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5 Finishers, left to right,1st to 5th place:
Barton Butts, Curtis Bolden, Toni Cilento, Jim Missel,
and Thomas Shafer (not in picture)
Saturday
morning arriving at the ramp at about 4:00 AM, the rain started.
Saturday June 21st, arriving at the ramp at 4:00 a.m. the weather
for our opening day was as we closed the season last year. A rain
storm. Temperature was 55 degrees, wind for much of the day was out
of the north anywhere from 5 to 20 mph. The water temperature in the
areas I had fished was in the low 60’s and clear. When I say
clear I mean you could see bottom at 20 feet deep. The turn out for
this tournament was 24 anglers. Now this may not seem big to some
tournament trails, but we are still growing and it is getting better.
The word seems to be getting out as to how much fun this ABA circuit
really is and what a great bunch of guys fishing it.
Thanks guys for helping to spread the word.
We
had a record catch of over 19 lbs. For 1st Place . Nice job Barton
Butts!!……
1st Place
Barton Butts 19.3 lbs
2nd Place Curtis Bolden 13.61 lbs
3rd Place Tony Cilento 12.55 lbs
4th Place Jim Missel 12.14 lbs
5th Place Thomas Shafer 10.23 lbs
1st Place
Big Bass Barton Butts 5.13 lbs
2nd Place Big Bass Jim Missel 3.78 lbs
The next
tournament will be the St. Lawrence River, going out of French Creek
Marina in Clayton, New York, on June 28th, 2003.
Hope to see you all there!
Joe Angelone,
Director
Don Tripoli, Assistant Director
Marlene Angelone, Administration
