Anglers Quest 2007 Super Team Series #3 blasted off at 7:05 am on Lake Sam Rayburn with 58 teamed anglers showing up to go for the all cash purse of $4590.00. This Series will provide the “Team Anglers of the Year” with free entries to all 2008 Super Team Series events. The Super Team Series Championship will be a 2 day event held on Sam Rayburn for the Top 25 in points or any team entering all 5 events on June 30-July 1, 2007, this will be a no entry fee championship with $5000 guaranteed going to the winning team. Top 7 from this Series will advance to the “Tournament of Champions” which will again, as last year be held on Lake Tyler on November 10-11, 2007 and will have a maximum of 30 teams from all A/Q series go to a very exciting $10,000.00 to the winning team Championship. All A/Q Championships include Calcutta auctions which builds the Championship purse to some very nice $$ to compete for.
The air temp at takeoff was 46 degrees with a warming to 79 degrees at weigh in time. The water was at approximately 1/2 ft above pool level with water temps running 62-64 degrees in the main lake. The fishing was still very tough on Big Sam today as only 11 limits were brought to the scales for a total of only 89 bass at 190.81 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.14 lb.
Chris McCall from Jasper & Pete Shivers from Kirbyville, Tx ran Chris’s Ranger/Evinrude A & W sponsored bass rig to mid lake grass beds to catch their limit of 5 bass flippin’ Texas rigged plastic baits to 8 ft deep grass edges and ended up with 13.48 lbs to finish in 1st place and collect the A/Q “Goal Posts” and $1800.00. Chris & Pete also had the 2nd Big Bass of the event a fine 5.02 lber that made them an additional $115.00 giving them a $1915.00 payday for their day on the water.
Randy Turner & Brig Luce from Lufkin, Tx fished together today and gathered up their 5 bass and ended up with 12.77 lbs to finish in 2nd place and collected $1000.00. Clay Clevenger from Bullard & Ken Smith from Dallas, Tx ran their bass rig to numerous areas on the lake to catch their best 5 bass to bring to the scales and captured 3rd place and $750.00.
David Durrett & David Watson both from Rusk, Tx powered their bass rig to mid lake areas with 10-12′ grass ledges to catch 3 bass at 12.02 lbs and the biggest bass of the tournament weighing in at 5.98 lbs to garner 4th place, big bass and $625.00 for their day on the water.
Charlie Higginbotham from Port Arthur & Shane Dorsey from Orange, Tx fished together again today and caught their 5 bass and ended up with 10.87 lbs to finish in 5th place and collected $300.00.
Anglers Quest will be back on Big Sam on April 29 for the 4th of the 5 Super Team Series events. Enter these events anytime at Needmore Tackle or call Anglers Quest at 281-852-8842. Anglers Quest’s next event will kickoff the 23 event Tuesday Series on Lake Houston at Lake Houston Marina on April 3rd $70.00 team entry & take off will be at 6pm weigh in will be at 9:15 pm. April 4th will kickoff the Wednesday Series on Lake Conroe with $65.00 team entry hosted from Anchorage Marina will also takeoff at 6pm and weigh in at 9:15 pm. Anglers Quest will be at Kickapoo Bait & Tackle on Lake Livingston on Saturday, April 7 for the 7th of 20 Saturday series events.
Anglers Quest 2007 Rules & Schedules are now posted on the Anglers Quest web site.
Anglers Quest wants to say Thanks to all the anglers that participate in any A/Q events and also Thanks to all the A/Q Staff & Sponsors.
A/Q 2007 Sponsors: Allstar Signworks, American Rodsmiths, Anchorage Marina, Antex Roofing, Big State Fabrication, CBATrophy.com, Check-It Stik, FishingWorld.com, Judy Brandt/Realtor 832-262-8520, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, LMC Marine Center, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Needmore Tackle, Rayburn Country Resort, Style Tile, Superior Paint Works Inc., The Stump Restaurant & Club, TIREMAX of North America, Wiesner Dodge
God Bless & Good Fishing to all…
Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara LongBy: Bill & Barbara Long / Anglers Quest
