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07/24/22 Truman

Combine an end of July heat wave with a lake that has been pulled down to facilitate repairs to the spillway and one gets a combination of difficult conditions to tackle.  With several consecutive days over the century mark, temps provided sweltering conditions for the fisherman and presented an increased emphasis on fish care as teams faced broiling conditions for the fourth event of the Truman Division sponsored by Everharts Outdoor Store.  To reduce the impact on the anglers as well as the fish, weigh-in was bumped up an hour.  The stifling heat knocked out the weigh-in laptop, weight receipt printer, and leader board.  Leveraging decades of experience running tournaments, Bob, Lynn, Rusty and Rocky reverted to an “old-school” paper weigh in with Rusty taking the brunt of logging each bag of fish manually and hand sorting results.  If one didn’t know, it would have been transparent as the weigh-in went as smoothly as normal, all things considered.  As the results will show, each ounce counts for daily bragging rights and valuable qualifying points for the Joe Bass Invitational to be held on Stockton Lake coming up in October.

Lapping the field on a tough day was the team of Brad Jelinek and Brock Reinkemeyer.  Although there were claims of crappie bombs tipped with Gulp minnows, a big worm and Motion Fishing jigs proved to be their Everharts Keys to Success as they dropped a staggering 22.03 pounds of Truman bass on the scales.

John Hodson and Kelvin Charles proved the importance of weighing in a big bass for tie-breaking purposes, as their 18.20 pound bag equaled that of the third place team.  However, their 5.10 big fish bumped them to the runner up position for the day.  John and Kelvin shared they had one keeper on a buzzbait early with their other four keepers coming on a Texas-rigged worm in cedars.  All of their bites came on the bottom after the initial drop through the tree.

Third place went to Kenny Sloan and Brendon Mick.  As noted, their limit pushed the scales to 18.20 pounds, anchored by their big fish of 4.13 pounds.  In the chaos of the day, Kenny and Brendon got away before details could be noted on how they caught their fish.

Team Zuk, Eric and Ben, padded their fourth place finish with the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 6.48 lunker.  Consistent with their typical approach, Ben noted the big fish bit a brush hog fished on the lower end of the lake.

Terry McDowell and Dave Peacock also added to their 9th place finish as they took the daily Top Skeeter honors.  The pair put 15.08 pounds into their 1996 ZX202.

Chris Broke of the Missouri Department of Conservation office in Clinton was onsite.  Chris, a fisheries management expert with the MDC, was taking genetic samples of the spotted bass weighed in.  He’s working a project to determine a baseline for the genetic integrity of the Kentucky Spotted Bass strains in Missouri.  Other states, primarily in the southeast, are seeing some detrimental effects related to the Alabama spotted bass, including increased competition with largemouth and possible cross-breeding with the Kentucky strain.  Chris’ samples will serve as benchmark for Missouri’s lakes should issues arise in the future.

Special thanks to Everharts Outdoor Store, 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 final event of the Joe Bass Truman season will take place Sunday August 28th 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.

