Joe Bass Team Trail

12/18/21 Bull Shoals

Bob — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:21:52 +0000

34 teams forded the flood waters to congregate at Buck Creek Marina for the second event of the 2022 Bull Shoals Division of Joe Bass Team Trails. Stormy weather the day prior followed by a considerable drop in air temperature presented another change for the anglers to solve. Given the quality of the field, it was no surprise to see 21 limits brought to the scales as teams fished for daily bragging rights and qualifying points for the Joe Bass Invitational to be held Stockton Lake next fall.

Squeaking out a narrow victory was the father/son team of Mark and Markie Thompson. Their five fish bag pressed the scales to 18.78 pounds. Their sack was anchored by the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 6.24 pound kicker that engulfed a Chompers Riggin’ Shad on an umbrella rig. Their Mid America RV Key to Success was leaning on the rig along shelf-type banks near the main lake, working through 12 keepers to get to their final weight. The padded their winnings as they claimed the highest finishing Skeeter bonus, fishing from Mark’s 2020 ZX225 Skeeter.

Just behind in second place was Erik Stewart and Jackson Roberts. They paired a big glide bait with a deep crankbait bite to weigh 18.56 of Bull Shoals bass. They noted they caught fish all day, culling through over 20 keepers to get to their ultimate best five.

Eddie and Jace McMasters threw the kitchen sink at ‘em, noting they caught fish on crankbaits, swimbaits, jigs, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits. Weeding through 25 keepers produced their final bag of 17.69 pounds. The concentrated on steep rocky banks, chasing wind and stained water in the backs of hollows with inflowing water.

Polygraph tests were given to the top finishing teams as well as a few at random.

The third event of the Bull Shoals Division will take place January 8th with a 7:00am takeoff from beautiful Buck Creek Marina.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	5	6.24	18.78	220	$2,260.00
2	Erik Stewart – Jackson Roberts	5	5.67	18.56	219	$1,040.00
3	Eddie McMasters – Jace McMasters	5	4.53	17.69	218	$790.00
4	Landon Snelson – *Ricky Jones	5	4.39	17.2	217	$500.00
5	Ron Foss – Mike Smith	5	4.54	17.14	216	$200.00
6	Gary Daniel – *Jim Martin	5	5.06	15.36	215	$160.00
7	Blake Curtis – Matt Brown	5	4.12	15.29	214
8	Richie Huebner – Brandon Lowry	5	4.15	15.11	213
9	Robert Burtrum – Bo Burtrum	5	4.03	14.36	212
10	Dustin Blevins – *fished aalone	5	3.5	14.13	211
11	Heath Kelly – Lucas Hudson	5	4.33	13.74	210
12	Drew Sagely – Travis Harriman	5		12.75	209
13	Eric Toliver – Zach Lawrence	5		12.5	208
14	Justin Brand – Brien Vaughn	5		12.48	207
15	Tyler Frahm – Austin Frahm	5	4.53	12.32	206
16	Paul Persson – Ryan Persson	5		12.2	205
17	Tom Mason – *fished aalone	5	3.9	12.03	204
18	Jeff Prewitt – Kent Dotson	5	3.35	12.01	203
19	Robert Shockley –	5	3.59	11.42	202
20	Coleman Phillips – Brett Williams	5		10.95	201
21	Jacob Delong – Jimmy Avant	5		10.15	200
22	Mark Sloan – Parker Adair	4	3.26	7.72	199
23	Kevin Crossland – Geoff Blair	2	3.89	6.75	198
24	Jeff Barrickman – Cole Findley			0	20
24	*John Campbell – David Rogers			0	20
24	Robbie Dodson – Wesley Ply			0	20
24	Cody Ellison – Jacob Wade			0	20
24	Jacob Garrett – Kem Wallace			0	20
24	Aaron Hodge – James Bailey			0	20
24	Cody Huff – Dakota Pierce			0	20
24	Darrin King – Mark Mahaffey			0	20
24	Tom Lloyd Jr. – Jacob Childress			0	20
24	Mark Politte –			0	20
24	Chris Reese – Westin Reese			0	20

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11/06/21 Bull Shoals

Bob — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:37:48 +0000

Vibrant fall colors and cooler temperatures ushered in the kick-off event of the 2022 Bull Shoals Division of Joe Bass Team Trail. Anticipation was high with hopes the dropping water temperatures would spur the annual fall bite as the bass load up for a long winter. Instead, the cooler air temps mixed with the warmer water, producing a multi-hour fog delay for the 29 teams that took off from Buck Creek Marina to battle for daily bragging rights and qualifying points for the Joe Bass Invitational to be held Stockton Lake next fall.

Picking up where they left off in 2021, Team Blevins roared to victory with an impressive 21.46 pound bag. With a high-dollar tournament coming up, details were tougher to glean than normal. It was suggested that Eric and Dustin’s Mid America RV Key to Success was biting the end off a merthiolate Zoom Trick Worm and using it on a Ned Rig to catch their fish. There were also suspicions they covered a ton of water with a crankbait to catch several keepers, including the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 5.55 kicker on route to another stellar victory.

Dakota Pierce teamed with Cody Huff to take second place honors. Their five bass limit pushed the scales to 18.61 pounds, topped by a 5.20 largemouth. As with the winners, details were scarce, leading to some talk Dakota worked an Arashi Glide Bait while Coby followed up with a venerable green/black striped Beatle Spin. Of course, there was the school that thought shadowing shad schools with their Live Scope and fishing vertically might have been the key.

Third place was anchored by Eric Toliver and Zach Lawrence who’s 15.77 pound bag landed them high in the check line. They offered up a tad more info, saying they caught between 12-15 keepers on an all day bite mixing a crankbait with a deep vertical offering.

Gary Daniel and Jay Oliver padded their fourth place finish with the highest finishing Skeeter bonus, putting 15.53 pounds of Bull Shoals bass into Gary’s Skeeter bass boat.

The second event of the Bull Shoals Division will take place December 18th with a 7:00am takeoff from beautiful Buck Creek Marina.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Dustin Blevins – Eric Blevins	5	5.55	21.46	220	$1,700.00
2	Cody Huff – Dakota Pierce	5	5.2	18.61	219	$1,070.00
3	Eric Toliver – Zach Lawrence	5	4.09	15.77	218	$600.00
4	Gary Daniel – Jay Oliver	5	4.98	15.53	217	$640.00
5	Robbie Dodson – Wesley Ply	5	3.96	14.45	216	$180.00
6	Buck Comstock – *Amber Comstock	5		14.3	215
7	Darrin King – Mark Mahaffey	5	3.94	12.38	214
8	Laryme Campbell – David Rogers	5	4.86	11.94	213
9	Dean Harlan – *Terry Breckenridge	5	3.67	8.94	212
10	Richie Huebner – Brandon Lowry	4		8.93	211
11	Josh Tarry – Kevin Riney	4		8.31	210
12	Tyler Frahm – Austin Frahm	4		8.29	209
13	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	5		7.85	208
14	John Williams – Bob Capps	3		7.76	207
15	Matt Garrett – Will Isaac	3	3.2	7.09	206
16	Mark Politte –	3		6.98	205
17	Roger Morris – Gregg Sapp	5		6.8	204
18	John Hewkin – Frank Meyer	3		5.9	203
19	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	4		5.87	202
20	John Campbell – Brock Rogers	4		5.76	201
21	Robert Shockley –	1	3.01	3.01	200
22	Jacob Delong –	1	1.54	1.54	199
23	Jason Davidson – *Doug Fogleson			0	20
	Ron Foss – Mike Smith			0	20
	Tom Mason – Chris Reese			0	20
	Jeff Prewitt – Kent Dotson			0	20
	Chris Scott – Cole Vanhorn			0	20
	Landon Snelson – Rick Snelson			0	20
	*fished aalone – Brock Tabor			0	20

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10/16-17/2021 Invitational

Bob — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:18:32 +0000

After a long season that saw uncertainty throughout the world in politics, economics, heath, material distribution, and of course, the normal ups-and-downs related to tournament fishing, the Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational held at Bucksaw Resort and Marina proved to be the perfect opportunity for all to gather as friends and competitors and celebrate the 2021 season.

Activities kicked off with the return of demo rides provided by the Skeeter Demo Team. Over 60 individuals got the chance to experience the thrilling ride provided by both the FX and ZX models, showing the signature line’s snapping holeshot, acceleration, top-end speed, and of course, the dependable maneuverability and ultra-smooth ride. Many thanks to Tim Reed and the Demo Team for providing the chance to sample the nation’s premier bass boat. A Skeeter owner himself, Kelly Jones was drawn from those taking the demo ride and won a cool $500!

While enjoying the wonderful meal provided by the folks at Bucksaw Resort and Marina, the anglers were treated to a tremendous give away of sponsor products. Let it not be lost that the sponsors are being pulled multiple directions for support. Without your patronage of their products, we would not see the tons of product provided by companies such as Chompers, Big Bites Baits, Lucas Marine Products, Rapala/Sufix/VMC/Storm, Favorite Fishing Rods & Reels, TNT Quick Stop, Motion Fishing, Solar Bat, Albers Marine, Hickamo Country Store, Everharts, Nichols Lures, Hitch Locker, Anglers Port Marine, and many others. Proving it pays to support the sponsors, Mark Thompson walked away with $825, 10x the amount of his Tackle HD receipt which was drawn. Likewise, $1000 cash went to the winner of the Save-A-Receipt drawing.

Now to the fishing!

Coming out on top of the Window World Leader board was the crowd favorite team of Kevin Duer and Dustin Young. Kevin’s track record spans decades of tournament events, while Dustin’s vigor appears to have spurred the team to new heights. Kevin and Dustin wrapped up Day 1 in second place with a 17 pound stringer, just behind leaders Blake Felix and Rick Fishback. Their kicker, a 6.83 lunker, proved to be the Ozark Chevrolet and Arvest Bank Credit Card Big Bass of the event. After a shaky start while launching for day 2, the duo boated a four fish bag, pushing their two-day total to 28.55 pounds to take the 2021 Tackle HD Joe Bass Championship. Kevin openly shared their Tackle HD Key to Success was working Kevin’s homemade ½ ounce tandem blade spinnerbaits through deeper trees, a legacy Truman Lake fall pattern. What proved to be the difference, Kevin and Dustin found the better fish to be much deeper than the typical “drop spinnerbait” would target, as they slow-rolled their blades through hardwood limbs in depths up to 20 feet. As those a bit long in the tooth will appreciate, it was overheard that Kevin mentioned that “Freddie” was with him on the water.

Coming in second place was, Wayne Garrison and Doug Zink. In addition to the stout runner-up payout, Wayne and Doug added to their take home pay as they wrangled the top finishing Skeeter award as they put a 10 fish tournament limit into Wayne’s new ZXR20. Wayne and Doug also leaned on the spinnerbait bite, fishing deeper trees along channel swing points. The pattern didn’t produce a lot of keeper bites, as Wayne noted they put six keepers in the Skeeter each of the two tournament days. However, the quality was there as they totaled 24.51 pounds for the event.

Proving that experience matters, another veteran team, Keith Hendrix and Greg Zumwalt rounded out the top three. Keith explained they strayed from the spinnerbait pattern, choosing to flip Big Bite Baits Trick Stick worms instead. Their nine fish limit pushed the scales to 24.41 pounds. Keith and Greg spent the event putting their Skeeter ZXR20 in depths between 5’-10’ where they targeted pole timber on flatter banks in the 5’-10’ depth range.

Riley Hill may have been dejected after a mid-pack finish in the tournament, but his day made a Skeeter J-Turn as he was drawn as the winner of the dazzling Skeeter ZX150/Yamaha Outboard draw package. With a big smile on his face, Riley said he’s looking forward to fishing out of his brand new Skeeter bass boat!

With the 2021 season in the books, the 2022 Joe Bass Team Trail season will kickoff with a Bull Shoals Division event out of Buck Creek Marina on November 6 with a 7:00 am takeoff.

Photos

More photos here.

Here are the final results.

