SRIBA members chased river bass during scattered showers and cloudy skies today, trying to nail down those elusive river lunkers.
Conditions weren’t ideal, but most anglers managed to find fish and fill their livewells.
At the end of the day, all but one member of SRIBA had brought a limit to the scales. Weights were close across the boards, but when the weigh-in was finished, Curt Snow and Steve Burke had clinched the top two spots.
Curt brought 5 fish to the scales that weighed in at 8.99 lbs. and included the tournament lunker of 2.51 lbs. Curt found the fish scattered and caught them from a variety of locations and types of cover.
Steve also had 5 fish, which weighed in at 8.54 lbs. Steve said he caught fish from a lot of different areas and just covered a lot of water to catch his limit and cull his smaller fish over the course of the day.
Rounding out the top three, Dave Royer weighed in 5 bass that tipped the scales at 7.93 lbs. Dave, as with everyone else, caught his fish from a wide variety of areas over the course of the day.
SRIBA anglers weighed in a total of 39 bass for a total weight of 57.80 lbs. and an average fish weight of 1.48 lbs. Average number of fish per angler was 4.88 with an average weight per angler of 7.23 lbs. All 39 bass were returned alive to the water, for a 100% release rate.
Congratulations to Curt, Steve and Dave for their great bags of fish!