Photos

Results

Place Team Members Fish Pnlty B/F TotWgt Pts Payout
1 Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer 5 6.23 22.03 220 $5,060.00
2 John Hodson – Kelvin Charles 5 0.5 5.1 18.2 219 $1,500.00
3 Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick 5 4.13 17.2 218 $1,070.00
4 Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk 5 0.5 6.48 16.04 217 $1,200.00
5 Darrin Lankford – *Sean Bowling 5 4.46 15.96 216 $500.00
6 Corey Besgrove – Eddie Brown 5 4.41 15.7 215 $400.00
7 Matt Gunter – *Jamie Edge 5 4.3 15.47 214 $350.00
8 Kevin Love – 5 4.8 15.36 213 $300.00
9 Terry McDowell – *Dave Peacock 5 3.85 15.08 212 $470.00
10 Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington 5 4.03 14.99 211 $200.00
11 Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith 5 3.78 14.83 210 $200.00
12 Luke Routh – *Logan Welch 5 4.97 14.81 209 $180.00
13 Gaige Blanton – Garret Cates 5 4.5 14.81 208 $180.00
14 Brett Fickle – Joseph Hull 5 4.07 14.74 207 $180.00
15 Ricky York – Ed Gilbert 5 5.72 14.52 206 $160.00
16 Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler 5 5.09 13.92 205 $160.00
17 Dene White – Joe Dorcy 5 13.63 204 $160.00
18 Robert Hime – Paul Huse 5 4.16 13.47 203
19 Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink 5 4.44 13.37 202
20 William Orhring – Dan LaBouke 5 13.37 201
21 Stephen Smith – Garen Hunt 5 4.49 12.91 200
22 Kevin Rogers – *Jeff Lewis 5 12.74 199
23 Andre Dickniete – *Mark Dunbar 5 4.85 12.72 198
24 Doug Blum – Tyler Bone 5 4.24 12.72 197
25 Brandon Brown – *Landon Elliot 5 3.76 12.66 196
26 Tony Powers – 5 5.46 12.64 195
27 Chris Bridges – Keith Nickell 5 0.5 12.38 194
28 John Bennett – Darrell Reach 5 3.37 12.31 193
29 Bryan Baker – Darren Baker 4 0.5 5.11 12.23 192
30 Justin Miller – *Cam Miller 5 0.5 12.16 191
31 Ryan Tucker – *Todd Poretta 5 0.5 12.15 190
32 Josh Louiselle – Roger Umbarger 5 3.27 12.12 189
33 Gary Arterberry – Gus Adkinson 5 12.03 188
34 Chris Thomas – Charley Thomas 5 3.56 11.84 187
35 Ron Peek – Pat Deaton 5 11.7 186
36 Rich Campbell – Travis Stevens 5 11.67 185
37 Blake Price – Travis Glenn 5 11.63 184
38 Kevin Johnston – Roger Waters 4 4.45 11.25 183
39 Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II 3 11.03 182
40 Chad Karns – Austin Karns 4 10.85 181
41 *Rocky Carden – Rusty Darnell 5 10.8 180
42 John Prochko – Diego Segui 4 5.08 10.62 179
43 Brandon Rowland – Russel Nigh 5 10.53 178
44 Nicholas Leggett – Logan Carter 4 4.17 10.51 177
45 Greg Askew – Terry Case 4 10.19 176
46 Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead 5 10.18 175
47 Edward Nelson – *Malachail Nelson 4 3.81 10.16 174
48 Ronnie Kane – Cory Steckler 3 4.6 9.93 173
49 John Williams – Jim Williams 5 1 8.91 172
50 Jordan Williams – Riley Hill 3 8.9 171
51 Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II 4 8.1 170
52 Chace Mason – Mike Mason 3 3.91 7.57 169
53 Doug Long – Marty Watson 3 7.47 168
54 Dennis Dahlke – Joe Riley 3 6.67 167
55 Matt Garrett – Will Isaac 3 6.44 166
56 Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee 3 5.34 165
57 Reggie Britt – 2 4.8 164
58 Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy 2 4.08 163
59 Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson 3 3.76 162
60 Joddy Dungan – John Matousek 2 3.43 161
61 Aaron Vaughn – Parrish Vaughn 2 2.6 160
62 Phillip Schwartz – Steve Kleihauer 1 2.56 2.56 159
63 Mark Simmons – Terry Lawhon 1 2.41 2.41 158
64 Greg James – Doug Hoeppner 1 2.16 2.16 157
65 Charles Abbott – Tim Wells 0 20
Jeff Blackford – *fished aalone 0 20
Lance Blevins – 0 20
Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis 0 20
Roy Butler – Gary Maxwell 0 20
Marc Czachowski – *Danny Burns 0 20
Kevin Duer – 0 20
Jonathan Evans – Bradley Dillon 0 20
Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler 0 20
Roger Fitzpatrick – *Chase Fitzpatrick 0 20
Casey Flood – Dan Flood 0 20
Billy Greenwell – Bill Knoell 0 20
Steve Gwadera – Jake Desselle 0 20
Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick 0 20
Dan Hirstein – Chris Hirstein 0 20
Justin Hosler – Keith Dugan 0 20
Jared Knuth – *fished aalone 0 20
Ralph Laster – Glenn Batson 0 20
David McCormick – *Blake Hart 0 20
Tom McGovern – 0 20
Wyatt Miller – Kolin Rogers 0 20
Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant 0 20
Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez 0 20
Brock Schuld – Phillip Montano 0 20
Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout 0 20

*alternate

Joe Bass Contact Info

Rusty Darnell
Tournament Director Stockton/Bull Shoals
rusty@joebassteamtrail.com
417-838-0366

Timmy Newberry
Tournament Director Mark Twain
timmy@joebassteamtrail.com
314-220-7196

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Tournament Director Smithville/Ozarks
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816-916-4244

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417-773-5223

Directors

Bob Capps - Trail Mgr
Tournament Director Truman
bob@joebassteamtrail.com
417-818-3898

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