2021 Invitational Results

Bob — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:15:20 +0000

Place	Team Members	Fish	B/F	TotWgt	Payout
1	Kevin Duer – Dustin Young	9	6.83	28.55	$12,900.00
2	Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink	10	4.77	24.51	$7,500.00
3	Keith Hendrix – Greg Zumwalt	9	4.96	24.41	$4,500.00
4	JR Borror – Ross Lalli	10	3.16	23.96	$2,500.00
5	Steve Vanzant – Cameron Rieder	8	4.62	23.69	$1,500.00
6	Kelly Jones – Jeremy Gilbert	8	5.03	23.42	$1,500.00
7	Rick Fishback – Blake Felix	7	5.2	23.19	$2,400.00
8	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	7	5.17	23.11	$1,400.00
9	John Krewson – Tony Powers	8		22.67	$700.00
10	Tim Hintenach – Travis Williams	10	4.96	22.2	$600.00
11	Kavan Maybee – Josh Wray	10		22.12	$1,400.00
12	Ronnie Kane – Cory Steckler	8	4.33	22.07	$400.00
13	Donnie Reynolds – Mark Reynolds	10	3.62	21.55	$350.00
14	Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick	10	3.22	21.3	$300.00
15	John Bennett – Darrell Reach	8	4.04	20.6	$250.00
16	Brandon Rowland – Russel Nigh	9	3.5	20.01	$250.00
17	Charles Rogers – Jeff Rogers	9	3.4	19.93	$250.00
18	Darrin Lankford – Doug Schilling	9		19.65	$250.00
19	Shawn Crabtree – Reece Crabtree	7	5.08	19.25	$250.00
20	Matt King – Larry Stoafer	8	3.52	19.11	$800.00
21	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin	8		19.07	$200.00
22	Mike Johnson – Andrew Johnson	6	3.73	18.97	$200.00
23	Austin Lowery – Derrick Wright	8	4.44	18.5	$200.00
24	Greg Askew – Terry Case	7	3.67	17.83	$200.00
25	Chris Johnson – Josh Calvin	8	3.31	17.81	$200.00
26	Bryan Bock – Jarad Hinson	5	5.49	17.36
27	Tom VanKeirsbilck – Brian Rodrock	7	3.76	17.27
28	Chris Callahan – Justin Wasmer	8		17.26
29	Kelly Nunn – Jamie Duncan	7	3.67	17.22
30	Billy Greenwell – Keith Nickell	7	3.58	17.09
31	David McCormick – Gary Schartzer	8	4.57	16.79
32	Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney	7	3.44	16.7
33	Patrick Hatfield – Chris Banks	5	6.49	16.68
34	Gary Arterberry – Gus Adkinson	7		16.42
35	Luke Routh – Tyler Weaver	9		16.1
36	Marvin Kinyon – Mike Long	6		16.07
37	Tom Statler – Dillon Statler	7		16.01
38	Chad Allison – Jeff Moss	8		15.98
39	Jerry Roark – Jamie Edge	8		15.9
40	Dene White – Joe Dorcy	6	3	15.75	$1,500.00
41	Scott Hill – Brandon Hill	6	4.4	15.69
42	Ron Foss – Mike Smith	5	5.87	15.59
43	Mike Rogers – Donnie Crist	7	3.57	15.38
44	Tony Habiger – Fabricio Toledo	6	3.57	15.38
45	Matt Garrett – Kaleb Rook	8		15.27
46	Gary Martens – Bryan Loseman	7		15.18
47	Ricky York – Ed Gilbert	5	5.42	14.93
48	Lyle Armstrong – Mitchell Armstrong	9		14.93
49	Chris Bridges – Steve Prince	5	5.32	14.62
50	Tom McGovern – Tom Kaufmann	6	3.79	14.38
51	Dennis Edwards – Hayes Edwards	6	3.69	14.22
52	Matthew Rodgers – Chet Douthit	4	5.49	14.19
53	Ron Mellinger – Colton Mellinger	5	3.48	14.16
54	Bob Jany – Dennis Schilb	7		14.05
55	Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick	8		13.97
56	Jon Lengel – Jacob Sloan	5	4.39	13.94
57	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	5	4.23	13.83	$825.00
58	Jordan Williams – Riley Hill	5		13.32
59	Larry Barr – Cliff Wolf	5		13.3
60	Nicholas Leggett – Logan Carter	6		13.26
61	Bryan Hulsey – Jason Huskey	5		13.06
62	Steve Weber – Sam Phillips	6	2.62	12.98
63	Robert Shockley – *fished aalone	5		12.94
64	Preston Hartung – George Harrington	5	4.05	12.89
65	Josh Miller – Ethen Johns	6		12.69
66	Kyle Wagner – John Wagner	6	2.4	12.55
67	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	6		12.22
68	Jeff Bear – Quenton Bear	4	3.88	12.19
69	Casey Kidder – Chris Savoie	5	3.62	12.04
70	Levi Snow – Ben Hodgson	5	3.89	11.77
71	Colby Davison – Mark Louderbaugh	4		11.48
72	Gaige Blanton – Will Andrie	5	5.09	11.35
73	Chris Power – Eric Power	6	2.23	11.35
74	Todd Choate – Kent Whitaker	5		11.15
75	Bobby Roberts – Cody Carl	4	1.48	10.97
76	Mike Butcher – Justin Amershek	5		10.73
77	Kenny Shinn – John Hodson	4		10.66
78	Chris Janda – J. Rowdy Yates	4		10.53
79	Larry Wright – Doug Wallace	4		10.5
80	John Cates – Bobby Crockett	4		10.48
81	Joddy Dungan – John Matousek	4		10.24
82	Seth Glynn – Kelly (KJ) Hughes	4	5.45	10.04
83	Jay Carden – Dustin Lowe	3	3.98	9.67
84	Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez	4	2.81	9.57
85	Angelo Barsotti – Bill Barsotti	4		9.22
86	Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer	3		8.92
87	Brent Eitel – Jeff Blackford	3	2.93	8.87
88	Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith	3		8.55
89	Brady Graves – Darryll Waller	6		8.46
90	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	3	3.24	8.36
91	Matt Gunter – Kane Gunter	3	2.93	8.25
92	Andy Greek – Brent Greek	4		8.14
93	Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee	2	4.45	7.95
94	John Campbell – David Rogers	3	4.28	7.86
95	Jim Lomax – Wayne Werle	3		7.69
96	Josh Shirley – Don Sanders	4		7.62
97	Tyler Eagan – James Eagan	4		7.61
98	Tyler Matlock – Mark Billings	3	3.14	7.47
99	Charley Thomas – Chris Thomas	3	3.3	7.44
100	Dennis Berhorst – Jay Ritter	4		7.4
101	Gerald McDaniel – Jeff Pascoe	3		7.06
102	Randy Roustio –	4		6.9
103	Ralph Laster – Mike Fiedler	4		6.74
104	Tom Darnell – Rick McGuire	2		6.41
105	Kevin Griffen – Marvin Griffen	2		6.14
106	*fished aalone – Randy Chapman	2	3.32	5.83
107	Terry Jones – Brad Dooley	2	3.81	5.82
108	Doug Long – Marty Watson	3		5.79
109	Laurence Subelka – David Williams	2		5.77
110	Dave Epema – Dan Bowman	2	3.68	5.7
111	Matt Underwood – Logan Underwood	3		5.63
112	Jeff Gilbert – Shawn Durden	3		5.56
113	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell	2		5.51
114	Eddie McMasters – Jace McMasters	2		5.25
115	Ozzie Wallace – Ernie Cox	2		5.24
116	Tom Starforth – Ed Matthews	2		5.12
117	Richie Huebner – Brandon Lowry	2		5.09
117	Landon Snelson – Rick Snelson	2		5.09
119	Marc Czachowski – Jeremy Fly	3		5.08
120	*fished aalone – Brock Schuld	3		5
121	Blaze Bullard –	2		4.9
122	Michael Fey Sr – Paul Jung	2	2.93	4.81
123	Ron Peek – Pat Deaton	2		4.74
124	Brandon Flood – Steffan Halderman	2		4.35
125	Stephen Smith – Garen Hunt	2		4.3
126	Kerry Moore – Tom Terrell	1	4.22	4.22
127	Keith LaBarge – *fished aalone	2		3.91
127	Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy	2		3.91
129	Troy Thomas – Mike Eickmann	2		3.4
130	Timmy Newberry – Rusty Darnell	1	3.34	3.34
131	Paul Hager – Phil Allen	2		3.13
132	Aaron Foglesong – Jeff Wilkins	1	3.09	3.09
133	Rich Campbell – Travis Stevens	1	3.08	3.08
134	AJ Wenzel – Patrick Dickerson	2		2.99
135	Rodney Bowersox – Randy Davis	1	2.94	2.94
136	Mike Thomas – Jeff Lane	1	2.89	2.89
137	Charles Abbott – Timothy Wells	1	2.81	2.81
138	Kevin Love – Fisher Love	1	2.8	2.8
139	Paul Redmond – Bob Beery	1	2.74	2.74
140	Keith Pflumm – Matt Hickman	1	2.73	2.73
141	Phil J Zimmerman – Phil M Zimmerman	1	2.71	2.71
142	Scott Jackson – Jim Brewer	1	2.68	2.68
143	Kevin Snyder – Nick Borchers	1	2.67	2.67
144	Tim Fisher – Aaron Fisher	1	2.66	2.66
145	Frank Esposito – Eric Esposito	1	2.61	2.61
146	James Irvin – Joan Irvin	1	2.53	2.53
147	Bill Hayford – Peyton Rose	1	2.21	2.21
148	Bryan Baker – Darren Baker			0
	Roy E Barmore – Dale Carrender			0
	Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II			0
	Corey Besgrove – Eddie Brown			0
	Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis			0
	Rick Bowman – Jeff Moore			0
	Blake Burford – Tim Collins			0
	Cody Campbell – Quinten Carr			0
	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat			0
	David Dawson – Hunter Hansen			0
	Jordan Dibben – Jason Conner			0
	Jeff Donovan – Trevor Donovan			0
	Jim Dopp – Harlin Husky			0
	Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler			0
	Pat Estes – Lonnie Franklin			0
	Jonathan Evans – Terry Close			0
	Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler			0
	Casey Flood – Dan Flood			0
	Michael Frye – Michael Landwehr			0
	Josh Gebhardt – Ross Lord			0
	Tom Herndon – Jason VanBeers			0
	Dan Hirstein – *fished aalone			0
	Earl Horton –			0
	Russ Hughes – Ronald Parker			0
	Randall Hutson – Jeff Fletcher			0
	Kevin Jackson – Bryan Jackson			0
	Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead			0
	Rick Keeney – Glenn Wilson			0
	James Macleod – Don Miller			0
	Sam Maggio – Terry Cooper			0
	David Moore – *fished aalone			0
	Jamie Newton –			0
	Troy Nogosek – Jeremy Fiedler			0
	Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant			0
	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman			0
	William Orhring – Dan LaBouke			0
	Jerry Prochko – Diego Segui			0
	Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington			0
	Mark Riegel – JR Shinn			0
	Trey Schroeder – William Cartwright			0
	Jeff Sell – Kenny Dawson			0
	Mark Simmons – Terry Lawhon			0
	Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout			0
	Steve Teske – Jon Wall			0
	Roger Umbarger – Josh Louisville			0
	Kyle Uptegrove – Anthony Alkire			0
	Danny Waite – Bryan Leonard			0
	Kenneth White – Ken White			0
	John Williams – Jim Williams			0
	Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk			0

2021 Invitational Photos

Bob — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:13:08 +0000

09/25/21 Last Chance

Bob — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:31:26 +0000

Warm conditions belied the first week of fall as 40 teams entered the Last Chance event for qualifying for the Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational to be held at Bucksaw Resort and Marina. The derby also provided the anglers a sneak preview of the championship venue, although the normally tough September bite will likely improve as water temperatures cool down over the next few weeks

Topping the field was the reigning Truman Division points champion, Kelly Nunn, who partnered with Jamie Duncan in lieu of Matt Gunter. Kelly and Jamie’s 17.47 pound limit provided a 3.5 pound advantage over the runner position and was anchored by the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a lunker 5.74 pound largemouth. Jamie shared their Tackle HD Key to Success was flipping jigs and worms from 2’ out to 10’ deep.

Truman veteran Kevin Love fished by himself to amass a solid 13.94 pound limit, good enough for second place. Kevin noted he also fished jigs, concentrating on pole timber in the 4-10’ depth range.

Maintaining their recent hot streak, Marty Watson and Doug Long rounded out the top three with a 13.22 pound bag. They threw spinnerbaits from 2’ to 12’ with shad being present critical to their success. Marty explained the bite was tough, as they only caught the five keepers they weighed in. They also took home the highest finishing Skeeter bonus as they fished from Doug’s 2020 FXR21.

The 2021 Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational will take place for qualifying teams October 16^th and 17^th with pretournament festivities Friday night the 15^th. Full details, rules, and registration are available on the website.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	B/F	TotWgt	Payout
1	Kelly Nunn – Jamie Duncan	5	5.74	17.47	$2,020.00
2	Kevin Love – *fished aalone	5	4.43	13.94	$1,060.00
3	Doug Long – Marty Watson	5	4.13	13.22	$1,060.00
4	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	4	4.61	12.33	$500.00
5	Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout	5	3.86	12.33	$260.00
6	Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick	5		11.87	$200.00
7	Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington	5	3	11.82	$180.00
8	Timmy Newberry – Rusty Darnell	5	3.35	11.37	$160.00
9	Jon Lengel – Jacob Sloan	5		11.36
10	Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink	4	3.68	10.91
11	Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney	5	3.66	10.72
12	*fished aalone – John Hodson	3	5.5	10.04	$150.00
13	Bryan Baker – Darren Baker	5	3.08	10
14	Greg Askew – Terry Case	4		9.69
15	Laurence Subelka – David Williams	4		7.53
16	Joddy Dungan – John Matousek	2		4.79
17	Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead	2		4.31
18	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell	1	3.51	3.51
19	Earl Horton –	1	2.66	2.66
20	Lyle Armstrong – Mitchell Armstrong			0
	John Bennett – Darrell Reach			0
	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin			0
	Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis			0
	Blake Burford – Tim Collins			0
	Dan Cox – *fished aalone			0
	Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson			0
	Jeff Donovan – Trevor Donovan			0
	Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler			0
	Brent Eitel – Jeff Blackford			0
	Jon Gillotte – *AUSTIN cAMPBELL			0
	Billy Greenwell – Keith Nickell			0
	Patrick Hatfield – Chris Banks			0
	Kelly Jones – Roger Satterfield			0
	*Jay Melkus – Chris Savoie			0
	Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant			0
	Greg Snider – Tim Lane			0
	Mike Thomas – Jeff Lane			0
	Charley Thomas – Chris Thomas			0
	Dene White – Joe Dorcy			0
	John Williams – *Rocky Carden			0

*alternate

09/12/21 Stockton

Bob — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:46:17 +0000

The weather was beautiful clear and eighties for the highs. The anglers of the Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail sponsored by Albers Marine, Inc. hit the water knowing there were some other tournaments on the water with several other anglers. Never fail this group of anglers always come through. The water temps still high had the fish sitting up on brush piles in the mid depth range of 8-15 ft deep. Big worms did the most damage.

