USAC CLEAR LAKE PRO AM FINAL - PRO

Bill Hutcheson · Post by **Bill Hutcheson** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:48 pm

Congrats to Ron Tobey who has to have had the comeback tournament of a life. On Thursday afternoon, his boat was lying in the middle of the street after being hit by a car and skidding a good 50-75 yards.

He loads the boat back on the trailer, goes out and fishes his butt off in the midst of two days of pouring cold rain, and emerges victorious with a two day sack just shy of 60 lbs.

Full story will be out in a few days, but here is how they finished at Clear Lake.

2011 USAC CLEAR LAKE PRO-AM RESULTS - PRO DIVISION FINAL
2-Day tot. Total
Pl. Pro Angler Name Weight Winnings
1 Ron Tobey 59.58 $8,980
2 Glen Lockhart 53.93 $5,500
3 Mike Tuck 50.40 $3,860
4 Bill O'Shinn 47.73 $3,395
5 Jeff Bitker 46.55 $2,120
6 Brent Lyon 45.29 $1,995
7 Dee Thomas 44.88 $1,250
8 Richard Dobyns 44.83 $1,000
9 Jodie White 44.10 $775
10 Ben Williams 43.47 $700
11 Paul Tilton 42.32 $700
12 Kevin Stewart 42.00 $600
13 Kevin Davis 41.70 $600
14 Brian Bailey 41.58 $500
15 Chris Franks 41.47 $500
16 Greg Gutierrez 41.45
17 Phil Burgess 41.38
18 Gerry Johnson 41.02
19 Chad Martin 40.48
20 Tim Dotson 40.45
21 Wayne Breazeale 40.27
22 Vince Borges 39.91
23 Joe Bitker 39.71 $530
24 John Norman 39.50
25 Rod Lee 39.17
26 Dugan McIntosh 38.38
27 Paul Buccola 38.04
28 Nick Langolis 37.52
29 Ron Moore 37.45
30 Mike Nichilini 37.22
31 Jonathan Koehler 37.18
32 Ryan German 36.90
33 Don Gage 36.80
34 Mike Krnaich 34.08
35 Phillip Garcia 34.06
36 Marvin Dixon 33.98
37 Preston Henson 33.68
38 Mark Crutcher 33.63
39 Brian Welch 33.34
40 Tony Peterson 32.53
41 Howard Hughes 32.24
42 Jesse Martin 31.98
43 Kirk Sakamoto 31.89
44 Jim Novotny 31.57
45 Mike Tobey 31.25
46 Sean Stafford 30.33
47 Mike Saso 30.15
48 Tommy Cardoza 29.30
49 Mike Haroutunian 27.40
50 Steve Greene 27.31
51 Keith Freisen 26.51
52 Terri Bittner 24.64
53 Paul Bailey 24.08
54 Isaac Adams 22.40
55 Greg Kiefer 22.21 $990
56 Mark Mendez 21.89
57 Tim Higbee 21.47
58 Justin Evans 20.59
59 Jimmy Reese 20.40
60 Bob Boyd 20.12
61 Wade Curtiss 19.90
62 Dan Wells 17.38
63 Robbie Chikasawa 16.06
64 Steve Consalvi 15.48
65 Scott Adkins 15.09 $990
66 Mike Gordon 14.72
67 Don Finwall 14.56
68 Steve Biechman 13.88
69 Mac McCullough 13.25
70 Terry Devencenzi 12.96
71 Billy Hines 12.32
72 Mark Borges 12.21
73 Terry Odom 11.90
74 Dan Mathisen 11.32
75 Jay Bradshaw 4.42
76 Scott Crawford 0.00
$34,985

flipit · Post by **flipit** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:58 pm

Thought the preview post said something about 100+ boats???? So where did they go? Congrats to the winner and all those that toughed it out.

Bill Hutcheson · Post by **Bill Hutcheson** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:14 pm

Flipit,

I stated we were anticipating 100 boats for this event and had 85 signed up prior to the event, so the numbers were looking good. Obviously, the weather that rolled in this weekend had a major impact on additional sign ups. Likewise with any pro am event, we had several anglers pull out the last two days for a variety of reasons including inability to get here due to transportation corridors being closed by snow, dog bites requiring hospitalization, etc....

There were also a couple of events that drew a team or two who wanted to fish, but opted to fish other events.

Hutch
USAC

flipit · Post by **flipit** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:00 pm

Bill Hutcheson wrote:Flipit,

I stated we were anticipating 100 boats for this event and had 85 signed up prior to the event, so the numbers were looking good. Obviously, the weather that rolled in this weekend had a major impact on additional sign ups. Likewise with any pro am event, we had several anglers pull out the last two days for a variety of reasons including inability to get here due to transportation corridors being closed by snow, dog bites requiring hospitalization, etc....

There were also a couple of events that drew a team or two who wanted to fish, but opted to fish other events.

Hutch
USAC

I was actually on the Delta yesterday(friday)and wa thinking how Id hate to be on the water at Clear Lake if the conditions were the same. Man it got nasty out there real quick.

Doug Warren · Post by **Doug Warren** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:29 pm

I was there and it was NASTY.....My hat is off to all the teams that figuired out how to catch' em.

Hardshell · Post by **Hardshell** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:58 am

Doug Warren wrote:I was there and it was NASTY.....My hat is off to all the teams that figuired out how to catch' em.

I was there too! Hats off to the tournaments officials for not canceling this . Seems to becoming a trend for some "FAIR WEATHER" tournament organizations.

BTW, even though I did struggle for 5 days I did get to net Dana McGrift's 11.94# monster from the back of the "GREENE MACHINE"! Congratulations to Dana for surviving that day and catching that fish.

Hardshell