Posted by Edward D. Bohn from 152.163.204.73 on July 08, 2001 at 23:44:46:
Twenty-six teams brought 82 largemouth or smallmouth to the scales that weigh-in at a total of 168.05 pounds. Only two teams of the twenty-six failed to bring a single fish to add to the total. Four of the teams had six fish limits.
In a repeat of Father's Day the team of Howard and Chris Malinowski (Alsip) ($590.00) managed to out weigh the field with a total weigh of 16.57 lbs. "We pretty much fished the same area as we did last tournament, but a little bit shallower" said Chris. "My dad was out yesterday and found that with the full moon a few days ago that some of the smallmouth were still moving to the shallows to spawn. So we capitalized on it." On the weigh-in stand Howard was asked what was your best bait today? His reply, "tubes" Then asked what color? "pink", was his reply, which got a laugh from the weigh-in crowd. Do you think you and your son can do the three peat next tournament? "Going to try" said Howard.
This is the forth time that the same team has won back to back CRBT tournaments with the team of Ed and Chris Bohn of Alsip did it once in the 1999 season and then twice in 2000. Never has a team won a three peat. The second pay slot ($329) was fill by the brother team of Michael (Orland Park) and Joseph Nega (Chicago) with there six fish limit of Lake Michigan smallmouth weighing 14.65 lbs. One of there smallmouth just missed big bass honors. It weigh 3.42 lbs. Michael told the crowd that they moved around a lot and fished more areas of the lake then in past tournaments. Third place ($219) went to Jeff Miller (Midlothain) and his partner Allen Huhra (Joliet). "We when hunting for big fish today and could only manage the four" said Jeff. There weight for the four fish was 10.90 with there bigest being a 3.08 smallmouth.
The last two pay spots went to, forth place($137) Mark Howe (Chicago Hieghts) and team mate Russ Heusmann (Chicago Hieghts) with six fish at 10.87 lbs. Fifth place ($98) David Matual (Chicago) and fellow police officer Carlos Ferrer (Chicago) 10.79 lbs. Big bass of the tournament ($260) was 3.57 lbs by the team of Jim DaRosa and Mike Norris.
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