Written by Tanner, the organizer and copied to post up here.

Had our tourney at Santuit today. Tourney started at 7:30. I was late to a tourney I was running because my partner said "We fish Santuit all the time, why would you print out directions?". I suck w/ directions and apparently so does he. Anyway I got there at 7:20 for a launch of 7:30. I let everyone launch at 7:30 and we got out about 10 minutes later. The water was 52 and it was pretty calm in the morning. Within the first 5 minutes my partner got a 2 pounder in open water on a black and red jig/chigger chunk trailer. He was fishing open water and I was bangin the shoreline. About 2 minutes later I hit our 2nd which was another around 2 lbs, probably a little less. It came on a black and blue jig w/ a chigger. The rest of the day pretty much kept that pace except I stuck w/ a chatterbait most of the day because they were all over it. He stuck w/ the jig most of the day. There was a TON of fish in open water and we caught a lot of fish, probably 15 each. But they were literally just all the same size. Carl (RIBASSPREDATOR) seemed to work the shoreline all day and ended up w/ more size. He was skipping the jig further back under trees than I could imagine so I think it helped him get to some fish buried in the cover. The bigger fish were hugging tight to the bottom and my partner started getting better results working his jig slower and shaking it more. He figured it out a little too late. We just couldn't seem to get the big bite. It got real windy later in the day but Santuit is pretty protected so it wasn't too bad. Paul (Bassectomy) also said he lost a 5-6lber on the Hudd' in open water. All in all it was a very close Tourney and not at all a bad day for November 16th! Thanks to everyone that braved the weather and fished hard, and to you wimps that backed out/didn't show...WEAK!

Here's the official results:

1st Place--- Dave Henderson & Brian--- 11.40lbs

2nd Place--Carl (RIBASSPREDATOR) and Paul (Bassectomy)--- 11.15lbs.

3rd Place-- Billy (Jigga318)--- 10.85lbs.

4th Place-- Me and Keith (Bassbrawler)---10.00lbs.

5th Place--Dave (Drose) & Jeff--- 9.50lbs.

"LUNKER":

1st-- Paul (Bassectomy)--- 3.50lbs.

*All weights are after I subtracted .9lbs for the bag.

Congratulations to Dave and Brian on their first win---fishing their 3rd tournament ever and Santuit for the first time. Well deserved!

Good job to Carl and Paul for 2nd place and Lunker! The slammer pulls out ANOTHER "Lunker"!

It was good to meet you guys and Jigga too---impressive for a solo effort!!! Nice work to everyone else for keeping it so close and fishing hard!

Also, Thanx to Carl/Paul and Jigga for being good sports and abiding by the rules...it was painful to watch you guys have to putt w/ 150hp engines though! Looks like it didn't hurt you guys too much. We'd love to have you guys at some more events next year!

Here's a pic of Carl and Paul's bag and my lazy partner and his boat (Jeff and DRose in background):

Bassectomy:

Anyway, congrats to the winners and also to Jigga, for being the only person fishing this alone and almost knocking out of second. Again with my fist fish of the day coming on the Slammer, 20 yards from the ramp. Changed over to the 6" hudd after awhile looking for the big one in deeper water, while Carl pounded the shoreline. The fish I lost was easily in the 4-5lb range and knew not having a treble hooked on the belly would come back to haunt me. Luckly, my first and only Slammer fish of the day, just made lunker Got a few more fish rotating between the Hudd bug up tight, and the spinner bait offshore. I think Carl must have caught 20 or so fish, but I'll let him tell ya how he pulled one out his shorts w/only 13 minutes to go. Thanks for having me aboard Carl, it would have been an interesting day to say the least,having to fish out my jon.

RIBASPREDITOR:

Tanner, thanks for the invite. Had a good time out there today. Bassectomy is now the 4th cast curse, everytime we fish together lately, he gets his slammer crushed on the 4th cast, and thats it for his slammer. Fortunately the 4th cast today gave us our lunker Santuit was a culling nightmare for sure today. Between the 2 of us, we probably caught about 30 or so. Having 1 good one in the well, and 4 clones, I stuck with the jig even after the wind kicked up to about 25-30. With minutes to go, I returned to a spot where I missed a decent fish earlier in the day, Pitched into the exact hole, and BANG fish on. Culled 1 out, and that fish crawled us into second place. The strange thing about this fish was 1 of his fins looked like a threadfin. Look at the pic Tanner took, you can see it in that pic Very odd. Congrats to the winners, and very good effort Jigga. Paul, as usual you were great company, lots of laughs today.

Check out Carl's Bass on the left, specifically the Dorsal fin :-? I've never seen something like this. It had a comb over ;D

Nice  8-)