Summer made a bold statement as 103 teams faced broiling conditions for the third event of the Truman Division sponsored by Everharts Outdoor Store. With the lake well above normal pool, the AoCE continued a fairly steady and heavy pull which led to a lot of dock talk of fish staged in bushes along the points with current. Catching fish wasn’t considered an issue, but size proved to be the difficulty as many reported lots of shorts and a true kicker with a limit moved teams up the leaderboard. However, every keeper fish counts towards valuable qualifying points for the Joe Bass Invitational to be held on Stockton Lake next fall.
Coming out on top on a blistering hot day was Ray and Garret Cates. Their five fish limit came in at solid 20.05 pounds, anchored by a 6.01 kicker. Team Cates shared their Everharts Keys to Success involved a mix of deeper locations and shallow bushes. Dragging was the order of the day as they worked a variety of soft plastics to catch 7-8 keepers.
Brett Fickle teamed with Joseph Hull to bag a second place weight of 17.27 pounds. Their bag included the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 7.60 monster largemouth! The big fish fell to a squarebill worked in 6’ of water, while they “junk fished” the remainder of their bag, using a combination of jigs, worms, and spinnerbaits.
Jerry McCutchen and Kevin Smith rounded out the top three with a solid 16.31 pound limit. They reported catching fish early which allowed them to slow down and hunt for better quality. They kept a flipping rod in their hands, working through a myriad of flooded bushes to work up to their third place weight.
Kevin Johnston and Roger Waters added to their 10th place finish as they pitched brush hogs to put 13.44 pounds in Kevin’s new ZXR20, giving them the daily Top Skeeter honors.
Special thanks to Everharts, Lakes Inn, Truman Lake Fishing Intel, and Anglers Port Marine for their outstanding support of the division as well as Taylor Grubaugh Chevrolet, Buick & GMC – West Plains MO for sponsoring the Catch & Release boat.
The fourth event of the Joe Bass Truman season will take place Sunday July 24th with a 6:00 am takeoff from Shawnee Bend. Please note the monthly takeoff time and be sure to show up early for check-in in order to ensure a timely takeoff.
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Results
| Place | Team Members | Fish | Pnlty | B/F | TotWgt | Pts | Payout |
| 1 | *Ray Cates – Garret Cates | 5 | 6.01 | 20.05 | 220 | $5,730.00 | |
| 2 | Brett Fickle – Joseph Hull | 5 | 0.5 | 7.6 | 17.27 | 219 | $2,280.00 |
| 3 | Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith | 5 | 4.23 | 16.31 | 218 | $1,190.00 | |
| 4 | Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk | 5 | 6.89 | 16.28 | 217 | $1,030.00 | |
| 5 | Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead | 5 | 0.5 | 5.29 | 15.08 | 216 | $500.00 |
| 6 | *Jamie Edge – Kelly Nunn | 5 | 3.75 | 14.6 | 215 | $350.00 | |
| 7 | Paul Redmond – Jeremy Johnson | 5 | 5.24 | 14.49 | 214 | $300.00 | |
| 8 | Greg Askew – Terry Case | 5 | 4.23 | 13.97 | 213 | $300.00 | |
| 9 | David McCormick – *Jackson Fouth | 4 | 5.56 | 13.66 | 212 | $250.00 | |
| 10 | Kevin Johnston – Roger Waters | 5 | 0.5 | 3.92 | 13.44 | 211 | $750.00 |
| 11 | Ryan Tucker – Ryan Heise | 5 | 13.13 | 210 | $200.00 | ||
| 12 | Josh Louiselle – Roger Umbarger | 5 | 3.87 | 13.05 | 209 | $200.00 | |
| 13 | Greg James – Doug Hoeppner | 5 | 0.5 | 5.05 | 13.01 | 208 | $180.00 |
| 14 | Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II | 5 | 3.94 | 13.01 | 207 | $180.00 | |
| 15 | *Rick Reinkemeyer – Gary Maxwell | 5 | 5.84 | 12.98 | 206 | $180.00 | |
| 16 | Aaron Vaughn – Parrish Vaughn | 5 | 0.5 | 5.24 | 12.91 | 205 | $180.00 |
| 17 | Troy Everly – *Craig Berghager | 5 | 4.56 | 12.9 | 204 | $160.00 | |
| 18 | Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler | 5 | 12.81 | 203 | $160.00 | ||
| 19 | Bill Jared – Rich Carpenter | 5 | 3.45 | 12.53 | 202 | $160.00 | |
| 20 | Doug Blum – Tyler Bone | 5 | 4.04 | 12.48 | 201 | $160.00 | |
| 21 | Jordan Williams – Riley Hill | 5 | 11.78 | 200 | |||
| 22 | Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout | 5 | 0.5 | 11.77 | 199 | ||
| 23 | Dene White – Joe Dorcy | 5 | 11.59 | 198 | |||
| 24 | Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick | 5 | 11.58 | 197 | |||
| 25 | Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington | 5 | 11.54 | 196 | |||
| 26 | John Prochko – Diego Segui | 5 | 11.53 | 195 | |||
| 27 | *Kenny Shinn – JR Shinn | 5 | 0.5 | 4.09 | 11.51 | 194 | |
| 28 | Steve Gwadera – Jake Desselle | 5 | 4.18 | 11.35 | 193 | ||
| 29 | William Orhring – Dan LaBouke | 5 | 11.23 | 192 | |||
| 30 | Chris Thomas – Charley Thomas | 5 | 11.19 | 191 | |||
| 31 | Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick | 5 | 3.15 | 11.11 | 190 | ||
| 32 | Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee | 5 | 11 | 189 | |||
