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08/01/21 Twain

The Tough Bite Continues at Mark Twain Lake. 42 Teams showed out for the fourth of five Mark Twain division tournaments sponsored locally by 154 Marine.

Mark Twain Lake is a traditionally TOUGH lake to fish. However 2021 has been an extra tough on the North East fishery, as heavier than normal precipitation has had the lake level in a yo yo pattern since early May, with no consistency to find any kind of pattern, as a result there has been no single team that has managed a 5 fish limit in all Mark Twain Tournaments this year.

Taking the Top Spot today was the team of Chris Janda and Rowdy Yates. Chris and Rowdy found fish in practice on a main lake point that had over 100 yards of 3 to 6 feet of water and grass. Chris and Rowdy fished a Carolina rigged Brush hog style bait and boated 4 keepers by 8:30. When the morning bite slowed, the team moved around, looking for similar water but had trouble connecting with keeper sized fish. It wasn’t until the last hour of the day that they returned to their starting spot and caught their biggest keeper of the day. Chris and Rowdy’s 5 bass limit came in at 14.27 pounds. Chris and Rowdy are sponsored by [su_tooltip text=”Host Lodging for Joe Bass Team Trail.”]Country Inn Resort[/su_tooltip].

Finishing in a close second was the Father Son team of Wayne and Nick Werle. The Window World sponsored team started out their day plucking a keeper off a bush with a Buzzbait. However the team’s topwater bite ended so Nick and Wayne went to work dragging big worms and shackey head plastics on main lake points and bluff ends to scratch out the rest of their limit tipping the scales at 12.98 pounds.

Rounding out the top three was the team of Tom Darnell and Rick McGuire. Tom and Rick junk fished main lake and secondary points with soft plastic “Drop Baits” to bring in the 3rd place limit weighing 12.90 pounds. Tom and Rick are sponsored by Tour Tungsten.

Finishing in 5th Place today was the Team of Eric and Chris Power. Their limit weighing 12.29 pounds gave them the weight needed to take the top finishing Skeeter spot, fishing out of Eric’s New 2021 FXR20. Eric and Chris are sponsored by 154 Marine, 316 Active, Hawg Caller, Interstate Batteries, Lunker Lure, Phantom Fishing, TH Marine and WOO! Tungsten.

Right behind Eric and Chris was the team of Larry Rothwiel and Phil Williams. The team fell one keeper short of a limit weighing in 4 fish at 11.87 pounds but the team had the 154 Marine Big Bass weighing 4.43 pounds.

Our next Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail tournament sponsored by 154 Marine is August 22nd (Make up for the postponed July 11th Tournament).

42 Teams, 102 fish weighed, 10 limits

Photos

Results

Place Team Members Fish Pnlty B/F TotWgt Pts Payout
1 Chris Janda – J. Rowdy Yates 5 0.5 3.64 14.27 210 $2,160.00
2 *Nick Werle – Wayne Werle 5   2.94 12.98 209 $1,120.00
3 Tom Darnell – Rick McGuire 5   3.1 12.9 208 $640.00
4 Chris Johnson – Josh Calvin 5 0.5 3.75 12.48 207 $410.00
5 Chris Power – Eric Power 5   3.27 12.29 206 $860.00
6 Larry Rothwiel – Phil Williams 4   4.43 11.87 205 $500.00
7 Keith Hendrix – Greg Zumwalt 5   3.02 11.68 204 $220.00
8 Doug Buhr – Wade Rulo 5   3.31 11.62 203 $180.00
9 Steve Chiraurro – Richard Dannegger 5   2.82 11.6 202  
10 Bryan Hulsey – Jason Huskey 5   3.19 11.38 201  
11 Don McFetridge – Gary McFetridge 5     10.08 200  
12 Donnie Palmatory – Kenny Grothoff 4 1.5   8.5 199  
13 Charlie Kunkle – Keith Williams 4     8.46 198  
14 Dave Strutman – Denny Lambert 3   3.86 7.83 197 $170.00
15 Rick Beard – *fished aalone 3   3.04 7.44 196  
16 Gary Koenig – Robin Hessling 3     7.14 195  
17 Cory Kunkle – Brad Morley 3     6.75 194  
18 Terry Jones – Brad Dooley 3     5.99 193  
19 Rick Larson – Dave Morrow 2   3.62 5.66 192  
20 Tom Herndon – Jason VanBeers 2   3.29 5.14 191  
21 Dominic Perotti – Nick Perotti 2     4.65 190  
22 Bobby Carver – *Wesley Carver 2     4.45 189  
23 *Janet Kayser – Donnie Seabaugh 2     4.42 188  
24 Pat Estes – Lonnie Franklin 2     4.25 187  
25 David Kampschroeder – Dustin Kampschroeder 2     4.23 186  
26 Josh Gebhardt – Ross Lord 2     3.89 185  
27 Todd Hessling – Mike Pettitt 2     3.61 184  
28 Brady Graves – Darryll Waller 2 0.5   3.12 183  
29 Scott Jackson – Jim Brewer 1   2.96 2.96 182  
30 Gary Gedville – John Gedville 1   1.95 1.95 181  
31 Phil J Zimmerman – Phil M Zimmerman 1   1.94 1.94 180  
32 Mick Buchanan – Gary Grzybinski 1   1.77 1.77 179  
33 Ron Mellinger – Colton Mellinger 1   1.52 1.52 178  
34 Bill Cantwell – John Koopman       0 10  
  Chad Denningmann – Kurt Denningmann       0 10  
  Preston Hartung – George Harrington       0 10  
  Alan Hoyt – *fished aalone       0 10  
  Keith LaBarge –       0 10  
  Gary Martens – Bryan Loseman       0 10  
  Dennis McFetridge – *fished aalone       0 10  
  *Larry Litchfield – Travis Wilson       0 10  
  Steve Weber – Sam Phillips       0 10  

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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

Directors

Kyle Uptegrove
Tournament Director Smithville/Ozarks
kyle@joebassteamtrail.com
816-916-4244

Rocky Carden Tournament Director Table Rock/Antique/Pomme
rocky@joebassteamtrail.com
417-773-5223

Directors

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

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