The Space Coast Bass Finatics fished the last tournament of 2012 out of the Overstreet ramp on Lake Kissimmee on December 16th. This is the first SCBF tournament in recent memory where the weather wasn't terrible. Most of the competitors found the bass cooperative as two thirds of the tournament field brought a 5 fish limit to the scales. The father and son team of Clyde Taylor & Raymond Taylor of Palm Bay outclassed the field weighing a stout 17.08 pounds of bass to win the tournament. They found a better class of fish than the rest of the field without catching any giant fish (their biggest was a solid 4.70 pounder) they still managed to beat their closest competitor by over 5 pounds. The team of Mike Hampton of Malabar and Tim Kopf of Melbourne earned a second place finish with 11.82 pounds. Their bag included a 5.76 pounder by Kopf that was the tournament's biggest fish. Mike Calloway of Titusville and Cliff Semonski of Oak Hill rounded out the top 3 with 11.04 pounds.
Air Temperature: lower 60s to lower 80s
Water Temperature: 65-70
Wind: calm to SE 5
Conditions: mostly sunny with some afternoon clouds
The winners reported catching their fish using the following tricks:
- 1st Place: Flipping Black/Blue Flake Reaction Innovations Sweet Beavers & Houdini Colored Zoom Super Flukes
- 2nd Place & Big Bass: Reaction Innovations Skinny Dippers, Zoom Super Flukes, some white and some red/red flake some weighted and some unweighted Yamamoto Senkos
- 3rd Place: Zoom Super Flukes & Zoom Speed Worms