Fishing out of his new 2021 Skeeter ZXR20, Keith Hurd, Springfield, Mo and his partner Jeff Nelson, Morrisville, MO, caught their limit of fish that weighed 15.87lbs. Keith got the Top Skeeter of the day.

Close behind was the team of brothers, Justin Angel, Willard, MO and Scott Angel, Seymour, MO, used worms and jigs to bring in 5 fish that weighed 14.96lbs for 2nd Place.

The father/son team of Dennis and Hayes Edwards, Leavenworth, KS, sponsored by Mondo Tackle, Ozawkie Boats and Trophy Bass Co., caught a limit that weighed 14.75lbs good enough for 3rd Place. Dennis also had the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass of the day that hit the scales at 6.00lbs.

Thanks to Albers Marine, Inc. for their sponsorship of the 2021 season.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Keith Hurd – Jeff Nelson	5		4.93	15.87	210	$2,890.00
2	Justin Angel – Scott Angel	5		4.47	14.96	209	$1,070.00
3	Dennis Edwards – Hayes Edwards	5		6	14.75	208	$950.00
4	*Rick Reinkemeyer – Brock Reinkemeyer	5		3.97	13.66	207	$640.00
5	Donovan Hensley – Josh Hensley	5		4.84	13.4	206	$360.00
6	Wes Darnell – Corey Stoker	5			12.5	205	$200.00
7	Dan Cox – Tim Kastning	5		3.71	11.97	204	$180.00
8	Jeff Prewitt – Kent Dotson	5			10.11	203	$160.00
9	Russ Hughes – Ronald Parker	4	0.5	3.46	9.97	202
10	Rodney Dawson – Josh Hite	3		6	9.87	201	$170.00
11	*Jeremy Lawyer – Tim Lawyer	5			9.86	200
12	Tyler Eagan – James Eagan	5			9.7	199
13	Scott Tassi – Glenn Harrison	4		3.2	9.02	198
14	Frank Esposito – Eric Esposito	3		3.82	8.18	197
15	Jordan Dibben – Jason Conner	5			8.12	196
16	Charles Rogers – Jeff Rogers	2		4.86	7.05	195
17	Levi Snow – *Jared Newman	3			6.97	194
18	Jeff Gilbert – Shawn Durden	2		3.88	6.56	193
19	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat	3			6.35	192
20	Chad Allison – Jeff Moss	3			5.5	191
21	Mike Hagensicker – Dillon Brock	2			5.24	190
22	Laurence Subelka – David Williams	3			5.17	189
23	Jeff Bear – Quenton Bear				0	10
	Kyle Boman – Ronald Deckard JR				0	10
	Rick Bowman – Jeff Moore				0	10
	James Brown – John Campbell				0	10
	Blaze Bullard –				0	10
	Mike Butcher – Justin Amershek				0	10
	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell				0	10
	John Cates – Bobby Crockett				0	10
	Shawn Crabtree – Reece Crabtree				0	10
	Colby Davison – Mark Louderbaugh				0	10
	Blake Edwards – *Kevin Clingan				0	10
	Jesse Gardner –				0	10
	Seth Glynn – Kelly (KJ) Hughes				0	10
	Andy Greek – Brent Greek				0	10
	Tim Hintenach – Travis Williams				0	10
	Benjamin Hodgson – Jesse Arnold				0	10
	Gerald McDaniel – Jeff Pascoe				0	10
	Mark Moody – Kyle Kiister				0	10
	Jamie Newton – *Thomas Jennings				0	10
	Danny Waite – *Brad Martin				0	10
	AJ Wenzel – Patrick Dickerson				0	10

*alternate

09/12/21 Table Rock

Bob — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:23:17 +0000

The last regular season of the Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail Table Rock Division was started with a moment of silence in memory of the 20th anniversary of this tragic day in history. The teams took off on a beautiful morning with no wind. A slight breeze kicked up later in the morning helping the top water action. It appeared that there were a variety of top water baits thrown but in the right areas this was the technique to use.

Last years division champions Mike Gold, Billings, MO, and Eric Oliverson, Lampe, MO, sponsored by Legend Whitetails, Lew’s, and Minn Kota found this action to work for them. The team weighed in 18.31lbs. They stated they did not run far and found the fish in all depths.

The father/son team of Kevin and Bryan Jackson, both of Monett, MO, fished towards the mouth of the James River using the same type of technique. They had a limit that weighed 17.46lbs. They also had the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass of the day that weighed 5.89lbs. Kevin made extra money by fishing out of his Skeeter ZX 250 earning him the Top Skeeter finisher.

Another father/son team, Eric and Dustin Blevins, Harrison, AR, caught a limit of fish that weighed 17.32lbs using a variety of baits to bring home 3rd Place.

A special thanks to Chompers for sponsoring this division and Table Rock Resorts for allowing us to use Ahoy’s boat ramp.

2022 boat number reservations are being accepted.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Mike Gold – Eric Olliverson	5		5.52	18.31	210	$2,100.00
2	Kevin Jackson – Bryan Jackson	5		5.89	17.46	209	$1,660.00
3	Dustin Blevins – Eric Blevins	5		5	17.32	208	$660.00
4	Cory Cook – Roger Cook	5		4.07	15.34	207	$500.00
5	Kelly Jones – Roger Satterfield	5		4.49	14.4	206	$340.00
6	Kavan Maybee – Josh Wray	4	0.5	5.88	14.38	205	$430.00
7	Mike Fann – Mark Fann	5		4.22	14.16	204	$220.00
8	Bobby Crockett – Adam Isaacs	5			13.35	203	$180.00
9	Jay Carden – Dustin Lowe	5			12.95	202	$160.00
10	*Kobe Mueller – Jeff Fletcher	5			12.39	201
11	Eric White – *Henry Adams	5		3.15	12.25	200
12	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	5			11.72	199
13	Marc Czachowski – *fished aalone	5			11.05	198
14	Doug Marrow – *Caleb Arterberry	4	0.5	4.21	10.92	197
15	Sam Workman – Cooper Workman	5			10.88	196
16	Doc Seger – *Sam Harkey	4		4.49	10.48	195
17	Shane Harms – Dillon Harms	5			10.4	194
18	Eddie McMasters – Jace McMasters	4			9.54	193
19	Terry Hutchison – Jason Coley	3		5.08	9.44	192
20	Marvin Kinyon – Chris Roberts	3		4.95	9.09	191
21	Kyle Wagner – John Wagner	4			8.6	190
22	Craig Dort – Tony Johnston	4			8.51	189
23	John Cates – Mike Edwards	3			8.29	188
24	Ralph Laster – Mike Fiedler	3			6.45	187
25	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	2			5.59	186
26	Rodney Bowersox – Johnny Neil Sr.	2			5.28	185
27	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell	2			5.16	184
28	Steve Isley – Brandtly Tucker	2			3.67	183
29	Todd Choate – Kent Whitaker				0	10
30	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat				0	10
	Matt Cesar – Ed Larson				0	10
	Jordan Dibben – Jason Conner				0	10
	Jeff Donovan – Trevor Donovan				0	10
	Matt Fielder – Spencer Clark				0	10
	Michael Frye – *Don Cooksey				0	10
	Lloyd Harris – Angi McFarland				0	10
	Terry Letterman – Doug Smart				0	10
	Dakota Millican – Leif Millican				0	10
	Jamie Newton – *Thomas Jennings				0	10
	Cole Potter – Luke White				0	10
	David Rice – *fished aalone				0	10
	Landon Snelson – Rick Snelson				0	10
	Greg Snider – *fished aalone				0	10
	Evan Sorrell – Corey Eutsler				0	10
	Jack Stack – Dick Moger				0	10

*alternate

08/29/21 Truman

Bob — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:02:52 +0000

Hot steamy conditions greeted the anglers that gathered at Shawnee Bend for the culmination of the 2021 Tackle HD Joe Bass Truman Division. Scorching weather made for some uncomfortable fishing, but the salty anglers proved their mettle as several strong limits were brought to the scales. Every fish proved valuable as they represented qualifying points for the Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational to be held at Bucksaw Resort and Marina this fall as well as determining the season’s points champions.

Taking top honors was the veteran team of Marty Watson and Doug Long. Their 20.58 stringer was anchored by the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a lunker 6.53 pound largemouth. Doug and Marty shared their Tackle HD Key to Success was working spinnerbaits and flipping tubes to trees in 2-12’ with shad being present a must. They also took home the highest finishing Skeeter bonus as they fished from Doug’s 2020 FXR21.

Dene White and Joe Dorcy took the runner up position with a 18.63 bag. Joe noted they fished deeper, dragging football jigs and worms on the bottom in 12-16’ of water. The early bite was key to them, as they had their weight before noon.

Bryce Rieder and Mike Edrington rounded out the top three with a solid 18.15 pound stringer. They mixed a worm with a brush hog, pitching to targets in the 5-12’ depth range.

