17th LOBI Oilmen's Invitational Tournament
 

Just got back from three days of freshwater fishing in Toledo Bend for the LOBI.
The LOBI had 650 Official 2man team boats entered this event. All money was donated to St. Jude Children s Hospital.

Dan Landry of Kinder and I fished together for the event.

I would like to thank our sponsor for this invitational:
Our Team Sponsors were

M & K CPAS
www.mkacpas.com

Cajun Outdoors Magazine
www.cajunoutdoor.com

Bubba Oustalet Chevrolet & Ford of Jennings
www.bubbaoustalet.com

This was my first trip to Toledo Bend and what first-class place to fish! We lodged at Cypress Bend Resort

Day 1: Dan and I found an area with some small fish on Thursday so we started there Fri. to see if we could boat our five fish then look to cull. We fished spinner baits and flukes most of the mourning with only two keeper fish coming in the boat by 11am. We headed farther south to some flats with grass beds were we found some good size bass. We were placing flukes on the fish nose and would not touch the bait. After another hour of throwing the tackle box at fish , I decided to look in my saltwater box and pull out my white Skitter Walk. Coming up on 1pm we still only had two keeper fish in the boat! My 3rd cast with the topwater found a huge bass on the nest. She shook me off but at least I had some confidence in what to throw. After several smaller bass caught and many blow ups...We had three bass of keeper size with 30 mins to fish, I threw the topwater on a nest when a wake shook the boat. Landed my biggest bass ever at 9.52lbs.
End of Day one
I had the Biggest Bass $1000 and $250 bonus check , and sitting in 16th place

Day 2: Fog! Fog! Waited to leave at 7am instead of 6am. Made our way easy to the boat lane to take off and then " motor alarms went off! Pulled cover to find my belt had popped! Found a tow into the landing and loaded up the boat to hunt for belt! God heard our prayers because we found one and got it fixed. We finally launched boat and wet our first line at 11:30am. My 1st cast of the day was a 3lb bass on my skitter walk and Dan' s 3rd cast he landed a 5.o1lber. Over 8lbs in ten mins and I thought we were going to have a bigger stinger this day! Well all the other fish we caught we in the same pound range and was only able to cull one or two out.

Over all I was overwhelmed and proud of our showing at the event

22nd Place out of 650 boats
2nd Biggest bass of the event! 9.52lbs

Our payout was around $1800 total


Big Bass for day two was 10.52lbs....

that's a trophy on the public pond, congrats on the luck

Congrats

Nice job, congrats!

Nice job guys. Thats pretty darn good in my book.

Did anyone there think you had a funny looking boat for T.B.???

That's amazing!

Yea until I had to get towed back in the 2nd day:pissed::pissed::pissed::pissed:

That shallow boat made it real easy to fish over the grass beds

1st day of fishing was slow over all with 1st place only 20lbs....

90% of them did not know what a skitter walk was and did not believe me...:*****::*****::*****::*****:

Nice job
 

Great lookin fish W, good job on the tourney

Nice Fish
 

Great job and great looking fish

Hell yeah w. Nice job

I'd trade my 9.2lb trout for that 'un! Well Done! & Cypress Bend lodging is top notch! I'm sure you had a blast! You getting a replica made of that Hog?

Congrats. What happened to the boat needing towed?

They let me take it from the tank yesterday.... Hell with a replica....My biggest Bass ever...I want the skin mount!!! and I retired my white Skittter Walk with it!!!

Going to be a sweet mount

Belt snapped on take off yesterday...Had no spare so had to load up and get one!! Back on the water at 10:45am

Edwards owes me 180. You didn't hit a stump or run out of gas.;)

10-4 on that! Wasn't sure if they let you have it back or not....but being as they did...i'da done the same thing! Post pics once you have it back! Once again, CONGRATS on the fish!

Awesome fish W and 22nd is pretty dang good, congrats.


I was up there last weekend and there was a guy in a Haynie. He drove up the same day we did and left the same day, drove next to him all the way back to Lake Charles, it was a black and grey one....250 merc I think.

Congrats on the catches W....

congrats w very nice fish.

Congrats W 22 out of 650 is pretty frickin good. Nice fish

geez W!! I've been bass fishing all my life and still never landed one that big!! You go bass fishing one day and catch one. You bustard! lol

Congrats man!!

Congrats again ! We ended up 78 th with 26.6 lbs ! We caught alot of fish just no big one to push us up the board ! The best part was we got a $300 check and a pair of revo reels !

Great job and nice hog there.

only person I know that can throw completely random baits and still catch fish.

Nice job and great fish!

Thanks....I may try it again soon!! Felt good to stick an old greenie

Nice fish "W"!!
Congrats on the fish and placing 22 that's pretty damn good!

congrats. on the catch also a real nice bass

that's a heck of a placement in that big of a tournament.

congrats thats a big one!!!

Congrats "W"

Hey !No telling what you might have caught if you'd tried the crazy croaker. Just kidding !! Way to adapt on over come the odd's. They may start calling you "No Boundry".

Outstanding, you made M&K proud.....

Good job "W"

Great job and great fish.

I see almost as many bay boats up there as bass boats lately

Great fish W! Not bad for your frist trip to da bend. 2 guys I work with placed 2nd in the oilmens this weekend.

Here is the link for the Full Results and #of fish caught and weighted in

http://www.lobibass.com/result.php?year=2011

good job dude nice fish

Dang they gave yall revos? Lord what does the top 40 get then!?
Lord I might just have to go into the oil field

the revo's were door prizes ! they gave away some lew's speed reels to as door prizes......thats what i wanted to win !
btw we placed 76th not 78th lol !!!

Ahhh I see. I thought that was yall earnings

Why does the slip (and the article in the paper) credit Dan with the catch??

Because it was listed wrong the 1st day....The new computer system listed the #1 Fisherman when it spit the results out.....no matter who caught what.... all big bass were listed as the 1st name on the team slip

They had to go and make the change the next day! It is right on the website.


The slip I attached has the #2 Circled and Im listed as the #2 fisherman.....

None at all...I believe the slip attached solves that and the official website does also!! Just a mis print from day one....corrected and finished...Only you would love to make it controversy....

Funny thing is that I never noticed it on the slip HOWEVER you should probably call the Morning Advocate....unless you want to look like you posed with someone elses feeesh. Lol

Its old news now....... Another guy who came and ask questions had the same results from the print out day one (he kept calling me Dan).... He corrected his report for the paper...Dont even know what paper he was from...I think a Tx one..

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