Cabelas Shootout May 15-16
 

Where to start??? Lets talk fishing 1st....

Two day event in Orange Texas and Cabelas put on a great tourment with good payouts...

5 tout limit .....Tout 15inch with one over 25inch limit...
Reds....one per team per day slot 20-28inchs

Day1 fishing was tough we weight in 11.11lbs on 4 trout was sitting good with only 1st place really out there with 17lbs...rest was from 14lbs down....

Day 2 we had a better day on trout, caught lots of fish and hit one hell of a school of reds...

Ended up with total 25.85lbs 7th place trout

Redfish 8.65bls one red 1st place(Fool caught it)

Saltycajun.com had some members fishing....I know we had 4 teams from LA fishing plus 2 Texas teams that are members

Places from our members

Evis102 pulled in a good comeback from yesterday to end up top 5 in 5th place

We were 7th

John S and Steven L were 8th

Now the good stuff..........
#1 JoshL is bad luck around new boats.....Micah I know why your new boat never ran!@:D

List of what went wrong
1) Rain
2) Wind
3) Ran out of gas on day one coming back from weigh in....Trolled two miles of the 8 we were lacking to the landing
4) boat only gets about 180miles to the tank running like you stole it
5) Day two 1mile from Landing 5:40am...........WHAM....Merc is down.... Hit something huge in the middle of intracoastal....:pissed::pissed:........... Check damage and seems that the lower until was still there....Dont know how...
Get to landing.....News is not great.... Skeg Bent, Fiberglass on back bottom cut,Prop nicked.......Roll out..were fishing baby....
6) Josh swims at landing trying to check lower unit:*****::*****::*****: twice
7) Bug in eye once getting back up and running
8) Load up with gas cans from run to weight in ..........We run out again...but were ready this time:D

Haynie made the runs and is one tough cookie to hang around josh....
Put 375miles in two days!!

and hurt the living heck out of my ribs or whatever while netting a fish, still got the fish astericks!

How much was the winnings if ya don't mind me asking ?

Good job Fool on the red :D....for putting up with it!:shaking:

There is a gas pump, on the water, at Bridge City Seafood, about 1/2 mile north of the ICW on Cow Bayou. Go North till you see a bridge and it is on the right. Bestest hamburgers in Texas too.
Cow Bayou is just a couple miles West of Orange, North of the ICW, just before you hit the Sabine Lake.

Josh must have a Voodoo hex. 3 tournament outings in a row with the following results:

• Blown powerhead
• Mysterious engine breakage
• Run outta gas
• Damage lower unit

I need to raise my insurance coverage.

Nice job guys and nice fish Fool!!

Send him with me. Then he can have a reef raid too.

fool buy some sun block wit dat check...W starting to think an aluminum hull would have been more your cup of tea with twin 35 hp gatortails instead of the haynie

Heck we did that in West Cove earlier this year. Check that one off the list :work:

Been there.....................................Done That!! LOL

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I was talking reef in west cove, not running out of gas twice!!!:p

I still don't see why you have to run to Orange 4 times in a day.

You must consider the object of the conversation.

Check in and weight in.........Same as any other professorial tournament

Oh so you are one of those guys that fish in other tournaments on other bodies of water, only to make long hauls back to your home waters because you can't catch fish anywhere else types.:p

No because I fish where I know I can catch fish :p:p:p:p I don't potlick Texans........They Potlick us.

BTW......Sabine lake is Loaded with trout...guys caught hundreds of trout this weekend......So why does Texans come to LA to fish:confused::confused::confused:

that wasnt reef we drug, that was sandy bottom:D

Just to get under your skin.

That's two trips. Still too much running.
Shoulda launched in Texas and ran back to Big Lake. Just one round trip.

Just to help push my boat off a reef...:grinpimp:

good job guys and sounds like a hell of a time

oh my :D

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W, Fool.... it was nice meeting yall yesterday at the weigh in. Glad yall came over and fished. Congrats on the Red.

