I hope you guys can find your trophy.
I have a much simpler question for you this time.
What year was the Worlds very first Bass Tournament held ?
You guys better get this one right, even Mr. Streater knows the answer to this one.

I very sorry that you don’t like the tone of my post, but, believe it or not, I am on your side. I am not a member of your club, however I am a Northwest Fishing Historian and I’m very impressed with your clubs title as being “The Worlds Oldest Bass Club” (1938) with the additional title of it’s holding the “Worlds First Bass Tournament” that same year. I would like to get some pictures of the “Rainier Trophy” if it still around for my web site.  If your not aware of your clubs achievements, then you can read about it on your web site.
http://www.westernbassclub.com/Bassmaster.html
Did you know that there is a Bass Tournament held down in Texas that calls itself the “Worlds Oldest Bass Tournament” It’s named the “Texas State Bass Tournament” which started in 1955.
http://www.texasstatebass.com/
They even have their own State Park and Wildlife Department’s Magazine buying into this.
http://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2005/dec/ed_1/
These Texan’s are claiming to be first at something that your club did 17 years earlier and I would like to see this honor be credited to the people that really deserve it, you guys.
No I’m not a member, no I’m not really even crazy about Bass Fishing, but I don’t like to see these sod busters taking credit for an idea that originated in Washington state.
I would like to think that any member of your club would even feel more strongly about this gross injustice than I do.
Sincerely
Don
Pacific Northwest Fishing Golden Years
http://www.pnfgy.com

Thank you Russ, I'm glad that some of you guys care.
"You need to know where you've been before you can know where your going"
I emailed this Sam Scroggins (tournament director) dude and guess what, he has not replied over the last 5 days.
Good luck, maybe a good ol'Texas Flood (of emails) is in order here.

I noticed that their forum was not very active too, so I went for the email message instead.
To save your members the trouble looking up this information, here it is.
Sam Scroggins (tournament director)
Email  TournamentDirector@TexasStateBass.com
Phone  903 763 2191