SoutheastRegionToledoBendMarch292008

Couples Association of Sport Tournaments

Ronnie and Courtney Mundy

WIN on Toledo Bend Reservoir!!!

CAST Southeast started their third tournament of the season on March 29, 2008 on beautiful Toledo Bend Reservoir out of Alpine Marina. Manfred and Many greeted CAST Southeast with open doors and great lodging. Alpine Marina provided our couples a banquet room for registration allowing everyone a comfortable place to hold registration.

Tournament morning came with overcast skies and rain. CAST Southeast couples fished many patterns from bed fishing to targeting inside grass lines, outside grass lines, and even Carolina rigging on deep humps.

Many of our CAST anglers used their new Just Keepers weigh-in bag purchased from Randy Duncan at Duncan Enterprises, www.duncanbags.com, to bring their hefty fish to the scales.

Ronnie and Courtney Mundy, CAST’s reigning 2007 CAST Classic Champions, took their SKEETER bass boat north of the Pendleton Bridge to Patroon Bay where they were greeted by twenty other boats fishing the same area. After looking around, Ronnie told Courtney that “everyone seems to be fishing deep grass lines”. Most of the boats around the area were fishing 4 to 10 foot depths. Ronnie headed to the bank targeting outside edges of bushes and the inside grass line. They fished depths mainly in the 1 to 3 foot range. Ronnie used his trusty SUPER FLUKE and Strike King Spinnerbaits to catch a five fish winning limit of 16.76 pounds.

Second place stringer was brought in by Larry and Joyce Coleman with a weight of 15.36 pounds. Larry and Joyce targeted deeper water just south of the Pendleton Bridge. Their go to bait was a Carolina Rig utilizing trick worms and centipedes to catch their limit. Larry and Joyce have not been strangers lately to having mechanical issues. Larry and Joyce utilized a drift sock due to trolling motor problems on tournament day. Last month they managed to put a hole in their boat. Having a GORILLA HULL installed as part of their boat repair was the answer courtesy of Toledo Bend Fiberglass. Congratulations to Larry & Joyce for their resourcefulness at overcoming some of the many obstacles in bass fishing.

Third place stringer and BIG BASS were brought in by the great fishing duo of Nick and Sharon Albus. Nick and Sharon fished mid-lake areas using soft plastics all day to catch their 15.19 pounds of fish. Their best producers were pumpkin seed wacky worms and green Texas rigged worms. BIG BASS honors for the team belong to Sharon. She was fishing a Texas rigged worm when all of a sudden Sharon said she felt like she hit a stump. Sharon started to work the rod back and forth to loosen her bait from the stump and with a couple of pulls she realized it was really stuck. Sharon asked Nick to turn the boat around so she could get unhung, when Nick noticed Sharon’s bait was moving off away from the boat. Nick told Sharon to “SET THE HOOK” and when she did Sharon found a 6.14 pound Toledo Bend big bass monster on the end of her line! Congratulations to Sharon on her big catch.

CAST Southeast would like to thank all of our sponsors that make our tournaments possible.

Dawson Marine is a now a proud sponsor of CAST Southeast. Dawson Marine located in Beaumont, Jasper and Houston, www.dawsonmarine.com, offers boats for all activities, a great service department, and an excellent staff to help you with all your boating needs. Dawson Marine service department vouchers were won by Nick & Sharon Albus, Mark & Morna Lane, and Bob & Yoli Narron.

E2baits prize packages were won by Larry & Joyce Coleman and Les Brown & Peggy Schaffner. E2baits website is www.e2baits.com; they provide excellent quality baits made right here in the U.S.A. as well as offering great customer service and fast shipping. E2baits is located in Evadale, Texas.

Castaway Custom Rods located in Montgomery, Texas, www.castawayrods.com, provided fishing rods won by Billy & Mary Ingram and Don & Sandy Jeane. Castaway Custom Rods strive to make the best fishing rods in the industry.

Academy Sports + Outdoors, www.academy.com, provided gift cards won by Johnny & Ann Meyers and Larry & Carol McMinimy. Please visit your local Academy Sports + Outdoors store for all your fishing, hunting, and camping needs.

CAST Southeast would also like to extend a special thanks to Kick N Bass Pro Staff Team Member Sandy Jeane for providing us with Kick N Bass garlic and crawfish scented fish attractants. Kick N Bass, www.kicknbass.com, is home to the strongest fish attractants in the world. Tell them Sandy Jeane and CAST sent you.

CAST Southeast would like to recognize: Skeeter Boats, Yamaha Outboards, Kevin and Rhonda with UCRGrapics, Strike King, Doug Hannon’s WaveSpin fishing reel, The Lakecaster, fishingworld.com, Genesis Homecare and Hospice, and Save Phace. Please support all of our sponsors.

John and Jennifer Anderson, directors of CAST Southeast, would like to thank Carol McMinimy and Ruby Parker for helping with pictures at the weigh in.

NEXT TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Our next tournament will be on Lake Livingston out of Waterfront Lodge on April 19th, 2008. Registration will be at the tournament site that morning. Registration will be between 5:00 AM and 6:30 AM and start time will be determined the morning before registration. We will also allow trailering for the tournament.

Call the folks at Waterfront Lodge; they can help you with your lodging needs. They have RV Sites and a 24 unit motel with kitchenettes. Their contact number is Waterfront Lodge, 936-646-3525. Waterfront Lodge is located at 371 Navaho Trail in Onalaska, Texas.

If you have questions or need more information please call CAST Southeast tournament directors, John and Jennifer Anderson, at 832-514-0449 or 281-731-7302 or you can email us at johnandjen2@msn.com.