With the Truman Division complete, don’t forget the Last Chance event, an opportunity to get in an extra event towards qualifying criteria as well as a chance to scout out the championship waters. The Last Chance derby will be Saturday September 25th with a 7:00am takeoff from Bucksaw. Be aware of the required launch fee at the Bucksaw ramp.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Doug Long – Marty Watson	5		6.53	20.58	210	$6,800.00
2	Dene White – Joe Dorcy	5		5.09	18.63	209	$1,950.00
3	Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington	5		4.96	18.15	208	$1,300.00
4	Mark Riegel – JR Shinn	5		5.88	17.96	207	$800.00
5	Greg Askew – Terry Case	5		5.17	17.5	206	$700.00
6	Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick	5		5.41	17.46	205	$500.00
7	Bobby Roberts – *Wes Meyers	5		4.84	17.46	204	$400.00
8	Luke Routh – Tyler Weaver	5		5.2	16.85	203	$300.00
9	Matt Gunter – Kelly Nunn	5		6.19	16.44	202	$690.00
10	Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith	5		4.57	16.3	201	$200.00
11	Bryan Baker – Darren Baker	5		5.51	16.04	200	$200.00
12	Matt King – Larry Stoafer	5		5.26	15.45	199	$200.00
13	Dennis Berhorst – *Roger Fitzpatrick	5		4.89	15.02	198	$200.00
14	Rick Fishback – Blake Felix	5			14.85	197	$180.00
15	Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk	5		5.54	14.81	196	$180.00
16	William Orhring – Dan LaBouke	5		4.26	14.72	195	$180.00
17	Chris Bridges – Steve Prince	5		5.13	14.28	194	$180.00
18	Casey Kidder – Chris Savoie	5		4.34	14.23	193	$180.00
19	Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer	5		4.72	14.04	192	$160.00
20	John Bennett – Darrell Reach	5		5.18	13.73	191	$160.00
21	Kevin Johnston – Roger Waters	5	1	3.83	13.48	190	$160.00
22	Joseph Hull – Brett Fickle	5		4.15	13.33	189	$160.00
23	Tom Statler – Dillon Statler	5			13.32	188	$160.00
24	Jerry Prochko – Diego Segui	4		5.03	13.23	187
25	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	5	1.5		13.21	186
26	Chris Callahan – Justin Wasmer	5		4.72	13.02	185
27	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	5		4.38	13	184
28	Matthew Rodgers – Chet Douthit	5		4.21	12.83	183
29	Stephen Smith – Garen Hunt	5			12.48	182
30	Keith Leftridge – Thomas Alsop	5			12.46	181
31	Kevin Duer – Dustin Young	5		3.32	12.42	180
32	Rich Campbell – Travis Stevens	5		3.27	12.36	179
33	Ron Peek – Pat Deaton	5		4.41	12.32	178
34	Kyle Uptegrove – Anthony Alkire	5		5.01	12.3	177
35	John Krewson – Tony Powers	5		4.72	12.19	176
36	Charley Thomas – Chris Thomas	5			12.19	175
37	Bob Jany – Dennis Schilb	5	0.5	4.68	12.17	174
38	Jon Lengel – Jacob Sloan	4		4.8	12.01	173
39	Jeff Bradford – Bryan Vote	4			11.74	172
40	*Mitch Workman – Gus Adkinson	5			11.43	171
41	Nicholas Leggett – *fished aalone	5		3.89	11.4	170
42	Paul Hager – Phil Allen	5			11.37	169
43	Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant	4	1	5.3	11.22	168
44	Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick	5		3.9	11.22	167
45	Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson	5		3.51	11.19	166
46	Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout	5			11.09	165
47	Ozzie Wallace – Ernie Cox	4		4.56	10.72	164
48	Steven Messbarger – Mathew Messbarger	4			10.62	163
49	Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee	5	1		10.6	162
50	Kerry Moore – Tom Terrell	5			10.49	161
51	Jordan Williams – Riley Hill	5			9.97	160
52	Tim Hintenach – Travis Williams	5			9.87	159
53	Kenny Shinn – John Hodson	4			8.92	158
54	Joe Bennett –	2		6.03	8.9	157
55	John Williams – Jim Williams	4			8.75	156
56	Jay Roe – John Bollinger	4			7.7	155
57	Dennis Dahlke –	3		3.86	7.6	154
58	Tom Starforth – Ed Matthews	3			7.1	153
59	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin	3			6.98	152
60	Angelo Barsotti – Bill Barsotti	3			6.78	151
61	Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink	2		4.11	6.43	150
62	Corey Besgrove – Eddie Brown	2		4.24	6.38	149
63	Roger Umbarger – Josh Louisville	3			6.12	148
64	Tom McGovern – *Brad Territo	2			5.47	147
65	*Phillip Montano – Brock Schuld	3			5.26	146
66	Aaron Foglesong – Jeff Wilkins	2			4.88	145
67	David Dawson – Hunter Hansen	3			4.39	144
68	Billy Greenwell – Keith Nickell	2			4.28	143
69	John Neil Jr – Johnny Neil Sr.	1		3.73	3.73	142
70	Chris Nichols – Mark Adkins	2			3.68	141
71	Glen McCrary – Sondra McCrary	1		3.02	3.02	140
72	Ronnie Rush – Rick Rush	1		2.8	2.8	139
73	Casey Flood – Dan Flood	1		2.75	2.75	138
74	Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez	1		2.68	2.68	137
75	Tony Habiger – *fished aalone	1		2.63	2.63	136
76	David Moore – Bob Moore	1		2.38	2.38	135
77	Joddy Dungan – John Matousek	1		2.34	2.34	134
78	Joe Tucker – Randy Chapman	2			2.19	133
79	Lyle Armstrong – Mitchell Armstrong				0	10
	Roy E Barmore – Dale Carrender				0	10
	*Don Mason – Cliff Wolf				0	10
	Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II				0	10
	Lance Blevins –				0	10
	*Ashton Connell – Ross Lalli				0	10
	Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis				0	10
	Sean Bowling – Brandon Brown				0	10
	Rocky Carden – *fished aalone				0	10
	Bobby Carver – *Jennifer Harden				0	10
	Chuck Cover – Harrison Cover				0	10
	Jacob Delong – Jake Henry				0	10
	Blake Edwards – *Kerry Kirkpatrick				0	10
	Jonathan Evans – Bradley Dillon				0	10
	Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler				0	10
	Brandon Flood – Steffan Halderman				0	10
	Jon Gillotte – *Mike Gillotte				0	10
	Mark Glover – Jesse Gardner				0	10
	Kevin Griffen – Marvin Griffen				0	10
	Matt Hare – Jake Hare				0	10
	Patrick Hatfield – Chris Banks				0	10
	Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead				0	10
	Ronnie Kane – Cory Steckler				0	10
	Rick Keeney – Glenn Wilson				0	10
	Keith LaBarge – Roger LaBarge				0	10
	Darrin Lankford – Doug Schilling				0	10
	Ralph Laster – Glenn Batson				0	10
	Kevin Love – *fished aalone				0	10
	Sam Maggio – Terry Cooper				0	10
	David McCormick – Blake Hart				0	10
	*John Campbell – Rusty Darnell				0	10
	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman				0	10
	Greg Proffitt – Anthony Scoma				0	10
	Mike Rogers – Donnie Crist				0	10
	Jim Sells – Greg Lampton				0	10
	Steve Teske – Jon Wall				0	10
	Troy Thomas – Mike Eickmann				0	10
	Steve Vanzant – *Cameron Rieder				0	10
	*fished aalone – Doug Wallace				0	10
	Ricky York – Ed Gilbert				0	10
	Brent Eitel -*Darryl Glassinger Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy				0 0	10 10

*alternate

08/28/21 Pomme

Bob — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:54:48 +0000

The final Tackle HD Pomme event sponsored by TNT Quick Shop proved a variety of patterns to be working throughout the lake. Some guys opted to fish deep in order to stand in the check line, while others found enough quality bites shallow to stand at the top of the pack.

Taking 1st place was the team of Kelly Jones and Roger Satterfield, being no strangers to the shallow water, Kelly and Roger worked square bills and jigs around wood in the upper Lindley arm to bring in 20.04 lbs.

2nd place team Troy Nogosek and Jeremy Fiedler weighed in 19.59 lbs. They also fished shallow using Tackle HD buzz baits along main lake points capitalizing on the morning bite.

3rd place finishers Todd Choate and Kent Whitaker weighed in 19.57 lbs. They chose to stick to a deeper pattern using Chompers jigs, finding only 5 keeper bites throughout the day. Anchoring their limit was the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass award of 6.61 lbs.

Top Skeeter goes to Kelly Jones.

The Last Chance Tournament will be held September 25 at Bucksaw.

Thanks for making this a great season on Pomme! Hope to see you at the Invitational.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Kelly Jones – Roger Satterfield	5		4.9	20.04	210	$1,970.00
2	Troy Nogosek – Jeremy Fiedler	5		5.7	19.59	209	$970.00
3	Todd Choate – Kent Whitaker	5		6.6	19.57	208	$990.00
4	Josh Miller – Ethen Johns	5		5.3	18.65	207	$600.00
5	*Greg Becker – Nathan Klepper	5		5.8	17.64	206	$450.00
6	Cory Cook – Roger Cook	5		4.4	16.34	205	$350.00
7	Matt Gunter – *Kane Gunter	5		4.8	15.07	204	$220.00
8	Greg Askew – Terry Case	5		3.8	14.13	203	$200.00
9	Dave Epema – Dan Bowman	5		5.1	13.83	202	$180.00
10	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	5		5.5	13.7	201
11	Jim Figg – Don Cox	5		4.5	13.31	200
12	David Moore – Bob Moore	5		3.8	13.05	199
13	Matt Underwood – Logan Underwood	5		5.3	12.97	198
14	Tom Statler – Dillon Statler	5			12.31	197
15	Jay Roe – John Bollinger	5		4.4	12.21	196
16	David Mulkey – Sean Mukley	3		6.4	12.12	195	$200.00
17	Dan Cox – Tim Kastning	5		4.2	11.76	194
18	Scott Hill – Brandon Hill	4		5.3	11.29	193
19	Tom VanKeirsbilck – Brian Rodrock	5		3.5	11.15	192
20	Greg Proffitt – Anthony Scoma	5		3.1	11.05	191
21	Kevin Snyder – Nick Borchers	5		4.6	10.94	190
22	Rodney Bowersox – Randy Davis	5		4.1	10.58	189
23	Paul Redmond – Bob Beery	5	0.5	3.5	9.64	188
24	Jeff Sell – Kenny Dawson	5			9.05	187
25	Cody Campbell – Quinten Carr	5			8.89	186
26	Michael Fey Sr – Paul Jung	5			8.8	185
27	Jerry Roark – *fished aalone	5			8.79	184
28	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	5			8.7	183
29	Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez	4			7.79	182
30	Paul Hager – Phil Allen	5			7.39	181
31	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	4			7.07	180
32	Blake Burford – Tim Collins	4			6.17	179
33	Rocky Carden – *fished aalone	1		4.6	4.62	178
34	Steve Teske – Jon Wall	2			3.18	177
35	Earl Horton –	1		2	2.03	176
36	Jacob Delong – *Jimmy Avant	1		1.8	1.82	175
37	Charles Abbott – Timothy Wells	1		1.8	1.8	174
38	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin				0	10
38	*Jon Jones – Alan Turnbaugh				0	10
38	John Campbell – Rusty Darnell				0	10
38	Bobby Carver – *Ryan O’Malley				0	10
38	Jonathan Evans – Terry Close				0	10
38	Brandon Flood – Steffan Halderman				0	10
38	Keith LaBarge – Roger LaBarge				0	10
38	Don Mason – John Cunningham				0	10
38	Kelly Nunn – Jamie Duncan				0	10
38	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman				0	10
38	Mark Simmons – Terry Lawhon				0	10
38	Cliff Wolf – Steve Varner				0	10

*alternate

08/22/21 Mark Twain

Bob — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:12:04 +0000

48 teams showed up for the season finale of the Tackle HD Mark Twain Lake division sponsored by 154 Marine. The tournament was a make-up date from the July 11 cancelation. Pre-tournament reports were that the bite was improving, as the Corp had been steadily pulling water from the lake, getting the lake level down to about 4.5 feet above normal pool. The steady pull of water had fish setting up in predictable areas and timing was critical, as the fish were feeding in short bursts of activity.

Taking the top spot today was the team of Larry Rothweil and alternate Steve Smith. Larry and Steve took a run and gun approach to the day hitting several spots from Mid-lake to the dam area throwing deep diving crankbaits and jigs in 10 to 15 feet of water. The team felt the crankbait would fire the fish up then they would follow up with the jig. Larry and Steve brought 5 fish to the scales weighing an impressive 16.67 pounds. Included in their bag was the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass weighing 5.35 pounds.

Finishing in the runner-up position was the Team of Chris Janda and Rowdy Yates. Chris and Rowdy took a more methodical approach to the day fishing main-lake and secondary points with big worms and Creature style baits both Texas and Carolina rigged. The teams 5 fish limit weighed in at 14.85 pounds. With that second place finish, Chris and Rowdy sealed the deal and won the Division points race! What is even more impressive is that Chris and Rowdy fish out of an Aluminum rig with No Forward facing sonar, No Shallow water anchors and No Spotlock. Hard work, attention to detail and Knowledge of the lake made them points Champions!

The 3rd place position went to the team of Don and Gary McFetridge. The team “Junk fished” from close to take-off to the lower end. Gary told us at weigh-in he caught the team’s first keeper on his second cast, then “Let” Don catch most of their limit weighing 14.65 pounds.

Finishing in 4th place was the team of Terry Jones and Brad Dooley. Terry and Brad had a nice limit weighing 13.78 pounds. As a little bonus they were the highest finishing Skeeter Owner fishing out of Brad’s 2015 ZX250.

Special Thanks goes to our division sponsor 154 Marine, Ronnie Seabaugh for providing the live release trailer, host lodging at Country Inn Resort (573)267-3800 and Rolling Smoke BBQ.

The Tentative dates for the 2022 Mark Twain Division are;

May 1st, May 22nd, June 26th, July 24th, August 7th

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Larry Rothwiel – *Steve Smith	5		5.35	16.67	210	$2,660.00
2	Chris Janda – J. Rowdy Yates	5		3.69	14.85	209	$1,220.00
3	Don McFetridge – Gary McFetridge	5		3.25	14.65	208	$750.00
4	Terry Jones – Brad Dooley	5		3.57	13.78	207	$650.00
5	Jim Coyner – Keith Ostrander	5		4.48	13.67	206	$350.00
6	Cory Kunkle – *Keith Williams	5		3.22	13.61	205	$300.00
7	David Kampschroeder – Dustin Kampschroeder	5		3.69	12.95	204	$250.00
8	Chris Johnson – Josh Calvin	5			12.85	203	$200.00
9	*fished aalone – Kenny Grothoff	5	0.5	3.14	12.57	202	$180.00
10	Frank Sinn – Jason Coan	5		3.24	12.48	201
11	Doug Buhr – Wade Rulo	5		3.1	12.1	200
12	Pat Estes – Lonnie Franklin	5			12.1	199
13	Keith Hendrix – Greg Zumwalt	5			11.99	198
14	Tom Darnell – *Loran Lummer	5		2.96	11.98	197
15	Scott Jackson – Jim Brewer	4		3.71	11.95	196
16	Steve Weber – Sam Phillips	5	0.5		11.76	195
17	Ron Mellinger – Colton Mellinger	5			11.24	194
18	Dominic Perotti – Nick Perotti	4			11.11	193
19	Gary Koenig – Robin Hessling	4		4.21	10.64	192
20	Mike Hamilton Jr – *Josh Harned	4		3.13	10.25	191
21	Brady Graves – Darryll Waller	4			9.42	190
22	Keith LaBarge – Roger LaBarge	2		4.94	8.39	189	$190.00
23	Alan Hoyt – *Lynn Hoyt	3			8.12	188
24	Bill Kayser – Donnie Seabaugh	3			7.6	187
25	*Rob Crangle – Jason VanBeers	3			6.99	186
26	Mike Tucker – *Rob Cooper	3			6.24	185
27	David Moore – Bob Moore	2			6.13	184
28	*Nick Leon – Ross Lord	3			6.04	183
29	Gary Gedville – John Gedville	2			5	182
30	Todd Hessling – Mike Pettitt	2			4.74	181
31	Chad Denningmann – Kurt Denningmann	1		3.4	3.4	180
32	Phil J Zimmerman – *Rob Zimmerman	1		2.17	2.17	179
33	Cannady Alan – Cannady Chad				0	10
33	Mick Buchanan – Gary Grzybinski				0	10
33	Bill Cantwell – John Koopman				0	10
33	Bobby Carver – *Wesley Carver				0	10
33	*fished aalone – George Harrington				0	10
33	Bryan Hulsey – Jason Huskey				0	10
33	Jason Kiser – *Logan Anselmi				0	10
33	Rick Larson – Dave Morrow				0	10
33	*Paul Wiegan – Wayne Werle				0	10
33	Gary Martens – *Todd Martens				0	10
33	*fished aalone – Eric Power				0	10
33	Denis Repa – *Peter Repa				0	10
33	Jim Sexton – Gunner Sexton				0	10
33	Dave Strutman – Denny Lambert				0	10
33	Justin Wright – Hunter Wright				0	10
DQ	Rick Beard – Rian White				0	10

*alternate

08/25/21 Antique

Bob — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:10:50 +0000

With the mercury pushing 100 degrees on the final event of the Tackle HD Table Rock Antique Division, the dog days of summer did not keep these old Ozarks hounds on the porch. Persistence and dedication from Joe Bass Team Trail anglers proved Table Rock lake is a great fishery, even when the heat is on.

