Region 3 New Bullards Bar – February 28^th, 2016

With all of the recent national attention on this reservoir, Region 3 anglers dreamed of multi-bag weigh-ins of humongous spotted bass. The tournament director even had the calibrated just-in-case an angler weighed-in a potential record. The 49° – 54° – milky green colored water level increased 4.22’ during the week. Unfortunately on this day, Bullard’s Bar proved to be very “ungenerous” to our anglers. However several very nice “football-shaped” spotted bass made it to the scales: one over 6 lbs.; three over 5 lbs. and two over 4 lbs.! From left to right in the photo:

Shawn Mock fished with O’Neal Martin and secured the Big Fish award with a 6.22 lb. spotted beast caught on a swimbait;

1^st place: Rocco Radogna fished with Mac McCullough. Rocco anchored first place with a 5.75 lb. spot and caught his fish on senko’s;

2^nd place: Roy Desmangles Jr. fished with Matt Nadeau. Roy anchored second place with a 5.84 lb. spot and caught his fish using swimbaits.

3^rd place: Mac McCullough fished with Rocco Radogna. Mac anchored third place with a 5.53 lb. spot and caught his fish using swimbaits & senkos. Congratulations guys!

Shawn Mock – 6.22 lb                                Roy Desmangles–5.84lb

Rocco Radogna 5.75 lb                                Mac McCullough 5.53 lb

Region 3 Clear Lake – March 13^th, 2016

Region 3 anglers arriving to practice for this event were greeted with cold weather, whitecaps and torrential downpours measured in inches. The chocolate milk colored water was 49° to 53° and rose 6” per day topping out at 7.4’ on the Rumsey scale on Sunday. But as the old saying goes “somebody always catches them”. From left to right in the photo:

1^st place: Roy Desmangles Jr. fished with Russ Greenlee. Roy caught his fish on swimbaits and a new “prototype bait”; Roy also boated a 8.91 lb. toad to capture the Big Fish award;

2^nd place: Larry Crane fished with Scott Sweet. Larry caught his fish using a drop shot rig and a margarita mutilator colored worm.

3^rd place:  Jason Lucero fished with Kyle Riley. Jason caught his fish on Senko’s;

Congratulations guys!

Willie Colunga wins the Region 4 opener at Camanche on February 21st with 16.30 lbs.  See the full results at Standings page.