MSC held its monthly team tournament on November 17th out of Spinners Resort. The day was chilly and windy, fishing was hard for all. 43 anglers fished and 14 teams participated in the event bringing 45 Striped Bass to the scales! It was a very close finish at the scales! less than 2ozs from 1st to 3rd.
Taking the First Place honors was Team Striper Hyper Captain Kevin Morse and Father Charles Morse both from Prosperity SC with their 4 fish creel of 22lbs 1ozs. Team Striper Hyper also captured the Nichols Store of Rock Hill Big Fish award with their Striper tipping the scales at 8lbs 7ozs.
With another strong showing Second Place is awarded to Team Hardcore Captain Rick Kellemeyer from Chapin SC, James Lindler from West Columbia SC , Gary Heichelbeck from Lexington SC and Colby Borland from Chapin SC with their 4 fish creel of 22 lbs 0 oz.
Third Place was secured by Team Landlocked Captain Brensinger from Lexington SC, and Wayne Bell from Saluda SC with their 4 fish creel of 21 lbs 15 ozs.
The events West Marine smallest creel award went to Team Reel Time Captain Van Cook, Tom Gitto, and Jim Samsel all from Irmo SC.
MSC is a family friendly fishing club and honors our top finishing Youth and Lady anglers in each event. The Youth trophy goes to Colby Borland from Chapin SC who fished with Team Hardcore, Lady Angler trophy goes to Jennifer Woodruff from Lexington SC who fished with Team Reel Broke.
MSC NOV Results…
1 Team Striper Hyper 4 fish 22 lbs 1 ozs
2 Team Hard Core 4 fish 22 lbs 0 ozs
3 Team Landlocked 4 fish 21 lbs 15 ozs
4 Team Catchall 4 fish 21 lbs 6 ozs
5 Team Laid Back 4 fish 20 lbs 12 ozs
6 Team Gar-Hart 4 fish 20 lbs 12 ozs
7 Team One Way 4 fish 20 lbs 7 ozs
8 Team Something Fishy 4 fish 18 lbs 4 ozs
9 Team Striper Swiper4 fish 17 lbs 4 ozs
10 Team Nobody 3 fish 14 lbs 8 ozs
11 Team Reel Broke 2 fish 8 lbs 5 ozs
12 Team Four Reel 2 fish 7 lbs 14 ozs
13 Team Reel Time 2 fish 7lbs 7ozs
14 Team Let 'em Live 0 fish 0 lbs 0 ozs
Yep. The poor finish in the June open really hurt our chances with regard to the TOTY, but Team Hardcore will always bring it until lines out. That’s who we are and what we do!
Congratulations to the top 5! You guys have barely faultered all year. A big congrats to Striper Hyper! We can’t think of a better couple of guys to beat us today!
Kudos to all who wet lines today! That wind wore me out running the troller:imp:
Yes “congrats” to all who fished and especially the winners this trip out. Having taken smallest creel I would like to add the “invaluable” Jim Samsel also fishes on Team Reel Time with Tom and I.
Unfortunately we also lost our trolling motor around 10:30 due to an unexpected weak battery which quickly forced us to change our plans to drifting and anchoring the rest of the day. New batteries all around next trip out.
Congrats to team Striper Hyper for their win. Good job to Hardcore on their 2nd place finish. Thanks to my teammates for bringing it home in 3rd. Looks like it was a good outing and hope to be back for December!
First and foremost, we were pleased to hear Joey’s daughter is doing well. I know it is a long road to recovery, but rest assured you will continue to be in all of our prayers.
Congratulations to my good friend Kevin Morse and his father on their win. I don’t know of anyone more deserving! To my teammate’s James and Gary, thanks for taking care of “the Old Man”! You guys are the greatest, and I could not have fished this tournament without all of your help and sacrifices! I know I penalized us some, but you guys did not complain.I was thrilled to have our 14 year old guest, Colby Borland, aboard for the tournament, and having him win a trophy for Youth Angler of the tournament. Richy and Wayne, you represented Joey well, and we were not able to gain much ground on you! To my good friends Tom and Van, not the day you were hoping for, but “a bad day fishing, beats a great day at work”, not that Tom and I know much about that anymore!!
Congrats to all that persevered in the weather. Thankfully the weigh-in was not at the dam!
Congrats to all the podium finishers…it looks like pretty much we were all catching the same fish! Can’t recall a tx where there was two ounces seperating the field. I hate to talk about the ones that “got away” but I feel like I cost Team Landlocked a first place finish with faulty knots. I completely re-tied all new leaders and hooks on Friday night like I do before most all tournaments but for some reason my knots came loose on three fish. Wayne had a very nice one close to the boat when in came loose and we lost two others that would have been close to upgraders. The knots came loose on all three! I know alot of people that use Polymer Knots but I have always used a knot my dad taught me years ago. I really don’t even know the name of it but you basically go throught the eye, wrap six times around the main line, come back through the loop closest to the eyelet and back through the hoop you just made. I did start using a new Seagar leader but cannot for the life of me understand why they did not hold. Like I said I have been using these for years and have caught many over 20 lbs so maybe I just got distracted and did not have enough wraps. At any rate I wish it would have happened on some smaller fish but that never seems to happen. I think we only caught three short fish all day and over 20+ keepers so the odds were against us
Richy
“My biggest worry is that my wife (when I’m dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.”
We only caught 8 total keepers. We caught 3 pretty quickly, but they shut off on us by 10:00. At noon, we were starting to feel the pressure after I lost a cow due to rod being cleared colliding with my line(stuff happens!). However, our plan B spot paid off with 5 good keepers, and we finished strong.