The veteran team of Jim Dopp and Harlin Husky relied on years of Table Rock experience, knowing just where to find quality largemouth in late August. Focusing on steeper main lake banks in the Kimberling City area and using big worms, they brought five fish to the scales weighing 16.38 lbs.to capture 1st place.

The team of Pat Leonard and Eric Olliverson also found the big worm pattern to be successful. Fishing their way up the James River arm and concentrating on points in depths of 20 feet, they took over 2nd place with 14.92 lbs.

Third place went to division sponsors Mike Smith and Kavan Maybee with a weight of 14.61 lbs. Mike stated they stayed shallow all day, casting buzz baits and pitching to every piece of wood they could find.

Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass award went to Kelly Jones and Roger Satterfield with a 6.60 lbs. stud caught on a top water bait in a river arm. Kelly Jones also received Top Skeeter award.

Thanks to all the anglers who helped make this division a success. Look forward to seeing you at the Tackle HD Invitational.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Jim Dopp – Harlin Husky	5		4.88	16.38	210	$1,310.00
2	Pat Leonard – Eric Olliverson	5		4.39	14.92	209	$770.00
3	Mike Smith – Kavan Maybee	5		4.26	14.61	208	$580.00
4	Jeff Epley – Kelly Greer	4	0.5	4.61	13.04	207	$350.00
5	Randall Hutson – Jeff Fletcher	5			12.36	206	$180.00
6	Kelly Jones – Roger Satterfield	4		6.6	12.1	205	$170.00
7	Tom Statler – Dillon Statler	5		3.33	11.68	204
8	Joey Penzo – Robert Janes	4		4.62	11.6	203
9	Greg Snider – Tim Lane	4		4.63	11.55	202
10	Gerald McDaniel – Jeff Pascoe	4		4.5	11.49	201
11	Chad Morgenthaler – Dave Mansue	5	0.5		11.16	200
12	Sam Harkey – Doc Seger	5		2.85	11.02	199
13	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	5	1		10.79	198
14	Jack Stack – Dick Moger	4		4.03	9.64	197
15	Marc Czachowski – Bill Chester	4		2.95	8.89	196
16	Tim Fisher – Aaron Fisher	3		3.76	8.42	195
17	James Irvin – Steve Hoffman	1		2.83	2.83	194
18	Justin Brand – Jason Jenkins				0	10
18	Gary Daniel – Philip Milam				0	10
18	Michael Frye – *fished aalone				0	10
18	Bill Haas – Kathy Haas				0	10
18	Terry Hutchison – Jason Coley				0	10
18	Terry Letterman – Doug Smart				0	10
18	Tyler Matlock – Mark Billings				0	10
18	Bob Meek – Steve Nibert				0	10
18	Jay Oliver – *fished aalone				0	10
18	Danny Waite – Bryan Leonard				0	10

*alternate

08/08/21 Stockton

Bob — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:59:36 +0000

August weather is as unpredictable as the fishing in Missouri. This day started with sprinkles, then the sun and wind then more showers. The fishing according to the anglers were scattered and tough to come by. The Joe Bass anglers however found the combinations to bring in some good sacks. With water temps in the 80’s and the water being pulled anglers found the fish in brush piles throwing jigs and soft plastics. The depths varied but the pattern was true.

Tim Lawyer, La Russell, MO, had an injured partner and was lucky enough to have his brother, Jeremy Lawyer, Sarcoxie, MO, in town to help him bring in the winning weight of 19.74lbs. The team is sponsored Ranger, Bass Pro, Russel Marine Products, Pro Guide Batteries, Mercury, Denali Rods, Bullet Weights, and Freedom Tackle.

Scott Tassi and Glen Harrison, Arma, KS, sponsored by Albers Marine, Inc., Nitro Boats, Mercury, Woo Tungsten, Lews, Denali Rods, and Lowrance, were very close behind with 19.68lbs. Scott also had the Ozark Chevrolet BIG BASS of the day. The giant largemouth weighed 8.16lbs. Scott caught it in a brush pile in 10 ft. of water.

Blake Edwards and Shane McGinnis, both of Springfield, MO used Bass Pro Enticer jigs in brush piles to bring their 5 fish limit that weighed 19.27lbs. The key to their success was moving from pile to pile and depth changes.

Keith Hurd, Springfield, MO and Jeff Nelson, Morrisville, MO, last years Division Champions, had 15.02lbs to bring home the Top Skeeter of day. They were fishing out of Keith’s 2021 ZXR 20.

The next Tackle HD JOE BASS STOCKTON DIVISION brought to you by Albers Marine, Inc. is September 12, 2021 with a 7am takeoff out of Orleans Trail.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	*Jeremy Lawyer – Tim Lawyer	5		5.2	19.74	210	$2,380.00
2	Scott Tassi – Glenn Harrison	5		8.16	19.68	209	$1,700.00
3	Blake Edwards – Shane McGinnis	5		6.26	19.27	208	$800.00
4	Chris Bridges – Steve Prince	5		4.79	17.83	207	$650.00
5	Justin Delk – Brandon Rummel	5		4.95	17.8	206	$450.00
6	Seth Glynn – Kelly (KJ) Hughes	5		5.82	17.48	205	$400.00
7	Ricky Clifton – *Matt Rogers	5	0.5	5.01	16.61	204	$350.00
8	Justin Angel – Scott Angel	5		4.93	16.58	203	$300.00
9	Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer	5		4.75	15.86	202	$250.00
10	Keith Hurd – Jeff Nelson	5		5.45	15.02	201	$1,200.00
11	Bryan Baker – *fished aalone	5		4.1	14.95	200	$200.00
12	Tyler Eagan – James Eagan	5		3.74	14.71	199	$160.00
13	James Brown – John Campbell	5	0.5	3.61	14.6	198
14	John Cates – Bobby Crockett	4		6.95	14.37	197	$240.00
15	Bobby Roberts – *Wesley Myers	5		4.26	13.75	196
16	Rick Fishback – *Tom Lloyd	5			13.73	195
17	Andy Greek – Brent Greek	5		3.82	13.54	194
18	Jim Davidson – Mike Ashbacher	5		3.86	13.03	193
19	Dennis Edwards – Hayes Edwards	5		3.36	12.26	192
20	Mark Moody – Kyle Kiister	5		3.83	12.05	191
21	Jordan Dibben – Jason Conner	5			11.89	190
22	Charles Rogers – Jeff Rogers	5		3.46	11.77	189
23	Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney	5			11.6	188
24	Chris White – Kelly White	5			10.8	187
25	Mike Johnson – Andrew Johnson	3		4.32	9.4	186
26	Jeff Bradford – Bryan Vote	5	2.5		8.96	185
27	Justin Bogner – Kenny Bogner	4			8.82	184
28	Colby Davison – Mark Louderbaugh	4			7.89	183
29	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat	4	2	3.73	7.77	182
30	Randy Roustio –	3		3.92	7.32	181
31	Jeff Bear – Quenton Bear	3			6.78	180
32	Levi Snow – Cody Daniels	3			6.16	179
33	Jeff Sell – Kenny Dawson	2			5.48	178
34	Shawn Crabtree – Reece Crabtree	3			5.14	177
35	Blaze Bullard –	2			4.86	176
36	Jeff Gilbert – Shawn Durden	1		4.07	4.07	175
37	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin	2			4.01	174
38	Russ Hughes – Ronald Parker	2			4	173
39	Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis	2			3.99	172
40	Kyle Boman – *Steve Hughes				0	10
	Rick Bowman – Jeff Moore				0	10
	Mike Butcher – Justin Amershek				0	10
	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell				0	10
	Robert Cowan – Dallas Beasley				0	10
	Dan Cox – Tim Kastning				0	10
	Wes Darnell – *Scott Berry				0	10
	Brett Fickle – Joseph Hull				0	10
	Matt Garrett – Kaleb Rook				0	10
	Benjamin Hodgson – Jesse Arnold				0	10
	Terry Kennedy – Anthony Decker				0	10
	David McCormick – Blake Hart				0	10
	Gerald McDaniel – Jeff Pascoe				0	10
	Jamie Newton –				0	10
	Luke Routh – Tyler Weaver				0	10
	Greg Seiner – Kevin Ingle				0	10
	Tom Shireman – Zane Shireman				0	10
	Mark Simmons – Terry Lawhon				0	10
	AJ Wenzel – Patrick Dickerson				0	10
	Kenneth White – *Joe White				0	10
	Austin Lowery – *Buddy Simms				0	10

*alternate

08/01/21 Twain

Bob — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:38:35 +0000

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

*alternate

07/17/21 Pomme

Bob — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:17:29 +0000

On the day that would eventually lead to some locally heavy rainfall and extreme flooding, 50 teams took a shot at trying to solve the Pomme puzzle. With rising water and below average temps the week prior, the typical deep brush pile pattern did not dominate this month’s Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail event. Instead those anglers choosing to go shallower came out on top.

The team of Greg Askew and Terry Case found their way to the top with a nice 5 fish limit @ 18.88 lbs. coming from the shallows of the Lindley. Using a variety of baits Greg and Terry visited a particular log several times throughout the day, and found it to keep reloading with quality fish.

2^nd place went to the team of Josh Miller and Ethen Johns with a weight of 18.26 lbs. Using Chompers jigs they found their bites in 8-15 feet depths in both arms.

The team of Matt Garrett and Kaleb Rook sponsored by Missouri Welding Institute, had a weight of 18.16 lbs. They fished main lake points in the Pomme arm using jigs and shaky heads to take home a third place finish.

Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass award went to Dave Epema and Dan Bowman at 6.29 lbs.

Top Skeeter award went to Cody Campbell and his 2021 ZXR21 Skeeter.

Next Pomme event August 28 6 A.M

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Greg Askew – Terry Case	5		4.63	18.88	210	$2,120.00
2	Josh Miller – Ethen Johns	5		4.64	18.26	209	$1,160.00
3	Matt Garrett – Kaleb Rook	5		5.4	18.16	208	$800.00
4	Dave Epema – Dan Bowman	5		6.29	16.74	207	$800.00
5	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	5		5.02	16.46	206	$400.00
6	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman	5		4.78	15.9	205	$350.00
7	David Mulkey – Sean Mukley	5	0.5	5.2	15.76	204	$300.00
8	Jerry Roark – Jamie Edge	4		5.43	15.36	203	$230.00
9	Chris Callaway – Alan Turnbaugh	5		4.42	14.76	202	$200.00
10	Dale Goff – Jonathan Pimentel	5		4.72	14.18	201	$180.00
11	Matt Gunter – Gage Gunter	5		5.96	14.1	200	$200.00
12	Tom VanKeirsbilck – Brian Rodrock	5		5.73	14.03	199
13	Michael Bray – Nathan Klepper	5		4.18	13.47	198
14	Cody Campbell – Quinten Carr	5		4.16	12.8	197	$500.00
15	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	5		3.85	11.83	196
16	Scott Hill – Brandon Hill	5			10.92	195
17	Dan Cox – Tim Kastning	5			10.66	194
18	Jim Figg – Don Cox	5		2.9	10.52	193
19	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	5		3.04	10	192
20	Rick Jones – Jeremy Gilbert	5			9.09	191
21	Rodney Bowersox – Randy Davis	4			7.51	190
22	Les Morris – Kent Whitaker	5			7.43	189
23	Troy Nogosek – Jeremy Fiedler	3		3.71	7.25	188
24	Kevin Snyder – Nick Borchers	2		5.65	7.22	187
25	Matthew Bennett – Gillian Bennett	3			5.82	186
26	Tyler Eagan – James Eagan	3	0.5		4.83	185
27	Rocky Carden – David Rogers	2		3.62	4.77	184
28	Michael Fey Sr – Paul Jung	3			4.61	183
29	Jacob Delong – *fished aalone	2			4.53	182
30	David Moore – Bob Moore	3			4.47	181
31	Earl Horton –	2		3.24	4.36	180
32	Bill Jared – Rich Carpenter	3			4.25	179
33	Jeff Sell – Kenny Dawson	2			3.6	178
34	Jonathan Evans – Terry Close	2			3.33	177
35	Kelly Nunn – Jamie Duncan	1		2.69	2.69	176
36	Laurence Subelka – David Williams	1		1.54	1.54	175
37	Bryan Bock – Jarad Hinson				0	10
	Justin Bogner – Kenny Bogner				0	10
	Cody Brown – Kevin Collins				0	10
	Bobby Carver – Brett Mitchell				0	10
	Jason Clines – Cody Hampton				0	10
	Rusty Darnell – John Campbell				0	10
	Colby Davison – *Ron Voet				0	10
	Ryan Fritz – Bret Fritz				0	10
	Mark Glover – Jessie Gardner				0	10
	Willard Jordan – *Princeton Jordan				0	10
	Paul Marsala – Gus Marsala				0	10
	Ben Martin – C J Nolan				0	10
	Don Mason – John Cunningham				0	10
	Brandon Rowland – Russel Nigh				0	10
	Matt Weigel – *fished aalone				0	10

