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Hello everyone-

We had 15 boats show up yesterday for the derby. Thank you to the anglers who showed up and for those who showed up to the weigh in. Thanks to our sponsors, every team went home with something.

Place Anglers # Fish Big Weight Winnings
1 Kyle Grover/Will Rakowitz 5 7.26 31.54 $1,580 + Don's Smoked Salmon+ Pink Stuff
2 Tim Nollar/Dave Nollar 5 5.29 20.39 $740 + Peregrine 250 Detail Pack+ Roboworms
3 Manas Malikian/Miles Howe 5 19.33 $300 + Don's Smoked Salmon + Roboworms + Simple Green Kit
4 James Emmett/Kevin Linehan 5 17.11 $140 + 22nd Century 10" Triple Trout+ Roboworms
5 Mike Phua/Mike Lillibridge 5 16.58 $100
6 Harry Jioras 5 16.06 $25 Last Chance Bait and Tackle Certificate
7 Troy Blankenship/David Burrows 5 11.92 Simple Green Gift Pack + Roboworms
8 Dan Merchant/Matt Magnone 5 11.77 Roboworms
9 Matt Burghardt/Todd Kline 5 11.57 $100 Sav-On Tackle Cert/Rago Rat + Roboworms
10 Jae Cho/Soon Lee 2 5.11 $25 Last Chance Bait and Tackle Certificate +Case Monster
11 Mitch Southern/Jason Akins 1 1.91
12 Louis Arnone/John Omartian 0 0.00
13 Jim Basham/Crazy Rick 0 0.00 Roboworms
14 Ray Mayo/Henry Moody 0 0.00 Roboworms
15 Rocky Asbury/Charlie Weinkauf 0 0.00

Champs Willdo Rakowitz and Kyle Grover

Second Place Dave Nollar and Tim Nollar

Third place Manas Malikian and Miles Howe

Fourth Place James Emmett and Kevin Linehan

31.54 lbs in December??? SON!!!!

Kyle holding the "Big Fish" of the derby....7.26lbs.

The Nollar's Limit.

Mike Phua's reaction when he saw his weight.

Jimmy Emmett holding a good one.

Last Chance Bait and Tackle owner Dan Merchant and another nice fish

Harry "The Hat" Jioras with another good bag.

Some of the great giveaways. We love our sponsors!

Winners of the Simple Green Award were David Burrows and Troy Blankenship.

$100 Sav-On Tackle gift certificate presented to Matt Burghardt

Don's Smokin' Salmon winners Will Rakowitz and Kyle Grover

Peregrine 250 winner Harry Jioras. Peregrine is awesome!

The King, Ray Mayo!

Soon Lee with Pink Stuff

Manas Malikian is all smiles as the winner of the "You Got Smoked" award.

DVL stud Matt Magnone with some Roboworms and Maxima line.

World Class Bassmaster Crazy Rick with some Maxima and Robo's

Winners of the 10" 22nd Century Triple Trout and Robo's, Kevin Linehan and James Emmett

Happy Peregrine 250 winners Dave Nollar and son Tim

Manas Malikian being presented the Simple Green Award from Jim Basham

Life partners.

Thanks again for everyone who participated and a special thanks to our sponsors Roboworm, Rago Baits, Peregrine 250, BBZ Bill Siemental, The Trolling Motor Doctor, Last Chance Bait and Tackle, 22nd Century Swimbaits, Anglers Marine, Pink Stuff, Dobyns Rods, Simple Green, Sav-On Tackle, Nojo Custom Baits, I=Rods, Monster, Don's Smokin' Salmon, Team Davies Products, and Corner Bakery.

DAMN!!! Great job fella's!!!
Guy Williams

On a really tough day, great job to Will and Kyle. You guys rock!

Pretty damn impressive!!!!

Pete

W O W

Awesome job guys!

great pics and fish everyone.Kyles was a pig! wtg .looks like all had a good time.I think next year im focusing on getting into a boat and fishing the visalia area toruneys.were moving there in Jan.hoping fo a great spring and learning some new lakes.wtg guys,esp. for mid winter!
brian

For some reason, the pics on the right hand side of every pic is being cut off when I load these on here. If anyone wants the actual pics, just email me and I'd be more than happy to send them. Thanks again guys and Merry Christmas!!!

To see the whole pic - For PC users - Just right click on the pic and select View Image.

Nice work Brian - Great stuff... lots of goodies given away and great coverage. Keep up the good work.

Looks like DVL might be the best lake in the state right now!

Tremendous effort Brian! It looks like you pulled off a great event highlighted with some awesome fish for the winning teams. I see the participation growing based on your efforts.

Long Nguyen wrote:Tremendous effort Brian! It looks like you pulled off a great event highlighted with some awesome fish for the winning teams. I see the participation growing based on your efforts.

Seems like we used to have 3 orgs that had decent turn outs for a few years at DVL. Not the case now. Lets hope the word spreads and the numbers began to rebound as the prizes, pay out, and professionalism is there for Brian's tournaments. Not to mention that the fish off has a boat and is at a lake that the fisherman have asked to fish. Seems like the formula is all there. Spread the word! Thanks Brian for all your efforts.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! I'm trying!!!

Brian Linehan wrote:Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! I'm trying!!!

That's not trying. That's doing it. Anybody that didn't show up is jealous.

Great exposure for your anglers, and your circuit! Nice pics, thats a hell of a sack for the winners!!

Looks like a great tournament, every one had a smile, great pictures, we may be coming that way next year. keep up the good work and maybe things will pick up. Great job Kyle & Will both days in a row is impressive to say the least.

Congrats on a Nice sack, very nice... great job...

One of these days will have to make the trip down to fish this lake...

Kap

World class!? Good job guys! Keep it up, You too Brian.