Anglers Quest Rayburn Saturday Team #6
Anglers Quest 2013 Sam Rayburn Saturday Team Series #6 out of The Umphrey Pavilion at Sam Rayburn, Tx began this event with 100 teamed anglers showing up to fish for the $8725.00 purse. Any team entering 6 of the Sam Rayburn Saturday Series events will automatically qualify for the 2-day Rayburn Championship. The top team in points after the series will be declared the Team Anglers of the Year and will be awarded free entries to all 2014 Rayburn Saturday Series events. The teams entering all 8 Rayburn Saturday series events will automatically qualify for all 3 of the Lakes Saturday Series 2-day Championships. Any team qualifying for any A/Q Championship will be allowed to enter the “Tournament of Champions” on October 23-27 at Toledo Bend.
This 6th event of 2013 was started at 5:50 am. Sam Rayburn water was in good shape and 1.77 feet below normal pool level with water temps ranning 79-82 degrees. The weather at takeoff was a calm 72 degrees with a warming to 90 degrees by weigh in time. The fish catching was good on Big Sam today as there were 24 limits brought to the scales, for a total of 138 bass at 336.14 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.43 lb.
The team of Tommy Hill & Bubba Frazier from Kountze, Tx ran Tommy’s Bullett/Mercury bass rig to north lake areas with grass to catch their bass throwing frogs & top water baits in 3-5 ft of water. They managed to cull a number of times to finish in 1st place with 19.16 lbs. Tommy caught the 8.04 lb Big Bass of the event on the 1st cast of the day. This win made them $2825.00 for their day on the water.
The team of Rusty Clark from Sam Rayburn, Tx & Cory Rambo from Orange, Tx ran Cory’s Ranger/Yamaha from Premier Yamaha Boats in Beaumont, Tx to north lake areas to catch their bass throwing c-rigged worms & lizards along with top water River2Sea proto-type pop n frogs in 1-5 ft of water. They managed to cull from many keepers to finish in 2nd place with 18.16 lbs and made them $1450.00 for their day on the water. Rusty & Cory want to Thank all of their sponsors: West LTD, Pro Cure, River2Sea, Daley’s Hunt & Fish, Castaway Rods, River City Hospice, G&G Enterprise, Humminbird, Minn Kota & Ranger Boats.
The father & son team of Stan & Steve Burgay from Timpson, Tx ran their bass rig to mid & north lake creek areas to probe the grassy areas holding bass to bring 18.10 lbs to the scales. They finished in 3rd and collected $750.00 for their day on the water.
The team of N Dee Williams from Cushing, Tx & Jeff Wise from Lufkin, Tx ran N Dee’s Ranger/Evinrude bass rig to mid lake creek areas over grass to catch their bass throwing Stanley 1/2 oz spinner baits in 3-7 ft of water. They managed to cull several times to finish in 4th place with 17.41 lbs. The team wanted to give special Thanks to The Boat Center at Lake Palestine for the awesome service they provide. This made them $700.00 for their day on the water. The team of John Scott III from Nacogdoches, Tx & Jody Norsworthy from Jasper, Tx finished in 5th with 16.28 lbs. This finish made them $650.00 for their day on the water. The team of Mike Needham & Todd Gualandri finished in 6th with 16.12 lbs and collected $600.00. The team of Shelby Shaw & Lance Hughes finished in 7th with 15.74 lbs and collected $550.00.
There were 10 places paid in this event. The entire results from this and all A/Q events put on by Anglers Quest can be viewed at the anglers-quest website.
The Sam Rayburn Resort is now giving away to 1st place out of the money a Stay & Play package valued at $200.00 for each of the Rayburn team events. Corbett Ross & Ronnie Bickham were the recipients of this package at this event. The Foremost Insurance Group through The Salamone Agency in Jasper & Kirbyville, Tx has come on board with A/Q to offer a great incentive bonus program for owning a Foremost policy?check out the details on our site. Rusty Clark was the $200.00 bonus winner at this event making him an additional $200.00.
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, The Foremost Group..ie The Salamone Agency, The Sam Rayburn Resort, Bowden Marine, Power Pole “Captains Cash”, Solar Bat Sunglasses, Martel’s Rhino Bed Liners, Buster McNutty’s Gift Cards and PAA membership bonus. Please read the qualifications for these great incentives on our Anglers Quest web site.
Anglers Quest will be back on Lake Houston for the 11th of 23 Tuesday evening events on June 4th. On June 8th Anglers Quest will be back at Lake Livingston for the 6th of 8 Saturday Series events. On June 9th A/Q will be back at Lake Houston for the 6th Individual event of the year. Then A/Q will be back on Lake Houston on June 11th & 18th for the 12th & 13th of the 23 Tuesday events.
NOTE Anglers Quest in an effort to increase entries in the Individual Series events on Lake Livingston & Lake Houston has switched the dates of the 2 series events to make the Individual events not fall on the same weekend as the Team events. The 3 remaining Livingston Individual events will be on June 23-July 21-August 18. The 3 remaining Houston Individual events will be on June 9-July 14-August 4. We do hope this change does not cause anyone any inconvenience?we are trying to make these 2 series better for you and A/Q.
Anglers Quest still accepts Credit Cards. Pre enter any event and you DO NOT have to report to the A/Q bus the morning of the events. Call Mr Bill or Barbara Long at 281-852-8842 for any information or entry.
Anglers Quest suggest the use of these sponsors products & services: Automated Mailing Solutions, Bowden Marine Sales & Service, Buster McNuttys, Check-It Stik, City of Jasper, Tx-Chamber, City of Onalaska, Custom Built Awards, Executive Security Integrators, FishingWorld.com, Foremost Insurance Group, Foster Fence Ltd, Freeway Truck Sales, Jasper Economic Development District #1, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lone Star Buffet, Martel’s Welding Works, Need More Tackle, Power Pole, Rayburn Country Resort, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, Sabine County Tourism, Solar Bat Sunglasses, Superior Paint Works Inc., The Stump Bar & Grill, Tri County Construction Co., Vincent Turf Farms,
God Bless & Good Fishing to All….
Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara Long
By: Bill & Barbara Long, Anglers Quest
