Tournament Results
Barry Bennett and Len Bevan team up to win Mattawa
As teams rolled into Mattawa at 5.30am for the 6th qualifyer of the year, the morning fog settled down on the
river. No one semmed to mind, as it gave everyone time to get a coffee at Belangers Outdoors and tease thier
fellow anglers, pay the entree fees, and tie thier lures for the day on the water.
The great thing about this Series is that no one thinks they are better than anyone else, and you are sure
to get tips from your fellow anglers first thing in the morning like, ( dont grow corn in the winter), or
that old red and white Dare Devil is good on this water today.
At 7.30am the fog lifted and the teams took off everywitchway to find Bass. One team that made the right call was
Barry Bennett and Len Bevan. They had spent Monday , Tuesday, and Wendsday locating fish in different areas
and hoped that they would make the right call Saturday morning. Thats always a big problem on any lake or river
as Bass can dissapear in the blink of a eye, and you can only get to one spot at a time. If you pick the wrong
one, chances are your other spots will have anglers on them and you just lost the event.
Saturday thier luck held, and the team managed to catch 15.58lbs just which was good enough to take 1st place.
Mattawa saw a lot of new teams this year, and one of those teams was Don McDonald and Bruce Robertson. The team
only missed 1st place by 1.26 of a pound which is is not very much in a Bass Tournament. Don and Bruce brought
14.32lbs to the scales to take 2cd place.
Another new team Nelson Baptiste and Sharon Fullford showed they can catch Bass just as good as any of the teams
around and came to the scales with 13.94lbs which would give them 3rd place.
The Big Fish would go to Brent and Darren Belanger with a 4.50lb Smallmouth
I think in the next few years you are going to see alot of changes to the leader board, as more and more new
teams come out to fish in the Tournament Series and the prize money gets bigger.
As everyone knows we are none profit, that means everybody pitches in to help out, and I have to thank
Shelley,Lorri Ann, Taylor, Ellie, Brent and Darren and Steve for all the great work they do to make the Mattawa
Tournament run smoothly.
Stay Safe Have Fun.
Dave LaFontaine
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