Pilkenton and Bunch win Cherokee.

Fishers of Men second tournament meeting was held at First Baptist Church Dandridge.  The men’s group is the ones that do all the cooking and everything else for this event and they do an awesome job.  Later after everyone was full, the pastor Dr. Justin Terrell delivered a great message where two men rededicated their lives to the Lord!
First place went to the new team of Gary Pilkenton and Clifford Bunch, who came to the scales with 16.36 pounds of bass.    Gary reported catching their fish on a crankbait and a grub.  They ran to the upper section of the lake to catch their fish.
Second place went to Ben Boggs and Rick Johnson who came to the scales with 16.12 pounds of bass.   Their mixed bag of largemouth and smallmouth also included the lunker of the tournament a fat 4.88 pound largemouth.  Ben and Rick used a swimbait to catch there fish.  Ben reported they looked for the shad spawn as they made their way around the mid-section of the lake.  Ben and Rick finished second in the season’s opening tournament on Watts Bar so with two second place finishes they are in the lead for the point championship this year!!
3rd place went to J.C. Loveday and Kenny Sextons son-in-law Bill Hubbard.  This make shift team put together a nice limit weighing in at 16.09 pounds of mean Cherokee smallmouth bass.  JC reported that they ran their Mercury powered Nitro all around the lower end of the lake to catch their fish on soft plastic.  They had a limit by 8 AM.  This team is sponsored by White Pine Marine.
4th place went to the father and son team of Brian and Brian Leach who came to the scales with 5 fish weighing in at 14.24 pounds.  Brian reported fishing the lower end of the lake focusing on rocks on points and in pockets.  They used the top-water bait they received in their door prize drawing bag at the Friday Night meeting.
5th place went to the team of Chester Wooten and Timothy Vandover who had five fish weighing in at 14.22 pounds.  These happy fishermen who travel from Kentucky to fish the trail reported catching their fish on the lower end of the where there was gravel.  This team is sponsored by Southeast Apparatus and C&E Outdoors.
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 Jason Holder and Nathan Crisp.
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
Pilkenton and Bunch win on Cherokee.

Written by Steve Jennings

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	21828	Gary Pilkenton	5	3.7	16.36	0	16.36	200
2	21526	Benjamin Boggs	5	4.88	16.12	0	16.12	199
3	10287	Ken Sexton J C Loveday	5	4.48	16.09	0	16.09	198
4	18710	Brian Leach Brian Leach	5	0	14.24	0	14.24	197
5	15906	Chester Wooton Timothy Vanover	5	0	14.22	0	14.22	196
6	21525	Nathan Crisp Jason Holder	5	3.58	13.16	0	13.16	195
7	1121	Michael Smith Brian Jordan	5	0	11.45	0	11.45	194
8	15003	Tim Leonard Tom Leonard	5	0	11.18	0	11.18	193
9	1118	Jeff Beach William Maggard	5	3.58	11.18	0	11.18	192
10	21527	Dustin Bailey	3	0	10.97	0	10.97	191
11	12123	John Long Karen Taylor	4	0	10.62	0	10.62	190
12	21829	Calvin Murphy Steve Terry	4	0	9.12	0	9.12	188
13	1100	Kenny Bishop Ed Kyte	4	0	9.98	1	8.98	189
14	21534	William Freeman George Galyon Jr.	4	0	9.04	0.25	8.79	187
15	15981		3	0	8.76	0.25	8.51	186
16	8490	Randall White Randall White II	4	0	8.35	0	8.35	185
17	18712	Chris Sexton Mason Sexton	4	0	7.76	0	7.76	184
18	1117	Paul Rogers Rod Garrett	3	0	7.3	0	7.3	183
19	15983	Dewayne Rankin Cole Rankin	3	0	6.76	0	6.76	182
20	21531		0	0	6.54	0	6.54	181
21	18770		3	0	6.35	0	6.35	180
22	21524	Jeff Rogers	2	0	5.05	0	5.05	179
23	3678	Randy Fain Ronny Jones	1	0	2.7	0	2.7	178
24	21523	George Headdon Rick Ellis	1	0	2.68	0	2.68	177
25	21533	Adam Jones	1	0	2.42	0	2.42	176
26	18774	Caleb Baker Robby Baker	1	0	2.31	0	2.31	175
27	21528		0	0	0	0	0	174
28	21529	Tony Chambers Cade Chambers	0	0	0	0	0	124