May Trout Madness May 8th

[VineAssist]

Beautful Conditions greeted anglers that arrived at the lake today for the May Trout Madness Tournament, it was sunny with virtually no wind and just perfect for fishing. Fishing was really good in the morning with the bait guys and troll guys gettin them pretty good. Anglers that where trolling where able to maintain a steady pace pretty much all day. Here is a Happy Angler.
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The tournament dierctor for this event was Bill Hutchinson. I want to give a big thank you to Bill for the job he did on this tournament. He spared no expense as you will see in the pictures and the story that will unfold.
Here are some pictures of the stage and prizes.
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the stage!
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the junirors trophies.
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Rod combos provided by Shakesphere and Phulger Reels.
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Tournament director and emcee Mr. Bill Hutchinson stating the ceremonies!

I would also like to say that this was a great event for the family. Tons of prizes where given away and the kids had an absolute blast.
in the Junior Male category the top three anglers where:
Nick Foster 3.92
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Jonathen Chance 3.34
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Steven Johnson II 2.88
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Adult Female
Janice Watt 3.11
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Shannon Freeman 2.87
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Ariana Monge 2.72
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HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE AMOUNT OF SWAG IN THE PICTURES!!!!! AND WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THE MAIN RAFFLE YET!!!
Now for the adult male category:
Tim Blacksher 6.55
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Korey Cox 5.86
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Chris "seechrisfish" Smith 4.48
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Todd Bencze 4.28
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and here are the rest of the top 10
Ken Heaton 4.06
Bob Nordstrom 3.96
Augustin Cartar 3.50
Kevin Murhison 3.41
John Traut 3.37
morgan monge 3.36

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Here is only $300 dollars of the $2000 dollars Hutch cave out.
The Grand Prize envelope!
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huge smile on this guys face.

Now for the Grand Prize! The grand prize was a house boat trip at Lake Mead provided by Forever Resorts. And this prize was a week long house boat trip on Lake Mead a drum roll please!!! $5,000 value!!!!!!!!
The winners name was drawn and the name was Jordan Horrita. All I see is this little kid running at Mach 10 from the back of the crowd to the stage. I swear he covered the 100yd strech in maybe 3 seconds!! The Chargers or my hometown Bills need to look into this kid this is how fast he covered the ground! He had the biggest smile on his face when Hutch handed him the awared and the whole crowd just gave the kid the best ovation! Here is a picture of little Jordan with his prize.
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The whole time I was trying to take this picture he had that same huge smile and could not stop talking about fishing and how much he was amped for this trip.
Here are all the winners of trophies, plaques and grand prizes.
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I would like to thank everyone that came out to this event. What an event it was. Bill Hutchinson as always you put on a amazing event! Can't believe we are allmost closing out trout season and heading into what looks to be a SPECTACULAR Catfish season with tons of events lined up. Opening Night for Catfish will be Friday June 11th with the first tournament being held on June 12th (this event will be a King or Queen of the Cats qualifier!) Back by popular demand is the King or Queen of the Cats Classic. Will Chris "Trollmeister" Hagopian be able to defend his crown from the masses??? Only time will tell!!!! Hope to see you all out on the water very soon.
Tight Lines everyone,
Jimmy Getty
asst mgr

[Fishbones]

Awesome report jimmy, sure wish i could have been there but i was stuck at work, congrats to all contestants and "seechrisfish".

It looks to be another great day fishing at Irvine Lake, cant wait for catfish season!!

Alex
Fishbones

[Wkendwarior]

This event was very well put together. I enjoyed the whole day. Catching trout, bass, and whippers on power bait, lures and the troll. And with my lucky angler number I walked away with a few raffled prizes. All in all one of the best tournaments I have been to, thanks Bill for a great job.

Now on to the Catfish tournys and some Bassin.

Troy

[jonnyfishon]

good job on 1st place tim! congrats

[dixoncider]

Looks real fun..next year for sure.

[Mondo21]

There seems to be a lot of happy peeps,especially the Sprinter Kid(Jordan) who won the Lake Mead Trip. Congrats to all the Winners! Cindy:Big Grin:

[El Capo]

Very impressive, the swag level is very high in this one.

[primo55]

Great report Jimmy!! Congrats to all the winners!

[Prowler_Tuber]

Congrats everyone it looked like a great event

[Big Daddy]

First of all I just want to say "Thanks Irvine Lake" you guy's did a great job:Applause:. Thanks for having this last trout tournament to basiclly close out the trout season(I know now it's cat fish season and am already getting geared up) it has been really a great year. Thanks Jimmy and everyone else for all you do to keep things moving and running very efficently.

Hutch and crew you really did a super job. I don't fish many tournaments but this is one that me, my son's and my grand son's will make a family tradition for a long time. Well done:Applause:.

It was a "GREAT TOURNEY" This is how they are supposed to be done top Notch all the way no Pulling wool over anyones eyes. no drama just staight forward perfect from moment 1. Masive prizes for most and smiles, fun and just a great time for "EVERYONE".


Congrat to all of the winners Great job out there
Big Daddy

[afisherman13]

Congrats to all the winners! Hutch, cant wait untill next years. And thats how its done boys. Hope some one took notes.:LOL::Envious:

[HBAR]

Even though we got skunked we enjoyed being there along with winning some of the prizes and myself winning the last hundred bucks being given away, for sure next year along with renting a boat or using my Outcast pontoon boat which I now know I should have brought with me, oh well.

[Frenchy]

there is one more trout tourney guys the memorial day tourney at the end of the month not the last one yet