November 10, 2018- Winter Trail- Lake Ferguson

The Mississippi River Anglers Association conducted its second 2018/19 Winter Trail Tournament last Saturday November 10^th, at Lake Ferguson with 15 boats fishing in the tournament on this very challenging day.  With high water and cold high norths winds, it was a tuff day for all of us. The Mississippi River was near 40’ Saturday on the Greenville gage, which is the highest I’ve ever seen it this time or year, and the weather, well it was just as bad, with 20 mph winds most of the day and the  temperature’s that never got out of the low 40’s! However, the weather could have been worse, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were all bad weather days in Greenville! Monday, it rained all day, Tuesday was cloudy and it never got over 37, and Wednesday it snow all morning and the temperature never got above 35! Wow, wow and wow! Luckily, we missed all of that and on Thursday the sun came out and it was a beautiful day plus it started warming up some, so let’s hope this warming trend stays around for a while!

    MRAA 2018/19 Winter Trail Results Lake Ferguson 11/10/2018:

Place	Angler 1	Angler 2		# Fish	Pounds	Winnings	Points
1	Mike Ainsworth	Josh Goodman		5	13.62	$775.00	113.62
2	Tim McDaniel	Terry Bates		5	12.36	$385.00	111.36
3	Jason Lunceford	Andy Graves		5	10.93	$530.00	108.93*
4	Scott Mitchell	Jay Mitchell		5	10.85	$150.00	107.85
5	Joey Beevers	Bobby Burton		5	10.48	106.48
6	Newton Ford	Jonathan Kent		2	4.99	99.99
7	Steve Tullos	David Streeter		2	4.19	98.19
8	Josh McGee	Kyle Wester		1	3.11	96.11
9	Jene Jones	Taff Hitt		1	2.92	94.92
10	Bart Ballard	Justin Thomas		1	1.37	92.37
11	Chris Coy	Rudy Vanderford		0	82.37
11	Todd Lott	Jim Goodman		0	82.37
11	Mac Hutson	Taylor Hutson		0	82.37
11	Kenny Vanderford	Grant Allen		0	82.37
11	Marty Crain		0	82.37
Gordon Watkins	John Hadad III
John Polasini	Reeves Polasini
Matthew Bates	Terry Bates
Jay Pickle	Pat Pickle
Lawson Davis	Matt Battman
Randy Bolden Jr.
Ryan Grey	Michel Coomes
Johnathan Sulton	Colby Sulton
Pete Christian	Jay Smith

Ok, last Saturday on Lake Ferguson, first place went to two young men, one from Mendenhall, Josh Goodman and the other from Pelahatchie, Steve Wiggington who was substituting for Mike Ainsworth, their 5 bass limit weighed in at 13.62 lbs., coming in second place was a team with one person from Grenada, Tim McDaniel, and one person from Greenville, me, our 5 bass limit weighed in at 12.36 lbs., coming in third place was a team from Clarksdale Jason Lunceford and Andy Graves,  their 5 bass limit weighed in at 10.93 lbs. which included the tournament lunker of 4.53 lb., coming in fourth place and getting the last check,  was the father and son team from Greenwood, Scott Mitchell and Jay Mitchell, their 5 bass limit weighed  10.85 lbs.   Congratulations to all the money winners, great job by everyone on a cold miserable day.

The third 2018-19 MRAA Winter Trail Tournament will be at Lake Chicot on December 1^st,  launching from the Connelly Bayou.

MRAA 2018/19 Winter Trail Point Standing after two tournaments:

After #2
Place	Angler 1	Angler 2	Points
1	Tim McDaniel	Terry Bates	222.91
2	Joey Beevers	Bobby Burton	214.88
3	Mike Ainsworth	Josh Goodman	203.19
4	Steve Tullos	David Streeter	202.93
5	Newton Ford	Jonathan Kent	198.32
6	Chris Coy	Rudy Vanderford	194.96
7	Jason Lunceford	Andy Graves	194.09
8	Bart Ballard	Justin Thomas	185.39
9	Josh McGee	Kyle Wester	183.40
10	Jene Jones	Taff Hitt	168.85
11	Todd Lott	Jim Goodman	168.56
12	Mac Hutson	Taylor Hutson	166.30
13	Kenny Vanderford	Grant Allen	156.30
14	Marty Crain	156.30
15	Gordon Watkins	John Hadad III	115.40
16	John Polasini	Reeves Polasini	109.79
17	Scott Mitchell	Jay Mitchell	107.85
18	Matthew Bates	Terry Bates	107.31
19	Jay Pickle	Pat Pickle	103.13
20	Lawson Davis	Matt Battman	100.90
21	Randy Bolden Jr.	99.77
22	Ryan Grey	Michel Coomes	96.82
23	Johnathan Sulton	Colby Sulton	95.39
24	Pete Christian	Jay Smith	73.93

*=Lunker