Our 2014/2015 regular season wrapped up with a bang in more ways than one at Lake Washington on July 26. A heavy thunderstorm punctuated the last hour of the event and the Big Bass of the Year was unexpectedly overthrown. That's right. We went to such fabled big bass havens as Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee Chain, but the Big Bass of the Year for 2014/2015 was caught at Lake Washington.
Mike Calloway of Titusville and Cliff Semonski of Oak Hill weighed 5 fish for 19.21 pounds to win the tournament. Jay Stein and John Dickinson, both of Palm Bay, took second with 5 fish for 17.40 pounds including a 9.00 pound lunker by Stein that was the tournament's biggest fish. The Palm Bay based father and son team of Clyde and Raymond Taylor earned third with 5 fish for 16.45 pounds.
The Jenkins brothers captured the Wild Card Classic berth with 5 fish for 8.58 pounds edging out the Eidems who weighed 3 fish for 4.25 pounds.
BJ Biles earned the small creel prize, a lovely corkscrew donated by Mike Hampton, with 3 fish for 3.27 pounds.
Air Temperature: upper 70s to upper 80s
Water Temperature: low to mid 80s
Conditions: mostly cloudy with a thunderstorm approaching from the South at weigh in time, mostly 0-5 SW wind increasing to 15+ with storm
The winners reported catching their fish using the following tricks:
- 1st Place: flipping something and 1 on some kind of worm
- 2nd Place & Big Bass: some kind of shiner looking swimbait and junebug magnum speed worms
- 3rd Place: flipping something in the south river
