| Angler\'s Quest "Finally" Jeff Rood & Ben Pope WIN!!  Final Livingston Saturday Series #9 |  |
| by Bill & Barbara Long / Anglers Quest |
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The event began at safe light, which was 6:05 am. Weigh in was conducted at 3:15 pm. This Livingston Saturday Series after all 9 events has provided the team "Anglers of the Year" Morgan Burton & Randy McAdams with paid entries to all 2010 Livingston Saturday Series events. The Top 25 teams in pounds have qualified for the 2-day Championship on September 26-27 on Lake Livingston. Anglers Quest will take the Top 5 group of teams from the Livingston Saturday series to the "Tournament of Champions" to be held on November 14-15 on Lake Bob Sandlin and will pay a minimum of $10,000.00 to the winning team. Lake Livingston water was a bit off color in most areas due to the 8" of rain received on Friday. The lake is at approximately normal pool level with water temps ranning 88-90 degrees. The weather at takeoff was a calm 80 degrees with a warm up to 92 degrees by weigh in time. The fish catching was very good on Livingston today as there were 21 limits brought to the scales, for a total of 119 bass at 300.56 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.52 lb. "Finally" -- After a complete year of tournament fishing, Jeff Rood from Livingston, Tx & Ben Pope from Splendora, Tx landed their 1st team tournament event win. They ran Jeff’s Skeeter/Yamaha to Kickapoo creek & mid main lake areas to catch their 5 bass flipping tx rigged critter craws in 1-3 ft water around any visible cover. Their 5 bass produced a giant 8.11 lber for Big Bass of the event and a whopping 24.04 lb total sack for their 1st ever win. Jeff & Ben collected $1800.00 for their great day on the water ... Congratulations to you guys! Johnny Clausen Jr fished this event alone and ran his Astro/Mercury bass rig to Kickapoo & Brushy creek areas to catch his 5 bass on small cranks using his sponsors Airrus rods. Johnny reported catching over 3 limits of bass in an all day bite. Johnny finished in 2nd with 19.02 lbs and collected $915.00 for his day on the water. The team of Chris Wallace & Eddie Ellisor from Coldspring, Tx ran Chris’s Triton/Mercury to south lake areas to gather their limit of bass. They ended the day with 18.09 lbs and collected $720.00 for their day on the water. Wade Ellis & Toby Hartsell from Livingston, Tx ran Toby’s Ranger/Yamaha to Kickapoo creek areas to catch their 5 bass totaling 17.70 lbs on tx rigged soft plastics to finish in 4th and take home $450.00. Morgan Burton & Randy McAdams from Livingston, Tx ran their Ranger/Yamaha bass rig to mid lake creek areas to finish in 5th with their best 5 bass that tipped the scales at 16.66 lbs. With Morgan & Randy’s catch today using tx rigs & small cranks they sealed the deal for 2009 Anglers of the Year. Morgan & Randy’s day on the water paid back $285.00 for their efforts. Very noteworthy for their AOY performance is that they received a check in every Livingston Saturday series event this year for a whopping winnings total of $6215.00. The team of Russell Cecil from Willis, Tx & Kyle Nitschke from Conroe, Tx ran Kyle’s Ranger/Yamaha bass rig to various creek areas to finish in 6th with their best 5 bass that tipped the scales at 13.97 lbs. Russell & Kyle’s day on the water payed back $200.00 for their efforts. The team of Scott David from Goodrich, Tx & Harold Moore from College Station, Tx ran Scott’s Ranger/Yamaha bass rig to the south end of the lake to throw spinner baits & flip tx rigs around visible cover in 1-4 ft water to bring in 5 bass at 13.38 lbs to garner 7th place and collect $155.00 for their day on the lake. There were 7 checks today and we had some ZZ Lures sponsor product to give to 1st place out of the money today. The team of Charles Bebber & Keith Caka finished in the 1st place out of the money today with 13.36 lbs BUT, were not at the awards ceremony to collect their 2 bags of ZZ Lures. The entire results from this and all A/Q events put on by Anglers Quest can be viewed at the Anglers Quest website. On August 15th Anglers Quest will be at Sam Rayburn at Mill Creek Park for the 8th of 9 Rayburn Saturday Series events. On August 22nd A/Q will be on Lake Conroe at El Dorado Jack’s for the 8th of 9 Conroe Saturday Series events. Don’t forget the weekly Tuesday & Wednesday evening events on Lake Houston & Lake Conroe from 6-9:15 pm. Call Mr Bill or Barbara Long at 281-852-8842 for any information or entry. events and also suggest the use of these sponsors products & services: American Rodsmiths, Antex Roofing, Automated Mailing Solutions, Bill Lewis Rattle Traps, Big State Fabrication, Bowden Marine Sales & Service, Custom Built Awards, Check-It Stik, City of Jasper, Tx-Chamber of Commerce, City of Mount Pleasant/Titus County Chamber of Commerce, Double ZZ Custom Lures, El Dorado Jacks, Executive Security Integrators, Extreme Sounds 4 ATVs, FishingWorld, Gullo Yamaha Motorsports, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, Lone Star Buffet, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Power Pole, Rayburn Country Resort, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, Santone Lures, Sign Designs Now, Stratos 2X Bonus, StyleTile, Superior Paint Works Inc., T/A Lure Retrievers, Team Marine USA, The Stump Restaurant & Club, TIREMAX of North America, Vincent Turf Farms God Bless & Good Fishing to all... Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara Long
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