| 33 | Ron Peek – Pat Deaton | 4 | 5.17 | 10.94 | 188 | ||
| 34 | Tony Powers – *Tyler Regler | 5 | 3.86 | 10.93 | 187 | ||
| 35 | Brandon Rowland – Russel Nigh | 5 | 10.71 | 186 | |||
| 36 | Patrick Hatfield – Chad Housh | 5 | 10.51 | 185 | |||
| 37 | Brandon Brown – Steve Prince | 5 | 10.23 | 184 | |||
| 38 | Gary Arterberry – Gus Adkinson | 5 | 10.09 | 183 | |||
| 39 | Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin | 5 | 10.08 | 182 | |||
| 40 | Mike Thomas – Jeff Lane | 4 | 9.88 | 181 | |||
| 41 | *Kevin Rogers – Blake Felix | 5 | 9.85 | 180 | |||
| 42 | Dennis Dahlke – Joe Riley | 4 | 9.79 | 179 | |||
| 43 | Roger Fitzpatrick – Dennis Berhorst | 5 | 9.48 | 178 | |||
| 44 | Ronnie Kane – *Kit Lueg | 4 | 9.43 | 177 | |||
| 45 | Brock Schuld – Phillip Montano | 5 | 9.16 | 176 | |||
| 46 | Corey Besgrove – *Kyle Besgrove | 5 | 9.14 | 175 | |||
| 47 | Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler | 4 | 9.09 | 174 | |||
| 48 | John Hodson – Kelvin Charles | 4 | 4.13 | 9.03 | 173 | ||
| 49 | Doug Long – Marty Watson | 5 | 1 | 3.48 | 8.8 | 172 | |
| 50 | Desmon Carl – Tyler Glenn | 5 | 8.68 | 171 | |||
| 51 | John Hewkin – Frank Meyer | 4 | 8.58 | 170 | |||
| 52 | Robert Shockley – | 4 | 8.35 | 169 | |||
| 53 | Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II | 5 | 2.84 | 8.32 | 168 | ||
| 54 | Phillip Schwartz – Steve Kleihauer | 4 | 8.27 | 167 | |||
| 55 | Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney | 5 | 1 | 4.59 | 8.19 | 166 | |
| 56 | Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson | 4 | 8.18 | 165 | |||
| 57 | John Williams – Jim Williams | 4 | 0.5 | 8.12 | 164 | ||
| 58 | Don Simmons – | 4 | 8.08 | 163 | |||
| 59 | Jared Knuth – David Knuth | 3 | 4.67 | 8.02 | 162 | ||
| 60 | Matt Manhart – Chris Banks | 3 | 7.8 | 161 | |||
| 61 | Jay Roe – John Bollinger | 4 | 7.75 | 160 | |||
| 62 | John Bennett – Darrell Reach | 2 | 5.59 | 7.7 | 159 | ||
| 63 | Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez | 5 | 0.5 | 7.68 | 158 | ||
| 64 | Timmy Newberry – Rusty Darnell | 4 | 1 | 3.54 | 7.65 | 157 | |
| 65 | Nathan Murawski – Jeremy Fuston | 3 | 7.59 | 156 | |||
| 66 | Bob Walla – Robert Walla | 3 | 0.5 | 4.72 | 7.32 | 155 | |
| 67 | Blake Price – Travis Glenn | 3 | 7.02 | 154 | |||
| 68 | Bryan Baker – Darren Baker | 2 | 4.25 | 6.83 | 153 | ||
| 69 | Blaze Bullard – | 3 | 6.28 | 152 | |||
| 70 | Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy | 3 | 6.24 | 151 | |||
| 71 | Joddy Dungan – John Matousek | 3 | 5.9 | 150 | |||
| 72 | Jonathan Evans – Bradley Dillon | 2 | 4.04 | 5.78 | 149 | ||
| 73 | Charles Abbott – Tim Wells | 2 | 4 | 148 | |||
| 74 | Aaron Foglesong – Jeff Wilkins | 2 | 3.67 | 147 | |||
| 75 | Chad Karns – Austin Karns | 1 | 3.26 | 3.26 | 146 | ||
| 76 | Stephen Smith – *fished aalone | 1 | 3.19 | 3.19 | 145 | ||
| 77 | James Macleod – *Jessie Gardner | 1 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 144 | ||
| 78 | Mike Bennett – Gabe Bennett | 0 | 20 | ||||
| Chris Bridges – Keith Nickell | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Rocky Carden – *fished aalone | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Danny Carter – Chris Carter | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Andre Dickniete – Allan Dickniete | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Kevin Duer – Dustin Young | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Casey Flood – Dan Flood | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Dan Hirstein – Chris Hirstein | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Justin Hosler – *Jack Taylor | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Kerry Kirkpatrick – Jeff Hamilton | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Hal Land – Brad Baze | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Jon Lengel – Lee Lengel | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Kevin Love – | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Chris LuAllen – Ben Sadler | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Sam Maggio – Terry Cooper | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Glen McCrary – Sondra McCrary | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Wyatt Miller – Kolin Rogers | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Greg Miller – *fished aalone | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Travis Poretta – *Todd Poretta | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Denis Repa – Alec Repa | 5.43 | 148 | |||||
| Mike Rogers – Donnie Crist | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Ronnie Rush – Rick Rush | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Troy Thomas – Mike Eickmann | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Steve Vanzant – Cameron Rieder | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Ricky York – Ed Gilbert | 0 | 20 |
*alternate