Spring Bass Bash STANDINGS UPDATE (Week 1)

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Hello everybody. How is everybody doing this evening? Could I get a mic check mic check mic check how am I sounding?

I have finally gotten all the old stats for the tournament

So we are good to go and ready to kind of get the first tournament update video out of way

And as always, I will start blabbering my little mouth here once I get confirmation that people can hear me

Do-do-do-do making sure that we're on Facebook as well because sometimes it doesn't want to cross over to Facebook

How sometimes the comment section doesn't even want to turn on for me

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there

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It's almost like I can't like a tussle with it. Maybe it's on

Yeah, but it's not showing me if there's comments or anything which is delightful

So you guys can be commenting. I'm gonna comment on myself. You'll say hi beautiful

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So comments do work. You guys are just not doing anything. So that's perfectly fine

Good afternoon. There he is. There's the man. How are you doing sir? All right

All right with all that said let's just get into this thing

So as always this will be re-uploaded for everyone to see on apple Spotify apple podcasts

I hurt radio and all of that jazz

This is the this is the second actually I can't believe that I'm doing this is the second annual spring bass

Bash tournament, and so let's just kind of get into this bad boy. Shall we?

Perfect. I mean actually right there. You can see that okay with my ugly face here

So let's get into it. This is the this is the second annual spring bash bass

This is how it works. The tournament goes from March 21st through May 17th

It's a big old long tournament

I want it because we couldn't do the frostbite frenzy because it was

Overly cold to the point that everything was basically frozen that solid decided to just lengthen this tournament out to make sure we got pretty much

Prespawn all the way into post spawn in our area. So I kind of like the format. We'll see how it goes

First, I just want to thank basically all the sponsors Jake's paying tackle

Tactical fishing company fishing protect and of course the super blue stuff

These guys help pay all of my electrical bills equipment and things like that that way it frees up any YouTube money

I get ads since money stuff like that so I can start paying for some of these fishing tournaments

And I think like that again going over the rules real quick before we kind of get into the old standings of it

The tournament is from Saturday March 21st through

I started at 7am and it ends Sunday May 17th at midnight you guys can submit fish all the way up until midnight after midnight

The fish do not count to enter the tournament

You have until Friday of this week to enter the tournament and then it's no longer like you have no more chance to do it

Gives you guys like a week grace period because you just find out about this on social media

I want to enter it plus it's like a month two month tournament. So I think

One extra week won't really won't really hurt anything

But so some rules here

To enter the tournament you must be an active weekend warrior patreon club member

Or you're a grandfathered in member or you're a higher level like the Hall of Fame tier

This happened last tournament and I will make sure it's nipped in the buds you can't

Sign up and then ask for a refund or quit halfway through the tournament

You will automatically be disqualified from the event you can't try to cheat the system ask for refund

You know, it's six bucks eight bucks. It's not a lot of money to enter the tournament

That just cover a little bit of the cost guys for the amount of prizes. I give away

Let's not be a dick honestly and do that that happened last tournament try to make sure it doesn't happen again

I would really appreciate it

It just kind of helps me keep the lights on here

All right, so I am not a uber uber

Duber strict with this I'm trying to get better because I know a lot of the guys

They want to kind of have me represent or or or match a lot of a

tie-ac tournament rules that go on

So I'm going to try to get better with it and I'm going to give people a grace period

There's a couple people in our clubs that are about 285 years old

And I say that lovingly and so I try to give a grace period when they don't have everything perfectly lined up with this if you would like to screenshot

This this is how it should look the mouth should be right up against the bump board at all times

The mouth being closed here's the book you with the mouth being closed

I don't want you to hurt the fish and I don't like it in some of these kayak tournaments

where you're trying to

Jam the mouth shut if it is barely open generally. I don't I'm going to count it

It's when you have some of these that'll happen where the mouth is just blatantly wide open against the board. That's going to be an issue

When it comes to the boards

This right here the preferred brands is the the chitech the hog trough the ones that you see in the kayak tournaments

