The 2016 season is behind us. And let’s just start by saying it was an interesting season.

Ed with lunkers from season opener

First, this was the first season in the history of SRIBA where we canceled a tournament and didn’t make it up. So we fished an abbreviated 8 tournament schedule, instead of the usual 9 tourneys.

We also had some tourneys with very low winning weights, such as our night tourney at Gardner Lake, with a winning weight of 8.50 lbs. and a tourney lunker of 2.39 lbs. The worst tourney of the year, though, was at the Quinebaug River, with a 6.80 lb. winning weight.

Final weight for Isaac Claros, who came from behind to grab the AOY title at the very last tournament was 78.51, about 20 lbs. less than the AOY weight for 2015. Continue reading →