“Jim
and Norman Hebert win
August
Spillway Tournament”
The EASL
Bass Club met at Gonnie Gautreau’s home on August 17 th to plan
the upcoming tournament scheduled for the following Saturday.
Terry
Molea cooked the dinner of delicious chicken stew, rice and potato
salad. Everyone enjoyed the meal and thanked Terry for cooking.
Mike called
the meeting to order with 5 boats signed up to fish. The location
was voted on by consensus as everyone agreed to fish the Atchafalaya
Basin public landing out of Belle River . The weigh in time was
set at 1200 noon due to the heat. Terry and Kerry were chosen to
be weigh masters.
Saturday
morning everyone got the boats launched early and were ready to
go as daylight was breaking. Terry let each boat go one at a time
at safe daylight.
I was
boat # 2 so I didn’t see which direction everyone headed. I think
most everyone went toward Grand Lake from what I heard later. That
is exactly the area we went to as well. Our strategy was to focus
on one area, fish hard, and to keep moving if we weren’t catching
fish. We stuck to that plan and quickly found where the fish were
biting. We were aided by a major fishing period at 9:00 that morning.
It was a good day for fishing as we probably caught 25 Bass including
6 “keepers”. No one can complain about a morning like that.
By 12:00 noon,
everyone had returned to the landing and loaded the boats. Terry
set up the scale and weighed the fish quickly so that they could
be returned to the water. When the weigh in was complete, the winners
were announced.
Jim and
Norman Hebert were the winners with 5 fish that weighed 9.46 lbs.
Gonnie Gautreau and Mike Achord were second with 5 fish that weighed
9.01 lbs. Pete Bourque and Timmy Carmouche got the check for “Big
Bass” with a fish that weighed 2.48 lbs.
Congratulations
to the winners of the August Tournament.
The Club’s
next tournament is on September 18 th . Anyone wanting to join or
fish with the Club can contact Jim Hebert at 647-1975 for more information.
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