The Road to Brazil 2014

[Bass Cat Boats]

The stage is set! The marathon begins!

Tonight the 7 teams all met for dinner and the details for this weeks Bass Cat Regional Championship, presented by Mercury, were presented.

Practice will begin any time and end in the evening at Sunset. All boats must be off the water by sunset time tomorrow. They are allowed to practice any of three reservoirs, or all. Those being Lakes Norfork, Bull Shoals and Crown (Horseshoe Bend).  They are off limits on the other reservoirs of Thunderbird and Sequoyah, in Cherokee Village. Those will be surprise reservoirs.

Monday morning at safe light they will begin on Crown Lake, weighing in at Box Hound Marina at 11:00 AM. They will then proceed in a caravan to Cherokee Village and launch at Thunderbird, a private lake inside the Village, which has Lake Sequoyah connected to it through a canal. Lake Thunderbird is 264 acres and Crown is 645 acres and both are 30 MPH speed limit rated. Sequoyah, which is connected to Thunderbird, is 75 acres and idle only as is the canal between these bodies.

Limit for each weigh in will be five fish, with 12″ on Crown and 15″ on Thunderbird & Sequoyah. Crown also has some very large Florida strain bass in it. The weigh in at Thunderbird will be 5:00 PM at the ramp.

Tuesday will bring the anglers to the main Pigeon Creek launching ramp, where they will launch at safe light or 6:30 AM. That session 3 event will end at 10:00 AM and the weigh in will commence. From there they caravan to Bull Shoals and BSLBD for session 4, with a launch at 11:00 AM and subsequent weigh in at 5:00 PM on the main dock. Presentations will be made at the main dock following the weigh in. Limits for both Norfork and Bull Shoals will be 12″ Kentucky or Spotted Bass and 15″ for Smallmouth and Largemouth.

Over the two days the teams will be capable of 20 fish, 4 limits and the poundage on each reservoir will total the weight for the event.

We would like to that the Cherokee Village SID for their cooperation. http://www.CVSID.org

Let the fun begin!

BCB

 

 

Regional Qualifiers

 

 

Presentation of the format

 

 

Crown Lake

 

 

Thunderbird

 

 

Sequoyah

[gitzit]

That will keep them busy for a couple of days. What a challenging format? Sounds like fun to me. Good lick to all.

[Macsimus]

Sounds like a blast! Would love to be there. Good luck to Steve Hurlbert and partner.

[ibnrut]

Good Luck To Corey Maples and his partner from Lake Fork

[kent7351]

Go Herby! Good luck buddy!

[Bass Cat Boats]

They are all off and fishing this morning. Weigh in #1 is in less than 2 hours now.

BCB

[Macsimus]

High of 71 today, 48 tomorrow. Even more challenging!

[GRR884]

BCB….please keep us informed with updates…leads…and pics when possible!

[GRR884]

Who’s leading after Crown?

[Bass Cat Boats]

Session #1 on Crown Lake finds Janet and Ivan Morris leading with a 5 fish limit of 8.50 pounds. Hurlburt and Martin are in second with 6.68 lb. and Vilmarette and Sykes are 3rd with 6.05. Maples and Hughes are 4th at 6.02 and the Green & Cook team has 4.94 pounds. The other 2 teams are empty in the first period of play. They are off at Thunderbird and Sequoyah. Weigh in at 5:00 tonight.

[Bass Cat Boats]

Session #2 went to Thunderbird and Sequoyah in a 30 minute caravan. The teams finished Crown Lake and found themselves on lakes they have not practiced or seen prior. The Cherokee Village SID was kind enough to allow the anglers to use their water this afternoon for the second leg of the Road to Brazil!.
A full story will be posted on Bass Fan and includes the styles of fishing used by the anglers.

Day One Session #2:

1. Villemarette & Sikes – 9.24 pounds

2. Morris & Morris – 5.97 pounds

3. Maples & Hughes – 5.12 pounds

4. Hurlburt & Martin – 3.66 pounds

5. Green & Cook – 2.00 pounds

6. TIE – no weight – Wikoff & Wikoff, and Kell & Morris (0)

Overall results acfter Session #2 combined with Session #1.

