Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed


This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.

If you need more information send me a PM

I will be at this one too .... Just hope we can get enough people to pay at least 3 places ....

When it starts getting closer to spring. We get more and more. Usually have 25-30 teams in late Feb, March & April. Maybe some of the guys that have been hunting will show up to this one since deer season will be over and there is a media tournament the following week.

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Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
(2 people to a boat)
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed

This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.
If you need more information send me a PM

Why the extra line about only 2 people per boat????

Cause some people might think" team" is unlimited

NO WAY!!!!!!

What weight won the open this weekend?

1st place: Eric Pottkotter/ Franky Burkett 23.74lbs w/5.86BB
2nd place: Todd Ellis/ Mickey C. 20.25lbs w/7.36 BB
3rd place: Danny Tidwell/David Poole 17.43lbs w/5.84lb BB
4th place: Eric Hinle/Kyle Gregory 11.80lbs
Cagle/Lambert 11.35lbs
Jason May/John Allen 10.87lbs
Holloway/Chancey 9.27lbs
Butch Laska 8.19lbs
Scott Taylor 7.22lbs
Garland Smith/Bruce Groye 6.08lbs

Congratulations to the winners Eric Pottkotter and Franky Burkett with 23.74lbs. Congratulations to Todd Ellis/Mickey C. with Big Bass 7.36lb and they also caught the 2nd place stringer with 20.25lbs. We had 20 teams fish today.Thanks so much to everyone who participated. The next tournament will be January 7th

I have gotten Pm',s from people wanting to know if they could fish 3 or 4 in one boat. When I tell them "NO", they say "well it doesn't say that you can't". (So now it does..)

LOL!!!! Were they thinking the term TEAM was referring to a football team??

I guess, they mentioned running the "wildcat" formation..lol

Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
(2 people to a boat)
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed

This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.
If you need more information send me a PM

You ever had one of those tournaments where you aint catching squat and thinking dang this is a tough day, it won't take much to win today. And then we got in and Eric and Franky have almost 24lbs. My head is still spinning trying to figure out what we did wrong.

Maybe Eric will see this and give us all some tips on how they caught the 23.74lbs. Come On Eric lets here it..

They told us at the weigh-in. They used plastics!! LOL

Watermelon Candy and Watermelon Magic. That is all I can say.

Thanks Eric..

i lost three in the 10lb. range and one might have gone 12
i had one that looked like it would go 8 that broke my rod
and a 6 that when i was putting him in the live well flipped around and fell over the side of the boat. o yea i had a 7 that i caught earlier in the day and by noon he didnt look too good in the livewell so i let him go before he died. then on the last cast of the day i hooked a giant (i think it was a state record) jumped and spit out my watermelon candy wollybuger. it was a little slow that day but i will get um next time.

scott

When Watermelon Magic first come out about 2 years ago. We were wearing them out on Watermelon Magic flukes.

Creme Lure Co. has their version of the fluke and the lit'l fishie perch and shad in those colors. They still work.

I think I may find a partner and fish this one.

Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed


This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.

If you need more information send me a PM

i went out after lunch and slayed them. it was like they were starving!!!!!!

What did you catch them on..lol?

Geee i wonder!!!!

Ah.. you probably didn't even catch anything. Everytime somebody post on here how good the fishing is on Tyler, I go down there and catch two fish..

yea but how big were they?

not very big about 11-12" each but caught about 30 of them. (crappie that is) LOL!!!!!!

You going to be out there Thursday, Friday or Saturday? We will be out there fishing the next few days.

yes im going in the morning. then to fork on friday.

We are going after lunch tomorrow.

Why??? Is it to cold for you in the morning time? LOL!!!

so it sounds like a crappie fish fry at the next weigh in, i will bring the paper plates if you bring everything else.

Not gonna be crappie fishing 2moro. I gotta find some fish for the tournament, i think my honey holes have dried up.

Well did you find some bass this time or
did you find more crappie?

Nobody likes a dried hole

i didnt see you out thurs. i caught some good fish. biggest went around 5 1/2. but they were spread out all over the lake. i picked one here and one there. nothing to brag about. it was pretty tough, but i'm gonna try again in the morning and see if the warm weather changes them.

I seen your truck and trailer and also Eric Pottkotter's at the ramp but didn't see either one of you on the water. We caught 15lbs on Red Rattle traps in the East Lake. It was tough and they were also scattered out. We will be there in the morning also.

The fishing was great on Tyler today !!!! Can't wait for next sat.
Somebody bringing mcdonalds ?

I am glad the fishing was great for somebody. I was out there from 9am to 3pm today and caught 4 fish.

Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
(2 people to a boat)
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed

This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.
If you need more information send me a PM

One of the better ones from Saturday (6.2lb)

wonder what is hanging off that treble hook???

