Puyallup Hawg Hunters 2009 Hi Lites

Puyallup Hawg Hunters
2009 in Review

code=iabIASYScom.class width=600 height=225> value=www.iasys.com> value=#336699> value=#000000> value=#ffffff> value="arial|bold|16"> value="arial|bold|14"> value=#000000> value=sequential> value="Click here for more details"> value="Sammamish Open|Sam_Open_09_1st_300.jpg|The Team of Greg Johnson and Kevin Sieczkarek win the Sammamish Open with 15.60 Pounds to edge out 20 other teams and Tag Watson & Jorden Doucet by 1/2 Pound. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Lake_Sam_Open_2009_Results.html"> value="Sammamish Club Tournament|sam_2009_1st_place_300.jpg|Shawn McDaniel wins the Club Tournament on Lake Sammamish in early April by 1/4 of a pound over Daniel Thomas with 9.25 pounds including the tournament big fish of 5.34 pounds. 28 anglers fished the tournament with 11 anglers bringing fish to the scales. Most unusual for this tournament was that no largemouths were caught. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Sammamish_4-5-09_Club_Results.html"> value="Lake Roosevelt|roosevelt_2009_tom_300.jpg|Tom Melowitz wins the late April Roosevelt Tournament with 27.61 pounds which included a 16 pound bag on Saturday with two 4 pound plus smallies. 32 Anglers fished the second tournament of the year with Roosevelt down approximately 30 feet below full pool. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Roosevelt_2009_Results.html"> value="Jamboree on Banks|2009_Jamboree_1.jpg|The club finished 5th with 21 members and guests fishing for the club. We again ran the Kids Casting contest high lighted by by Makalya White winning the 0 - 6 age group. 3 members finished in the top 10: Jaymee - 3rd, Tom - 5th and Hoss - 9th.|"> value="Whatcom|what_09_1st_300.jpg|Kenny G wins at Whatcom in early June with 28.04 pounds for 2 days with 21 anglers fishing. There were 16 limits on Saturday but only 6 limits on Sunday. The results on Sunday were probably caused by a Saturday night cold front that brought cloudy skies and stong Sunday winds. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Whatcom_2008_Results.html"> value="Federation Qualifier on Banks||The club averaged 8.03 pounds per member, with 5 team members in the top 20 and the winner, Chris Ferry, a club buy in. With only 26 boats participating the field was smaller than expected. There were 2 other tournaments on Banks during the Qualifier but it was hard to find boats because Banks fished so big. The weather was great with mild winds. Chris caught his fish on the south end on tubes early and drop shotting later while Hoss found beds on the north end late in the day. Tom, who caught a dozen keepers on jerk baits, said he made a mistake by going south for the 1st 6 hours. Water temps were 57 degrees at Coulee Playland, in the high 60's in mid lake and mid to low 60's on the south end. Individual finishes: Hoss - 3rd, Dez - 6th, Tom - 8th, Kenny G - 13th, Daniel - 17th, Ryan Gates - 24th, Gerald - 25th, Jaymee - 28th, Ryan Fattore - 36th, Shawn - 41st, Mike Peters - 46th|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_Fed_Qualifiers.htm"> value="Moses Lake|moses_2009_1st_300.jpg|Emmanual Villarreal Gonzalez wins at Moses Lake with 20.56 pounds nosing out Shawn McDaniel who led Emmanual by over 7 pounds after day 1. The largemouth bite was pretty tough with only 11 brought to the scales while 66 smallies were weighed including several nice fish. Emmanual caught his fish with the boat in 17 feet casting to 8 feet. His fish came on a football head on Saturday and drop shotting on Sunday.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com//Moses_2009_Results.html"> value="Rife Lake|Rife_2009_1st_300.jpg|Under very windy conditions Ken Ganancial finished first with 11.55 Pounds just nosing out Shawn McDaniel by .27 pounds. Kenny caught a limit by 8:30 am on the Cosmos Flat in 18-26 feet drop shotting Sand Sniper Snubs. He caught fish on the flat all day. At 1:00 pm he moved to a deep weed edge near a river channel and caught 3 fish that helped him cull up using the same technique of drop shotting sand snubs in 18-26 ft. