Jim Sprinkle and Greg Bard WIN!
Tippecanoe Lake, July 15, 2006, by Mitch Hayes

During this event the team of Jim Sprinkle and Greg Bard called me and said their aerator had quit working and they were afraid they would have all their fish DIE! They wanted to know what the earliest they could weigh in?  I told them, as I would any team that had a problem that would cause them to have their catch to DIE, when you get here I will have the scales ready for you to weigh in!  After you weigh all the catch in, you will have to pull your rig out. They came in at 12:30 PM and I weighed the catch in. A note to doing early weigh-in, I will not weigh one fish in because it may die and the team go back out to finish the tournament!  When you weigh in you have finished the tournament no matter what time it is. We had several of the locals watching as we weighed the catch in.

The First Out of the Money for a “DICKS SPORTING GOODS” certificate ($50) was Bruce Young, Jr. and Harold Chaney  with 9.25#  

4^th Place was Corey Thompson (Silver Lake) & Terry Schoettmer (Claypool) with  9.26#  they got $213. (Check out the weight for 4^th and First Out of the Money)   

3^rd Place was Paul Hollabaugh & Jim Betts (Ft. Wayne) with 10.85#  for $403.   

Second place went to “TEAM BROUTHERS” Phillip and Lee Duracz  with 11.13# brought them a check for $700. The second place team did not have their limit till LATE and they were using worms.   

The FIRST place team was JIM SPRINKLE and GREG BARD (Huntington) with 15.92#  They cashed a check for $1234.   Big Bass was brought to the scales by Sprinkle and Bard a 5.09 largemouth for another $260.  Money was paid on 25 teams. The first place team was using FINNESS WORMS and had their limit before 9:00 AM they caught 6 keepers total.