Triton Owners Tourney, KY Lake - 5/30 - 5/31

[TR20bh]

Brent & I got home early Sun. A.M. after a fun 2 days at the Triton event. Got to see the Elite weigh-in before the meeting Thurs. afternoon. Was told when we walked in & Earl Bentz told us that a guy named Rogie Brown was leading after Day 1. I told him to go ahead & crown him the new champ cause if he'd located offshore fish like that everybody else was fishing for 2nd. Turned out I was right. Congrats to Rogie. He is one great deep water fisherman. Our area was represented great. Rogie won & Tony Townsend of Soddy Daisy finished 2nd.
We started fishing the TOT on Fri. We found 5 or 6 long points & during practice, but most all of the 350 boat field seemed to be doing the same thing, so we went to plan B. Headed upriver & pitched jigs to willows, cypress & buck brush on islands with wind blowing on them. The best ones were close to a channel.
We couldn't stay with the guys that really had good deep patterns going, but we had a good showing. Ended up in 16th place with 34.32# and the 4th biggest fish for the tourney at 6.22#.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Congrats on placing. That is a tough place to fish, it don't matter what time of year you are there.

 

[Triton4Bass]

I talked to Russ friday evening and he said you guys had a pretty good day. Congrats on the great finish, out of 300+ boats you guys should be pretty happy. How did the Durand boys end up doing? emoThumbsup

 

[TR20bh]

Josh, They caught a bunch of fish, but could only get about 6 keepers. I think they finished b/w 70th & 80th, with about 11 or 12#.
Here's a few pics from weigh in

 

[polo-dog]

Congrats on your tournament TR20bh! Also congrats to all of the local Chattanooga guys, wow, first and second place is a great testament to the quality of the fishermen in the area. It would be great to know if anything that is shared here is helpful to the tournament guys. Keeping track of what's going on on the TN river I would expect would be helpful. Ben, you and Brent ought to be proud to have done so well in such a big tournament! That's great.

 

[TR20bh]

Thanks Polo, They put on a great event. Met a lot of great folks & had a great time with my son. With almost everybody there fishing points & drops, but with the lake being over a foot above summer pool, we made the choice to do something different. I'm trying to post some pics of the weigh but I'm having trouble resizing them.

 

[TR20bh]

I'll try the pics again

 

[polo-dog]

Beautiful fish Ben.

 

[Triton4Bass]

Nice fish man, It looks like a minnow beside Brent though. emoThumbsup