The "Legend" open Dogfight results.,Chick, HBSP, 05/23/09

[Jmax]

Had a good group show up this morning at the Chick to fish the five hour dog fight. There was 24 boats and I paid four places and two big bass pots. Had several three fish bags weighed in but the summer has sure begun, the weights were way down. This was a 3 fish weigh in.

1st. Louie Bartenfield and Tracy Henderson....9.80 lbs.

2nd. Dan Spinale and Josh Bates...................8.50 lbs.

3rd. Cory Nickols and Ram Jack.....................8.21 lbs.

4th. Churly....solo.........................................7.76 lbs.

1st place Big bass, Cory and Ram Jack...........4.30 lbs.

2nd place Big Bass, WetWillie and Jmax..........3.91 lbs.

Paid out a total of $600.00 bucks for a little fun on the water. emoThumbsup
I'd like to thank everyone for coming and Flip for being our weigh master, Al for being the money man and XLDVee for helping me with the weigh in and announcing the winners. emoToast Had a great time and we had no issues or clitches, so all was good. All bass were alive when released but I did see one floating but it was trying to go when we left. emoGrouphug Jmax

 

[Wet Willie]

Great turn out this am!! Thanks for putting it on Jim and congrats to all that placed. It was a beautiful morning and the fish cooperated for the most part. It was great seeing everyone and we need to do this again soon. Al

 

[hippi97]

Had a good time fishing but we came up alittle short on weight. Went back out after the tourny and caught some good fish. Let`s do it again..

 

[Buoy-Master]

Sounds like you guys had a pretty good turn out.
Thanks for the results!

 

[crod]

Good job Louie. Shoot me a pm or give me a call, I have been on some good fish up on the Chick. Got em pegged up there right now. I caught some big fish on the down river stuff you showed me last fall. Down river from the bluffs. Saw Big Louie on Chatsworth highway. He was driving a sewing machine? LOL. Tell him and Shelby I said howdy.

 

[Jmax]

Here is the rest of the field that weighed in....

5th...7.64...Ranger Rob and Jeff
6th...7.60...Michael Wright and Horace Bowling
7th...7.24...Ben Brodes and Thomas Wilson
8th...6.79...Gerrit Goins...solo
8th...6.79...Ray Camp and Kris Camp
10th..6.47...Karl Arnald and Kenny Arnald
11th..6.36...Stephen Breeden and John Kurt
12th..6.29...Austin Jayne and Shot Brown
13th..5.78...Wetwille and Jamx...2fish
14th..5.44...Ben Z. and Troy Goswick...2fish
15th..5.02...Dropshot...solo...2fish
16th..4.16...Gray Hogan and Lynn Combs...2fish

The remaining 8 boats did not weigh in or were skunked. emoBigsmile

Congrats to the winners and all who came out to enjoy such a beautiful blessed day. emoApplause Jmax

 

[TAzGa]

WTG folks.. wish I could have made this one emoToast emoTongue

 

[Louie B]

Report:?

Decided very late friday night to fish the tournament today. Haven't been on Chickamauga in a couple of wks so I went in hoping the shad spawn would be in full swing and hoped to get a limit early w/ blades and rattle baits. We located 2 areas where the shad were spawning heavily and found lots of small 3lb and under class fish gorging themselves on the spawners..... Thanks to the cloud cover and wind this morning the shad were active until about 830 and allowed us to catch 30+ fish w/ about half being keeper size up to 3.50lbs..... When the shad decide to leave their spawning areas the bite was gone as well. If you're looking for the shad spawn focus on grass mixed w/ rock or hard bottoms, very shallow 1-5ft..... Grass is the most important thing to me. Deep bite sucked for us, was unable to cull deep..... Thats the short of it. Enjoyed the day.

LB

 

[Dropshot]

Enjoyed it...just could not upsize my small limit...</p>

 

[TAzGa]

Triton-LB - 5/23/2009 10:06 PM

Report:?

Decided very late friday night to fish the tournament today. Haven't been on Chickamauga in a couple of wks so I went in hoping the shad spawn would be in full swing and hoped to get a limit early w/ blades and rattle baits. We located 2 areas where the shad were spawning heavily and found lots of small 3lb and under class fish gorging themselves on the spawners..... Thanks to the cloud cover and wind this morning the shad were active until about 830 and allowed us to catch 30+ fish w/ about half being keeper size up to 3.50lbs..... When the shad decide to leave their spawning areas the bite was gone as well. If you're looking for the shad spawn focus on grass mixed w/ rock or hard bottoms, very shallow 1-5ft..... Grass is the most important thing to me. Deep bite sucked for us, was unable to cull deep..... Thats the short of it. Enjoyed the day.

LB

Sounds like a good day Louie.. wtg! emoThumbsup

 

[Ericb]

wtg sorry couldn't make this one sounds like alot of fun

 

[Pointer 78]

Woulda fished it with ya Patrick, but I had other commitments. You put on a good one Jim.

 

[JDK]

I enjoyed it thanks Jmax for running was nice to meet some of you guys.. Me and Andrew had about 4 lbs just couldn't get the 3rd fish or one good one but it was a good time and we caught quite a few fish just not the right size.. Wasnt any point in weighing our measly 4 lbs when we saw some of the other bags...Look forward to fishing it again

 

[grizzleyoutdoor]

i had an awesome time since this was my first dogfight. i wish there were more on saturdays. thanks for holdong the dogfight for us jmax

 

[hoggar663]

I had a good time. This was my fish tourny in 3-4 yrs.