Anglers Quest 2007 Super Team Series #1 blasted off at 7:00 am on Lake Sam Rayburn with 80 teamed anglers showing up to go for the all cash purse of $6325.00. 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 winner. Top 7 from this Series will advance to the “Tournament of Champions” which will again 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 to the winner Championship. All A/Q Championships include Calcutta auctions which builds the Championship purse to some very nice $$ to compete for.
The air temp at take-off was 72 degrees with a warming to 82 degrees at weigh in time. The water was at approximately 1/2 ft above pool level with water temps running 59-60 degrees in the main lake. The fishing was very good on Big Sam today as 29 limits were brought to the scales for a total of 160 bass at 408.86 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.55 lb.
George Cox, Jr from Humble & Jimmy Kervin from Crosby, Tx ran Jimmy’s Ranger Z-21/Yamaha bass rig to mid and north lake areas to cull to their limit of 5 bass casting crank baits to 15 ft deep grass edges and ended up with 24.31 lbs to finish in 1st place and collect the A/Q “Goal Posts” and $2600.00. George & Jimmy reported not having but 1 keeper in the boat at noon, but at 12:30 the bite turned on with their American Rodsmiths rods & Curado reels spooled with 20 lb big game line. George hung a fish of a life time for most anglers to land a huge bass, a 12.27 lber to anchor their bag for the win and a total of $2840.00.
Pete Elliot from Vidor & Danny Cherry from Kountze, Tx fished together today and gathered up their 5 bass and ended up with 17.93 lbs to finish in 2nd place and collect $1100.00.
Chris McCall from Jasper & Pete Shivers from Kirbyville, Tx ran Chris’s A&W wrapped bass rig to numerous areas on the lake to catch their best 5 bass to bring to the scales to capture 3rd place and $600.00. Mike Dorcz from Humble & Eddie Harrison from Huffman, Tx powered Mike’s Bullet/Mercury bass rig to numerous creek areas with grass ledges to catch their best 5 bass of 16.99 lbs to garner 4th place and $400.00 for their day on the water.
Jeff Jackowski & Kevin Ekdall finished their day with their limit of 5 bass at 16.41 lbs and collected 5th place and $350.00. Stan & Steve Burgay finished in 6th place with 16.12 lbs and collected $325.00. Steve & David Morton finished their day in 7th place with 15.11 lbs and collected $300.00. Jason Reyes & Jeremy Murray finished in 8th place with 14.87 lbs in one of the TIREMAX wrapped Ranger/Yamaha boats and collected the last check of $250.00.
Anglers Quest will be back on Big Sam on February 18 for the 2nd of the 5 Super Team Series events. Enter these events anytime at Needmore Tackle or call A/Q at 281-852-8842.
Anglers Quest 2007 Rules & Schedules are now posted on our Anglers Quest web site. Anglers Quest wants to Thank 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, Check-It Stik, FishingWorld.com, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, LMC Marine Center, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Needmore Tackle, StyleTile.net, Superior Paint Works Inc., TIREMAX, Wiesner Dodge.
God Bless & Good Fishing to all…
Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara LongBy: Bill & Barbara Long / Anglers Quest
