(Mar. 17, 2008 - April Plaza Marina/Lake Conroe, TX)... With the water temps moving up the big bass are moving with it. Seeing a team win with 30 lbs is exciting and was expected at this event. The real excitement was the overall weigh-in. There were twenty-four teams with limits weighing over 20 lbs. Now that’s incredible and really says a lot for Lake Conroe.First Place father and son team of Jody and Jake Goodrum won the heavy weight battle held out of April Plaza Marina on Saturday, March 15th. The weigh in was totally unbelievable. Jody and Jake’s limit of fish weighed 30.59 lbs, which included the Big Bass of the tournament, a 10.66. Their day started by sight fishing with tubes and craws, produced by Kicker Fish Bait Company. After putting 20 lbs of bass in the live well and not much time left, the team went to flippin. That’s when Jake set the hook and said hello 30 lbs! Their awesome bag of fish earned them $4,300, plus they claimed the 1st Place Ranger Cup Award for $2,500 and, also, the TIREMAX bonus of another $1,000 dollars for purchasing their new tires from TIREMAX. This brought their total payday to $7,800.
Our 2nd Place spot went to Ronnie Wagner, who represented his team and fished alone at this event. He weighed in 5 fish weighing 29.31 lbs. His first 3 fish he caught sight fishing. After that, he went to flippin and crankin in 3 to 7 foot of water. He culled his limit three times. He caught his fish with Berkley gulp baits. His pay for a good day of fishing was $2,000.
The team of Mark Mohler, Jr and Joe Bruno, Jr claimed our 3rd place spot. They had 5 fish weighing 28.98 lbs. They were sight fishing with craw worms in 5 ft or deeper of water.
Top Teams:
| 1st | $4,000 + $300 Big Bass | Jody & Jake Goodrum |
| 2nd | $2,000 | Ronnie Wagner & Trea Luedke |
| 3rd | $1,500 | Mark Mohler Jr & Joe Bruno Jr |
| 4th | $1,200 | Jeremy & Tony Murray |
| 5th | $1,000 | Charles Bebber & Keith Caka |
| 6th | $800 | Andy Gaia & Chris Wilkerson |
| 7th | $600 | John Thornton & Mark Tullis |
| 8th | $600 | Jeff Boswell & Jim Murphy |
| 9th | $500 | Brian & Chip Sewell |
| 10th | $500 | Eddie Richards & Paul Hopkins |
| 11th | $400 | Todd Castledine & Eddie Ellisor |
...and that’s not the end of the payouts!
Ranger Boats sponsors three more checks every tournament for the top 3 qualified Ranger Cup participants.
| 1st | Jody Goodrum | $2,500 |
| 2nd | Charles Bebber | $1,000 |
| 3rd | Andy Gaia | $500 |
We have several bonus incentives for the Bass N Bucks anglers this year provided by, Texas Marine, Terry’s Marine and Tiremax. Please check out our Bass N Bucks website for complete details. The next Bass-N-Bucks event will be on Lake Sam Rayburn, April 6th. Sign up and join the fun, with the opportunity to win some Big Bass’n Bucks!
The 2008 Bass-N-Bucks Sponsors are RANGER BOATS, MERCURY "#1 On The Water", LOWRANCE, MINN KOTA, AMERICAN RODSMITHS, WULF OUTDOOR SPORTS, POWER PRO, SNAG PROOF, TIREMAX, E2 BAITS, PRO RULE and BASSMEDICS.For more information, click to the Bass N Bucks website or call 409-727-8941.