*alternate

07/18/21 Truman

Bob — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:03:00 +0000

As seems to be the norm, conditions have roller-coastered since the June event with scorching heat and dry conditions replaced with relatively mild temps, for summer in Missouri, and rain, enough to raise the lake to 11’ over normal pool, followed by a steady drop to just under 7’ high. Flooding storms just prior to the event had the southern arms of the lake dirtying up again. Dock talk ranged from the typical current break patterns, the shallow pattern going away with the dropping lake levels, and whether or not the summer suspended bite would materialize with the cooler temperatures and current. Such variability faced the 126 team field that took off from Shawnee Bend to battle for daily bragging rights qualifying points for the Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational to be held at Bucksaw Resort and Marina this fall.

Leading the pack was Troy Thomas and Todd Paretta. Their five fish limit pushed the scales to a winning 16.56 pound weight. Mike and Troy shared working jigs and buzzbaits shallow with an early bite being their Tackle HD Key to Success.

Truman veterans Robert Hime and Paul Huse narrowly missed the win as their runner up weight of 16.48 was just off the lead. They noted they had an early buzzbait fish followed by flipping creature baits to the outside bushes to fill their limit. A kicker fish lost at the boat had them thinking of what might have been!

Jordan Williams and Riley Hill rounded out the top three with a solid 14.50 pound stringer. They also flipped jigs to shallow bushes, making the most of the five bites they had scattered throughout the day.

The Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 5.73 largemouth, added to the 13^th place overall check awarded to Mike Thomas and Jeff Lane. The duo shared the lunker made for some excitement as it was tangled in a bush, with them thinking it was a short until they saw the swirl and flash! In addition they were the RAPALA Pro pack winners.

Team Joe Bass, Timmy Newberry and THE Rusty Darnell, bolstered their 9^th place overall check as they took home the highest finishing Skeeter bonus as they flipped Chompers Boss Hawgs to the outer bushes to put 13.08 of Truman bass in Rusty’s 2013 ZX20 Skeeter.

The final regular season event of the Truman Division will take place August 29th with a 6:00am takeoff from Shawnee Bend. With the exceptional turnouts, take advantage of registering online prior to the event, otherwise, make sure to show up early to ensure the takeoff is on time.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Troy Thomas – *Todd Paretta	5		5.3	16.56	210	$5,810.00
2	Robert Hime – Paul Huse	5		4.92	16.48	209	$2,480.00
3	Jordan Williams – Riley Hill	5		5.66	14.5	208	$1,330.00
4	Kenny Shinn – John Hodson	5		4.05	14.21	207	$700.00
5	Matt Gunter – Kelly Nunn	5		4.91	14.19	206	$600.00
6	Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee	5	0.5	4.87	13.92	205	$500.00
7	Ron Mayer – Brock Schuld	5		4.82	13.88	204	$400.00
8	Jon Lengel – Jacob Sloan	5		3.84	13.3	203	$350.00
9	Timmy Newberry – Rusty Darnell	5	1	3.55	13.08	202	$550.00
10	Charley Thomas – Chris Thomas	5		3.73	13.05	201	$300.00
11	Casey Kidder – Chris Savoie	5		4.91	12.99	200	$200.00
12	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	5		4.68	12.95	199	$200.00
13	Mike Thomas – Jeff Lane	4		5.73	12.43	198	$1,000.00
14	Billy Greenwell – Keith Nickell	5		4.1	12.41	197	$200.00
15	Kevin Johnston – Roger Waters	5		5.03	12.38	196	$200.00
16	Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk	5		3.82	12.21	195	$180.00
17	Jeremy Fly – Marc Czachowski	5		3.14	11.99	194	$180.00
18	Michael Simons – Jacob Simons	4	0.5		11.77	193	$180.00
19	David McCormick – Gary Shartzer	5		4.37	11.67	192	$180.00
20	Bryan Baker – Darren Baker	5		3.23	11.64	191	$180.00
21	Darrin Lankford – Doug Schilling	5			11.62	190	$160.00
22	Larry Wright – Doug Wallace	5		3.17	11.44	189	$160.00
23	Mark Riegel – JR Shinn	5		3.42	11.42	188	$160.00
24	Kerry Moore – Tom Terrell	5		4.08	11.38	187	$160.00
25	Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington	5		3.57	11.19	186	$160.00
26	Kevin Duer – Dustin Young	5		4.57	11.18	185
27	Donnie Reynolds – Mark Reynolds	5		3.41	10.93	184
28	Rich Campbell – Travis Stevens	5		3.79	10.83	183
29	Dan Hirstein – Chris Hirstein	3		5.72	10.73	182	$460.00
30	Joddy Dungan – John Matousek	5		2.99	10.7	181
31	John Campbell – David Rogers	5		3.46	10.61	180
32	Stephen Smith – Garen Hunt	5		3.48	10.43	179
33	Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout	5			10.34	178
34	Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer	5			10.23	177
35	Tom Starforth – Ed Matthews	5			10.19	176
36	Bobby Roberts – Cody Carl	5			10.09	175
37	Jim Sells – Greg Lampton	5		3.5	9.99	174
38	Chris Bridges – Steve Prince	5		2.77	9.84	173
39	Tony Habiger – Fabricio Toledo	5		3.09	9.63	172
40	Chris Nichols – Mark Adkins	5			9.38	171
41	Kerry Kirkpatrick – Blake Edwards	4			9.06	170
42	Dene White – Joe Dorcy	2		5.3	8.95	169
43	Steven Messbarger – Mathew Messbarger	5			8.73	168
44	Kyle Boman – Ronald Deckard JR	4	0.5	3.8	8.6	167
45	Matt King – Larry Stoafer	4			8.49	166
46	John Wixson – Zach Kremer	3		4.38	8.16	165
47	Steve Vanzant – *Cameron Rieder	4			8.14	164
48	Ronnie Kane – Cory Steckler	4			8.11	163
49	Jerry Prochko – Diego Segui	3			8.1	162
50	John Williams – Jim Williams	4		3.1	8.08	161
51	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	3		4.19	7.89	160
52	Kevin Griffen – Marvin Griffen	3			7.8	159
53	Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick	4			7.68	158
54	Nicholas Leggett – Logan Carter	3			7.36	157
55	Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney	4			7.17	156
56	Ozzie Wallace – *fished aalone	4	1		7	155
57	Bill Jared – Rich Carpenter	5	1	2.57	6.87	154
58	John Neil Jr – Johnny Neil Sr.	3			6.74	153
59	Richard Johnson – Charles Cadenhead	3			6.67	152
60	Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith	3			6.42	151
61	Roger Umbarger – Josh Louisville	3		3.18	6.38	150
62	Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick	2		4.38	6.2	149
63	Jeff Sell – Kenny Dawson	3			6.17	148
64	Tyler Eagan – James Eagan	3			6.14	147
65	Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy	2		4.18	6.06	146
66	Benjamin Penley – Brody Boone	2		4.11	5.99	145
67	Hunter Ballew – Cole Tullis	3			5.89	144
68	Corey Besgrove – *Kyle Besgrove	2			5.47	143
68	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat	2			5.47	143
70	Ronnie Rush – Rick Rush	2			4.89	141
71	William Orhring – Dan LaBouke	3			4.8	140
72	Casey Flood – Dan Flood	2			4.78	139
73	John Krewson – Tony Powers	2			4.38	138
74	Dennis Berhorst – Greg Berhorst	3			4.35	137
75	Bob Jany – Dennis Schilb	2			4.02	136
76	Jonathan Evans – Bradley Dillon	1		3.98	3.98	135
77	Glen McCrary – Sondra McCrary	2			3.98	134
78	Tom McGovern – Tom Kaufmann	2			3.86	133
79	Ricky York – Ed Gilbert	1		3.85	3.85	132
80	John Bennett – Darrell Reach	2			3.84	131
81	Matt Garrett – *Will Issac	1		3.75	3.75	130
82	Justin Borum – Jake McKinnis	1		3.64	3.64	129
83	Aaron Foglesong – *Trevor Bartlett	2			3.61	128
84	Gary Arterberry – Gus Adkinson	1		3.25	3.25	127
85	James Macleod – Don Miller	2			3.23	126
86	Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II	2			2.98	125
87	Laurence Subelka – David Williams	1		2.89	2.89	124
88	Angelo Barsotti – Bill Barsotti	1		2.85	2.85	123
89	Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson	1		2.46	2.46	122
90	Mike Rogers – Donnie Crist	1		2.29	2.29	121
91	Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez	1		2.23	2.23	120
92	Greg Askew – Terry Case				0	10
	Roy E Barmore – Dale Carrender				0	10
	Larry Barr – Cliff Wolfe				0	10
	Doug Blum – Tyler Bone				0	10
	JR Borror – Ross Lalli				0	10
	Jeff Bradford – Bryan Vote				0	10
	Blaze Bullard –				0	10
	Chris Callahan – Justin Wasmer				0	10
	David Dawson – Hunter Hansen				0	10
	Jacob Delong – *fished aalone				0	10
	Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler				0	10
	Brent Eitel – Jeff Blackford				0	10
	Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler				0	10
	Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink				0	10
	*Ricky Clifton – Matt Rogers				0	10
	Patrick Hatfield – Doug Meyers				0	10
	Mark Hockemeier – Thad Lincoln				0	10
	Joseph Hull – Brett Fickle				0	10
	Rick Keeney – Glenn Wilson				0	10
	Marvin Kinyon – Mike Long				0	10
	Jared Knuth – *Melissa Harrell				0	10
	Bob Koons – Brian Thompsonn				0	10
	Sean Lambeth – Tanner Lambeth				0	10
	Ralph Laster – Glenn Batson				0	10
	Doug Long – Marty Watson				0	10
	Kevin Love – *fished aalone				0	10
	Sam Maggio – Terry Cooper				0	10
	Jamie McCain – Trevor Morrison				0	10
	Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant				0	10
	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman				0	10
	Ron Peek – Pat Deaton				0	10
	Kennedy Schwartzburg – Andrew Rogers				0	10
	Robert Shockley – Scott Priess				0	10
	Joe Tucker – Randy Chapman				0	10
	Tom VanKeirsbilck – Brian Rodrock				0	10

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06/27/21 Twain

Bob — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:01:07 +0000

High Water and Tough Times at Mark Twain! 46 teams showed up to fish the 3rd of five Tackle HD, Joe Bass Mark Twain Division tournaments Sponsored by 154 Marine.

Heavy rains pounded the area from Wednesday through Saturday Morning bringing the lake level from 611.41 to 619.80 Sunday morning. This certainly added a new wrinkle to many teams game plan, as the strong main lake point bite slowed dramatically and teams needed to adjust if they were going to make the check line.

Taking the top spot today was the team of Bill Cantwell and John Koopman. Bill and John have a lot of history at Mark Twain and they knew what adjustments they needed to make. They abandoned the main lake point bite, moving to creeks that had a cleaner run in of water and fished shallow grass flats with a swim jig. They connected with a few keepers early, but when the sun popped out the bite died. The team moved around to similar areas but had little action, until cloud cover moved back in. Bill said “It was like somebody flipped the feed switch and the bite was on!”. Bill and John caught a dozed or more keepers on the day, including the Ozark Chevrolet Big Joe Bass of the day weighing 6.34 pounds that fell for the swim jig around 10am. The teams best five fish came in at 15.46 pounds to seal the deal. Bill and John are sponsored by, Bill’s Diesel Performance, Dobyn’s Rods, Mercury, Ranger Boats and Pro’s Choice Marine.

Finishing in second place was the team of Gary Martens and Brian Loseman. The Window World sponsored team started their day fishing main lake points, managing just one small keeper bite. So the team made an adjustment around 9am and went into a large creek in the mid lake area and found shad around secondary points with grass and buckbrush. Gary and Brian fished soft plastics on the newly flooded points and connected with 3 more keepers including the 2nd big bass of the day weighing 5.30 pounds. The team fell one keeper short of a limit bringing 4 fish to the scales that weighed 14.57 pounds to take the runner up spot.