1. Villemarette & Sikes – 15.29 pounds

2. Morris & Morris – 14.47 pounds

3. Maples & Hughes – 11.14 pounds

4. Hurlburt & Martin – 10.34 pounds

5. Green & Cook – 6.94 pounds

6. Cherokee village & Crown Lake

7. Wikoff & Wikoff – No Weight

7. Kell & Morris – No Weight

Day 2 Session #3

1. Stan Green & Roger Cook – 14.00 pounds – 5 fish

2. Steve Hurlburt & Shane Martin – 6.93 pounds – 5 fish

3. Corey Maples & Zach Hughes – 6.09 pounds – 5 fish

4. Joe & Shawn Wikoff – 3.56 pounds – 3 fish

5. Rick Villemarette & Josh Sikes – 0.92 pound – 1 fish

6. Brad Kell & John Morris – 1.76 pounds – 2 fish

7. Janet & Ivan Morris – No Weight

Things should really setting up for a nice event.

Thank you to the Cherokee Village SID

Tomorrow at daylight they tackle Lake Norfork and at 11:00 they should be launched at Bull Shoals, finishing at 5:00 PM at Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock. Again tomorrow there will be a total of 10 fish possible over the two events, 5 fish per lake.

Presentations will be made immediately following the weigh in.

[Bass Cat Boats]

Standings going into Session 4 and the final weigh in.
Final Weigh In will be 5:00 PM at Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock

1. Stan Green & Roger Cook
20.94 pounds – 8 fish

2. Steve Hurlburt & Shane Martin
17.27 pounds – 9 fish

3. Corey Maples & Zach Hughes
17.23 pounds – 12 fish

4. Rick Villemarette & Josh Sikes
16.21 pounds – 7 fish

5. Janet & Ivan Morris
14.47 pounds – 7 fish

6. Joe & Shawn Wikoff
3.56 pounds – 3 fish

7. Brad Kell & John Morris
1.76 pounds – 2 fish

[GRR884]

WOW what a shuffle of leaders. It’s going to come down to final sessions.

But I’m confused as above it says two days of fishing so tomorrow would make a 3rd?

[MeanV2]

GRR884 wrote:

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WOW what a shuffle of leaders. It’s going to come down to final sessions.

But I’m confused as above it says two days of fishing so tomorrow would make a 3rd?

2 days, 2 sessions each day

Dan

[Bass Cat Boats]

Final results and winning team!

They endured a very brutal afternoon at just above freezing and cooling temps all through the day. All 7 teams were great to work with and we had a really good event. The cool part was how tight they all became through this experience. Swapping stories, phone numbers, lake information and offering help at home happened. They were all extremely courteous to each other.

Day 2 – Session #4

1. Stan Green & Roger Cook
25.85 pounds – 10 fish

2. Rick Villemarette & Josh Sikes
24.13 pounds – 11 fish

3. Steve Hurlburt & Shane Martin
23.09 pounds – 12 fish

3. Corey Maples & Zach Hughes
17.23 pounds – 12 fish

4. Janet & Ivan Morris
14.47 pounds – 7 fish

6. Joe & Shawn Wikoff
10.73 pounds – 3 fish

7. Brad Kell & John Morris
1.76 pounds – 2 fish

Wikoff’s came on late to do their part and lead one leg of the Bass Cat National Championship, presented by Mercury Marine.

Session 4 – Event Stats.

1. Rick Villamarette & Josh Sikes. – 7.92 pounds
2. Joe Wikoff and Shawn Wikoff. – 7.17 pounds
3. Steve Hurlburt & Shane Martin. – 5.82 pounds
4. Stan & Roger Cook – 4.91 pounds
5. Corey Maples & Zach Hughes. – 1.38 pounds
6. Ivan & Janet Morris No Weighton Crown
7. Brad Kell & John Morris Zero

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