Austin Christian Bass Club

Summer heat is here, but there are still big fish to be caught.  Check out what’s on the agenda for this month……..

Tournament Results:

Decker Lake was an excellent choice for our May tournament.  Eleven teams participated and 13 members caught a limit of five bass.  The top five teams brought in 8 or 9 fish indicating they caught some bigger fish.  There was less than a pound difference between 7th place and 2nd place.  Vince Martin and Roger Growden won the tournament with 9 fish weighing 23.72 pounds and Roger caught the big bass of the tournament (23” long).  Second place went to Gib Hoffman and James Beck who had 8 fish weighing 18.79 pounds.  Darryl Smith and T.V. Minner took third place with 9 fish weighing 18.78 pounds.  Mike Wiles had the heaviest stringer of 5 fish weighing 13.40 pounds.

Top Ten Standings:

Al Lykins- 54.30 pounds                          Tom Clark- 42.47 pounds
Mike Wiles- 53.33 pounds                       Mitch Shelton- 40.11 pounds
Gib Hoffman- 46.50 pounds                   Carlton Yarbrough- 34.74 pounds
Jim Pollard- 45.55 pounds                      Craig Mooney- 32.98 pounds
Darryl Smith- 42.54 pounds                   Roger Growden- 32.97 pounds
T.V. Minner is leading the Big Bass of the 2nd Quarter race with a 24.5” (8.0 pound) bass that he caught 5/3/10 at Lake Bastrop.

June Meeting and Tournament:

The June meeting will be held on June 17th at 7:00pm.  The June tournament will be on Saturday, June 19, 2010.  Tim Jolly and Gary Schriber have volunteered to bring refreshments to the meeting.

Club News:

Club shirts will be ready and available at the upcoming meeting.  The Magellan cotton fishing shirts will cost $26.00 and the club T-shirts will cost $10.00.
T-shirts will be available in Large, Extra Large, 2XL, and 3XL. 

Don’t forget to set aside items that will sell at our fall garage sale.  We will pick a weekend for the garage sale at the next meeting.

Couples Club:

The Couples Club attempted to hold their June tournament on Decker Lake, but it was closed due to a triathlon, but Ken and Melba were already on the lake.  The other three couples went to Lake Bastrop to fish.  The results are shown in the following table:

Fishing Reports:

Fayette County- fish are in their summer pattern.  After the morning shallow bite slows, go deep.  On June 4th, Craig Mooney caught 6 bass over 5 pounds from my back deck.  The forth, fifth, and sixth big bass were all caught near the cold water inlet on the drop off while fishing a watermelon red baby brush hog or a 10” blue fleck Powerworm.  Lake Bastrop- the grass is in great shape and holds plenty of fish.  Go prepared to fish the grass with frogs, flukes, or other topwater baits that you can work through the grass.  Schooling action has started, but be prepared to throw small baits because the forage the bass are chasing is about 2 inches long.  Lake Travis- Night fishing is great now that it is hot.  On June 10th, Dale White pulled a 22.5” and a 18” bass out of Travis while night fishing lighted docks and shoreline.  Bring your fishing reports to the upcoming meeting.