2007/2008 Yadkin mastercatters tourney series winners

[catfishrus]

Posted sept 7,2007
We had 7 teams today to come out to our first tournament of the fall. The big fish bite was a real early in the morning according to all anglers adding the bite was slow to very slow the rest of the time. Blues was pushing the weights today. Taking home 1st. place was the team of Jeremy dowd & Chris Cole with a winning weight of 41.6lbs. They also took big fish with a blue weighing at 34.4lbs. Jeff Cole & Jeff Nixon took home 2nd. place with a weight of 40.6lbs. Robert Tomasek & Chris Hammill took home a 3rd place finish with a weight of 23.2lbs. Thanks to everyone that came out and our next tour. will be at Lake Badin on Oct. 13 at the Alcoa landing in the town of Badin. Anyone interested in fishing this event can contact us here or just come to the landing. We would love to have you. Congradulations to our winning teams today!

[catfishrus]

Posted Oct 12,2007
We had a field of 9 teams to take on the yadkin river system at badin lake today. The winning team was Jeff Cole(cmj) and Jeff Nioxn(jpn) with a winning weight of 43.4lbs for a two fish limt. The bait of choice for the winners was white perch and the fish came from 60 ft of water. The Cole and Nixon team took home the grand purse of 225.00 for winning big fish at 25.4lbs and best total weight of a two fish limt. Coming in second place was the Jeremy Dowd (gearhead1)team with a weight of 26.4lbs with a two fish limit. 3rd place was brought in by the Chris Hammill(rookie12)and Michael Chandler(catfishrus) team with a weight of 21.2lbs with a two fish limit. Congrates to the winners and a special thanks to all who came out and made Yadkin Catmasters Fall Series another success story. If anyone is interested in fishing one of these events feel free to to come on. You dont need a big nice fancy boat to catfish in tournamnets. Let me tell you this the winning team has a 25 hp and second place has a 20hp. Between these two teams they have won both events this year.



winners taking home the prize money CONGRATULATIONS!

[catfishrus]

posted Oct 31,2007
we had 7 teams to come out to lake tillery today to take on the high hope of landing a big blue. Taking home first place was the team of Jeremy Dowd from China Grove and Chris Cole from jackson springs with a two fish limit of 33.6lbs and they also took home big fish at 17.4lbs. Second place went to Chris Hammill from Kannapolis and Michael Chandler from Midland with a two fish limt of 25.6lbs. 3rd place went to James Davison and Eric Fincher both from Mt. Pleasant. The winning team reported catching there fish drifting on the lower end of lake tillery in 30 ft of water using shad as bait. The big fish bite was missing action according to most teams. here is some pictures

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2nd place

3rd place


winners with the prize


Congrates to Jeremy and Chris on their winning weight and they are the repeating winners for lake tillery this year. good job guys and congratulations!

[catfishrus]

Posted Dec 8,2007
What a nice day to be on the lake. We had a great turnout of 12 teams. Some seemed to struggle on the bigger fish but the ones that found them seem catch a few nice ones. Catching fish wasnt a problem today but finding a good quaility bite was a little tuffer but it was there once you found them. Taking home first place was the team of Chris Fraley and Dennis Leonard with a winning of 51.6lbs for a two fish limit. They also took home big fish honors with a 26.4lb blue cat. Taking home second place was the team of Lonnie White and Phil Leonard with a weight of 38.2lbs with a two fish limit. 3rd place went to the Michael Chandler and Chris Hammill team with a weight of 32.8lbs and 4 the place went to Jeff Cole and Danny Campbell team with 29.2lbs and rounding out th top 5 was Chris Cole and Jeremy Dowl with a weight of 19lbs. Yours truely brought back home the abu 6500 c3 reel with a 3rd place finish on big fish weighing in at 18.2lbs. Since we didnt have a 50lb big fish weighed in im going to leave the bounty out for our next Lake Tillery event which will be in sometime in jan. should have dates posted in a week for that event. Also the 6500 c3 will be back on the block for a 3rd place big fish catcher too. So make sure you come out to the Tillery event. Would like to thank everyone for coming out today and supporting this series. This was our biggest field of any event so far. Lets make it even bigger next month. I enjoyed it friends. here is the pictures

1st place and big fish


2nd place


3rd place

[catfishrus]

Posted Feb 2,2008
We had 9 teams to come out tillery this morning for a great day to be on the lake. Beautiful skies and lite wind but a real foggy start to the morning. There was nice current in the lake most of the morning. The bite was off compared to most teams pre fishing trips maybe due to the passing through of the front yesterday. Most teams said they was marking nice fish but they just wasnt biting but as usual we had several teams to bring fish to the scales. Bait of choice varied from team to team. taking home 1st. place was the team of Jerry Arnold and Eric Fincher with a winning weight of 37.2lbs and taking home 180.00. 2nd place went to a husband and wife team of bob and pat wheeler with a weight of 34lbs with one fish. They took home the big fish pot of 45.00. 3rd place finish was the team of jeff cole and jeff nixon with a weight of 30.8lbs and they also took home the abu 6500 c3 reel with a 3rd place big fish weight of 20.8lbs. The Yadkin Catmasters would like to say a big congrates to these top 3 finishers.

1st place winners


2nd place


3rd place

[catfishrus]

Posted march 1,2008
We had 6 teams come out today and take on the giant cats at badin lake today. Turned out to be a rather windy day and a slow bite for most of the teams. This will be our last event until the coming fall of 2008. Seems we saved the best for the last event of the season. Taking home 1st place was the team of Bryan and Hunter Burris of new london and Michael Chandler of Midland with a winning weight of 82.6lbs. This is the new record weight for a 2 fish limit in our series. 2nd place was the team of Jeremy Dole from China Grove and Chris Cole of Jackson Springs with a weight of 43.6lbs. I would like to take time to thank all of you fisherman for making this series a success story. We had a couple of new guys come out today and its just a sign of the interest in catfishing along the Yadkin river system. We growing and i look for good thing this coming fall. I have really enjoyed it and i think most of you fellows have also. What a learning experience it has been. Keep them fishing reports coming and practice up for this coming fall. Thanks alot guys!!!!


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