Thirteen teams competed in Sunday's LERA Bass Club tournament on Lake Cypress. Of those, only two teams managed a tournament limit of 5 fish and they earned the top two places. Ralph Litton of Vero Beach and Steve Bistarkey of Palm Bay took first place with a total of 13.36 lbs. Second place was earned by the team of Bob Barnette of Port St. John and Dwayne Haga of Titusville with a total of 10.07 lbs. Third place was captured by the team of Larry Cruce of Titusville and Bill Boyett of Cocoa with 4 fish weighing in at 8.63 lbs.

Ralph Litton earned Big Bass honors by catching a 3.83 lb fish which narrowly edged out a fish caught by the team of Chris and Dale Mitchell, who were competing in their first LERA Bass Club tournament, by just 14 hundredths of a pound.

Former LERA Bass Club member Jim Folks finished 3rd in the two day BFL Gator division event out of Camp Mack on 10/3-10/4 with a two day total weight of 31 pounds and 11 ounces. His weight was just over 2 pounds shy of the winning the event. Jim routinely trounced us on the Kissimmee Chain and pretty much every where else too. It's good to see him doing well on a bigger stage. Full boater results can be found here.

Jackie Barber, reigning LERA Bass Club Bassmaster of the Year, placed 7th overall on the co-angler side of the same tournament with a two day weight of 18 pounds and 15 ounces. Congratulations Jackie! Full co-angler results can be found here.

On September 27th, 12 teams competed in the LERA Bass Club's season opening tournament at Lake Poinsett. Alan Elder of Melbourne and Wayne Smith of Palm Bay took first place with 15.11 pounds in 4 fish and punctuated their winning bag with a 6.71 pound bucket mouth Alan caught to claim big bass honors for the tournament. Bob Barnette of Port St. John and Dwayne Haga of Titusville brought the only tournament limit of 5 fish to the scales weighing in at 14.30 pounds to take second place. Third place went to Eric Amos and Gary Brill both from Titusville with 4 fish weighing a total of 10.53 pounds.

The top ten teams and a wild card competed Sunday in LERA bass club's Classic tournament on the Kissimmee Chain at Lake Cypress. Out of those eleven only two teams were able to bring a 5 bass limit to the scales with a total of 28 bass weighed among all teams.