Hey everyone-

I wasn't able to fish the last day of the Potholes tourney  due to some trolling motor problems occuring shortly after blastoff.  I got very frustrated and headed home shortly thereafter.   I know, I am a ....poor sport and should  have stuck around and waited for the weigh in but I just couldn't do it.-  I was bumming.

I'd like to personally thank Rick Gagliardi and Chris Sergeant for lending moral support and helping me mentally try to get back on track after this happened.  Rick was even willing to go as far as dragging me around with a rope all day so I could fish. 

So now for the real reason of my post......I understand from various sources that Kirk Holmes ended up winning and Russ Baker was second and Lyle Logston ended  up third- is this correct?  Are the official results with weights going to be posted from top to bottom soon?
I hope so!  I really do care who won and think we really got some awesome fisherman in this club.  The wind was definitely a factor for some of us.  I know it kicked my butt targeting smallies. 

Also, can anyone tell me what the official wind gust speed was Saturday afternoon while the Potluck was going on?  I think it had to have topped 50mph!!!

Congrats Kirk, Russ and Lyle

Bob Payseno (Pays2no)

ps  Larry, Do you know if Mike Meseberg is going to be putting the pictures they took of the tourney on their website?

Absolutely amazing how nearly every name was wrong - even the info about the club and tournament was inaccurate.  Reminds me of the news.   

According to NOAA, for Moses lake and Othello (the closest weather stations), this is what they reported on Saturday:

Max temp 51.8
Max wind speed  25.3
Max wind gust   35.7

I think we can all agree the wind speed was much higher than that.  Sprague last year topped out at 30mph and Saturday night was stronger than that.