And then here and this is the big reason for it is all the lines so

You guys are unfamiliar with the tournament and I'll write this down here the fish can be 12 inches

12.25 inches

12.50 inches

12.75 and then it would be 13 inches

Okay

The easier it is to identify all the different measurements on the fish the easier it is for me to a lot you points

There are some people that are starting out with these events that have a bass pro shot mental ruler or they have other brands

That's perfectly fine, but it's not legible the in between lines. I cannot give you those points

I just I just can't um and I remember you guys remember last tournament

We had in in the fall the guy duct tape two rulers together and stuff and I did my best there

But I couldn't give him those micro measurements

So if I the only thing I can see this legible is

12 and there is no 12.25 I can't give you 12.25 I just can't it has I have to go by the marks the best of my ability

And so if it's over a mark that's obvious perfect great

But if all the marks aren't legible that's gonna be a problem again

If you haven't invested it in a nice fancy board perfectly fine

Just want to keep it fair that's just how it is

So invest in some of those really good boards. I know there's one board. I'm going to show you guys that I got a fish on

That is just

Autism the amount of lines on it and it just makes a lot easier for me to maximize the points you can have

Because there will be tie breakers eventually. I don't know if it's going to be this tournament or one

But it's going to come down to a fish that's you know, maybe a micro centimeter a little bit longer

And when that happens, it's a lot easier to reward those points to be able to have the proper board

That's basically it so but yeah if a fish is over 15 inches on any board

And I can see that I can count that it's just hard for me to count this little things

I know I'm I'm re-imphasizing this a thousand times but just so people kind of understand

Uh, if you guys have any questions about any of this stuff, please let me know I try to be as um

Linging on this stuff is possible because I never want these tournaments to this is not the best master opens

It's not the mlf. This is not the bbt. It never will be tried that I hated it

It's just too much stress when I am just a podcast. I don't want to be a tournament director first person foremost

So that's just basically that um

When it comes to covering the face I it's okay

I I prefer you not cover the face on the fish

But if it's your first tournament like I'll message you be like hey dude if you can if you can help it

Try not to cover the fish's face makes it a little bit easier for me to see everything if you're not blinding the fish

There are some other issues with holding the face. I don't want to know that lab because people get off

You know, it's like saying Voldemort Voldemort a couple of times

And I think that's like offline conversations, but I don't think anybody's trying to um

Been the rules necessarily. I think comes and just like people that aren't familiar with holding the fish correctly

So there's that

So that's with that there um here we go

So when it comes to the species allowed it is pretty much large mouth and small mouth if you somehow catch a spotted bass

We'll look at it. I can't give it a separate category

So we'll just count it as a large mouth

But there's not a lot of places besides like bugs

Diaskin clater. There's only a few places really in our area that has them

So that's why they're not really mentioned is there's just there's so few and far between

But it's your eight fish your best eight fish. There's large mouth and small mouth predominantly

There is a small mouth only division and a mixed bag large mouth division. How does that work?

It's your best eight. Okay, so if you catch

Uh, seven large mouth and the next biggest fish that's in your stringer is a small mouth

You're still in the mixed bag division. That's just kind of how it works

It's not that you can pick and choose which fish to pull in at the end of the day

It's whatever your best eight will be that are on that board will be the ones that will file you into that division

All small mouth and then you have the mixed bag or a large mouth division

And it's honestly, it's really hard to play in the large mouth division as you'll see with any type of brown ones unless you have a phenomenal day

All right, so let's get to the awards here

So basically I was gonna work you have the large mouth and mixed bag division in first place

You get two hundred dollars a cool trophy and some goodies. I have some super blue stuff

Packets I have a bunch of stuff from all of our sponsors as well and then in second place you get a hundred dollars a trophy

Goodie bag and then in third place you get 60 bucks trophy plaque fourth place trophy plaque

trophies plaque basically you don't get a trophy on a plaque

And then in fifth place you also get a plaque small mouth division the exact same thing

