The $5,000 Fall Trail qualifier #4 at Shearon Harris gave us an indication of weather to come! Cold & windy. 17 boats showed up to qualify for the Championship scheduled for November 6th at Shearon Harris. The weather this Sunday was pretty good except for the sustained 20 mph winds and gusts to 30. Nice and sunny with light humidity. Only 36 bass were actually weighed in for a total of 88 pounds. Water temps averaged 74 and air temps ranged from 43 to 65. Big fish for the day was 6.93 pounds caught by the team of Scott Woodson & Matt Lucey. The bass were caught in all depths of water on just about anything thrown at them. With the crazy slot limit in place at Harris, it’s hard to bring a good bag to the scales this time of year. It’s a shame when your skills land you a 5 pound bass and you have to throw it back during a tournament. The bass at Harris also looked to be in a very healthy condition.

James Poirrier & Rich Szczerbala blew out the field with 5 nice bass weighing 20.65 lbs! Fall fishing is now getting hot and all the area lakes should be producing some nice fish. Most of the bass caught were in 2 to 15 feet of water off rocky points & grass beds. The key was to find the fish bunched together!

The $5,000 Fall Trail qualifier #5 will be Sunday, October 16th at Shearon Harris Lake out of Holleman’s Crossing Wildlife Ramp. Teams must fish 4 of the 7 qualifiers to fish the Championship on November 6th, and there are only 3 qualifiers left! So don’t miss out on this great Fall fishing. The projected 1st place in the Championship should be over $2,000 !!!

All the information on the Fall Trail can be seen on our website:
www.piedmontbassclassics.com/2011FallTrailMainPage.html

Now here are the October 2nd results:

1st Place..James Poirrier & Rich Szczerbala of Broadway & New Hill…5 bass…20.65 lbs…$680
2nd Place..Scott Woodson & Matt Lucey of Raleigh…3 bass…10.63 lbs…$408
3rd Place..Dave Murdock & Anthony Fofi of Fayetteville & Spring Lake…2 bass…10.52 lbs…$272

1st Place Big Fish..2nd Place Team above…6.93 lbs…$224
2nd Place Big Fish..1st Place Team above…6.49 lbs…$96

1st Place TWT..1st Place Team above…20.65 lbs…$175
2nd Place TWT..Chad Eriksen & Cody Stack of Wake Forest & Woodstock IL…9.20 lbs…$75

Listed below are the rest of the Fall Trail Dates……

Fall Trail Tournament Dates
Qualifier #5 ~~ October 16th ~~ Shearon Harris Lake
Qualifier #6 ~~ October 23rd ~~ Jordan Lake
Qualifier #7 ~~ October 30th ~~ Shearon Harris Lake
CHAMPIONSHIP ~~ November 6th ~~Shearon Harris Lake

Come join us for some great fall fishin’!
 
Contacts for all our tournament information:

Phil McCarson~Tournament Director
919-471-1571…….919-971-5042
www.piedmontbassclassics.com
or email at….   [email protected]

2nd Place Team Scott Woodson and Matt Lucey also won Big Fish with a 6.93 lb bass