February 22, 2003
Lake D'Arbonne, LA
Rogillio And Gates Take North Central Louisiana
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| Rogillio
And Gates |
Williams
And Williams |
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| Sellers
And Thompson |
Grant
And Piquiet |
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Two day's of heavy rain
brought D'arbonne Lake up 18 inches Friday night, and
it continued to rise during the North Central Louisiana
Anglers Choice tournament on Saturday. This was the
first event of the year for the circuit and the 44 teams
that fished had to fight 25 mile per hour winds, dropping
temperatures and rain throughout the day.
When it was all said and
done the team that has proven over and over that it
can deal with adverse conditions on this lake, did it
again. Henry Rogillio and Chris Gates used Henry's famous
D'Arbonne jig to bring in a 5 fish limit weighing 19.33
pounds to take the 1st place check for $1475.00 and
the Bass Cat Bonus Bucks Award worth $1000.00 toward
the purchase of a new Bass Cat Boat.
Chad and Gerald Williams were close behind Gates and
Rogillio with 5 fish that tipped the scales to 19.19
pounds. The Williams duo caught there fish in the mid
lake area on spinnerbaits, and although most of the
competitors said the bite was over early, Gerald said
most of there big fish came late in the day. Chad and
Gerald, fishing there first Anglers Choice tournament,
took home a check for $735.00.
The third place stringer
was caught by the team of Joe Sellers and Kelvin Thompson.
Like all of the other contenders they caught there fish
on jigs and spinnerbaits. There 5 fish limit weighed
in at 17.00 pounds and earned them a check for $660.00.
Larry Pardue served notice
that he is back from shoulder surgery, by teaming with
his nephew Shannon to post a 14.06 pound limit that
was good enough to grab the fourth place check for $540.00.
The team's weapon of choice was also the spennerbait
fished in the mid lake area.
Rounding out the top eight
teams was: 5th Stan and Scott Smith 13.66 pounds for
$460.00. 6th Ken Lantrip and Chad Podey 13.00 pounds
for $390.00. 7th Jereme Grant and Kirby Piquiet 12.67
pounds for $355.00. 8th Bill Atkins and Chris Morgan
12.15 pounds for $295.00.
The Big Bass of the event
was caught by the team of Jeremy Grant and Kirby Piquiet
on a spinnerbait. The 7.80 pound fish paid $440.00.
We would like to thank
the owners of the D'Arbonne Lake Marina for there help
by offering to let us use there restaurant for registration
and the parking lot for our weigh in.
We encourage all of our anglers to support them.
Our next North Central
Louisiana tournament will be March the 22nd on Lake
Claiborne Registration and weigh in will be at the Pleasure
Point Marina. We'll see you at the lake.
Dale & Gayle Taylor
Tournament Directors
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