Cool, everyone get that awesome awesome awesome

Do do do do and you guys have any questions. Please let me know as well

Um, let's see so first up. We have the large mouth mixed bag division

So as always to kind of to to be a little bit more

Theory dramatic here just to kind of hype it up for everybody else

I'm not gonna show you the scores yet. I am just going to kind of talk it off here before I flip the screen

Just just because I can so in the mixed bag small mouth division or in the mixed bag large mouth division

we're gonna start in oh

I should mention this too. So this is important

When I made all the big fish awards and I did all the graphic designs that that was Monday

Monday morning through Monday afternoon

And then I was gonna flip over and download the excel spreadsheet because with turniacs

the only way I could do a side pot and run to divisions is

I downloaded the excel spreadsheet and then I split it into categories

So all the big fish awards are based on everything up to date as of yesterday

And then today I was able to get in contact with the nice gentleman like late last night this morning

And he downloaded the excel spreadsheet

so

The overall standings might be a little adjusted from Monday to Tuesday

But the big fish are based on Monday or earlier just so everyone knows doesn't kill me

Which it doesn't matter because next Monday. I'll do another update video

So but that's just way so I'm just all clear and good with all that so that's that

In 23rd place in the large mouth mixed bag division we have

HIN FIFER with 15 inches

And 22nd place with 16.75 inches we have Lee Wells

And 21st place we have Aaron Ball with 24.25 inches

And 20th place we have Michael Eckert with 25.25 inches

In 19th place with 30.75 inches we have Ralph Boyd

And 18th place with 31.25 inches we have Tanner Norris

In 17th place with 39.50 inches

We have Cody Oliver

In 16th place with 52.00 inches we have Steven back

In 15th place with 53.50 inches we have Chris Sherwood

Congratulations dude we're getting up there in the top 15 now

In 14th place with 54 inches we have Toby Foster

In 13th place with 62.00 inches we have Aaron Johnson

All right now in 12th place with 63.75 inches we have Jamie McLean

And then we have a newcomer to the Patreon club membership

In 11th place with 64.00 point

If 0.00 inches we have Jane Hugh

And then in 10th place with 76 inches we have Mark Corley

And then Mark's got something else coming off here too. I'm excited about

Now we're breaking into our top 10 ladies and gentlemen

In 9th place with 85 inches on the dot we have Mike

Husky

Husky I'm sorry I can't read

In 8th place with 85.50 inches we have Derek Smith

All right here we go in 7th place with 106.50 inches

We have Richard

All righty in 6th place

With 120.50 inches we have Roy Joe

Now we're in to our top 5 our type 5 competitors here folks

There it is you ready?

Who is how far are we going to go what we'll be breaking the internet today

In 5th place with 125.50 inches we have Jason church

In 4th place with 132.25 inches

We have Dave Thompson

In 3rd place with 140 inches the man the myth of the Rappahannock area

We have Bruce Kelly

Please

In 2nd place with 149 inches we have

Ham

Davis

And in 1st place with 188 inches we have 8n 4d

And then there it is for you guys there you want to take screenshots again

I'll be posting this on Instagram patreon and all those other places

So again going from bottom to top and 23rd place we have 10

5 for with 15 inches and 22nd place with 16.75 we have Lee Wells

In 21st place with 24.25 we have Aaron Ball

In 20th place Michael Eckhart with 25.25 inches in 19th place we have Ralph Boyd with 30.75

