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Lake Egypt 03-12-06 |
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BELT AND KYLE RIDE THE STORM OUT AT EGYPT AND TAKE THE WIN. |
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Numerous tornadoes had touched down the night prior and
into the early morning hours of the day. The storms were loaded with
torrential rains, hail, high winds and lightning. It was one of the most
active storm systems to hit the area in years and spread devastation
throughout the area. The front had past through the area just about take
off time and the numerous warnings were ending. The remainder of the day
anglers only had heavy rain to deal with. The lake had been producing
heavy weights and it would be no different on this day. The first place team of Jack Belt and J.D. Kyle made the trip
over from Indiana to fish the division opener as they have in the past.
They seemed to find the weather situation to their liking as they
hoisted their awesome 21.38lb bag to the scales. The team reported
fishing a small pocket off the main lake. The pocket seemed to be loaded
with pre spawn bass. They caught their fish on jigs an the fish were
located extremely shallow “right on the bank” said Belt. “There
was a run off that had a little clearer water to it and they loaded up
in front of it” The teams 21.38lb bag earned them checks totaling
$1,566.00 on the day. The team is sponsored by: Pure Fishing. Great Job
Guy’s! In second place is the well known team of Jerry Bate and Buck
Bate. The team reported a somewhat similar pattern as they concentrated
on water runoffs. “The fish were right on the bank anywhere the
current was pushing clearer water through” reported Jerry. “We
flipped Sweet Beaver baits right up on the bank to get our bites. The
runoff was rocky providing much clearer water than the surrounding
area” The team had a total weight of 20.06lbs earning them checks
totaling $921.00 on the day. The team is sponsored by: Triton Boats,
Mercury Motors, MotorGuide, Harrison’s Sport Shop, Tim Grounds
Championship Goose Calls and Dunn’s Sporting Goods. Third place goes to the team of Scott Kirk and Jason Thomas.
The team flipped tubes and beavers to extremely shallow water to catch
their fish. They also mentioned runoffs to be important to their
success. They had their limit early and said that many of their fish
were located all the way in the backs of the pockets. It seemed that no
one type of cover were holding fish “Wood, rocks, grass it didn’t
matter as we caught fish off all” said Thomas. The team had a total
weight of 17.91lbs and earned $454.00 for the days bag.
The big bass of the day went to the team of Tony Dowdy Jr.
from Elkville IL. and Tony Dowdy Sr. of Murphysboro IL. The big fish was
fooled by a Texas rigged Zoom Brush Hog and weighed in at a hefty
6.61lbs. The bite earned the team $280.00 on the day. The team is
sponsored by: Ranger Boats, Rend Lake Marina and Marlow-Hill Drilling. Angler's Choice would like to thank all those who fished and we hope to see you at our next event April, 1st at Smithland Pool. I would also like to thank our sponsors for making this possible. National sponsors include Bass Cat Boats, Mercury Outboards, Motorguide Trolling Motors, Lowrance, Eagle, Competitive Edge Fishing and Bass West Magazine.
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