Twenty boats launched onto Blue Cypress Lake to compete in the Space Coast Bass Finatics tournament on December 14. Despite our best efforts, only two of the teams would bring a five fish limit to the scales. While anglers found it difficult to catch numbers of fish, quality fish were found with three fish over six pounds weighed. The team of Jimmy Blount and Jack Berry, both of Rockledge, used texas rigged big plastic worms to catch 5 fish for 13.94 pounds to win the tournament. Their bag was punctuated by Berry's 7.98 pound lunker that was the tournament's biggest fish. Dwayne Haga of Sanford and Dave Metzler of Debary flipped soft plastics to catch 3 fish for 11.11 pounds to finish second. Santos "Junior" Solis and Jason Gonzales, both of Vero Beach, also flipped soft plastics to take third place with 3 fish for 10.82 pounds.
The month's small creel award, a $50 gift card to Strike-Zone, was earned by Alan Elder and Wayne Smith with 1 fish for 1.00 pounds. Strike-Zone's local buddy tournament series is coming back in 2015. For more information on that, drop by the store. Thanks to Strike-Zone for donating that generous and useful prize!
What's that? You don't see any photos of the 2nd place team? Yeah... we didn't get any.
Air Temperature: lower 40s to mid 70s
Water Temperature: mid 70s
Conditions: calm and clear with a NW wind 0-5
The winners reported catching their fish using the following tricks:
- 1st Place & Big Bass: Texas rigged and really slowly worked Zoom Ol' Monster Worms
- 2nd Place: flipping some kind of soft plastics
- 3rd Place: flipping some kind of soft plastics
Jimmy Blount (left) and Jack Berry display the best of their tournament winning 13.94 catch at Blue Cypress Lake on December 14, 2014. Jack whacked them on Texas rigged Zoom Ol' Monster Worms. (Photo by Mike Calloway)
Jack Berry displays his 7.98 big bass from Blue Cypress Lake on December 14, 2014. Jack is supporting the fish's weight with both hands to prevent undue strain to its jaw. He reported catching it on a Texas rigged Zoom Ol' Monster Worm. (Photo by Mike Calloway)
That's Santos "Junior" Solis with a 7.10 he caught while flipping at Blue Cypress Lake on December 14, 2014. He got beat for big bass by less than a pound by Jack Berry, but that's a nice fish. (Photo by Mike Calloway)
Jackie Barber shows a 6.13 pounder he caught at Blue Cypress Lake on December 14, 2014. He got beat for big bass by 2 fish over 7 pounds, but that's a nice one none the less. (Photo by Alan Elder)
That's Mike Hampton with 5.10 pounds of Blue Cypress Bass he caught in the last hour of competition. He was about to give up with a 0 for the day when he caught them and missed some others in rapid succession. (Photo by Mike Calloway)
That's Sean Burt with a 3.84 pounder he caught in Blue Cypress Lake on December 14, 2014. (Photo by Mike Calloway)