And in September the CBA anglers and many others from all over plan to provide some relief to the families of the five servicemen killed in a lone wolf terrorist attack in Chattanooga on July 16.

Chattanoogans and other Americans reeled in horror as a radical Muslim shot four Marines and a U.S. Sailor to death before being killed in a gunfight with local police that day.

“We are going to hold a Memorial Benefit Tournament for the families of those five servicemen on Sept. 12,” said Brad Ferguson, tournament director for the Chattanooga Bass Association. CBA will be joined by Hydrilla Hawgs Bass Club, Fish Dayton – Dayton, Tennessee, and FLW Fishing in putting on the tournament which is expected to draw an extremely large entry.

All the money raised by the tournament will go to the families. Information on the benefit tournament is available at noogastrong.com.

Ferguson said fishing in Lake Chickamauga has slowed alittle because the water has got so hot this summer.

“It has gone from pretty much an offshore bite to just a grass bite now,” he said. “There are still some fish that can be caught offshore, but the better strings, for the most part, are coming in the grass. They are catching them on worms, lightweight Shakey Heads, spinnerbaits and swimbaits.”

Going into Saturday’s tournaments the points race is very tight at the top, he noted, with three teams within three points of each other and several more teams poised to make a charge not far behind. Chuck James and Brad James lead the points, but Galen James and Tony Townsend are tied with Rogne Brown and Cary Dotson three points back in second place.

“We’ve had some things get changed around in the points,” Ferguson said, adding that in September the entire points race will undergo a real shake-up.

“After this tournament Saturday people are going to have to start looking at their score and deciding what they are going to have to do for things to work out for them,” Ferguson said. The reason is that in September everybody has to drop their two lowest scores.

“There are going to be a couple of guys who will be dropping some substantial scores,” Ferguson said.

For now everyone is pointing to Saturday’s tournament which promises to be a very pleasant day on the water, he said.

“We’ve had a little bit of a cool snap and the fish are reacting to it. We’re going to have some really decent weather for the weekend and it’s going to be a lot cooler than it normally is this time of year – close to 10 degrees cooler. We are looking at a high of 87 degrees instead of 97 which is the normal high this time of year.”

The CBA’s 2015 schedule includes: Aug. 15 (Day), Aug. 29 (Night), Sept. 19 and Oct. 10, with the Classic Nov. 7-8.

 

Chattanooga Bass Association

Sat, Aug 15, 2015

Chickamauga Lake

Chester Frost Park

Call 423-593-3343

www.cbatournament.com