Taking the third spot today was the team of Keith Hendrix and Greg Zumwalt. Keith and Greg started the day fishing an area that had been producing fish for them lately. But with the fast rising water most of the fish had moved on. With only one small keeper in the boat the team made an adjustment, to a flat with flooded bushes with the intent of flipping plastics into the bushes. On a hunch, Keith decided to give his Mark Twain Lake Lure Co Bladed Jig a try first and Boom the fish started to bite. Greg followed up behind Keith with a Mark Twain Lake Lure Co Swim Jig and the team had a limit by 8:30. Their bite slowed to a crawl when the sun came out, but the team made a late day upgrade. Their 5 fish limit came in at 13.74 pounds. As a bonus Keith and Greg were fishing out of Keith’s new 2021 ZXR20 Skeeter he just broke in the week before giving Keith the Highest finishing Skeeter Owners Money. Keith and Greg are sponsored by 154 Marine, Hobbie Hut, JC Auto and Truck Parts, Mark Twain Lake Lure Co., Dyna Gro Seed, Gene Larew and Jack’s Harbor Marine.

The next Mark Twain Lake tournament is July 11. Registration and weigh-in at 154 Marine, 6am take-off at Robert Allen Ramp.

Thanks again to Rolling Smoke BBQ! Their sandwiches and BBQ hits the spot after a long day on the water.

Host lodging at Mark Twain Lake is Country Inn Resort (573)267-3800

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Bill Cantwell – John Koopman	5		6.34	15.46	210	$2,560.00
2	Gary Martens – Bryan Loseman	4		5.3	14.57	209	$1,130.00
3	Keith Hendrix – Greg Zumwalt	5		4.09	13.74	208	$1,280.00
4	Dennis McFetridge – *Scott McFetridge	5		3.48	13.59	207	$550.00
5	Chris Johnson – Josh Calvin	5		3.19	12	206	$350.00
6	Phil J Zimmerman – Phil M Zimmerman	5			10.2	205	$300.00
7	Don McFetridge – Gary McFetridge	5		2.15	9.55	204	$250.00
8	Chris Janda – J. Rowdy Yates	3		4.49	8.8	203	$200.00
9	Kenny Grothoff – Donnie Palmatory	4	0.5		8.56	202	$160.00
10	Mick Buchanan – Gary Grzybinski	4		2.51	8.55	201
11	Ron Mellinger – Colton Mellinger	4			8.43	200
12	Mark Tucker – Ray Byrd	4			6.94	199
13	Alan Hoyt – Gage Hoyt	2		4.53	6.7	198
14	Keith LaBarge – *Johnathon Floyd	3			6.33	197
15	Jeff Boerding – Mike Reigh	3			6.2	196
16	Steve Weber – Sam Phillips	1		5.27	5.27	195
17	Joe Tucker – Travis Wilson	2			4.8	194
18	Scott Jackson – *John Salvo	2			3.78	193
19	Jason Kiser – *Jim Coyner	2			3.77	192
20	Gary Gedville – John Gedville	1		2.82	2.82	191
21	Preston Hartung – *Shawn Hartung	1		2.81	2.81	190
22	Dave Strutman – Denny Lambert	1		2.76	2.76	189
23	Todd Hessling – Mike Pettitt	1		2.62	2.62	188
24	Chris Power – Eric Power	1		2.48	2.48	187
25	Cory Kunkle – *Gary Lohden	1		2.42	2.42	186
26	Bill Kayser – Donnie Seabaugh	1		2.4	2.4	185
27	Pat Estes – Lonnie Franklin	1		2.33	2.33	184
28	Josh Gebhardt – Ross Lord	1		2.16	2.16	183
29	Tom Herndon – Jason VanBeers	1		1.87	1.87	182
30	Gary Koenig – Robin Hessling	1		1.83	1.83	181
31	David Kampschroeder – Dustin Kampschroeder	1		1.82	1.82	180
32	Terry Jones – Brad Dooley	1		1.78	1.78	179
33	Rick Beard – Rian White				0	10
	Doug Buhr – Wade Rulo				0	10
	Tom Darnell – Rick McGuire				0	10
	Chad Denningmann – Kurt Denningmann				0	10
	Brady Graves – Darryll Waller				0	10
	Bryan Hulsey – *Brett Hulsey				0	10
	Charlie Kunkle – Keith Williams				0	10
	Jim Lomax – Wayne Werle				0	10
	Dominic Perotti – Nick Perotti				0	10
	Larry Rothwiel – Phil Williams				0	10
	Jim Sexton – Gunner Sexton				0	10
	Mike Tucker –				0	10
	Justin Wright – Hunter Wright				0	10
	Ken Young – John Drury				0	10

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06/26/21 Table Rock

Bob — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:49:49 +0000

Hot temps, wind and a wet weigh-in greeted the anglers for the make up tournament on beautiful Table Rock Lake. Winter weather caused the cancellation of the Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail Table Rock brought to you by Chompers season opener in February and now the summer heat sets in for this makeup. The teams found high water with lots of bushes for the anglers to flip at. Flipping and top water action is what the top teams used to bring home good sacks of fish.

The father/son team of Eric and Gavin White, Kimberling City, MO, brought in 5 fish that weighed 18.79lbs. They flipped bushes up in the creek to get their quality bag.

Jeff Epley, Berryville, AR and Kelly Greer, Harrison, AR, stayed mid lake using soft plastics and top water to bring in 5 fish that weighed 18.47lbs. Bushes were their key to success.

The Harrison AR team of Aaron Hodge and James Bailey fished shallow all day in the bushes to bring in their limit that weighed 17.52lbs. Aaron stated they caught a lot of fish today.

John Wagner, Waterloo, IL caught the Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass of the tournament. He caught it in the morning on a topwater bait. The large mouth weighed 5.60lbs.

Ed Larson and Matt Cesar take top Skeeter.

The next Tackle HD Table Rock tournament is September 11th at 7am takeoff.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	Eric White – Gavin White	5		4.36	18.79	210	$1,800.00
2	Jeff Epley – Kelly Greer	5		5.03	18.47	209	$1,380.00
3	Aaron Hodge – James Bailey	5		4.94	17.52	208	$930.00
4	Joe Brantley – Alan Quick	5		5.04	17.42	207	$650.00
5	Jeff Bradford – Bryan Vote	5		5.49	16.36	206	$590.00
6	Kavan Maybee – Josh Wray	5		4.03	15.5	205	$300.00
7	*Billy Bird – Doc Seger	5		5.02	15.14	204	$240.00
8	Matt Cesar – Ed Larson	5	1	3.93	15.14	203	$1,180.00
9	*Zach Cooley – Kent Whitaker	5			14.76	202	$160.00
10	Dakota Millican – Leif Millican	5			14.66	201
11	Shane Harms – Dillon Harms	5		5.17	14.64	200
12	Marc Czachowski – Mike Purse	5		4.67	14.58	199
13	Mike Gold – Eric Olliverson	5			14.48	198
14	Steve Isley – Brandtly Tucker	5		4.91	14.46	197
15	Jordan Dibben – Jason Conner	5		4.69	14.22	196
16	Rodney Bowersox – Johnny Neil Sr.	5		4.14	14.09	195
17	Barb Cooper – Marc Cooper	5		3.98	14.08	194
18	Tom McGovern – Tom Kaufmann	5	0.5	3.52	13.9	193
19	Bill Hayford – Peyton Rose	5		3.46	13.87	192
20	Ralph Laster – Mike Fiedler	5	1	4.05	13.6	191
21	David Rice – Kelly Power	5			13.38	190
22	*Dallas Besperat – Dustin Besperat	5		4.12	12.99	189
23	Kyle Wagner – John Wagner	4		5.6	12.89	188	$290.00
24	John Haley – Mike Utt	5			12.87	187
25	*Avery Emory – Mike Edwards	5		3.55	12.82	186
26	Josh Tate – JD Tate	5			12.81	185
27	Tom Daegling – *Dan Daegling	4			12.77	184
28	Eddie McMasters – Jace McMasters	5	0.5	4.07	12.47	183
29	Michael Frye – Michael Landwehr	5		4.3	12.4	182
30	Jeff Donovan – Trevor Donovan	5			12.27	181
31	Kelly Jones – Roger Satterfield	5	0.5		11.53	180
32	Brien Vaughn – Travis Loyd	5			11.48	179
33	Landon Snelson – Rick Snelson	5			11.34	178
34	Craig Dort – Tony Johnston	4		3.86	11.12	177
35	Sean Lambeth – Tanner Lambeth	5	0.5		10.67	176
36	Rick Jones – Jeremy Gilbert	5			10.53	175
36	Terry Letterman – Doug Smart	5			10.53	175
38	Kyle Boman – Ronald Deckard JR	5		2.91	10.27	173
39	Dewayne Weeks – John Williams	4			9.4	172
40	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield	3	0.5		6.89	171
41	Randy Roustio –	1		3.12	3.12	170
42	Jeff Barrickman – *Dan Stone				0	10
	Blake Curtis – Matt Brown				0	10
	Mike Fann – Mark Fann				0	10
	Dan Hankinson – Korbin Hankinson				0	10
	Brad Jones – *fished aalone				0	10
	Jack Stack – Dick Moger				0	10

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06/13/21 Truman

Bob — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 22:04:18 +0000

The mild days of spring definitely transitioned to summer heat for the third installment of the Truman Division Tackle HD Joe Bass Team Trail season. Dropping lake levels and a post-spawn funk produced tough fishing conditions, but the skill of the Truman anglers rang loud and clear with a super weight required to take top honors and seven fish over five pounds weighed by the 133-team field. A last-minute venue change due to facilities management was taken in stride by the teams that took off from Long Shoal to battle for daily bragging rights qualifying points for the Tackle HD Joe Bass Invitational to be held at Bucksaw Resort and Marina this fall.

Doubling down on last month’s win, John Bennett and Darrell Reach lapped the field with a stellar 22.02 limit, anchored by the second place big bass of the day, a stud 6.41 largemouth. Darrell reported they made one of their super long runs up the Osage to fish ultra shallow. Their Tackle HD Key to Success was working jigs and chatterbaits on flatter banks.

Taking the runner up position was Brad Jelinek and Brock Reinkemeyer. The duo Live Scoped hardwoods where they “reported” jellyfish crappie bombs to be the bait of choice. They may have also mentioned jigs helped them to boat a stout 19.68 limit.

Team Thomas, Charley and Chris, rounded out the top three with a solid 17.64 stringer. They shared they caught their fish flipping creature baits shallow, capitalizing on the right bites as they didn’t catch many fish on a hot day.

The Ozark Chevrolet Big Bass, a 6.97 largemouth, was caught by the Kerry Moore and Tom Terrell. Their kicker added to their fourth place finish. Kerry and Tom said their big fish hit a 10” worm drug through pole timber on a main lake point.

Mark and Markie Thompson took home the highest finishing Skeeter bonus as they used buzzbaits and squarebills to put 10.91 pounds of bass into Marks 2020 ZX225 Skeeter.

