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EASL Bass Club News
By: Jim Hebert

2008 Bass Club Schedule

•Jan 26th
•Feb 9th
•March 29th &30th (Lake Bruin)
•April 19th
•May 17th
•June 14th
•July 26th
•Sept 6th
•October 19th
•November 16th (Classic)
•December 6th
(EABC Open Tournament)

Site to be determined at tournament meeting.

The Bass Club is affiliated with EASL. We fish 10 monthly tournaments a year with an open tournament in December.

President:
Mike Gill

Secretary
/Treasurer:
Thad Bellow

Board of Directors:
Jim Hebert
Gonnie Gautreau, Bryan Holmes, and Mike Achord

“June Tournament Canceled”

The Bass Club met at Thad Bellow’s home on June 10th to make plans for the weekend tournament. There were 6 or 7 members that attended the meeting.

Thad Bellow and Darryl Gautreau were the heroes of the night because of Thad’s hospitality and Darryl’s turtle sauce piquant that he had prepared for the members. After enjoying the meal everyone started discussing how many boats had signed up for the tournament. It seems that the “perfect storm” had come together for the weekend and as far as we could tell, it looked like it was going to be a 3-boat tournament. Thad and others made phone calls to members to try and boost participation to no avail.

The coming weekend was Fathers Day weekend, the water was high everywhere, and the price of fuel may have had everyone in a funk.

After waiting a while and discussing the situation it was decided that the June tournament would simply be canceled due to lack of participation.

This was the first time that I have ever seen this happen. No problem though because we are just going to continue where we left off with the tournament on July 26th.

We will meet at Thad’s home on the 22nd . I hope to see you there.

I would also like to take this opportunity to Congratulate Jamie Laiche for winning the recent BASS Federation Nation Central Division Championship in South Dakota. He will now move on to the next round of qualifying at the Federation Nation Championship, which is the world championship of amateur fishermen. If he does well in that one then he goes back to the Bassmasters Classic, which will get him closer to his quest to becoming a professional fisherman. Good luck Jamie!

Another mention goes out to Mr. Pete Bourque’s son, Nathan, who came in a close second to Jamie in the same Central Division tournament. Both of these guys had an outstanding tournament and should be proud of their accomplishments. You can read about Jamie and Nathan’s accomplishments at ESPN - Bassmaster Club Events Index .

You can read about Nathan’s story here at http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/federation/news/story?page=b_tourn_federation_2008_central_divisional_day1

Congratulations to you both.