The Ray Hubbard Bass Club held our ninth and last members only tournament of the season on Saturday October 14th at Lake Texoma. Very warm and very windy describe the conditions, and windy on Texoma can be dangerous. 26 boats came out to close the regular season. Fishing was tougher than expected, especially for bigger fish. In the end, Vince Burt and Mark Werner took home the win with a strong five fish limit that weighed 15.76 pounds. Jason and Lisa Bell took home big bass honors with a 4.51 largemouth. I apologize to our members for this being posted so late, but we had another event last week that took most or all of my time as you know if you have seen the Bass Fishing section. Here are full results and pictures from Texoma.



None of our regular Tournament Directors were able to attend so there was some swapping of roles. Thanks to Paul Villarreal who took over Club photographer duties. Paul is obviously a more creative and artistic person than the idiot that normally takes pictures (me). Here he is contemplating the beautiful day before we get started. (either that or he accidentally snapped a picture and didn't know it...)



I swapped in to the role of Official Weigher of the Fish. Once I figured out how to get the scales correctly zeroed (thank you Dale and Stan) we got down to business.



Here I pretend to know what I'm doing while David Simmons loads his fish in to the bag



Here's Paul's partner Joe Ruiz holding their two for 3.82



Bryce Glick weighed three for 4.92



Chris Atkinson and myself had only two keepers on the the day for 4.96. Obviously, Chris anticipated there would be more. Sorry to leave you empty handed partner...



Mike Kizer fished with John Bruner and they weighed three for 7.79 including Mike's first ever smallmouth.



Jason and Lisa Bell weighed three for 7.95, but their stringer included big bass of the tournament, a 4.51 hawg

Mike LaPoint and John Blacksher weighed three for 8.69 that included a beautiful 4.03 smallmouth



Ronnie Manning and Capp Peace got the coveted first out of the money spot with four for 9.46



David Simmons fished with Matt Jackson and they weighed a five fish limit for 9.73 to take sixth place.



Fifth place went to Dennis and Damon Machost with a limit that weighed 11.82



Fourth place went to Dale Rettman and Kelly Millhollon with five that weighed in at 12.19



Third place went to David Choate and Stan Browning with a solid limit that weighed 12.47 and was anchored by a 3.76



Second place went to the team of Brandon Putnam and Joey Deans who had an excellent limit of 14.24 that included a kicker that went 4.31



Here are your winners! Vince Burt and Mark Werner pitched and flipped their way to a 15.76 pound limit. Their big fish was a 4.34. Congratulations boys!



Thank you to David Simmons for taking names and handing out the money. Thanks to Paul for taking pictures! Thanks to my partner Chris for helping with setup and tear down and hauling all this stuff with us! If you pitched in, I appreciate you! The next Club event is the RHBC 2017 Championship which will take place November 11-12 on Lake Bob Sandlin and Lake Cypress Springs. Only qualified members are invited to fish this event. It's going to be a fun weekend. See you there!

Texoma is going to be a different animal for me this weekend! Time to break out the long johns!

hopefully they bite a little better and like they should be biting!!! maybe the brownies will come out to play! good luck!