June 9th Lake Gaston Baptist Church

          This is the final event of the N.C. Central 2017 season. It is also my final event as N.C. Central Director. This has been an amazing ride but age catches up with us. I look forward to serving the Lord in Fishers of Men where ever I can.  Heartfelt thanks to John Snincak and his Dad for coming to share and spend time with us at the meeting. Everyone was glad to see them!

           Lake Gaston Baptist Church has been the longest running partner (18 years) of any of our host churches. Nancy and all the staff really take care of us. We had N.C. barbque, baked beans, slaw and great dessert with ice cream.

           Long time friend and member of Lake Gaston Baptist Church, Brad Antil brought the message. His question was  " Are we sincere about our worship or are we just going through the motions"  The Lord wants all of us not just a couple of hours on Sunday mornng while even then we may still be thinking of fishing,etc. This was a hard hitting message that we all needed to hear! We had six re-dedications.

June 10th Summit Landing

           Due to all the heavy rains in the last six weeks, the Roanoke river was stained more than usual.The talk Friday evening was the bite was goint to be tough, of course that is what they always say! As the first flight started coming in, it seemed the predictions were true. The fishing was tough for Gaston. There were only 18 limits out of 51 boats.

 Taking 1st place was the team of Chuck Murray and Randy Groves with 16.17 lbs.Second place was Mike Cox and Mike Carden at 14.47 lbs.  3rd place was the father and son team of Maury and Luke Turner with 14.20 lbs. Larry Jacobs and Randy Fisher took 4th place with 14.11 lbs. Another father and son team, Howard and Justin Bohannon took 5th place with 13.22 lbs. Justin also caught the big fish of the tournament weighing 5.40 lbs.  We will soon be posting the teams that are eligible for the District Championship at Falls Lake in October.This will be the ticket to the National Championship at Lake Guntersville, AL in the spring of 2018.

Fishers of Men would like to thank all of our fine sponsors; BassCat Boats, Mercury, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Strike King Lure Company, Kings Home, Power-Pole, Raymarine, Duckett Fishing, ORCA Coolers, Buckeye Lures, T&H Marine, Gator Guards, Solar Costa, Kistler Rods, HydroWave, Enigma, KidCasters, Fishouflage, Solarbat, Jacobs Glass and Rayjus Sportswear

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	11393		5	4.57	16.17	0	16.17	200
2	12108	Claiborn Cox Michael Carden	5	0	14.47	0	14.47	199
3	18948	Maury Turner Luke Turner	5	4.37	14.2	0	14.2	198
4	15970	Larry Jacobs Randy Fisher	5	0	14.11	0	14.11	197
5	15420	Howard Bohannon Justin Bohannon	5	5.4	13.22	0	13.22	196
6	14801	Bobby Carter Nathan Talley	5	0	12.54	0	12.54	195
7	4095	James Dunlap	5	0	12.25	0	12.25	194
8	21499	Kevin Sheppard Edward Franklin	5	0	11.66	0	11.66	193
9	18636	Matthew Parker Ronnie Pope	5	0	11.6	0	11.6	192
10	5068	Anthony Liles Ricky Bridgers	5	0	11.24	0	11.24	191
11	21449	Wayne Sheppard Tony Fox	5	0	10.74	0	10.74	190
12	18793	David Farman Allen Farman	5	0	10.56	0	10.56	189
13	18628	Patrick Williams Kevin Williams	5	0	10.64	0.25	10.39	188
14	16174	Roger Clary Justin Rhew	5	0	9.8	0	9.8	187
15	19323	Ricky Todd	5	0	9.8	0.25	9.55	186
16	21410	Terry Smith Rodney Pope	5	0	9.25	0	9.25	185
17	18935	Trey Nichols	5	0	9.11	0	9.11	184
18	21110	John McBride Chris Barnes	4	0	8.75	0	8.75	183
19	21445		4	0	8.71	0	8.71	182
20	17417	Jesse Wise Dale Morgan	4	0	8.63	0	8.63	181
21	19141	Matt Priode Len Priode	5	0	8.6	0	8.6	180
22	21413	Joseph Hackett D J Farman	4	0	7.88	0	7.88	179
23	21114	Nolan Eller Luke Farrington	3	0	6.87	0	6.87	178
24	21502	Matthew McCoy Jonathan Linkous	2	5.3	6.63	0	6.63	177
25	12210	Danny Wicker Kyle Westerman	2	3.93	5.69	0	5.69	176
26	16068	Tony Barham Terry Hobbs	3	0	5.54	0	5.54	175
27	18951	Lonnie Fox Alan Revels	3	0	5.17	0	5.17	174
28	21111	Dustin Long	3	0	5.14	0	5.14	173
29	1196	Jay Knott Dale Baggett	3	0	4.71	0	4.71	172
30	18943	Jeremy Moody Lucas Lobaugh	3	0	4.58	0	4.58	171
31	17418	Scott Freeman Connor Freeman	2	0	4.34	0	4.34	170
32	18930	Gary Johnson	3	0	4.31	0	4.31	169
33	21492		2	0	3.97	0	3.97	168
34	21500	Ross Oliver Brad Cook	2	0	3.95	0	3.95	167
35	21498		2	0	3.66	0	3.66	166
36	18904	Randy Strickland Bryan Mister	2	0	3.59	0	3.59	165
37	14805	Robbie Kennon Ross Kennon	2	0	3.19	0	3.19	164
38	8446	Derrick Johnson Carlton Johnson	2	0	3.08	0	3.08	163
39	21412	Mike Sipple	2	0	2.94	0	2.94	162
40	21447	Randall Stroupe	2	0	2.76	0	2.76	161
41	21446		2	0	2.71	0	2.71	160
42	1940	Calton Hall Jason Suggs	1	2.38	2.38	0	2.38	159
43	12214		1	2.22	2.22	0	2.22	158
44	21496	Joshua Sharpe	1	1.95	1.95	0	1.95	107
45	21453	Charles Campbell	1	1.4	1.4	0	1.4	156
46	14807	Jimmy Jones Jonathan Jones	0	0	0	0	0	155
47	15939	Howard Fisher Quentin Ramseur	0	0	0	0	0	155
48	17400	Joey Davis Larry Stevens	0	0	0	0	0	155
49	21345	Marc Buffaloe Kirby Guinn	0	0	0	0	0	155
50	21495		0	0	0	0	0	155
51	21906	Derek Bowden Matthew Little	0	0	0	0	0	155
Points Champs John McBride and Chris Barnes 1st Place Chuck Murray and Randy Groves 3rd Place Maury and Luke Turner 4th Place Larry Jacobs and Randy Fisher 6th Place Bobby Carter and JD Talley Bass Pro award winner Corey Shotwell Stringbean and Kevin Sheppard Weigh Master hard at work