Panhandle Bass Club Pensacola Florida 2003 Season

PANHANDLE BASS CLUB
NEWSLETTER


JANUARY

Volume 2 Issue 3

MINUTES OF THE MEETING
 

The January meeting of the Panhandle Bass Club was brought to order at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 2nd2003,
at Founaris Brothers on Hwy 29 and was presided over by Fred Raby, club President.
There were 14 members present and 1 guest.

President
Fred Raby
Treasure
Frank Kelly
Tournament Director
Chris Malena
Secretary
Rich Cornelius


OLD BUSINESS:

Trophies and plaques were awarded to last season's top three and fisherman of the year. First place and "fisherman of the year" went to Fred Raby, Second place went to Lee Brannon and Third place went to Mack Cramer, congratulations .
Wally Cassiano auctioned off a nice pistol grip rod in wich Lee Brannon was the highest bidder, proceeds go to the club's special fund. Anyone in the club who has something they would like to have auctioned off please bring it to one of the meetings, remember, monies raised during the regular season goes toward the fish-off in October.

NEW BUSINESS:

Wayne Cox was voted into the club, welcome aboard Wayne, he was sponsored by Fred Raby.
Mack Cramer gave his proposed fish-off site information on "Toledo Bin". It's about a nine hour drive to a town called Zwolle, LA. Cabins will run approx. $65.00 per night, eight people to a cabin. Fishing License are $15.00 for a 4- day. Size limits on largemouth are 14", and spots are 12". You can figure on approx.
$100.00 for food based on a four day trip, gas would run approx a 100 to $130.00 round trip. It's about 460 miles one way. Rich Cornelius also gave some info on Picwic lake, out of Florence, AL. Hotels are 5 to 10 minutes from the launch, there are all kinds of places to eat around the hotels. The Holiday inn would probably be our best choice, there is plenty of parking space. We all already have an Alabama license so you don't have to worry about that. Picwic is full of big smallmouth and largemouth bass, if you have never experienced hooking into a smallmouth, you don't know what your missing. Picwic is approx a 6 hour drive one way. If anyone else has a proposed site that they would like to discuss, bring it up at the February meeting. The sooner we decide on a place the quicker we can make reservations. If we don't decide on a 4 day trip, the club will fish Lake Martin in October, wich is not a bad thing by no means. I think the club would enjoy someplace different though, so speak up at the next meeting. There was confusion at the Jan tournament about tournament fee's being paid. According to the rules, entry fee's must be paid prior to the tournament, from this point forward, all entry fee's must be paid at the meeting. If you know your going to fish the tournament but can't make the meeting, pick up the phone and call someone, another member could pay your entry fee for you and you could pay them back at the tournament, this makes the job for the treasurer much easier, and there's no confusion what-so- ever.

January Tournament:

The January tournament was held out of the swamphouse landing on the Escambia River,
there were 13 Panhandler's ready to get the day started at safe daylight. Most everyone fished the grass and a few went up river. The water was stained and the tide was outgoing. The upper escambia was flooded.
We all knew it would be a tuff day on the water, and we were right.
Only 8 fish were weighed in, for a total of 10.38 lbs. Big fish for the tournament weighed in at a whopping 1.79 lbs. Mack Cramer took big fish honors and first place for the tournament, his total weight was 3.97 lbs with 3 fish.
Tournaments like these are the kind we would all like to forget, but hey, that's fishing.
Beat's the heck out of honey do's and working though, huh.


Tournament Standings:

Fish Weight
1. Mack Cramer - 3 fish- 3.97
2. Steve Graham - 2 fish - 2.59
3. Chris Malena - 1 fish - 1.37
4. Troy Beedle - 1 fish - 1.35
5. Lee Brannon - 1 fish - 1.10

Also fished:

Rich Cornelius, Fred Raby, Jeff Weaver, Wally Cassiano,
Don Jahnke, Tony Boyett, Dave Dyess and Pete Potter.

At weigh-in, our weigh master had to rush off to the hospital, his wife was about to go into labor with their first child, at approx 1:20 Sunday morning, he became the proud father of a six pound three ounce baby boy. Congratulations to Chris and Pam from all the Panhandlers.
It's never to soon to put a rod & reel in those little hands.


For The Record:

Escambia River

Total fish caught 8
Total dead fish 0
Total fish weight 10.38
Total limits 0
Tourn. Big fish 1.79

For the Year:

Total fish caught 94
Total dead fish 0
Total fish weight 130.98
Total limits 8
Big fish 4.72
( Chris Malena )

Febuary Meeting:

Location: Founaris Brothers
Date: Feb 5th
Time: 6:30 p.m.

Febuary Tournament:

Tensaw River

Tournament Site:

Cliff's Landing

Tide Predictions

High /Low
6:46 pm 7:04am

Sunrise Sunset

6:23 a.m. N/a

Full Moon-Jan 18th

Peak Fishing Times:

1st-4:50 pm - 6:10 pm
2nd- Dawn


Tournament Standings
 

DISCLAIMER: All results on this page are unofficial. Although every effort has been made as to the accuracy of this page.
Official results are those held by the club secretary. Results will be updated as soon after each tournament as possible.
 

Corrections may be e-mailed to administrator@panhandlebassclub.com

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