Probably the same thing that is on those rods...lol

yeah looks like a deep diver judging by the size of that treble hook

That would be a negative ...... Let's just say no stores in Tyler have those in stock ..... Y'all wanna see the rest of the pics ?

Sure post them.

i wanna see that bait!!!!!!

It's a chatterbait with a treble trailer hook !!!!

On a side note I watched 2 guys in a yellow and white skeeter put out trailer loads of Christmas trees and plastic barrels with PVC pipe branches ....

I seen them out there Saturday. I need to go graph the area that I seen them in....lol

That's just not right!!!!!! LOL

Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
(2 people to a boat)
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed

This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.
If you need more information send me a PM

How often do you guys run this Open Tourney's, going to be down that way at the end of the Month, 27-29th Jan and will be bringing the boat...

Does anybody work anymore????? I got a day off and went to the lake and saw 10 trailers in the parking lot not including mine. And most of them i recognize that fish the open tourn. Its gonna be hard to beat these guys that are out there everyday!!!!!

I will probably have another one that weekend.

work!! maybe they are on the Obama plan

It gets that way every year when Hunting season is over with. So since you told off on yourself, how did you do today? What did you catch??..lol

LOL!!! Im not gonna tell you but its gonna be tough. But im sure as much as the other guys are out there, somebody is on some fish.

Awe..keeping it a secret are you...

I have nothing to keep secret. Its slow and not feeling to confident about sat. Hopefully it will change come tournamnet day.

Well that is good, because when everybody says the fishing is great on Tyler, then I will go and won't catch anything and when people say the fishing at Lake Tyler is bad, then I will usually have a good day ... So it sounds good to me..lol

well if thats the case then i caught 50 today. Thats what i was told at the marina today when i stopped in for a dr. pepper. someone was bragging and said they were catching 50 a day. LOL!!!!!

The fishing out there is a roller coaster .... I went out sat . And caught nothing but pigs from 7am to 1pm and it was like you flipped a light switch .... They just shut off .... Went back Sunday and couldn't even put a keeper in the boat . Going to be pretty warm Saturday so they should be munching up some chatterbaits !!!!! Lol

Least its not crowded like Perky. I will be glad to get this tourney over with.It was so crowded last week you had to bring your own stump.Good luck guys wish I could make it,Bart will be their.

i think im going to come donate so count patrick fuller and i in.

Good luck Mel at Perky. Hope you win..

Where did all the fish go????? Fished all day and managed one little fish.

I'm going all day tommorow ....

So the fishing is bad huh?

They are doing their part to make up for the fact I'm back to working 7 days a week now and haven't seen the lake unless it was from a bridge in 14 days now

Thanks .

Good luck on perky!!! Someone would have to pay me to fish that lake this time of year. Last time i was there for a tournament one of our guys came back to the launch only to find his truck and trailer had been stolen.

Lake Tyler Open Team Tournament
(2 people to a boat)
5 fish stringer
80% Payback at the ramp
$50.00 per team - $10.00 Big Bass (100% Payback on Big Bass)
Cash Only
January 7, 2012
Start Fishing 7:00 A.M. - stop fishing @ 3:00 P.M.
Registration will begin at 6:30am until 7:00am
Sign-up and weigh-in at the HILL CREEK Ramp (You can leave the ramp as soon as you pay)
Trailering allowed-You can also launch at Lake Tyler Marina-Concession #1
Live bait is not allowed

This tournament is week before the Media Tournament on Lake Tyler so this will be a good practice day for you guys.
If you need more information send me a PM

1st: Bart Doty/Gilbert Herald 19.28lbs
2nd: Franky Burkett/ Eric Pottkotter :18.48Lbs BB 5.21lbs
3rd: Billy Ferguson/Justin Stafford 18.17lbs BB 6.80lbs
Danny Tidwell/David Poole 16.92lbs
Kenny Stewart/ Darren Newhouse 16.06lbs BB 5.55lbs
Jeremy McCutcheon 13.00lbs
John Maxfield/Robert kilgore 12.87lbs
George Lambert/Mike Cagle 12.50lbs
Hunley/Martin 11.92lbs
Kevin Hatcher/Beasley 10.62lbs

Congratulations to the winners: Bart Doty and Gilbert Herald (Owner of Combat Jigs) with 19.28lbs, 2nd was Franky Burkett& Eric Pottkotter 18.48lbs, 3rd Billy Ferguson/Justin Stafford 18.17lbs and they also had Big Bass 6.80lbs, 4th Danny Tidwell& David Poole 16.92lbs. We had 19 teams fish today.Thanks so much to everyone who participated. The next tournament will be January 28th.

Mr. Herald it was nice meeting you.

http://www.combatlures.com/index.html

Billy Ferguson or Justin Stafford please send me a PM on here when you read this.