In 18th place we have Tanner Norris with 31.25

In 17th place we have Cody Oliver with 39.50

In 16th place we have Stephen Beck with 52 inches on the top

In 15th place we have Chris Sherwood with 53.50 inches

In 14th place we have Toby Foster with 54 inches

In 13th place we have Aaron Johnson with 62 inches

In 12th place we have Jamie McClain with 63.75

In 11th place we have Shane Hugh with 64.50

In 10th place we have Mark Gourley with 76 inches

In 9th place we have Mike Posque with 85 inches

With an 8th place we have Derek Smith with 85.50 inches

In 7th place we have Rick Richard Throng with 106.50

In 6th place we have Roy Jones with 120.50

In 5th place we have Jason Jerge with 125.50 inches

In 4th place David Thompson with 132.25

In 3rd place Bruce Callis with 140

In 2nd place Kim Davis 149 and 8 and Ford with 188

Woo baby Jesus

And fear not guys we still have a month of this tournament

We have a month and some change of this tournament still left

So the leaderboard will be shaken up as always

And if anyone is interested in sponsoring a side pot

A big fish or the tournament payouts or anything like that

Please let me know email me fishindivietgeomeo.com

And let us move on with the tournament

Now let's go to the large mouth big fish awards

So this is how it works

I call this the Hunter Smith rule

If you guys know that Hunter Smith last year walked in

And just blew everyone out of the water

Had close to like 190 inches last year

I believe

And I didn't set this up at the time

But basically the first day the tournament was basically over with Hunter

He had the best day of his life on the water

And so the Hunter Smith rule basically is this

I'm giving away a 50 dollar 50 dollars in cash

And a plaque to the 6 biggest large mouth

The 6 biggest large mouth caught

By separate anglers

By separate anglers

Okay, so if you catch

Four large mouth that are 30 inches long

You have to count the biggest one

And then we go to the next biggest fish caught by a different angler

That's just how we've done it ever since last spring

And it keeps the kind of competitive and oh

And that's what this is about

So here we go

All right honorable mention here in 6 place

In 6 place

We have Dave Thompson with a 19.25 inch large mouth

And again just to let sure because I know people are going to be listening to about this

And this these were updated as of Monday

So if you caught a massive fish today

Which is Tuesday March 31st

Do not stress

I will re update the leaderboards and it'll be updated for next week

I'm going to try to do weekly tournament updates

So do not stress at all about this

All right ready the

Sorry fifth yet the fifth biggest large mouth caught in the event goes to

Jason Church with this 19.25 inch fish

It came down to a tie breaker because of when the fish were submitted

And then this one is a wee bit bigger here

Again, he is that really cool

Yeah, I could tack board which basically gets you like damn near like centimeters or

Metro meters or something which is pretty cool

All right the fourth biggest large mouth caught so far in this event goes to

boom roi Jones

Beautiful 19.5 inch large mouth

Now let's get this to the third biggest large mouth submitted in this event

And it goes to

Bruce Calis

The beautiful 21.5

Zero inch water well look at the eyes on that bad boy man

He's poking out of his skin. He's eaten so much Chinese beautiful beautiful fish

All right, so now this gets us into our top two biggest large mouth in the event all right here we go

The biggest the second biggest large mouth so far goes to

Jamie McClain

22.25 inches beautiful beautiful bass there dude

It's gonna make a heck of a YouTube video man awesome awesome awesome fish man

Again, beautiful 22.25 inches and then here it is

Drum roll I have the drum roll sound effect. I do not darn it all right, so in it so here we go the

biggest large mouth so far recorded in this tournament goes to

eight and four

24.50 inches

Beautiful dude absolute massive massive bass

eight and four 24.50 inches if the tournament ended today these are your big fish winners

They win $50 and a plaque, but we still have a month left. We're gonna be going into the spawn

I have a feeling

Every fish is gonna have to be over 21 inches long easily to actually win some cash prizes here

So but we will see

All right, so now we got the old small mouth division all right, so let me get my small mouth stuff up here

Do to do

All right, cool here we go. So well further ado. I'm gonna build up the tension here with it and

