The second event of the year started off well on Friday night. Our message was given by Pastor Jon Braunstein from Harvest Baptist Church. Jon did great job. He told a fishing story about when he was a child he went fishing in the ocean. It was before GPS was a common thing. His job for the day was to pay attention to a buoy so they would know which way to go when it was time to go home for the day. At the end of the day or the end of our life we need to seek the buoy beforehand. Although our lord and savior is much more important than that buoy the message was still gotten.
The supper was provided by one of our Local Sponsors Freedom Outdoors. Matt at Freedom bought pizza for all 40 people that attended the meeting. Bill and I are very fortunate to have a great sponsor like Freedom Outdoors. Although, typically we have Saturday only tournaments I try to have one a year so siblings and parents can attend.
On tournament day the weather was good. The wind was not blowing to hard nor was there any rain. All in all the day was nice. The Spencer team had a great day earning 1st place with 5 fish weighing 11.41 pounds. Nathan Eichelberger and James Osborn has a great day as well working hard for second place. They had 4 fish that weighed 10.74 pounds but, they also caught the big fish of the day that weighed a whopping 5.11 pounds. That is a great fish for Grand Lake. Ty and Justin Fain like always did not disappoint with third place bag of 10.54 pounds. Over all a pretty remarkable tournament, there was less than a pound difference in the top three places. There a total of 14 teams weighing in 45 fish adding up to 84.64 pounds of fish.
Thanks again to Bill Cochensparger, John Noris, and Gavin Gump for helping me with my weigh in. And, to Matt at Freedom Outdoors for allowing us to use his electric and parking lot to hold the weigh in.
St Marys - 06/10/17
Place | Team | Members | # Fish | Big Fish | Gross | Penalty | Net Wt | Points | |
1 | 7611 |
| 5 | 0 | 11.41 | 0 | 11.41 | 200 | |
2 | 19042 |
James Osborne Nathanial Eichelberger | 4 | 5.11 | 10.74 | 0 | 10.74 | 199 | |
3 | 15334 |
Justen Fain Ty Fain | 5 | 0 | 10.54 | 0 | 10.54 | 198 | |
4 | 21948 |
Levi Northup | 5 | 2.78 | 9.68 | 0 | 9.68 | 147 | |
5 | 19515 |
Bradley Baxter Boone Baxter | 5 | 2.09 | 8.66 | 0 | 8.66 | 196 | |
6 | 13967 |
Jon Linderman | 3 | 2.98 | 6.09 | 0 | 6.09 | 195 | |
7 | 11104 |
Danny Edwards Dennis Edwards | 3 | 2.19 | 5.99 | 0 | 5.99 | 194 | |
8 | 22023 |
| 3 | 0 | 5.92 | 0 | 5.92 | 193 | |
9 | 19043 |
Chad Connors Cal Connors | 2 | 2.9 | 4.76 | 0 | 4.76 | 192 | |
10 | 16468 |
Matthew Hoehn Brayden Hoehn | 2 | 0 | 3.08 | 0 | 3.08 | 191 | |
11 | 21676 |
Gavin Gump John Norris | 1 | 0 | 2.66 | 0 | 2.66 | 190 | |
12 | 21955 |
Jared Brown Sam Dorsten | 2 | 0 | 2.3 | 0.25 | 2.05 | 189 | |
13 | 19490 |
Mike Hamberg KeAndra Godsey | 1 | 0 | 1.96 | 0 | 1.96 | 188 | |
14 | 19275 |
| 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.1 | 137 | |