The fourth event of the Truman Division will take place July 18th with a 6:00am takeoff from Shawnee Bend. With the exceptional turnouts, take advantage of registering online prior to the event, otherwise, make sure to show up early to ensure the takeoff is on time.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	John Bennett – Darrell Reach	5		6.41	22.02	210	$6,320.00	2BB
2	Brad Jelinek – Brock Reinkemeyer	5		4.91	19.68	209	$2,540.00
3	Charley Thomas – Chris Thomas	5		4.97	17.64	208	$1,360.00
4	Kerry Moore – Tom Terrell	5		6.97	16.38	207	$1,700.00	1BB
5	Mark Riegel – JR Shinn	5		4.51	16.31	206	$700.00
6	Eric Zuk – Ben Zuk	5		4.65	14.61	205	$600.00
7	Nicholas Leggett – *Alec Muller	5		4.41	14.21	204	$500.00
8	Corey Besgrove – Eddie Brown	5		4.95	13.98	203	$400.00
9	Matt King – Larry Stoafer	5		5.55	13.8	202	$350.00
10	Bryce Rieder – Mike Edrington	4		5.46	13.14	201	$300.00
11	*Russell Matt – Keith Nickell	5		3.65	12.97	200	$250.00
12	Jordan Williams – Riley Hill	5		6.02	12.93	199	$250.00
13	Matt Gunter – Kelly Nunn	4		4.82	12.72	198	$240.00
14	Luke Routh – Tyler Weaver	5		3.14	12.64	197	$200.00
15	Greg Askew – Terry Case	5		2.95	12.51	196	$200.00
16	Troy Thomas – Mike Eickmann	5			12.27	195	$200.00
17	Kyle Boman – Ronald Deckard JR	5		3.24	12.19	194	$190.00
18	Kerry Kirkpatrick – Blake Edwards	4		4.41	12.18	193	$180.00
19	Kenny Sloan – Brendon Mick	5		3.26	12.07	192	$180.00
20	Darrin Lankford – Doug Schilling	5		3.34	11.96	191	$180.00
21	Gaige Blanton – Will Andrie	4		5.07	11.71	190	$160.00
22	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat	5		3.93	11.52	189	$160.00
23	Ronnie Kane – Cory Steckler	5			11.47	188	$160.00
24	David McCormick – Blake Hart	5			11.45	187	$160.00
25	Blaze Bullard –	5		4.02	11.42	186	$160.00
26	William Orhring – Dan LaBouke	5		3.82	11.25	185
27	Jim Sloan – Jeff Stout	5		3.36	10.92	184
28	Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson II	5			10.91	183	$250.00
29	Robert Hime – Paul Huse	5		3.82	10.86	182
30	Jeremy Johnson – Eric Rogers	5			10.57	181
31	Bryan Baker – Darren Baker	5		3.82	10.54	180
32	Matthew Rodgers – Chet Douthit	5			10.54	179
33	Larry Wright – Doug Wallace	4		4.4	10.52	178
34	Sean Bowling – Brandon Brown	5			10.5	177
35	Brent Eitel – Jeff Blackford	5		3.64	10.38	176
36	Jim Sells – Greg Lampton	5	0.5	3.8	9.82	175
37	Timmy Newberry – Rusty Darnell	5		1	9.8	174
38	John Williams – Jim Williams	5		2.79	9.54	173
39	Michael Simons – Jacob Simons	5			9.36	172
40	Dennis Dahlke –	5			9.33	171
41	Stephen Smith – Garen Hunt	5			9.26	170
42	Kris Bollinger – Coty Baldwin	4		4.26	9.13	169
43	Ron Peek – Pat Deaton	5		3.85	8.94	168
44	Roger Umbarger – Josh Louisville	3		5.54	8.85	167
45	Casey Kidder – Chris Savoie	4		3.85	8.85	166
46	Doug Long – Marty Watson	3		3.98	8.8	165
47	Kevin Johnston – Roger Waters	5		2.9	8.76	164
48	Shawn Crabtree – Theresa Patterson	5			8.68	163
49	Chris Callahan – Justin Wasmer	3		3.69	8.24	162
50	Russell Oliphant – Donnie Goodman	3		3.95	8.12	161
51	Ron Mayer – Brock Schuld	3		4.09	8.1	160
52	Aaron Foglesong – Jeff Wilkins	5			8.1	159
53	Dan Hirstein – Chris Hirstein	4			7.9	158
54	Wayne Garrison – Doug Zink	4			7.78	157
55	Broc Allen – Mark Mock	4	0.5		7.66	156
56	Mike Rogers – Donnie Crist	3		3.73	7.48	155
57	Chris Nichols – Mark Adkins	5			7.48	154
58	Tony Habiger – Fabricio Toledo	5			7.44	153
59	Dennis Berhorst – Jay Ritter	4			7.27	152
60	Jerry McCutchen – Kevin Smith	3		3.32	7.04	151
61	Matt Garrett – Kaleb Rook	3			6.86	150
62	Kevin Griffen – Marvin Griffen	4			6.68	149
63	Ronnie Rush – Rick Rush	2		4.52	6.65	148
64	Steve Vanzant – Ryan Leahy	4			6.42	147
65	*Angella Barsotti – Bill Borsotti	3			6.25	146
66	Josh Pladies – Travis Burch	3			6.22	145
67	Troy Hendrick – Chad Hendrick	3			6.11	144
68	Brandon Rowland – Russel Nigh	3			6.01	143
69	Joe Tucker – Randy Chapman	3	0.5		5.98	142
70	Nick Morris – *fished aalone	3	0.5		5.77	141
71	James Macleod – Don Miller	3	0.5	3.29	5.69	140
72	Patrick Hatfield – Doug Meyers	2		3.55	5.67	139
73	Andrew Rogers – Kennedy Schwartzburg	4			5.46	138
74	Donnie Reynolds – Mark Reynolds	2		4.22	5.32	137
75	John Krewson – Tony Powers	2		3.7	5.3	136
76	Jack Young – Bill MacAvoy	2		3.46	5.18	135
77	Jonathan Evans – Bradley Dillon	1		5.15	5.15	134
78	Kevin Duer – Dustin Young	2		3.53	4.99	133
79	Ricky Clemen – Phil McKinney	3			4.88	132
80	Steve Isley – Brandtly Tucker	3			4.87	131
81	Gary Arterberry – Gus Adkinson	2			4.73	130
82	Tom McGovern – Tom Kaufmann	3			4.69	129
83	John Wixson – Zach Kremer	3			4.49	128
84	Charles Abbott – Timothy Wells	3	0.5		4.36	127
85	John Neil Jr – Johnny Neil Sr.	1		4.26	4.26	126
86	Benjamin Penley – Brody Boone	3			4.23	125
87	Jeffery Smith – Jeffrey A Smith	3			4.11	124
88	Karl Schmidt – Dan Martinez	2			3.97	123
89	Ozzie Wallace – Ernie Cox	2			3.9	122
90	Michael Dugger – Tim Goliglee	2			3.88	121
91	Glen McCrary – Sondra McCrary	1		3.44	3.44	120
92	Marvin Kinyon – Mike Long	2			3.31	119
93	Casey Flood – Dan Flood	2			3.11	118
94	Ricky York – Ed Gilbert	1		3	3	117
95	Kenny Shinn – John Hodson	2			2.81	116
96	Bill Jared – Rich Carpenter	1		2.65	2.65	115
97	Larry Barr – Cliff Wolfe	1		2.24	2.24	114
98	Lennie Becker – Elmer Becker II	1		2.22	2.22	113
98	Charles Edgar – Steve Fowler	1		2.22	2.22	113
100	Chadd Bliss – *fished aalone	1		2.09	2.09	111
101	Jerry Prochko – Diego Segui	1		1.95	1.95	110
102	Steven Messbarger – Mathew Messbarger	1		1.52	1.52	109
103	Hunter Ballew – Cole Tullis	1		1.37	1.37	108
104	Lyle Armstrong – *Bob King				0	10
	Roy E Barmore – Dale Carrender				0	10
	Tyler Bone – Jeff Potter				0	10
	Taylor Brasel – Jon Brasel				0	10
	*Kelin Raines – Travis Stevens				0	10
	David Dawson – Hunter Hansen				0	10
	Jacob Delong – *fished aalone				0	10
	Joddy Dungan – John Matousek				0	10
	Junior Fiedler – Chris Fiedler				0	10
	Brandon Flood – Steffan Halderman				0	10
	Jesse Gardner –				0	10
	Mark Glover – *Marvin Johnson				0	10
	Paul Hager – Phil Allen				0	10
	Clint Hart – KC Collette				0	10
	*Trica Lincoln – Thad Lincoln				0	10
	Joseph Hull – Brett Fickle				0	10
	Rick Keeney – Glenn Wilson				0	10
	Bob Koons – Brian Thompsonn				0	10
	Ralph Laster – Glenn Batson				0	10
	Kevin Love – *fished aalone				0	10
	Sam Maggio – Terry Cooper				0	10
	Todd Miller – Cameron Miller				0	10
	Randy Oliphant – Scott Oliphant				0	10
	Bobby Roberts – Cody Carl				0	10
	Kolin Rogers – Wyatt Miller				0	10
	Cory Schmidt – Andy Zeller				0	10
	Robert Shockley – Scott Priess				0	10
	Jeff Stout Sr – Jeff Stout Jr				0	10
	Dene White – Joe Dorcy				0	10
	Barton Wines – *Adam Newman				0	10

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06/12/21 Pomme

Bob — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:27:06 +0000

This was the third Tackle HD tournament held on Pomme de terre this season. Only 2 more remain before division Champions are recognized. Kevin Snyder the owner of [su_tooltip title=”17839 Highway RB, Flemington, MO 65650″ content=”TNT Quick shop”]TNT Quick Shop[/su_tooltip] made note of being the best gas station hamburger in the country invited all the anglers to stop by TNT Quick shop on their way home to try one or any of their daily specials.

Chompers jigs are responsible for 2 of the 20 plus pound bags this weekend on Pomme.

Weighing in the 1st of 20 plus pounds was father and son duo David & Sean Mulkey. They report dragging football jigs on long points at depths of 15 ft in both arms of Pomme. Their bag weighed in at 26.51lbs.

Paul Redmond and Bob Berry also report dragging off of points in the Pom arm at depths of 10 feet. Their bag weighed 22.05lbs.

Rick Fishback and Denny Carver take third with their 21.76lb bag caught in known brush piles with Chompers jigs and crankbaits wrapped with the white crappie pattern from Crank Wraps.

The Ozark Chevrolet 1st Big Bass was weighed in by Rusty Darnell and John Campbell. With Rustys Arvest card they win an additional $100. Have you got your Arvest card yet? Do so and become eligible for the $4000.00 1st Big Bass at the 2021 Invitational and $100 at every Joe Bass event.

Dan Cox and Tim Kastnings took home the highest finishing Skeeter bonus as they put 20.84 pounds of bass into Dan’s Skeeter.

Our next Pomme tournament is Saturday, July 17, 2021 at The Harbor 6AM-3PM. The site manager asked us to please not park on the grass where posted and continue paying the launch fee.

Photos

Results

Place	Team Members	Fish	Pnlty	B/F	TotWgt	Pts	Payout
1	David Mulkey – Sean Mukley	5		5.74	26.51	210	$1,930.00
2	Paul Redmond – Bob Beery	5		5.34	22.04	209	$1,360.00
3	Rick Fishback – Denny Carver	5		5.73	21.76	208	$970.00
4	Dan Cox – Tim Kastning	5		4.41	20.84	207	$850.00
5	Jerry Roark – Jamie Edge	5		4.83	19.91	206	$500.00
6	Jeff Bradford – Bryan Vote	5		5.86	19.81	205	$400.00
7	Paul Marsala – Gus Marsala	5		5.35	19.71	204	$300.00
8	Scott Hill – Brandon Hill	5		5.65	18.64	203	$250.00
9	Jay Roe – John Bollinger	5		5.45	18.59	202	$200.00
10	Cody Campbell – Quinten Carr	5		4.27	18.56	201	$180.00
11	John Campbell – Rusty Darnell	5	0.5	6.66	18.04	200	$430.00	1BB
12	Jason Clines – *Rodney Edwards	5	0.5	4.28	17.5	199
13	Josh Miller – Ethen Johns	5		5.05	17.28	198
14	Mike Johnson – Andrew Johnson	5		4.28	16.74	197
15	Kelly Nunn – Jamie Duncan	5		4.12	16.56	196
16	Greg Askew – Terry Case	5		4.49	16.18	195
17	Rocky Carden – Dustin Besperat	5		5.13	15.85	194
18	Sam Smith – Steve Lackey	5		4.22	14.87	193
19	Steve Ortiz – *fished aalone	5		4.81	14.15	192
20	Michael Fey Sr – Paul Jung	5		3.61	14.1	191
21	Rodney Bowersox – Randy Davis	5		5.31	13.56	190
22	Dave Epema – Dan Bowman	5			13.07	189
23	Matthew Bennett – *Hugh Bennett	5		5.01	13.01	188
24	Matt Garrett – Kaleb Rook	5	0.5	3.93	12.72	187
25	Michael Bray – Nathan Klepper	5			12.38	186
26	Gaige Blanton – Will Andrie	5	0.5	3.67	12.31	185
27	Ron Belew – Derek Dace	5		3.14	11.9	184
28	Jim Figg – Don Cox	5		4.05	11.76	183
29	Darren Fullerton – *Christian Conrad	5		5.38	11.42	182
30	Tom Starforth – Ed Matthews	5		6.25	11.37	181	$200.00	2BB
31	Joe Brantley – Alan Quick	5			9.96	180
32	Justin Bogner – Kenny Bogner	5	0.5		9.77	179
33	Don Mason – John Cunningham	5			9.41	178
34	Earl Horton –	5		3.39	9.35	177
35	*Zach Cooley – Kent Whitaker	5			9.34	176
36	Troy Nogosek – *Tim Metcalf	5			9.19	175
37	Matt Underwood – Logan Underwood	5			9.1	174
38	Bryan Bock – *Josh Shelton	5		3.73	8.77	173
39	Sean Lambeth – Tanner Lambeth	5		2.68	8.76	172
40	Kevin Snyder – *Rufus Harris	5			8.69	171
41	Ryan Fritz – Bret Fritz	5			7.99	170
42	Jeff Bear – Quenton Bear	5	1		7.94	169
43	Dan Weber – Robert Leininger	5			7.43	168
44	Steven Greico – Chris Simmons	4			7.1	167
45	Randy Roustio –	5			6.62	166
46	Jacob Delong – Jake Henry	3			6.11	165
47	*Jeremiah Banks – Kevin Weeks	3	0.5	3.08	5.66	164
48	Jonathan Evans – Terry Close	4			5.66	163
49	Colby Davison – *Jeremy Moore				0	10
	Brad Jones – *fished aalone				0	10
	Isaac Lowden – Justin Inman				0	10
	Tony Mayfield – Fisher Mayfield				0	10
	Matt Weigel – Brad Burton				0	10

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