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Panhandle Bass Club Pensacola Florid 2010 Season |
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"Fred's Club Report" 2010 Season mailto:
fred@panhandlebassclub.com |
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We fished
Alabama River at Cooters Pond for our June tournament. Rumors were that Richie took Andy up for a couple
of days last week to show him how to do it! Almost everyone
went up on Friday to pre-fish and most caught fish although
there were many short fish.
Artie and I found some quality fish both on the river
and in the pockets and on a variety of baits.
John B and Mack both said they caught fish on spinner
baits Friday. Richie
said he was on ‘em. Now we should
address some hammer nominees…Charles got a late start, and an
even later finish. It
seems he was loading his boat when the phone rang, Jim Bell
had run down river to Swift Creek (about
20miles). His boat would
not start, so Charles was asked to help him, as he did. Charles ran down and towed Jim back, almost
a 4 hour trip. Cliffie
had been locked out of his room, as Charles had the key, so
he paced the parking lot all that time.
While we all waited for Charles and Jim, Steve Meadows
broke his locker key off in the lock with his rod luckier locked
and he was in a panic to have rods to fish with. Charles and Jim finally showed up, Mack pulled
Jim’s cowling broke the bendix loose and fired up Jims motor
with no problem. Steve
came to me looking for JB weld to put his key back together
and as luck would have it, I had a spare key to Steve’s boat
and it worked. Artie
went to help him, but he had broken the lock when he unlocked
it so they spent the next hour removing the lock from his access
panel to put it in the rod locker…of course they put it in backwards
the first time, but finally turned it around and completed the
job. Saturday morning
Cliffee parked on the ramp to get his boat ready for the tournament,
he said his bulb would not pump up.
Richie proved that Walter’s boat will throw a 20 foot
rooster tail, as he showered all the boats he passed going down
the river. Ok, now
to fishing. Artie and
I went to our first spot and had 6 fish in the boat by 5:30
a. m. then it stopped. John B said he had 2 quick, Mack had a limit
early. Jim B fished one
grass line all day and had 4 on worms.
Richie had a limit at 10:00 a. m., so he said.
At the weigh in there were several good bags of fish.
I had six including a 4.01 lb. largemouth, most on frogs
in the grass. Artie kicked
my butt catching 14 bass and bringing a 7 fish limit in.
Andy fished Richie’s spot and had 2.
Richie lost some of his (they escaped through the fill
line in the live well) and only had 5. Mr.
Pres did his job and had a limit taking 4th place with 7 weighing
11.82 after trying to knock Dora out with a shakey head. Mr. River Specialist Bobby jumped into 3rd
with 6 weighing 11.95, Tony took 2nd with 7 weighing
13.13, and Big Rich walked away with first with 7 weighing 14.20. Fish were caught on everything, Tony fished
worms, Rich fished shakey heads, and Bobby had secret bait. We almost
missed the rain Saturday, but it drenched us as we loaded the
boats, all in all a good tournament and always great to be on
the water. Next month
we go to Ala river at Holly creek. Until then, keep your line wet.
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