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The first East Tennessee Fishers of Men Tournament was held on Watts Bar Lake.  We returned to Midway Baptist Church again this year.  We love this church and the members have been so good to all the fishermen and women over the year.  After a great meal everyone went over to the main building where Ronny Jones delivered a great message where four people rededicated their lives to the Lord.  Awesome.
The Ameriprise First place went to the team of Chuck Cooney and Chris Browne who came to the scales with a huge bag of bass weighing in at 20.90 pounds.  This team reported running to the mid-section beautiful Watts Bar lake to catch their fish.  Chuck stated that they focused on main lake rocky points to catch over 15 bass.  They used a few different crankbaits during the day to entice the bass to bite.  For their effort they won almost $1600.
 Second place went to the team Brian Jordan and Michael Smith this talented team ran their White Pine Marine Mercury powered boat to the mid-section of the lake to bring back 5 bass weighing in at 17.84 pounds.  Brian reported targeting secondary point using mainly rattle type baits like the Berkley Wartpig to catch the heavy bag of fish. This team also gets the $250 Berkley Cast for Cash money.   White Pine Marine, Sublime, Dixie Custom Rods and Tackle sponsor this team.

Third place went to the team of Ronny Jones and Bailey Fain who brought just four fish to the scales that weighed in 16.78 pounds This team’s bag of fish also included the lunker of the tournament a beautiful 6.82pound largemouth bass.  Ronny reported catching the on the Alabama rig early in the day.

Fourth place went to went to the team of George Headden and Rick Ellis who had a nice bag of fish weighing in at 16.15 pounds.  George reported running around the upper end of the lake, only catching six fish during the tournament but that they were all quality bites.  This team is sponsored by Rick Ellis Home Inspections.

Fifth place went the newly formed team of Jason White and Chet Burgess who came to the scales with 16.08 pounds of bass.
Jason reported catching their fish early on an Alabama Rig around the mid-section of the lake.  Later in the day they ran up in the Tennessee River to finish out their limit on a spinner-bait.

East Tennessee Fishers of Men would like to thank it local sponsors that make everything possible this year Bill Freeman and Randy White with Ameriprise Financial, White Pine Marine, Dixie Custom Tackle, Mack’s Auto Glass Express and Custom Body Shop 865-566-4320, Tennessee Overhead Door and B&M Tires.

 Fishers of Men would like to thank all of our fine sponsors; BassCat Boats, Mercury, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Spiderwire, Shakespeare, Strike King Lure Company, Power-Pole, TH Marine, Jim Hudson Toyota, Sportsman's Warehouse, Duckett Fishing, BassBoat Technologies, Buckeye Lures, Gator Guards, Kistler Rods, Amphibia Eyewear, Jacobs Glass

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	23890	Chuck Cooney Chris Browne	5	0	20.9	0	20.9	200
2	1121	Michael Smith Brian Jordan	5	4.72	17.84	0	17.84	199
3	23841	Ronny Jones Bailey Fain	4	6.82	16.78	0	16.78	198
4	21523	George Headdon Rick Ellis	5	4.2	16.15	0	16.15	197
5	23858	Jason White David Burgess	5	4.67	16.08	0	16.08	196
6	23892	Cody Seeber Chase Henley	4	5.55	15.86	0	15.86	195
7	18712	Chris Sexton Mason Sexton	5	3.97	15.29	0	15.29	194
8	23852	Bobby Cardwell Michael Cantrell	5	6.06	15.11	0	15.11	193
9	23891	Jeffery Moore Von Dilbeck	5	0	14.66	0	14.66	192
10	1117	Paul Rogers Rod Garrett	5	3.53	13.32	0	13.32	191
11	23887	Ricky Robinson Ricky Robinson Jr	5	0	11.11	0	11.11	140
12	3869	Greg Cope Donnie Wormsley	3	4.85	9.77	0	9.77	189
13	22664	Matthew Kagley Seth O'Hara	3	0	8.92	0	8.92	138
14	22616	Eugene Randolph George Galyon Jr.	2	0	6.58	0	6.58	187
15	23896	Robert Satterfield Rebecca Satterfield	2	3.37	6.31	0	6.31	186
16	15906	Chester Wooton Timothy Vanover	2	0	6.23	0	6.23	185
17	23853	Cory Stuart Trey Utter	2	0	5.67	0	5.67	184
18	8490	Randall White Randall White II	1	4.31	4.31	0	4.31	183
19	23893	Dustin Bailey Jeff Rogers	1	0	3.43	0	3.43	182
20	22557	William Freeman Michael Melton	1	3.08	3.08	0	3.08	181
21	23889	Kevin Olivet Hunter Olivet	1	3.01	3.01	0	3.01	180
22	15003	Tim Leonard Tom Leonard	1	0	2.69	0	2.69	179
23	22663	Michael Perdue Ryan Hawn	1	0	2.37	0	2.37	178
24	23225	Randy Osborne Rodney Satterfield	1	0	2.08	0	2.08	177
25	21525	Nathan Crisp Jason Holder	0	0	0	0	0	176
26	21829	Calvin Murphy Steve Terry	0	0	0	0	0	176
27	12123	John Long Karen Taylor	0	0	0	0	0	176
28	23888	Ron Sumner Jim Ogle	0	0	0	0	0	176
29	23894	Vince Botts Justin Botts	0	0	0	0	0	176
3rd and lunker Fain & Jones Satterfields with some nice fish 5th place Burgess & White Randy White with a nice fish Hunter Olivet with a nice fish 4th place Ellis & Headden 2nd place Jordan & Smith 1st Cooney & Browne The Sextons with some nice fish