16th place with 14.25 inches we have fin cook

and 15th place

with 15 inches we have

uh

Michelle

herds

Kirschner

and 14th place with 15.75 inches we have Charlie Russell

and 13th place with 16.50 inches we have Joe Parks

in 12th place with 26.25 inches we have Kelly Reeves

and 11th place with 28.75 inches we have

Tyler Simmons

in 10th place with 34 inches we have Frank Reed

and 9th place with 81 inches we have Rodney Williams

and 8th place with 102 inches we have

Jose Serrano

in 7th place the legend from the Susky himself with 105.50 inches we have David

Colette in 6th place with 135.50 inches

yeah 135.50 inches we have Douglas

Spatch

in 5th place the legend of the upper Potomac the river rat

himself the legend Cliff Bennett with 135.75 inches

in 4th place with 136.75 inches Todd Spatch

in 3rd place with 139.50 inches we have

Joe Edwards

in 2nd place with 140 inches we have Matthew Gills

and I always struggle with your name and god have mercy on my soul but he's

within this damn tournament with 150.25 inches we have Jared Clair

all righty guys we're going to go with the old the old speed round here here we go

16th place we got Finn Cook 14.25 in in that 16th in 15th place we have Michelle with 15

I it's Michael probably I don't know why called you Michelle my apologies I am mentally disabled

in 14th place with 15.75 we have Charlie Russell in 13th place with 16.50 we have Joe

Parks in 12th place with 26.25 we have Kelly Reeves in 11th place with 28.75 we have Tyler

Simmons in 10th place Frank Reed with 34 inches in 9th place Rodney Williams with 81

in 8th place we have Jose Serrano the 102 in 7th place we have David Colette with 105.50

in 6th place we have Douglas Spatch with 135.50 in 5th place we have Cliff Bennett with 135.75

in 4th place we have Todd Spatch with 136.75 in 3rd place we have Joey Edwards with 139.50

in 2nd place we have Matthew Gills with 140 in 1st place we have Jared Clair with 140

150.25 inches my god I did it

hey Tommy you said the words you said all the words

all righty that gets us into the big fish for this the small mouth big fish award winners

this tournament ended today this is how this bad boy would look all right here we go drum roll

please so we spiced it up we spiced it up this year we really did and I'm very very happy with

how we did this so wait I just lost my screen there you guys are so we are giving away three big

fish awards and this is how we break it down Pennsylvania waters Maryland waters Virginia waters

it's not where your address is it's where you fished so if you are pushing the Susquehanna

you don't have to compete against the new river vice versa the only little caveats here which

it's not right in the roles but I've just verbally talked about as much as the West Virginia

right now we've only had two people from West Virginia sign up and they're really on the border

of like the new river and the upper Potomac and that's what they fish so anywhere on the new river

counts as Virginia anywhere on the upper Potomac basically counts as Maryland waters if we get 20 more

we get 10 more people to sign up we will do a West Virginia division for the small mouth

so it is again just like the large mouth division if you catch two 25 inch small mouth

where are you fishing please let me know but you get to count the biggest one that you have

and then the next biggest angler from another angler gets to go that's just how that works

keeps it fun keeps it competitive we get to see a lot of cool fish caught so the biggest small

mouth in Pennsylvania waters is what we're going to do first drum roll please we're going with the

second biggest the second biggest one so far caught is from Todd Spatch 18.25 inches is the

third biggest all right the second biggest small mouth caught from Pennsylvania waters goes to

Douglas Spatch at first I always thought they were brothers but I believe that's a father sending

combo so good job guys and then here we go in the biggest small mouth caught out of Pennsylvania waters

goes to Jared Claire all right and we're going to go into the old Maryland waters here guys

all right so the third biggest goes to Joey Edwards 18.50 inches congratulations

and then here we go the second biggest small mouth caught out of Maryland waters goes to

Claire Bennett 19 inches on the dot

but if we got to work on your your photography skills here could you angle it up a little bit more

god love you and you're in a boat too so all right in first place they're the biggest

small mouth caught out of Maryland waters now goes to Jose Serrano 19.25 inches

beautiful small mouth my man all righty let's get into the old Maryland waters here we go

here we go here we go in Virginia waters the third biggest small mouth caught so far goes to

Rodney Williams well done boss man 17.25 inches all right there we go and the second biggest

goes to Toby Foster 18.25 inches all right and then here we go

the next one right here the biggest small mouth caught out of Virginia waters goes to

