Anglers Quest 2010 Sam Rayburn Individual Series #9 out of Mill Creek Park in Brookeland, TX began this event with 12 anglers showing up to fish for the $1620.00 purse. After the playing of the National Anthem this 9th Individual Series event was started at 6:30 am. The anglers had to be in line to weigh by 3:15 pm. This Rayburn Individual Series after all 9 events will provide Ricky Guy the Angler of the year with free entries to all 2011 Rayburn Individual Series events. Mr Rick Barns put up a good battle all year but come up short for the angler of the year by 2.28 lbs in the last T of the year.
FLASH All A/Q lake series championships have been reinstated for 2010 and will be done on home series lakes. The anglers entering a minimum of 4 Rayburn Individual series events will automatically qualify for the 1-day Sam Rayburn Individual series Championship on October 10. Any angler making the cut to any A/Q Championship will also be eligible for the “Tournament of Champions” at Lake Palestine in November.
Sam Rayburn water was in good shape and about 6 ft below normal pool level with water temps ranning 82-84 degrees. The weather at takeoff was a very nice 74 degrees with a warming to 92 degrees by weigh in time. The fish catching was pretty good on Big Sam today as there were 4 limits brought to the scales, for a total of 30 bass at 81.15 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.70 lb.
Chris McCall & his dog Buddy from Jasper, Tx ran his Ranger/Rude bass rig to Main mid lake points around brush piles to catch his bass throwing Tx rigged 10” Gambler worms in 18′-20′ water. Some of his bass came on a c-rig Gambler Super Stud. Chris is using unnamed rods with ABU Garcia reels, spooled with 20lb 100% Berkley fluro line. Chris & Buddy managed to boat 10-12 keepers to finish in 1st place with 17.22 lbs. Chris also had the Big Bass of the day at 6.25 lbs and collected $1000.00 for his day on the water. Chris wanted to Thank Ranger, Evinrude, Santone Lures, Gambler Lures, Abu Garcia, Berkley & Buddy for their support.
Albert Collins from Nacogdoches, Tx ran his Champion/Mercury bass rig to areas north of the 147 bridge with brush to finish in 2nd with his best 5 bass that tipped the scales at 17.27 lbs BUT… 1 of Albert’s bass was dead and it was a very costly dead bass as Albert collected 2nd place with the corrected weight of 17.02 lbs. Albert collected $450.00 for his day on the water.
Alan Moore from Lufkin, Tx ran his Ranger/Rude bass rig to Main mid lake points around grass to catch his bass throwing Tx rigged worms in 6′-8′ water. Alan managed to catch 5 keepers to finish in 3rd place with 14.73 lbs. Alan collected $110.00 for his day on the water. Alan wanted to thank Terry’s Marine & Tri Lake Tackle for their support.
Ricky Guy was the 1st place out of the money with 5 bass at 9.48 lbs and received the gift certificates. Ricky passed off the Santone Lures & ZZ Lures Gift Certificates to Gary Miettinen for his catch of 2 bass at 4.05 lbs.The entire results from this and all A/Q events put on by Anglers Quest can be viewed at the Anglers Quest website.
A/Q would like to give a special thanks to our sponsors who offer the Incentive Bonus dollars for our anglers in the Anglers Quest Tournament Trail, Tiremax, Bass Guard Culling Systems, Bowden Marine, Santone Lures, ZZ Custom Lures and the PAA Payday. Please read the qualifications for these great incentives on our Anglers Quest website.
On September 11th & 12th Anglers Quest will be at Lake Livingston at Kickapoo Bait & Tackle for the 9th of 9 Livingston Weekend Team & Individual events. Then on September 18th & 19th A/Q is back to Lake Conroe at El Dorado Jack’s for the 9th of 9 Individual & Weekend Team events. Then on September 25th & 26th A/Q is back to Lake Houston at Lake Houston Marina for the 9th of 9 Weekend Team & Individual events.
Be sure to check out the A/Q website klik for “Championship Qualifiers” to get your status and info on all the Championships.
Anglers Quest is now accepting Credit Cards. Call Mr Bill or Barbara Long at 281-852-8842 for any information or entry. 2010 schedules & results for all Anglers Quest series events are now available online at the Anglers Quest website.
Anglers Quest suggest the use of these sponsors products & services: American Rodsmiths, Antex Roofing, Automated Mailing Solutions, Bass Guard Culling Systems, Big State Fabrication, Bill Lewis Lures, Bowden Marine Sales & Service, Custom Built Awards, Check-It Stik, City of Jasper, Tx-Chamber, Don McGill Toyota of Katy, Double ZZ Custom Lures, El Dorado Jacks, Executive Security Integrators, FishingWorld, Gullo Yamaha Motorsports, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, Lake Palestine Area Chamber/Tourism, Lone Star Buffet, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Rayburn Country Resort, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, Santone Lures, StyleTile, Sign Designs Now, Superior Paint Works Inc., The Stump Restaurant & Club, TIREMAX of North America, Vincent Turf Farms
God Bless & Good Fishing to All…..
Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara LongBy: Bill & Barbara Long / Anglers Quest
