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1ST PLACE: Kenny Pannell of Springville, who is a Contractor and Lawrence Curd of Trussville, who drives a truck for AAA Cooper took home the 1st Place Guarantee of $2500 with an impressive limit that weighed 20.50 lbs. Their dominate baits were a 5/8 oz. Black/Blue LC Jig, built by Lawrence Curd who has been making them for several years and an Ace Spinnerbait. The team generally likes to fish up river this time of year, but after spending 7 days on the water in the Gadsden area, they had eliminated 2/3 of the water and decided their best chance was to go down about mid lake. They had their limit by 7:30 and knew they had some luck going their way when they hooked their biggest fish 5.50 lbs. and lost it, but pitched right back in the same bush and caught her again.
2nd PLACE: James Kennedy, who owns a Beverage Store, and Kenny Bowen, who owns and operates his own Sawmill and both from Boaz missed taking home the purse by 29/100’s of an ounce. Their limit weighed 19.21 lbs., but their bag also had one of the Big Bass of the tournament in it, which was worth another $225 to bring their total payout to $1075. They fished around the islands below the Hwy 77 Bridge using a Lucky Craft Pointer Jerkbait and a Rat L Trap to sack their limit within 15 minutes of starting the tournament. As the day got brighter they found it harder to cull their smallest fish that weighed 3 ½ lbs. James and Kenny are also fishing the Choice Division in Anglers Choice where we will take your best of 7 tournaments or one of the other S. E. Regional Tournament Trials to qualify for the Championship.
3rd PLACE: Gene Ward, a retired Fireman for the City of Gadsden and Kevin Maddox of Alexandria also made their decision to fish mid lake around the islands below the Hwy 77 Bridge and also had their limit by 7:30 am using a white tandem willow leaf spinnerbait with a trailer hook. With both the water temperature and the lake level on the rise they found staging fish in 2-3 foot of water in the morning but as the sun got up, they had to pull out to 5-6 foot to better their limit.
I’d like to thank Al Murray and the City of Gadsden for their sponsorship and support of the Neely Henry Super Teams and the Guaranteed 1st Place. The next Super Teams Tournament will be on June 5th and 6th, a two day tournament with a Guaranteed 1st Place of $5000. This tournament will also count as fishing two individual tournaments to qualify for the Championship on Neely Henry on October 6th thru the 9th.
Our next tournament for the N. E. Alabama Teams will be on April 10 on Logan Martin going out of Lakside Marina and April 24 on Lake Guntersville going out at Waterfront Tackle.
Thanks to our Team Trail Sponsors for their support Carl Black Auto Group in Kennesaw Georgia the #1 GMC dealer in the USA, Jim Shank and the Krystal Fishing Team, Waterfront Tackle, Strike King Lures, Will Fowler and Frog Toggs, First Choice Marble, Weiss Lake Landing, Rat L Trap, Al’s Top Shop, Guntersville Boat Mart and Hampton Inns of Guntersville.
Thanks to Lynn Johnson and Johnson’s Giant Foods and Buffalo Rock for supplying the drinks for the teams and the following Restuarants for contributing draw prizes for the tournament : Top of the River, Red Lobster, Uncle Sam’s BBQ, Ryan’s Restaurants, El Tapatio Mexican Restaurants and the Lucky Star Chinese Buffet and Mi Casita Mexican Restaurant. |