Matthew Gales 20.25 inches

first small mouth to break the 20 inch mark again and Matthew if you could not hold their

eyes going forward that would be awesome again it's still in the bumpboard everything's good

there beautiful fish do 20 inches nothing and hey a 20-incher that's a Virginia fish that's

awesome you know usually it's a it's the old Susky that kind of gets close to that 20-inch mark

so congratulations you that's awesome stuff now let's get into the sidepots challenges

the first one up with the biggest croppy goes to Mark Corley

and the biggest croppy so far that has been brought to the

brought to the table sort of speak for the sidepot challenge is

Aaron ball

the croppy master himself

all right and then get up here with the next thing here

clear Bennett with a beautiful walleye 22.75 inches

so far you are the only walleye submitted there's a bunch more sidepot

there's a bunch more sidepots out there guys but none have been actually submitted yet so please

please please go check those out let's see we got okay we have let's see we got what we got

question here on the patreon from Shane Hugh what measuring board should we use for measuring

striper my tech my kite tick board is only 20 goes up 26 inches

I would suggest if you could get a bigger kite tick board that'd be great but otherwise if

you want to put a measuring tape again so I just went over this during the video this is a comment

but if you want you can put a measuring tape next to it or line it up or some kind of measurement

again if it's got the inch mark and it lines up I get it for something like a snake head or a

striper something that we have somebody in the chat right now that had this issue actually a

last tournament or two tournaments ago so yeah if you put a measuring if you have a kite tick

board it's not big enough I get it it sucks yeah here we go kite tick only goes up 32 exactly so

if you have a 32 inch board or a 22 inch board in your case boss man and you lay another thing

it's perfectly inch next to it I can guesstimate it and I can give you an inch I won't be able to

give you a half inch of study but I can give you it so if you have driven a diver past the board

that's perfectly fine Josh Torres 20 yeah use that as an example if you get your 20 inch small

amount please let me know where you're going but a 20 inch small amount out of Virginia water is

absolutely amazing so yeah dude like Shane if you've caught a monster striper use your first

board as a reference point because it kind of cradles the fish which is nice and then do

another one and I think Aiden Ford he has a rollable one I don't I could not be rollable it looks

rollable could be wrong I'm an idiot but there's also other boards you can get there for those bigger

species again it just needs to be lined up perfectly so I can tell some kind of inch measurement

on that thing and we can kind of give it to you because clearly it's past 22 inches so it's just

how many more inches we have to give you on that but if you catch over a 22 inch driver you probably

just want to strike a big fish award honestly but message me fishing in DMV actually I mean I

put that up there right now there you go message me fishing in DMV at gmail.com if you message me

guys yep I can get back to you or you can reach out to me on social media if you have any questions

I'm always available for that and if you guys would like to sponsor a side pot or you want to

donate some prizes I can we can do that as well we hit over 57 people 57 people that sign up for

this bad boy which is absolutely awesome you guys don't know I basically backstop everything

financially when it comes to these tournaments and if we can get 50 more 50 more patreon supporters

to sign up which will be huge if we can do this 50 more patreon supporters to sign up

the summer tournament I will be able to reduce the entry fee while maintaining the prizes the

way they are basically which will be huge so 50 more people that sign up or donate or maybe we

get a couple more sponsors then I'll be able to reduce how much each tournament is costing you

while keeping the prizes which is what I want I don't want it to get to be like $100,000 all

that stuff will keep it tiny local and that way I'll keep the fist fights in the parking lot

down as well so guys yep that's it so basically thank you guys so much if you guys want to you have

until Friday to sign up for the tournament link in the episode description down below again you

must be an active weekend warrior grandfathered in member or if you want to you can be a Hall of Fame

member Hall of Fame member basically you will get a ton of great perks including your name will be

at Jake's bait and tackle I'm gonna hang your name up at Jake's bait and tackle we'll give you

a couple more bonus prizes and I'll also give you a promotion for your small business or whatever you

have so I have that available as well link in the episode description you guys have any questions

and I will see you guys next time on fishing the DMV say ya you're listening to Fishing the DMV

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