The Ray Hubbard Bass Club held our third members only tournament of the year last Saturday May 8th on Lake Tawakoni. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So we went to Tawakoni in the spring hoping the wind was not going to be blowing 20-30. Of course that's exactly what happened. We have learned enough of a lesson however to use the trailering option and most stayed the heck off the main lake where there were 5-6 foot rollers. 31 teams came out to fish. The shad spawn was going on big time and to be honest it seemed to negatively affect the fishing. Only 8 limits were brought to the scales. When all was said and done the team of Ronnie Manning and Capp Peace won the day with a great bag of 18.56 pounds. Big Bass of the tournament went to David Mulkey and Mike Parkes with a 6.18 toad. Here are full results and pictures



David Burton had one good one that went 4.27



Jim Phillips and Randy Bridges also had one good one that weighed 4.47



TD Paul Spann and Bill Gammons had two for 5.30



Trey Crawford fished with Kenny Bunch and they had two for 6.17



Clark Crenshaw and Roddy Bieber weighed three for 7.21



James and Shellye Crawford also had three for 7.43



Warren Whitaker and Jamie Norris weighed two for 7.44 that included a nice 4.71



Russell Olds and Matt Jackson had four for 7.56



Chris Atkinson and myself continued the theme with three for 7.73



Chris demonstrating the correct form for taking pictures of smaller fish

Eddy Wooldridge and Bryan Toombs had three for 8.18



Cameron Laing and Patrick Sharp with three for 8.29 that included a 4.86



Jeremy McLeroy and Cody Stewart weighed three for 8.40



A rare capturing in the wild of David Choate. Him and Stan Browning had three for 8.58



Garrett Macias and Bobby Finta had three for 9.37 that included a nice 5.07




Escaping our camera were sixth place finishers Josh Mulkey and Tim Havins who had a limit for 10.27


Finishing fifth with five for 10.62 were Bruce Anderson and Dameon Scott



Fourth place went to Brian Brooks and Steve Parrish with a limit that weighed 10.73



Third place went to Preston Smith and David Horton with a solid limit that went 13.46



Nice to have my VP David Mulkey back! He and Mike Parkes had a great day finishing second with a limit that weighed 16.32



Their bag included big bass of the tournament, a 6.38 beast



Here are your winners! No giants, but one of those fun bags full of 3-4 pound fish, Ronnie Manning and Capp Peace won with a limit that went 18.56. Congrats guys!



Thanks to David Choate and Stan Browning for doing registration at 0 Dark 30. Thanks to Paul Spann for weighing fish and Shellye Crawford for recording catches. Thanks to Cameron Laing for keeping the money straight. Our next tournament comes up quickly! Saturday May 22nd is the makeup date for Lake Palestine going out of Lake Palestine Resort. See you there!

This was a special one for me. Got my old buddy back in the boat after his small hiatus. He picked up his normal bait, and didn't miss a beat. Had 3 good fish hooked up, with 2 of them in the boat before I even got a bite... using the SAME LURE! Geesh! He had a 5# break off on the hookset and it jumped 5 times coming towards the boat! I was hoping it was going to jump in the boat! LOL! We caught a lot of decent fish, culled through 6-7 good 3# fish. A few 1-2# fish, but not many. It was good to finish well. We work well together in the boat, and feed off each other's ideas. See yall at Palestine. Neither one of us have been there in a couple years.