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Water
Temp: 75 degrees
Air Temp: 80 degrees
Winds” South at 5 mph with gust to 19
Sky: Clear with bright sunshine
It
was a beautiful spring day Sunday on
Lake
Shelbyville
when 71 boats took off from
Eagle
Creek
State Park
boat ramp for the second in series of the Illini Team Trail Bass
tournament. The winds picked up as the day progressed and the
pleasure boats were out in full force.
Jason
Waldschmidt and Fred Meyers put together a winning bag of fish
beating out the second place team by only 0.01 of a pound. Jason
and Fred had a bag of five fish with a weight of 13.12 pounds.
Fred was back fishing for the first time since having major
surgery. He reported that Jason caught all the fish but he was
good with the net. Jason reported catching the fish from mid-lake
area clear down to the dam. The fish were caught with a variety of
baits including Three fish came on a Gambler tube. One fish on a
Rapala Shad Rap and the last fish on a Yo-zuri Rattlin Vibe.
Two of
the fish came off of one spot and then later in the day they went
back and got another to go in the live well.
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The
second place team came to the scales with five fish and a total
weight of 13.11 pounds, just 0.01 pounds behind the winners. Greg
Coleman and Todd Bates
also used a variety of baits (Carolina Rig, Crankbait and Plastic
worm) to bring a limit of fish to the scales. They caught their
fish on secondary points with stumps. Greg felt that the fish had
not yet spawned but would probably do so in the next seven to ten
days. Greg reported that none of their fish were caught on
laydowns.
The
father-son team of Melvin and Josh Argo brought another full bag
of five fish to the scales that was only 0.20 pound behind the
leaders. They did however get the Ranger Cup check for $1000.00.
This is the first year they have fished from a Ranger boat and it
paid off “really nice and unbelievable” according to Melvin.
The first and second place team were not fishing with Ranger boats
and therefore did not qualify for the Ranger Cup award.
Melvin and Josh had a limit by about eleven and went to the
north part of the lake and started catching bigger fish using a
Carolina Rig with watermelon/chartreuse lizard. They reported
catching at least eleven keeper.
The
fourth place winners were a team of brothers Larry & David
Rodman who brought four fish to the scales with a weight of 11.79
pounds.
The
big bass was won by the team of Toby Shafer and Jim Stevens with a
fish weighing in at 4.89 pounds.
They were also fifth place winners with three fish and a
total weight of 11.66 pounds.
There
were only four limits brought to the scales out of the seventy-one
teams entered there were 116 fish brought to the scales with a
total weight of 278.31 pounds.
The
next Illini Team Trail tournament for the Northern Division will
be June 10th again going out of
Eagle
Creek
State Park
ramp.
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