Bill Humbard wins a tough one on Cherokee!

Story by Steve Jennings

Pictures by J C Loveday

Friday Night Meeting was at First Baptist Dandridge Church.  Cory Hammett provided the anglers with great meal of hamburgers and all the fixings.   After everyone had eaten, Ronny Jones delivered a great message where we had one rededication to the Lord.

Saturday morning the Fishers of Men gang awoke to partly cloudy skies 32-degree air temperature and snow blowing in the wind, which mad for a cold and interesting day to fish.

 First place Ameriprise Award went to the team of Bill Humbard and J C Loveday but due to the cold J C decided to let Bill fish by himself.  Bill came to the scales with a limit of bass.

 weighing in at 13.54 pounds which also included lunker a 4.28-pound bass which ended up being a tie with the Stewards.   Bill reported running his White Pine Marine Mercury Powered Bass Boat around the lower end of Cherokee lake to catch his fish on a swimbait, but the big bass was caught on a crankbait.  He fished as shallow as 3 feet down to 20 feet.

Second place went to the Father and Son team of Donny and Travis Wormsley with 12.18 pounds.  Donny reported that they caught their fish on a small swimbait in the deeper water.  This team ran their Mercury powered boat around on the lower end of the lake to catch their fish from the clear water of Cherokee Lake.

Third place went to the seasoned team of Rod Garrett and Paul Rogers with 11.90 pounds of bass.  Rod reported that they did not have many bites but the bites they had were good one.  This team fished in water less than 5 feet deep all day.

East Tennessee Fishers of Men would like to thank it local sponsors that make everything possible this year Randall and Randy White with Ameriprise Financial, White Pine Marine, Dixie Custom Tackle.

Fishers of Men would like to thank all our National Sponsors Berkley, BassCat Boats, Abu Garcia, Mercury, Fenwick, Realtree Fishing, FireFly Outdoor & Marine, Power-Pole,  T&H Marine, Frogg Toggs, X2 Power and Jacobs Glass

See everyone on March 1 for the Watts Bar Tournament.

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	31669	Bill Humbard J C Loveday	5	4.28	13.54	0	13.54	200
2	3869	Greg Cope Donnie Wormsley	5	3.19	12.18	0	12.18	199
3	1117	Paul Rogers Rod Garrett	5	3.09	11.9	0	11.9	198
4	19406	Bob Coughlin Bob Coughlin	5	0	11.87	0	11.87	197
5	31641	John Stewart John Stewart	5	4.28	11.8	0	11.8	196
6	1121	Michael Smith Brian Jordan	5	0	11.22	0	11.22	195
7	26810	William McLemore Brian Scates	5	0	11.07	0	11.07	194
8	31668	Wes Jones Chayme Garretson	4	3.39	10.92	0	10.92	193
9	29949	John Underwood Thomas Underwood	5	0	10.83	0	10.83	192
10	31667	Mark Shipe Keith Walker	5	0	10.77	0	10.77	191
11	18712	Chris Sexton Mason Sexton	5	0	10.66	0	10.66	190
12	31593	Josh Beeler Ryan Galyon	4	0	7.75	0	7.75	189
13	31594	John Long Charles Bradley	3	0	5.32	0	5.32	188
14	29945	Samuel Frankiewicz Jacob Jackson	2	0	4.89	0	4.89	187
15	23841	Ronny Jones Bailey Fain	2	0	4.48	0	4.48	186
16	13343	Chester Wooton Timothy Vanover	2	0	4.24	0	4.24	185
17	23858	Jason White David Burgess	2	0	4.05	0	4.05	184
18	15003	Tim Leonard Tom Leonard	1	0	3.9	0	3.9	183
19	30203	Jack Dunaway Barry Brown	1	0	3.13	0	3.13	182
20	31632	Larry Reid George Dean	1	0	1.95	0	1.95	181
21	31613	John Hooks Jack Hooks	0	0	0	0	0	180
22	31596	George Headden Lee Sugiyama	0	0	0	0	0	179
1st place Bill Humbard 2nd place Donnie Wormsley 3rd place Rod Garrett Jones and Garretson with some nice fish.