Rod Garret and Paul Rogers win big on Watts Bar

Fishers of Men started again this year at Midway Baptist Church in Kingston Tennessee which happens to be the church where Rod Garrett is the pastor.   The church family provides large amount of great tasting food for us to eat.   And just like last year Rod let Ronny Jones bring the message.  And a great message he did bring because we had two rededications at this service.
First place went to the team of Rod Garrett and Paul Rogers, who came to the scales with 26.66 pounds of bass.  Their huge bag of fish included the lunker of the tournament a massive 7.78 pound largemouth bass and a smallmouth over 4.5 pounds.  Rod and Paul reported catching over 30 fish over three pounds.  This seasoned team pitched a jig on main lake rocky banks to catch their winning bag of fish.   This team is sponsored by PJ Custom Rods
Second place went to Ben Boggs and Rick Johnson who came to the scales with 16.99 pounds of bass.  Ben reported running his Yamaha powered Skeeter all over Watts Bar Lake to catch there fish.  Ben and Rick used the legendary Viper Rig to catch there fish on.  The Viper Rig is the bait used to catch the state record largemouth and is made by Michael Smith and Brian Jordan.
3rd place went to the father son team of Chris and Mason Sexton.  This smiling team came to the scales with 16.66 pounds of bass.  Chris stated that Mason and he fished up in the river.  This team used a jig to catch their fish.
4th place went to the male / female team of John Long and Karen Taylor from Cherokee North Carolina 15.18 pounds.  John reported fishing boat docks in the back of pockets to catch  over 30 fish on a trick worm.  John and Karen are sponsored by Cherokee Bottle Water.
5th place went to Jason Holder and Nathan Crisp who came to the scales with a limit weighing in at 12.92 pounds this team ran all the way to Watts Bar Dam to catch their fish.  Nathan reported that they fished deep using a 3 inch Gulp minnow.
The White Pine Marine Lucky Dog award, which means they were one place out of the money, and that White Pine Marine, will pay their entry fee on next month’s tournament on Cherokee Lake, went to one of our great sponsors Bill Freeman and his new partner George Galyon who came to the scales with a limit of bass weighing 12.06 pounds.  This talented team ran to the lower end of the Watts Bar to catch their fish on a spinnerbait, Carolina rig and a jig.

Fishers of Men of East Tennessee would like to thank their local sponsors Bill Freeman and Randy White with Ameriprise Financial. Next we need to thank White Pine Marine your local Mercury Dealership. Thanks also go out to Chester Wooten of C&S Lures, and last but not least Jim Walker with Tennessee Overhead Door.
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

Garrett and Rogers Win big on Watts Bar

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	1117	Paul Rogers Rod Garrett	5	7.78	26.66	0	26.66	200
2	21526	Benjamin Boggs	5	0	16.99	0	16.99	199
3	18712	Chris Sexton Mason Sexton	5	4.66	16.66	0	16.66	198
4	12123	John Long Karen Taylor	5	0	15.18	0	15.18	197
5	21525	Nathan Crisp Jason Holder	5	0	12.92	0	12.92	196
6	21534	William Freeman George Galyon Jr.	5	0	12.06	0	12.06	195
7	15003	Tim Leonard Tom Leonard	4	0	10.81	0	10.81	194
8	1121	Michael Smith Brian Jordan	3	5.52	10.78	0	10.78	193
9	21524	Jeff Rogers	3	0	9.76	0	9.76	192
10	21533	Adam Jones	2	7.32	8.88	0	8.88	191
11	18770		3	0	8.41	0	8.41	190
12	21527	Dustin Bailey	3	0	8.06	0	8.06	189
13	15981		3	0	7.88	0	7.88	188
14	3678	Randy Fain Ronny Jones	2	0	7.87	0	7.87	187
15	3869	Greg Cope Donnie Wormsley	2	4.44	6.78	0	6.78	186
16	21523	George Headdon Rick Ellis	2	0	5.91	0	5.91	185
17	18710	Brian Leach Brian Leach	2	0	5.57	0	5.57	184
18	1100	Kenny Bishop Ed Kyte	2	0	4.96	0	4.96	183
19	1118	Jeff Beach William Maggard	1	4.32	4.32	0	4.32	182
20	21528		1	0	2.76	0	2.76	181
21	18774	Caleb Baker Robby Baker	1	0	3.48	1	2.48	180
22	8490	Randall White Randall White II	0	0	0	0	0	179
23	18771		0	0	0	0	0	179
24	10287	Ken Sexton J C Loveday	0	0	0	0	0	179
25	15906	Chester Wooton Timothy Vanover	0	0	0	0	0	179
26	21530	Eugene Randolph	0	0	0	0	0	179
27	15983	Dewayne Rankin Cole Rankin	0	0	0	0	0	50
28	21529	Tony Chambers Cade Chambers	0	0	0	0	0	50
29	21531		0	0	0	0	0	50
1st place and Lunker Garrett and Rogers 2nd place Boggs and Johnson 3rd place Chris and Mason Sexton 4th place John Long and Karen Taylor Freeman and Galyon