Tournament # 1, April 21 2007, Mississippi River Pool 19

The Mississippi River has finally turned on for the year and some very good fish were brought to the Angler's Choice scales. The local angling teams fishing this tournament found good numbers of both largemouth and smallies in the lower end of the pool. But the grapevine says that visiting anglers fishing club tournaments this weekend had a very tough time and brought in less than one fish per angler. This goes to show the the quality of anglers competing in this circuit.

The weather was mild but somewhat windy and the water temps warmed from the low 50's to as high as 65 degrees in some areas of the pool. The winning team of Chad Kerr and Quinton Inghram thought the day was just perfect as they brought in a mixed bag for the top weight of 13.21lbs and took home just over $1000 for their efforts. They reported fishing the lower third of the pool were they found the fish to be fairly aggressive. Their keepers fell prey to Black/Blue Invader Jig from Strictly Bass Lures tipped with a matching Gene Larew Salt Craw.

Second place and a check for $490 went to the team of Mike Mertens and Kurt Johnson with a limit weighing 12.71lbs.

Rounding out the top 3 was the team of Benjamin Tripp and David Son with 5 bass weighing 12.33lbs. The big bass of the tournament went to Danny Graham and Todd Flockhart with a 5.31 pound largemouth.

From L to R: 1st--Quinton Ingrham, Chad Kerr; 2nd--Mike Mertens, Kurt Johnson; 3rd--David Son, Benjamin Tripp