92-lb. big bass, which earned them lunker honors for the day, too.
3rd Place, the team of (from left) Don Carter and Rob Peppers, five fish, 13.75 lbs. total weight, 3.83-lb. big bass.
4th Place, Mike Evans, five fish, 13.37 lbs. total weight, 4.68-lb. big bass.
Mystery Weight, Skip Schaible had two fish weighing 2.16 lbs. total weight, compared to the drawn weight of 3.15 lbs. He didn't have a big fish.
Here is how everyone else finished the day's competition:
* Gary Coderre, five fish, 12.09 lbs. total weight, 3.29-lb. big bass.
* The team of Jim Crist and Eric Killian, five fish, 11.94 lbs. total weight, 3.87-lb. big bass.
* The team of Bobby Moore and Steve Bailey, five fish, 11.78 lbs. total weight, 3.80-lb. big bass.
* Stan Krason, five fish, 9.72 lbs. total weight, no big fish.
* The team of Bob Glass and J. P. Twohig, five fish, 7.89 lbs. total weight, no big fish.
* Cody Wilson, five fish, 6.97 lbs. total weight, no big fish.
* The husband-wife team of Andy and Diana Morath, five fish, 6.89 lbs. total weight, no big fish.
* Wayne Hayes and the team of David Dozier and Richard Hall didn't weigh any fish.
One more angler joined the 10 others who have completed the qualifications to fish our season-ending, two-day Classic in October.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who came out to participate. For planning purposes, our next event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 10, from safe light (about 5:45 a.m.) to a 2 p.m. weigh-in. I also extend my sincere thanks to everyone who assisted in the orchestration of today's tournament.
"It takes all kinds to make a world." That's a saying I've heard since I was a kid and one that I've seen many examples of over the years. Dave and I, as well as at least one other tourney team today, saw yet another example that left all of us scratching our heads.
As Dave and I neared our first stop this morning, we observed a boat with two anglers (not part of our tournament group) fishing the distant left shoreline. At that moment, I was running the channel about 35 miles per hour.
As Dave and I looked toward those two dudes, they both were giving us hand signals as if to indicate, "Hey dummies? What's up with you not showing us proper courtesies? How dare you go by us going so fast!"
Dave and I were totally dumbfounded as to what these guys' problem was. For openers, the universal idea of bass boats slowing for other bass boats on the water disappeared sometime in the '70's or '80's, if my recollection serves me correct. I asked Dave if I perhaps had run through a "No Wake" zone on step, but he assured me that I hadn't.
In any event, we continued a short ways forward, then stopped, dropped the trolling motor over, and started fishing. We barely had gotten comfortable when we heard a boat coming and turned around to find that boat with the two dudes coming straight at us on step. Both Dave and I had some initial concerns about whether they planned to ram us. As it turned out, though, they continued coming at us hard, then suddenly turned hard left at the last minute and threw a big wake at us.
Later, when Dave and I decided to move, we again had to pass these same two dudes, so I slowed to a crawl and held that speed until we were past them. They later reciprocated when they again passed us. Before the day was over, however, they came by us on step before stopping a very short distance in front of us to start fishing again.
Our tournament friends in the other boat that I mentioned earlier said these fellas demonstrated poor sportsmanship to them, too. Seems they crowded into a tight area with our friends and passed so close to our friends' boat that they both "could have spit in the boat."
Cooler heads prevailed in these two situations today. I just wish I knew what the problem was with the two strangers.
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