Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament 7/25

The tempertatures continue to be over 100 degrees without any significant let up in sight, which is keeping a lot of anglers home instead of fishing the Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament. Because of the 103 degree temperature at take-off there were only twenty-five (25) teams fishing.

Out of the twenty-five teams only seven, 5 fish limits were brought to the scales. There were eight bass four pounds or better, which included four bass weighing five pounds. Big bass of the tournmanet weighed in at 5.88 pounds caught by the team of Delbert Shepherd and Frankie Carroll.
Although there were two limits weighing seventeen pounds, the best bite doesn't pick up until later in the evening, which doesn't help the anglers weighing in at 10:00 P.M. Most of the anglers in the tournament had three or four small keepers weighing between nine and twelve pounds.

Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament 7/18

Another miserable hot and muggy night greeted the twenty-eight (28) teams launching out of PB#2.  The lack of generation and high temperatures has really slowed the bite, especially the bigger bass.  The bite picks up after eleven or twelve, but that doesn't help the anglers fishing the Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament who weigh in at 10:00 P.M. 

Of the twenty-eight teams there were only five, 5 fish limits brought to the scales and six bass four pounds or better.  Big bass of the tournament weighed 5.64 pounds and was caught by the team of Jeff Fishburn and Mike Ruck, who also placed first with 15.59 pounds.  

Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament 7/11

Another hot day with temperatures reaching 96 degrees, which apparently kept a lot of the anglers who normally fish the Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament at home. There were only twenty-seven (27) teams that ignored the high temperatures with hopes of bringing a twenty pound limit to the scales.

Just like all bass tournaments, some anglers said they caught ten or twelve keepers and others said the bite for them was slow and they only had eight or nine bites in the 3 1/2 hour tournament with just two or three keepers.