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Riffe_2009_Results.html"> value="1st Qualifier on Washington||Chris Ferry won his second straight Federation Qualifier by over 2 and a half pounds with 16.91 pounds. Other club members doing well: Tom Melowitz - 3rd with 14.07 pounds, Mike Peters - 8th with 11.25 pounds, Dez Ruffin - 9th with 10.7 pounds, Ken Ganancial - 11th with 9.89 pounds. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_Fed_Qualifiers.htm"> value="2nd Qualifier on Washington||The club again did well. Top finishers: Chris Ferry - 2nd with 13.99 pounds, Mike Peters - 5th with 9.95 pounds, Dez Ruffin - 10th with 9.15 pounds, Mike Hostetter - 11th with 8.53 pounds, Jaymee Strasbaugh - 12th with 8.23 pounds.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_Fed_Qualifiers.htm"> value="FLW Qualifiers|2009_state_team_400.jpg|The Puyallup Team took first place in the FLW Qualifiers with 6 club members finishing in the top 14. Chris Ferry is the 2009 Washington State FLW Champion.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_State_Team.html"> value="Pot Holes|pot_holes_2009_1st_300.jpg|Ryan Gates wins his first club tournament on Pot Holes with 14.64 pounds. With water levels rising the fishing was tough with Ryan being the only angler to weigh limits both days. The size and the number of fish were far below what we normally see in Sepetember on Pot Holes. He caught his fish in Lind Coulee fishing a Carolina Rigged Lizard.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Pot_Holes_2009_Results.html"> value="Mickelsen Open|Mick_2009_1st_300.jpg|Shawn McDaniel and Jaymee Strasbaugh win the Mickelsen Open by more than a pound and a half over Tom Librande and Gabe Lowe with 14.85 pounds. Only 3 limits were brought to the scales. It started raining 10 minutes after the blast off and poured until a little after noon when the sun came out and the wind started blowing. It was tough fishing. They caught their fish by drop shotting in the east channel. |http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Mickelsen_2009_Results.html"> value="Lake Washington |Washington_2009_1st_300.jpg|Jaymee Strasbaugh blew the field away by over 6 pounds with his 15.96 pound bag. Only 2 limits were brought to the scales. I caught all of my fish drop shotting a Sniper Snub about 20 inches above a 3/16 oz. Quick Drop weight anywhere from 20 to 35 feet of water. I would locate fish on my graph, back off and finesse them out. I was able to catch 2 good limits on Sunday by doing this bouncing around 3 different spots.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/Washington_October_2009_Results.html"> value="Big Fish of the Year|sam_2009_1st_place_300.jpg|Shawn McDaniel had the big fish of the year weighing 5.34 pounds which he caught on Lake Sammamish with a Iron Giant Green Pumpkin Grub on a 1/2 ounce football head jig.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_10_Big_Fish.html"> value="Most Improved|Washington_2009_Aaron_300.jpg|Aaron Christel was the Most Improved for 2009. He finished 25th in the club standings for 2008 and jumped up to 10th Place in 2009. His improvement of 15 Places easily beat his nearest competitors by nine Improvement Places.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_Most_Improved.html"> value="Angler of the Year|sam_2009_1st_place_300.jpg|Shawn McDaniel won his first Angler of award. A win on Sammamish and top 3 finishes at Whatcom, Moses, Riffe and Washington produced a single point Angler of the Year victory over Kenny G.|http://puyallup-hawg-hunters.com/2009_Point_Standings.htm"> value="Klutz of the Year|2008_banquet_aaron_klutz_300.jpg|Arron Christel, the 'Club Good Luck Charm', was for the second straight year the Klutz of the Year. His exploits on Pot Holes allowed him to edge out a Moses Lake lost Frank White by one vote! |">