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Anglers Quest Rayburn Saturday Series # 2
Anglers Quest Rayburn Saturday Series Sam Rayburn, Brookeland, TX Mill Creek Park February 2, 2008 Anglers Quest 2008 Sam Rayburn Saturday Series # 2 out of Mill Creek Park in Brookeland, TX began this event with 88 teamed anglers showing up to fish for the $4645.00 purse. The event began at safe light, which was 6:50 am. Weigh in was conducted in 2 flights at 3:15 & 3:30 pm. This Rayburn Saturday Series after all 9 events will provide the Team Anglers of the Year with free entries to all 2009 Rayburn Saturday Series events. The Top 25 teams in pounds will qualify for the 2-day Championship in October on Sam Rayburn. A special Top 5 group of teams will qualify to go to the "Tournament of Champions" to be held in November on Choke Canyon Reservoir and will pay the winning team $15,000.00. All Anglers Quest Championships include Calcutta auctions which builds the Championship purse to some very nice $$ to fish for, for a very small entry fee of $125.00 per team. Sam Rayburn water was in good shape and about 5 1/2 feet below normal pool level with water temps running 48-52 degrees. The weather at takeoff was a calm 50 degrees with a warming to 68 degrees by weigh in time. The fish catching was good on Big Sam today as there were 21 limits brought to the scales, for a total of 137 bass at 402.82 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.95 lb.
Allan Shivers from Vidor & Lynn Shivers from Kirbyville, Tx ran their bass rig to various mid lake areas to finish in 2nd with their best 5 bass, caught on c-rigs and rattletraps that tipped the scales at 21.69 lbs. Their day on the lake paid back $765.00 for their efforts. Chris McCall from Jasper & Clayton Boulware from Zavalla, Tx ran Clayton's Nitro bass rig to mid lake areas to finish in 3rd place and have the 3rd Biggest Bass of the event, a fine 6.61 lber with a total of 5 bass at 21.14 lbs fishing with rattletraps. They took home $560.00 for their day on the water.
Jonathan Simon & David Ayets from Orange, Tx finished in 5th place with a limit of 5 bass that tipped the scales at 17.44 lbs to collect $320.00 for their efforts. The 6th place check of $280.00 was gathered up by Larry Cotten & Chris DiBerardino from Huffman, Tx with 5 bass at 17.05 lbs caught throwing lipless cranks in the grass. The last 2 spots getting checks today was 7th place Tommy Hill & Kenneth Conkle with 16.37 lbs receiving $205.00 and 8th place Elton Thomae & Allee Frazier with 15.34 lbs receiving $160.00. Big Sam is hot right now with almost all bass being taken on rattle traps.
Anglers Quest is Sponsored by: Allstar Signworks, Alpine Marina, American Rodsmiths, Antex Roofing, Automated Mailing Solutions, Big State Fabrication, Custom Built Awards, Check-It Stik, City of Jasper, Tx-Tourism, Executive Security Integraters, Extreme Sounds 4 ATV's, FishingWorld. com, Hector's Mexican Restaurant, Inland Discount Marine Inc., JCS Granite, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, Lone Star Buffet, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Needmore Tackle, Rayburn Country Resort, Re/ Max Realtors, Royal Purple Oil, StyleT ile.net, Superior Paint Works Inc., The Stump Restaurant & Club, Vincent Turf Farms
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