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Conditions
Air Temp: 84 degrees
Skies: Sunny
Winds: S to SSE at 6 mph
The day started off with 54 boats taking to lake Shelbyville in
the last tournament of the season. As the day progressed the
pleasure boat traffic built and sent many of the teams in the
coves.
The team
of Scott McIntyre from Decatur, IL and Tony Waters from
Springfield won big creel with 18.48 pounds, big fish 6.32
pounds, Bonus bucks for Ranger Cup, having Hamby Keel guard,
display of ITT decal on boat, and wearing Solar Bat Sunglasses
for a total money of over $3000.00 They caught their fish from
middle lake south, fishing Carolina rigs with a do nothing style
pre-rigged worms and jig in about 30 feet of water. The big fish
was caught about an hour and a half into the tournament on a
purple do nothing style pre-rigged worm. They fished main lake
areas from 10 to 15 foot deep as well as the deeper areas.
Father/
Son team of Melvin and Josh Argo from Taylorville, Illinois were
second place winners with 17.34 pounds and a big fish weighing
in at 5.27 pounds. They mainly fished brown/gold jigs and power
worms in 10 feet of water concentrating on coves in the central
part of the lake.
Third
place team was john Wright of Shelbyville, Illinois and Rodney
Egelston from Champaign. John and Rodney were fishing a jig with
a hopping technique on main lake areas that got them 17.31
pounds with their big fish being 4.91 pounds.
A total of the 45 teams that brought fish to the scales there
were 138 fish weighed in with a total weight of 346.4 pounds.
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