May 23, 2010
This scribler has enjoyed a week of nature at it’s finest. About ten after 7am each morning, I set out on the porch at Wingate’s in my rocking chair to watch nature wake up. This week a mockingbird began to sit on the electric lines across the parking lot. About every 30 to 45 seconds, it would jump and fly up about 12 feet, grab a bug and set back on the wire, chirping the whole time. This goes on for about 45 minutes and it’s stops, no chirping or feeding, and disappears. Nature at it’s best.
The Bass and Crappie was the best fish this week with Bream a close third. With the big catches of Bass that has been taken on most anything from Top Water to White Spinner Baits and Drop Shots, man, it has been great! Now some dang good catches of Crappie has been made most every day this week. One boat had 12 that was near 2 lbs. each.
Bream (Red Bellies) was taken on Crickets. What I mean, there was some (5) that weighed in at 1 lb. each.
We were glad to see the B.F.L. come to Bainbridge Saterday for a one day tournament with 114 boats fishing. They were disappointed Saturday morning and were really perplexed. But, lots of fish came in and the fishermen made this statement, “Seminole is Back!” The 3rd place co-angler, Tim Noonan of Monticello, GA had 5 fish at 18.03 lbs. with Jevaris Johnson of Ackworth, GA with 5 at 20.01 lbs., the #1 place went to Joseph Renfroe of Jasper, GA. The closest local was Don Mullis with 4 at 6.11 lbs. Mr. Keith Norris of Nashville with one at 8.03 lbs.
The angler 3rd place man had 5 fish that tipped at 20.07 lbs. The 2nd place man was Lee Boutwell of Climax, GA with 22.14 lbs. of Bass and No. 1 Place was Ed Wilkerson of Sneads, FL with 25.12 lbs. of Bass. The Big Fish of the angler side was Ed Wilkerson of Sneads with one at 8.10 lbs.
That was a great set too – 1567 lbs. of Bass was taken. If it had been a 3 day tournament, approximately 4500 lbs. of Bass would have been caught.
Gov. Purdue has allotted the money for the new launching ramps to be built at the boat basin in Bainbridge. We find out that the Corps of Engineers has to sign off on the permit. They haven’t. A delegation from Bainbridge should go to Mobile and find out why. They will run over you if you let them!!!
The Hydrilla Gnats fished out of Wingate’s on Sunday with the following results: 1st Place went to Gene Smith with 15.92 lbs., 2nd place went to Mike Sloan with 15.08 lbs. and 3rd place went to Chris Neely with 9.72 lbs. Big Fish was caught by Mike Sloan and weighed 5.98 lbs.
Gene Smith, winner of the Hydrilla Gnat's Club Tournament out of Wingate's on Sunday
Jayson Myers with a nice 5.51 pounder he caught in the same tournament
Mike Sloan, with the Big Fish that weighed 5.987 lbs. from that tournament
Blaze Allen, age 8 years, with a few of the 15 Stripers he caught on Spoons 
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