W .. yes lots of trout are caught on Sabine, why do us Texans fish on Big lake ? So we can fish different patterns and catch fish to eat. Why kill ours when we can drive a little way and kill yalls? LOL

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congratulations

talking in front of everyone was easy for fool compared to dancing in the fire ants in front of em

Whoa Now, seems like someone had to tell you to dance out of them also:eek:

never said i didnt, but i wasnt the one being interviewed. the fire ants were a nice addition to the festivities.

lmao...them ants hurt, should of moved the weigh tray over yeah...

here's mr.colburn's article page
http://sabinelake.blogs.com/

I broke my drive shaft off in my lower unit early in the the week so I had to fish my dads boat again. Seems there is lots off bad luck to go around. All our fish died on us so we did not get the .2 pounds for any of our fish. Had a great time and look forward to next year.

did you run from the launch, back to big lake, back to the launch and back to big lake also ??

nah he trailored

I think W likes to race barges. That's why he made 4 trips a day.

At the speeds he can run, going by boat is probqably faster

My dad's boat does 28mph so we trailored. If I would have had my boat I would have launched in Orange and ran to Big Lake.

And we love ramping floating trees, and tearing the bottom of the boat and tearing up the skegs too at 4:45 a.m? :*****:

good job guys!!!

Sounds like an interesting day of tournament fishing. That red must have been a brute! Awesome job guys!

Hey W: "E" stands for EMPTY.......not for "Enough" :rotfl::*****::rotfl:

he thought "E" stood for EDIOT !!!!!!

It does, in his case....He thought that Haynie monogramed his boat with his initial "E"

from the website

This past Saturday May 15th the Cabela's Speckled Trout USA Tournament Trail held a 2-day event at the City of Orange Boat Ramp in Orange, Texas where anglers from as far away as New Hampshire competed for a large payback in the first event of the year.
Taking first place Brian Frederick of Lumberton, Texas and Gary McElduff of Nederland, Texas with a total weight of 33.47 pounds and earning $3,500.00. Brian and Gary were fishing south of Sabine Lake on Day 1 and moved towards the north of Sabine on day 2. The magic colors were dark grey and chrome with a green back. The team said fishing was tough and that they caught 17 fish during the event. They also weighed in all 10 fish alive for a total of a 2lb bonus for the two days helping them win the event by nearly 5lbs!
In second place was the Orange, Texas team of Adam Jaynes and Aaron Hommel weighing in 28.58 pounds and earning $2,000.00. Adam and Aaron were fishing the south end of Sabine Lake catching over 100 fish on day 2 of the competition, jumping them from 6th place on day 1 to 2nd place at the end of day 2.
Third place went to Tom Selman of Groves, Texas and James Sparrow of Port Neches, Texas with a weight of 28.39 and earning $1,000.00. Tom and James were fishing near LNG and was the only team to weigh in a fish over 25 inches earning them big Trout of the event honors and receiving a $500.00 Cabela's gift certificate.
Taking big Redfish of the event was the team of Jeremy Waltrip of Jennings, Louisiana and Josh Lincecum of Sulphur, Louisiana with a 8.65 pound Redfish. The team caught the big redfish on the lower end of Big Lake on a Jerk Jr. The big Redfish was actually caught by the third partner of the team 12 year old Braydon Wood who landed the big Redfish. The team earned $500.00 for big Redfish of the event.

TOP 10
1 Frederick - McElduff 33.47
2 Jaynes - Hommel 28.58
3 Selman - Sparrow - Selman 28.39 Big Trout 6.91
4 Hernadez - Carlson 28.13
5 Ellender - Ellender 27.60
6 Trahan - Driscoll 25.72
7 Waltrip - Lincecum - Wood 25.68 Big Redfish 8.65
8 Solari - Lanza 23.42
9 Davis - Denmon 21.70
10 Bandy - Little 12.46



"We want to thank the Orange Chapter of the CCA for being on hand as well as the City of Orange and the Orange CVB for having us", said Tournament Director Tanner Tabor. "Four states were represented (Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, and New Hampshire). Anglers have been dealing with awful conditions the past several weeks with high winds making it impossible to stay on fish consistently, and rains hammered the area on Day 1 of the competition but moved out and created a hot but pleasant day 2 as temps reached the low 90's", said Tabor. For more information on the area call: 800-528-4906 or visit their website at:www.orangetexas.org.



apparently im 12 now! lol

You don't look a day over 11 Braydon :grinpimp:

We had a trout over 25" on Sunday.