Here’s the results from last Saturday’s MRAA Championship Tournament at Lake Ferguson. After having to reschedule this Championship twice due to C-19 and Hurricane Delta , we were fortunate enough to get it in this past weekend with beautiful weather both days. The Mississippi River had been very low for the past few weeks. I believe it’s the lowest it’s been since our last fall Championship.  I was very concerned about the lake fishing very small and anglers being on top of each other. However, mother nature had other plans for us and Lake Ferguson rose about 16’ in just over a week. On Thursday October 29^th the Greenville gauge was around 14’, but by the tournament weekend of November 6^th and 7^th it was a 29-30’.  That’s a huge rise in a short period  of time. Again I was worried about y’all catching fish with this much fresh water in the lake. However, you awesome fishermen proved me wrong again and numerous large strings of  Mississippi River bass were brought to the scales.

Out of our 31 teams fishing the Championship, 24 teams brought in a 4 bass limit both days. The first day leaders of Chris Coy and Rudy Vanderford won this rising water shootout with a two day total of 8 bass weighing in at an amazing 35.57 pounds. Steve Tullos and David Streeter finished a close second with 32.23 pounds. The first day lunker went to Billy Hopkins and Jason Lunceford with a 5.91 lb. bass.  Second day lunker went to Steve Tullos and David Streeter with a 5.79 lb.  bass, a $500.00 prize for both teams. Under these conditions I thought this was an unbelievable catch by all teams. Congratulations to all the money winners!

1		Chris Coy / Rudy Vanderford	4         4						17.18	18.39		35.57	$6,000.00
2		Steve Tullos / David Streeter	4         4		5.79 2nd Lunker				16.37	15.86		32.23	$3,500.00
3		Johnathan Sulton / Colby Sulton	4         4						12.69	17.41		30.10	$2,000.00
4		Newton Ford / Jonathan Kent	4         4						12.45	17.60		30.05	$1,500.00
5		Parker Frew	4         4	1			14.09 D1	-0.5	13.59	16.44		30.03	$1,000.00
6		Mike Jordan / Cliff Payne	4         4						14.35	14.51		28.86	$800.00
7		Eddie Gibson / Quentel Gibson	4         4						13.04	15.72		28.76	$700.00
8		David Reed / Jack Reed	4         4						10.98	16.72		27.70	$600.00
9		Joey Beevers / Bobby Burton	4         4						14.79	12.88		27.67	$550.00
10		Kenny Vanderford / David Cole	4         4						12.46	14.78		27.24	$500.00
11		Tim McDaniel / Lawson Davis	4         4						12.90	14.00		26.96	Abu Garcia Pro Max Combo
12		Todd Lott / Jim Goodman	4         4						14.28	12.45		26.73	Abu Garcia Pro Max Combo
13		Gene Jones / Taff Hitt	4         4						13.41	13.15		26.56	Abu Garcia Pro Max Combo
14		Steve Barnes / Rob Livingston	4         4						13.60	12.51		26.11	Abu Garcia Pro Max Combo
15		Lennie Smith / Leslie Smith	4         4						12.38	12.94		25.32	Abu Garcia Pro Max Combo
16		Allen Powell / Jackie Robinson	4         4						12.31	11.59		23.90
17		Marty Crain	4         4						13.34	10.38		23.72
18		Billy Hopkins / Jason Lunceford	4         4		5.91 1st Lunker				13.29	10.17		23.46	$500.00
19		Michael Harlow / Clint Russell	4         4						12.82	8.77		21.59
20		Matthew Bates / Terry Bates	4         4						13.43	6.38		19.81
21		Brian Ballinger / Rob Ballinger	4         4						6.98	11.70		18.68
22		Jim Phillips / Jimmy Brumfield	4         4						6.12	12.21		18.33
23		Matt Mullins / Pete Cora	4         4						10.13	7.45		17.58
24		Keith Kendall / Brian Kendall	3         3						7.64	8.49		16.31
25		Bill McRight Sr. / Bill McRight Jr.	2         4						3.70	11.11		14.81
26		Mac Hudson / Taylor Hudson	2          0						3.13	0.00		3.13
27		Bear Bernardi / Alex Lopez	1           0						1.98	0.00		1.98
28		Ronald Bennett / JP Armstrong	1           0						1.82	0.00		1.82
29		Tad Keller / Michael Hayes	0           0						0.00	0.00		0.00
29		Charles Hughes / David Huggins	0           0						0.00	0.00		0.00
29		J W Mclendon / Robbie Hughes	0           0						0.00	0.00		0.00
										Totsl  Payout =			$18,650.00