Panhandle Bass Club

                       Pensacola Florida

                            2008 Season

 

PANHANDLE BASS CLUB

  NEWSLETTER



March


 "Angler 0f year, 2007"


Wayne Thomley

                                                           

        

             

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      March 2008

                                                                     

 


Minutes of the Meeting:

 

 The March, 2008 meeting of the PANHANDLE BASS CLUB was brought to order at 6:30 p.m. on March 5th, 2008. The meeting was held at Founaris Brothers and was presided over by our President, Wayne Thomley. There were 20 members present .

 

President

Wayne Thomley

Treasurer

Mack Cramer

Secretary

Steve Meadows

Tournament Director

Chris Malena

Asst. Tournament Director

Rich Hardy

 

Old Business:   First off our President, Wayne Thomley talked about status of G-Loomis rod order. Wayne also mentioned the White City Tournament of Champions, (8 anglers), should be the 3rd weekend in October. $50 entry fee/man and will be discussed again next month. Thanks to Ken Repine our website is back up now and Ken is making it happen!! Thanks Ken for all your hard work.

The 50/50 this month went to Fred Raby.  

New Business:  No new Business!! But Rich Hardy noted a potential new member named James Gilman.

    Lastly with regard to the Club’s  Fund Raising, we as members need to be thinking of how we can contribute to the fund raising and boost our travel  funds.

 

*** Hammer Award ***

We managed to have 3 additional nominees throw their hat into the ring for the Hammer Award

Frank " W.B. "Bost ( Sarge )

Cliff " Black Cloud " Armstrong

Billy “Jacques Cousteau “ Blackwell

 

 Hammer Award Nominees

Fred Raby

           Frank (sarg)"W.B. "Bost

         Steve Graham

          John " Sandman " Stafford

Cliff "B.C. "Armstrong

Billy "J.C." Blackwell

         

2008 Hammer nominees summary 

March Tournament:

    The March tournament  was held at Ellis Landing on Miller’s Ferry, we had 18 boats for the tournament. The weather was quite cold on Saturday but warmed up Sunday and was a beautiful day.  Most Everyone caught fish.

Big Fish winner of the tournament

Went to Sarge with a beauty at 5.56 lbs. & a good job John for 4.55 lbs. on Sunday.

First place went to Tony Boyett with 9 fish weighing 11.50 lbs. John Buck finished second with 6 fish weighing 10.94 lbs., and Sarge rounded out the top three with 4 fish at 10.77 lbs. Good job guys!!!!!!

 

    Steve Meadows, our shaky secretary, would like to express a sincere apology to the Club as a whole for the discrepancies and time it took to wrap things up Sunday.

 

APRIL  MEETING:

Location: Founaris Brothers

Date: April 2nd

Time: 6:30 PM

 

APRIL

TOURNAMENT:

April, 5th & 6th

 

TOURNAMENT SITE:

Lake Jordan

The State Launch Ramp

 Information for Lake Jordan

From the Daily Planner:

 

New Moon: April 5th

Full Moon: April 20th

 

Peak Fishing Times:

March 5th & 6th

9:40 am to 1140 am

 1:10 pm to 4:29 pm

 

 

Sunrise    Sunset:

6:29 am   7:11 pm

6:28 am   7:12 pm

 

Moonrise    Moonset

11:17 a.m.      1:16 p.m.

12:09 a.m.      2:39 p.m.

God Bless All,  and hope you Keep a tight line !!!!! 

 

Bubba'sway to measurefish!!

Po#

Name

Fish

weight

1

Tony Boyett

9

11.50

2

John Buck

6

10.94

3

Frank Bost

4

10.77

4

Rich Cornelius

8

9.96

5

John Kasic

5

7.40

6

Steve Graham

6

7.33

7

Walter McCartney

4

6.96

8

Mack Cramer

4

5.49

9

Lee Brannon

4

5.19

10

Rich Hardy

3

4.95

11

Cliff Armstrong

2

4.45

12

Wayne Thomley

2

3.37

13

John Stafford

2

2.54

14

Chris Malena

2

2.11

15

Ken Repine

1

1.04

AF

RonFairbanks

0

0

AF

Billy Blackwell

0

0

AF

Steve Meadows

0

0

 

Totals for Tournament

Fish caught

Dead fish

Big fish

Total weight

62

0

5.56

94.00

 

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