Sparta Bass Club

Meeting Minutes

August 14, 2008

 

Issues to Cover:

 

  1. Tournament Pairings and Blast-off order for the Dale Hollow Lake Tourn. out of the Sunset Bridge area ramps. (Saturday, August 23, 6:00 p.m. - midnight) We will meet at the lake at 5:30 p.m.

 

  1. FLW Outdoors membership requirements, tournament/full membership vs. magazine subscription membership based on TN Bass Federation Bylaws and what the return is to the State Bass Federations.

 

  1. Discussion of July’s winning lures and patterns. Center Hill, 86-88*, tinted water, Elev. 629.00’, Weather, 80’s* sunny/no wind, cooled to 70’s*, light breeze by midnight, Boat #11; 1st & 18th, Carolina rigged zoom fluke, in 20-25’, Boat #13; 2nd & 3rd, electric blue & tequila sunrise worms and spinner bait, in 20’ on pea gravel, Boat #1; 4th & 18th, Center Hill worm, shallow, big fish was caught by boat #13 on a electric blue worm in 20 feet of water.                   .

Announcements:

 

  1. 17 members attended the July meeting. We had 33 people fish the Center Hill Lake Tournament, 7 guests attended.

 

  1. Center Hill Lake Results: 1st Tommy Mittlesteadt; 5.62 lbs., 2nd Mike Hurst; 5.26 lbs., 3rd Eddy Stewart; 3.75 lbs., & Big Fish caught by Eddy Stewart; 3.75 lbs. L.M.B. We caught 22 fish with a total weight of 43.14 lbs.

 

  1. Bill Yancy donated a new megaphone to the club for tournament starts.

 

  1. We are working with Laura Canada and the Cookeville Chamber of Commerce. We are discussing the possibility of their sponsorship of the 2009 Eastern Divisional State Tournament on Center Hill Lake. The status of these discussions is unknown at this time.

 

  1. The 2008 TBF Western Divisional State Tournament will be held on Pickwick Lake, Pickwick Landing State Park, September 25-27th.

 

  1. The 2008 TBF Eastern Divisional State Tournament will be held on Chickamauga Lake, Dayton, TN, Dayton Boat Dock ramp, October 9-11th.

 

  1. The 2008 TBF State meeting will be held November 1st at the Guest House Inn located at 2420 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN, time TBD.

 

  1. Army Corp of Engineers; Center Hill Dam Seepage Reduction Website, please refer to the following for recent developments and updates. http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/CenterHill/