What a great tournament. Weather cooperated and the fish bit better Saturday than Friday. Impressive weights for the adults and junior anglers. Winning fish was 2.51 caught by Mark Standridge using the new Slab Commander in Mississippi Flash from Crazy Angler. Crazy Angler just came out with this bait about 2 months ago. Second place was Raul Sandoval with a 2.45 fishing from his kayak. If you recall, Raul was 4th last year fishing from that kayak.
There were 117 entries in the adult Div, 9 junior anglers 10 and under, and 9 junior anglers 11-17. Once again, the closest too contest was very close with many fish at 1.51 to 1.53. Here's the results:

Junior Angler 10 and under
Wyatt Standridge 2.41
Langdon Froebe 2.07
Gracie Standridge 1.77
Haydon Standerfer 1.69
Nicholas Ezell 1.66
Aaron Hill 1.39
Charlotte Gildner 1.13

Junior Angler 11-17
Kaden Rogers 1.85
Ronnie Trevilion .75
Dallas Scott .70
Sarah Reicherts .55

Top 10
Mark Standridge 2.51
Raul Sandoval 2.45 fishing from his kayak
Lee Braly 2.23
Chuck Martin 2.23
Bob McAffrey 2.10
Donald Hogan 2.09
Chris Waters 2.07
Donna Miller 2.05
Lucas Gaston 2.03
Dennis Miller 2.02

Closest to 1.00 lb three way tie
David Hill
Stephen Vasterling
Chad Blackstone

Closest to 1.25 lb
Bill Mouw

Closest to 1.50 lb
David Goodson 1.49

Closest to 1.75
Ahn Nguyen

Most of the big fish were caught in 5-8 FOW. Some females with eggs and some spawned out. Smaller males in 3-5 FOW.

Thanks Ken!

Thanks

Wow, congrats to Team Standridge and the others that earned a check! And thanks for the info on how they were caught, Ken.

A very special thanks to Alec Dyer and Star Industries for their generous support of Crappie Fest.
Total prize money and prizes exceeded $12,000 for this tournament. Not all the junior anglers were able to weigh in a fish but they all took home tackle packs full of goodies. Those junior anglers placing in the top 4 in each Div got ProAngler rods and various ticket packs to events such as Rangers games, Medieval Times, Six Flags and others.

First place paid $2500. A $1000 bonus was awarded to first place since that was the highest placing CAT member. 10th place paid $250 and the closest too categories paid $250 ea. Plenty of ways to be a winner in this one. CAT would like to ask that you spread the word about Crappie Fest. This is a great family event and we'd like to see many more junior anglers fish. Those that attended the weigh in saw some big smiles on these juniors faces. And some proud parents were standing around also. CAT is already working on next year. Hope to see you there.

I would like to give a VERY BIG THANKS to all CAT board members and all others that helped put this tournament together, it was a very well run event. And a special thanks to Star Industries for their generous support, we need more business to step up and support crappie fishing just as you do.

I already look forward to next year.

Well said

Great job CAT. Great turn out. Congratulations.

Ditto!
Another well run CAT event!

Awesome turn out. Good to see everyone. Great event, put together well and well run. Thank you Sponsors and Board members.

Closest to 1.50 lb
David Goodson 1.49

This fish came from 24' of water around 15' down. Bobby Garland Black/Chartreuse tipped with a Jig in the last 30 minutes of fishing.


David @ shut-up-and-fish

This and congrats to the junior anglers. I can't wait to have my boys fish with me.

Congrats on top 10 Chris!

The deal was "cool beans"!!!!!!!!!!!! So good to see all the people there!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, thanks for the update! I was there in spirit!