NoAl Chapter sign up here to fish Pickwick on August 16th.

[AveryF]

It looks like Pickwick has been selected, by the slimmest of margins, as our tournament lake for the month of August, which will be on the 16th.

We'll plan on launching out of McFarland Park if that's okay with everyone. Registration will begin at 4:45 with "ease off" at first light, which should be around 5:30. We've elected to conduct our weigh-ins earlier than normal for the past several tournaments because of the weather. If no one has any objections, I'd really like to continue that trend for this month and have our weigh-in at 1:00.

The question has also been raised about which ramp to launch out of. We'll plan on launching at the ramp on the north side of the harbor near the ball field. It'll take a little longer to idle out of the harbor but parking at the east ramp has been a real issue lately and launching solo from the west ramp can sometimes be a problem, too, especially if the water's down more than just an inch or two.


Confirmed Participants

1. Avery Faile & Katie Faile

2. David Scogin & John Scogin

3. Chris Fortney & Danny Howell

4. Andrew Inmon

5. Nathan Ezell & Steve Carey

6. Tommy Baker & Terry Burleson

[bonzter]

I'll be there. 1:00 will be OK with me. 12:00 wouldn't hurt my feelings either. It's been brutal hot to me.

[fishcraze]

I'm in, I'm going for 1pm, for me, this time of the year is hot, but I seem to catch my bigger fish from the 11-2pm time fame, if there's a full moon and there normally is this time of the month then the noon hour can be good, but hot :)

my thoughts, :)
Danny

[Jason Phillips]

I'll come watch y'all blast off. That's my son's 6th birthday party so I'll be trying to hit the SpongeBob pinata at 1:00.

[fishcraze]

we'll stop at 12 that way you can fish with us, great start to a birthday :)

[tennispro]

Im in and 1 pm is good.

[Jason Phillips]

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Wish that was an option. I'll just fish and then weigh my fish at 12:00 and write my weight on the board before I leave.

[Terryfd42]

Allright guys, just found out that there will be at least one other tournament launching from mcfarland park the same day we are scheduled. Theirs is also safe daylight till 3pm.

[poeman]

i will be there

[AveryF]

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Any idea which tournament or how many boats are expected? I've seen some pretty big 200+ boat tournaments leave out of McFarland before so unless it's a pretty big tournament, we should still be okay.

[Terryfd42]

it's a club just north of here, but not sure on how many boats, shouldn't be a problem that i know of, but i will ask and find out how many boats they average.

[Gitthenet]

Any of you NALBBCr's going to pull a GOOFY stunt like I'm going to try on the 16th? My plans are to fish the BBC tourney and leave shortly after the tourney and drive back to Upper Bear for the E&A Outdoors tourney from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am. If I don't Dehydrate, Sink the boat (inside joke TEAM TAR)fall asleep and out of the boat or get divorced that is.

[TeamTar]

Man thats a lot of fishen, I would problbly concider it if I diddnt go to the stock car races with my son sat nights. `

[Jason Phillips]

That's a lot of time in a boat alright. A few weeks ago between Thursday night at 6:00 pm and Saturday night at midnight (Sunday morning) I was in the boat over 30 hours.
6:00 pm to 10:30 pm Thursday night tourney on Pickwick.
5:15 am to 3:30 pm Friday on Wheeler practicing.
5:10 am to 3:00 pm Saturday FOM tourney on Wheeler.
6:00 pm to Midnight Saturday tourney on Wilson.

I was worthless by Sunday. I won't be doing that again any time soon. EricB was with me for all of them except the Thursday nighter on Pickwick.

[Terryfd42]

can't handle that many hours out there, (not with this heat anyway)

[Jason Phillips]

It was ROUGH let me tell you. But, I fished three tournaments on three lakes in three days and caught fish everywhere. It was a blast, but not something I want to do again any time soon.

[Terryfd42]

no problems come nap time after that were they???

[AveryF]

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The guys at Gray's Tackle keep pretty close tabs on the local tournament scene so I checked with them at lunch time today. They don't know of any other tournaments scheduled out of McFarland on the 16th but there may be another club tournament besides the one Terry mentioned that they don't have on their calender. Even if there is, though, it shouldn't be much of a problem.

[SkeeterZXR21SHO]

Hey Avery you can add Nathan Ezell and Steve Carey we will be there. Yall don't laugh to hard if we come to weigh in with nothing. This will be my first time to fish at Pickwick. Maybe we will get lucky.

[TeamTar]

who,s going to prefish saturday?