Day two and the final day to make something happen to win the Bass Cat Saber/Mercury package valued over $30,000 would take FAN and the 25 teams toStillhouse Hollow Reservoir.Stillhouse is known for its big bass; however, as luck would have it this Central Texas jewel has not been shining too well this year. Most anglers know one good fish could change anything on days two with the weights that were brought in on day one. Most folks had their money on Dale and Jake with a respectful margin on the other team, but again it only take one solid bite to make up that margin.
The team regrouped Saturday morning atStillHouse Park at theStillhouse Hollow Marina with the breeze kicking up a little more and the potential threat of a thunderstorms lurking on the early morning horizon. This is where we hear Dale Read praying for the lightning storm to roll in and possibly call the event.
Fortunately, the weather moves off to the north east and Dale and Jake prepare along with the rest of the chaser to make this day a big one.
As the boats are released, the sky’s clear up somewhat, however, the wind did not. Wind gusts up to 30 plus miles an hour wreak havoc on the anglers trying to control their fishing spots or head to calmer waters in coves and breaks on the lake.
Even the FAN staffs have to make some adjustments as a few rain storms crash down on the weigh-in site.
The rain lets up and the time for the teams to check in is approaching as the excitement builds to see who "got r done".
As the teams approached the scales, the stories of a tough day repeat themselves with only 4 limits. Tim Dixon and Keith Cummins holding on to second place and come in with 2 fish at 2.90 taking them out of the race, and Team Reed, and Ronnie and Jeff still have not weighed in. As more teams weigh in, it looks like a shootout between Team Read and Ronnie and Jeff. With the final weights tallied, Ronnie and Jeff bring in a 12.60 limit with a 4.75 kicker largemouth bass over Dale and Jakes 9.47 pound limit giving Ronnie and Jeff a 2.04 pound victory and they take home the 2011 Bass Cat Saber/ Mercury Package..
Ronnie reveals day 2 on the lake
"Saturday we started on a C-rig spot looking for a catch-up fish that did not happen. We then went to shallow grass for a couple of barely keepers, but the bites were not as they were in practice. Plan A and B did not work so on to plan C. Jeff began throwing a shallow running crank bait and catching fish. We ended the day with Jeff catching 2 fish at the same time with both of them culling fish we already had. One of the fish was the big bass for day two."
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Dale details day 2 onStillhouse Hollow
Jake and I head straight to the shallow road bed behind the island and start throwing blades and cranks, nothing biting. We had caught several small keepers there in practice but could not buy a bite. We work our way out the road and start catching small fish on T-rigSenkos and power worms. We catch 8 to 10 small fish before I catch our first keeper on a Crank bait. The camera boats comes buy and Jake and I both catch small fish for the crew. They leave and we catch another 14" fish but nothing good is going on. We leave and head back to the Dam. Jake and I keep catching short fish with nothing to put in the box, I ask Jake if the is up for fighting the wind and do what we did on Friday throwing Flukes on wind-blown banks and he agrees. We head to a North bank and start catching keeper fish on the flukes in the wind, our first pass we fill our limit. Then we started culling our second pass down the bank. Jake catches a nice 2 1/2 to 3 lb. small mouth and I catch several more small mouths. We are having a blast catching fish at this point and stay with this pattern for the next 3 to 4 hours. Think we were going to be in good contention for a win with a 9-10 pound sack of fish. All we could do is wait and see what the other anglers could do
Day 2 and Final top 101 Ronnie Trower-JeffPitrucha 5/5 12.60 4.75 12.60 11.27 23.87
2 Dale Read-Jake Read 5/5 9.47 9.47 12.36 21.83
3 Chris Washington-JarridHohensee 4/4 6.99 6.99 10.28 17.27
4 Travis Jones Jr.-Jason Jones 5/5 9.51 9.51 7.13 16.64
5 Lee Buershausen-Lance Dillard 4/4 6.51 6.51 9.44 15.95
6 Jacky Roberts-Ken Wilkins 2/2 6.91 4.42 6.91 8.60 15.51
7 Tim Dixon-Kenneth Cummins 2/2 2.90 2.90 11.36 14.26
8 Russell Truitt-Chris Baker 3/3 4.15 4.15 9.72 13.87
9 Glyn Kennedy-Joseph Kennedy 5/5 9.23 9.23 4.01 13.24
10 Roger Boling-Jerral Boling 3/3 5.81 2.88 5.81 7.35 13.16
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