Welcome to the DBM Benzo73

[CBedo]

Welcome Ben! Glad you made it to the meeting. Now that we have your money, you can see the real thing! haha, just kidding. Glad you could make it. Look forward to fishing with you and getting to know you on these great western bass waters we have in Colorado (grrrrr)!

Any of you other Colorado bassers out there, come meet the Denver Bassmasters, a group of guys who just like to get together and try to catch a few fish.  Our meetings are the first Wednesday of the month at the new Bass Pro Shops.

[benzo73]

Chris, thank you for the invite, I am looking forward to fishing with DBM. Hopefully I can break the ice like you did.

Denver Bassmasters Tournament Results

           

            Tournament #3 Cedar Bluff 6/4, 6/5 2005 Final Results

           

RANK TOTAL DAY DAY TOTAL TOTAL

FISH 1 2 WGT. POINTS

Bjorklund, Bob 1 8 8.04 11.01 19.05 50

Betawitz, Chris 2 5 7.63 10.29 17.92 49

Farkas, Alex 3 9 7.73 9.96 17.69 48

Stowers, Curt 4 8 12.81 4.58 17.39 47

Johnson, Scott 5 8 10.79 5.55 16.34 46

Martin, Bob 6 7 6.11 9.6 15.71 45

Tillotson, Lance 7 6 12.85 1.84 14.69 44

Massey, Stan 8 6 9 3.46 12.46 43

Coburn, Troy 9 6 1.36 11.05 12.41 42

Massey, Matt 10 6 3.47 8.82 12.29 41

Jones, Dustin 11 6 1.68 10.56 12.24 40

Bewley, Steve 12 5 3.94 7.39 11.33 39

Welch, Casey 13 4 3.68 4.41 8.09 38

Layne, Chris 14 5 7.82 0 7.82 37

Miller, Pete 15 4 7.38 0 7.38 36

Frazier, Ray 16 2 2.45 4.83 7.28 35

Speas, Don 17 2 0 6.62 6.62 34

Jones, Damon 18 3 3.56 2.74 6.3 33

Van Heukelom, Mark 19 2 0 5.51 5.51 32

Jones, Jeff 20 3 1.32 3.49 4.81 31

Armijo, Bryan 21 3 4.68 0 4.68 30

Tracy, Scott 22 2 1.87 2.22 4.09 29

Grace, Tom 23 2 2.08 1.79 3.87 28

Daniel, Anthony 24 2 0 2.92 2.92 27

Moore, Dan 25 2 2.38 0 2.38 26

Stevens, Mike 26 1 2.3 0 2.3 25

Winkler, Jason 27 1 2.05 0 2.05 24

Koller, Josh 28 1 0 1.75 1.75 23

           

Totals: 119 126.98 130.39 257.37

           

Big Fish: Largemouth Bass 5.87 lbs. Chris Betawitz

[CBedo]

Sounds good to me.  I'll let you have second, as long as I get first this time! hehe   I had actually just joined the club less than a week before this tournnament!  I was very nervous not knowing anyone and then jumping right into a two day travel tournament, but it turned out to be great.  I fished with Lance Tillotson (day 1 leader) the first day, and he was awesome.  I only caught three fish, but I should have easily had a limit.  I was a little rusty to say the least, having had not fished for quite a while.  We were pitching and flipping soft plastics, and it was a subtle pressure bite, that I kept missing.  I also had a four pounder come off right at the boat.  Lance caught like 15 keepers that day, and I should have had near the same.  I wasn't too disappointed in the day since I was well back in the pack after day 1.

Day two, I fished with Curt Stowers, who was in second after day 1.  So I figured I would try to stay out of his way since he had a chance to win.  It actually worked well, as he was fishing light spinning tackle and small finesse stuff, so I just kept pitching the big stuff on twenty pound line.  The weather had changed that day, and everyone struggled.  I didn't get a bite until after about noon, but when I did, it was the big fish of the tournament, and about fifteen minutes later, I caught another over four.  Needless to say, Curt wasn't happy, and I wasn't sure if he would talk to me again! haha (he's probably my travel partner for the federation tournament, so I guess he's ok with me now!)  After those two, I figured I needed one more fish to maybe move up into fourth (the last paying spot), and was working furiously to do it.  I broke off a fish with about 20 minutes to go, and was broken hearted!  Little did I know, that noone caught much and I would just miss winning by a small amount!

All in all, a great intro to the club fishing with some great guys!

P.S.  The guy who won happens to be one of the best fisherman in the club.  He used to fish BASS, and for the last couple of years, fishes as a non-boater on the FLW Tour and this year the series.  So the good news is that he won't be fishing many of our tournaments this year since he is on the road so much.  The bad news is not being able to learn as much from him.