6-15-2013 ICA Lake Monroe

On 6-15-2013 the ICA held the 4th points tournament on Lake Monroe. 27 boats showed up for this tourney. This was my first time at this lake and i did not pre-fish it at all. It has a reputation as a great flathead lake so i decided to target flatheads only for this tourney. This was a mistake. My son Brandon Wallace fished this tourney with me. I made a game plan before hand. We got there pretty early and started catching more bluegill on the docks. When it was time to start i left for the deeper part of the lake and some coves i planned to fish. When it got dark i decided to take the ride down to the dam and fish deep. It took a while and on the way i noticed the thermacline was at about 17 foot. So i hit a cove down by the dam hoping there may be fish close to the deeper water. I soon realized that this was not a good idea and decided to go back to the first place i looked at in shallower water. So we made the long boat ride back up the lake. I found an area i marked alot of fallen trees in and fished there with no luck. We had what looked like a nasty storm about to hit us so i decided to stay close but just beach the front of the boat on this hill right next us and use the hill as a wind break. We threw out gills all around us and sat there for the rest of the night. About 3:30 am we get a run and i can tell its a decent fish. I get it in and its a nice 17.2lb flathead. I threw another gill out right there and within 20 minutes had another really good run but i missed that fish. I moved around a little staying right on the bank and just could not hook up into another fish. At weigh in we found out Marry Jane and Terry Lee Holding caught a nice 29lb flathead about 30 minutes before it was time to head in. Had they not caught that fish ours would have won big fish. From what we could tell most of the fish came from the opposite direction we went up in the really shallow part of lake.

Results: (F=fish,c=channel, f=flathead, b=blue, BF=Big Fish weighed in)
1. Ted King/Jerry Shepherd – 6F – 3c,3f – 57.6lbs BF – 12.6lbs $540.00
2. Mary Jane Wood/Terry Holding – 6F – 5c,1f – 49.1lbs BF – 29.1lbs (Won big fish of tourney) $590.00
3. Casey Tutorow/John LeMaster – 5F – 4c,1f – 36.6lbs BF – 10.1lbs $220.00
4. George LeMaster/Ron Streeter, Cory LeMaster – 6F – 5c,1f – 28.6lbs BF – 8.8lbs
5. Paul Meyer/Rusty Collier – 6F – 6c – 25.1lbs BF – 7.2lbs
6. Leonard and Julie Heise – 6F – 6c – 21.5lbs BF – 7.1lbs
7. Curtis Kleeman/Joe Gonder – 6F – 6c – 18.2lbs BF – 7.2lbs
8. Chris and Brandon Wallace – 1F – 1f – 17.2lbs BF – 17.2lbs
9. Larry and Dylan Terrell – 4F – 2c,2f – 17.2lbs BF – 10.0lbs
10. Chuck Breedlove/James Halcomb – 3F – 3c – 16.9lbs BF – 6.1lbs
11. Lloyd Tanner/Robert Jancaric – 3F – 3c – 16.2lbs BF – 9.9lbs
12. Brian, Rylan and Jim Crockett – 4F – 4c – 16.1lbs BF – 5.7lbs
13. Tom Bartlett/Brad Fix – 5F – 5c – 12.8lbs BF – 5.3lbs
14. Tyler Smith/Jeffery Mitchner – 3F – 3c – 12.7lbs BF – 7.6lbs
15. Brent McClellan/Hector Carillo/Jason Meece – 3F – 3c – 11.7lbs BF – 4.7lbs
16. Scott Wiseman/Roy Klinger (sub) – 6F – 6c – 11.0lbs BF – 5.2lbs
17. Heath and Jason Malone – 5F – 5c – 10.9lbs BF – 4.5lbs
18. Bill Lookabill/Mike Mazur – 3F – 3c – 9.5lbs BF – 5.1lbs
19. Dale Denny/Dave Simmons – 3F – 3c – 6.9lbs BF – 4.6lbs
20. Stanley Thompson/Richard Nungester – 2F – 2c – 6.5lbs BF – 3.0lbs
21. Tim Hildebrand/Justin Hildebrand – 3F – 3c – 5.7lbs BF – 2.8lbs
22. Chris Nungester/Joe Bowser – 1F – 1c – 1.6lbs BF – 1.6lbs
23-27 No fished weighed in.