Day Three of the MLK Day Derby with some more Giants, running to the scales and ....

[VineAssist]

Today was the third and final day of the Martin Luther King Jr Tournament held under extremley beautiful conditions at Irvine Lake. These past three days are what tournament fishing at Irvine are all about big fish and fun! We started a new tradition of sort here at the lake during this tournament by holding a kids rafffle and I think that was a homerun amongst the crowd. The fishing could not be any better with a 5+ fish needed on day one, a four pounder day two, and a allmost 4+lb fish today. Today had two fish over seven pounds checked in.
Now to the results:
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MLK Tournament results Day 3
1. Rachel Larose 8lb 10 oz
2. Luigi Moreno 7lb 4 oz
3. Rick Chance 5lb 2 oz
4. John Parmenter 5lb
5. John Gilabert 4lb 10 oz
6. Stanley Santos 4lb 2 oz
7. Steven Christopher 4lb
8. Jonathen Chance 3lb 14oz brown
9. Rob Prim 3lb 14 oz
10. Thermest Brown 3lb 14 oz
Congratulations!
(See Masters page for qualifier list.)
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Rachel Larose of New Mexico takes first place honors trolling a CD07 Rapala firetiger. Rachel was literally running to the scales with her fish and checked in at 2:00pm on the dot. The very last weigh in of the day. She had no clue what she just caught and where it would put her. After the weigh in I asked her where she would be in April and her reply was "Looks like I might have to plan a vacation!"
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Luigi Moreno of S. El Monte takes 2nd trolling an orange Rapala off the West Shore near Woody's cove.
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Father and son Team make the top 10
3rd Place finisher Rick Chance takes 3rd with a 5lb 2 oz bow and his son Jonathen finishes 8th with a beautiful 3lb 14 oz Brown both caught on the troll.

And now Irvine Lake fanatics eveywhere I would like to introduce the 10 anglers who qualified for the Masters:
Day One:
Bob Nordstrom
Evaristo Rodriguez
Chris Vang
Myron Clark
James Smelt

Day Two:
Gene Case
Nick Northrup
Ron Vickrey

Day Three:
Rachel Larose
Luigi Moreno

Congratulations you are going to the Masters!

Jimmy

[a321eric]

whoa those are some huge trout....i wish i can get a 5+ pounder this year

[the killa fish taco]

Heard a 20lber was just weighed in a few minutes ago.....

[GdHkSet1]

Well done to all the top 10. Though I did not bring in something weighable on the 1st day of the tourney, it was real cool being on different water and talking with other FNNers on and off the water. Everyone was cool that I talked to on the water, Also kudos to Kewly too man he was out there on the 1st morning in gale force winds/dust and controlling the flow of traffic. Look fwd on returning to the "Vine" at the next tourney.

[Rooster]

:Thumbs Up:Extremley beautiful conditions at Irvine Lake is on the money. Although i could only come up with another 9th place finish on day 3 it was a day i won't forget.
The bite was absolutely insaine good today on the troll. It simply doesnt get much better then that in my eyes.

Was one of the best tournaments i have been part of. It was clear alot of prepreation went into this and it clearly showed. Props to the staff.

[MAVERICK27]

Congrats to all, especially to rob rooster and Tapersteve! Way to go guys! It's always cool to see team 57 in the top 10!! Makes me proud.