Catawba Catfish Club Lake Wateree 9-26-09Tournament Results

[martyg]

The Catawba Catfish Club had our 9th and Final Tournament of the year Saturday evening.Very overcast skies and a 80% chance of rain and Thunderstorms kept the crowd down a little for this one,We had 19 boats entered with 39 paying adults and 3 kids fishing for a total pot of $780.All 19 Boats got in the Big Fish Pot to total $190.The rain held of for the better part of the night with only a few passing soaking showers.The wind was very managable as well.This set the stage for an exciting night of fishing with some great Blues being brought to the scales.The bite was not on fire but most teams caught fish and the quality was way up from the last couple of tournaments we had on Wateree.
Jeff Manning and his partner Wayne brought in a Goliath Blue tipping the scales at a Whopping 62 lbs making it the biggest fish to be weighed in at one of our tournaments and probably one of the top 3 or 4 to ever be caught on Wateree.Congrats guys on a tremendous fish.
The weigh for 1st and 2nd was very close,one of the closest if not the closest we have had.We wanna thank everyone for coming out and fishing our tourneys this year,they have all been great and a great number of trophy fish was brought to the scales this year.We look forward to starting em up again in January and doing it all over again.We have a great group of fisherman and its a pleasure to have these tourneys.
Here is the Rundown and a few pics.I apologize to Jimmy and Mark,I had a camera malfunction on their fish and did not get their photo,I think Stumpgrinder got it a will post a few pics up later.Again we enjoyed em and will see yall in the very near future.

1st-87.07 lbs-Jeff Manning and Wayne $390 and $190 Big Fish Pot

2nd-86.09 lbs-Dean Birch and Seth-$230

3rd-66.02 lbs-Jimmy Morton and Mark Stanley-$160

4th-55.12 lbs-George Lindsay and Jared Hawkins

5th-50.13 lbs-Scott,Bobby and Pat Miller

6th-44.05 Jon Rambo and Doug Crawford

7th-33.04-Marty Green and Jeff Green

8th-23.70-Lindsay Bigham and Micheal Holmes

9th-23.02Pat and Jim

Most other teams caught fish but did not bother to weigh in.

[CatfishON!]

62 pounds is a fish of a lifetime. Jeff's big fish mojo seems to be in high gear. Were any other monster blues taken last night?

[afewcats]

Good fishin guys, sorry I couldn't be there to see that one at the weigh in.

[martyg]

No more monster fish last night Rodger but there were several respectable 25-30 lb class fish weighed in.

[CatfishON!]

Very nice. The fishery is doing well.