Crowd at TP&W holding tank watching big live
Trout survive a tournament. |
Second place team Ryder Green and Bryan Wolfe of Corpus Christi. |
Watkins, Webb Dominate "BAFFIN BASH"
39 OF 44 Big Trout Brought In
ALIVE |
Mother Nature blew with a fury, west and north on
Saturday, then strong out of the southeast on Sunday. But these guys are
good! 36 of 41 weigh-in fish were ALIVE and put into the TP&W hatchery holding tank. Three more just under 20" were also put in the tank. According to TP&W biologist Robert Adami, 32 have survived since the tournament. Many will breed sometime next month. |
74 anglers grinded it out in the "Baffin Bash" on
the weekend of Feb. 22-23 facing the toughest challenge
imaginable. |
lead sponsors Texas R.F.A.
and All-Star Graphite Rods. Thanks also to Interstate Battery of Victoria, weighmaster Rocky Guerra of Roy's Bait and Tackle, and Marker 37 Marina for the fine home base for the weigh-in. |
Many thanks to the sponsors who made this tournament
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the championship with an unbelievable performance in
the toughest weather imaginable. They weighed in the maximum of 8 fish, all alive, and had a Bash record- breaking total of 55 lbs. 3 oz., counting the live bonuses. Watkins was in the zone. |
Jay Watkins with his LIVE 9 lb. 10 oz. "big girl" just before being put into hatchery holding tank. |
2003 |
Saltwater
Angler's |
The team of Jay Watkins of
Rockport and Cliff Webb of Corpus Christi
captured |
Webb took him to his Baffin honey holes and Watkins caught the three biggest Trout in the tournament, including a 9 lb. 10 oz. "pig" on Saturday, which may be the largest Trout ever weighed in an organized Texas Trout tournament. On Sunday, Watkins caught another almost as big, at 9 lb. 2 oz. The winds were so brutal on Sunday that only 11 fish over 20" were weighed in, with the top two teams claiming seven of those. For four straight years, the winds of February and March have hammered us in the "Bash" and these talented big Trout anglers have never had two good weather days to really show their stuff. I am considering moving the "Baffin Bash" to middle or late January next year to try and escape the gale force winds. |
2003 "Baffin Bash" champions Cliff Webb and Jay Watkins. |