2009 UTC Fall Invitational
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
2009 FALL INVITATIONAL RESULTS
University of Tennessee - Chatanooga hosted the UTC Fall Invitational held at Chickamauga Lake, TN on November 14. Twenty eight collegiate anglers representing four Tennessee colleges competed in the weather shortened event. Takeoff was delayed until 8 a.m. due to dense fog which created unsafe conditions. Weigh-in was held at 3 p.m. at Chester Frost Park located in Hixson, TN. It proved to be a pretty tough day out on the water but as always, several of these talented anglers brought 5 bass limits to the scales.
Joey Mallicoat and Mac Jones of Tennessee Tech finished in first place. They caught the majority of their tournament winning limit of bass by fishing a single fifty yard stretch of bluff bank with jerkbaits most of the day. The team also landed the big bass of the tournament (3.61 lbs). "We caught our second biggest fish with ten minutes left in the tournament out on a hump right in front of the boat ramp which bumped us up about a pound," said Mallicoat.That turned out to be the tournament winning fish as Mallicoat and Jones finished with 12.30lbs, almost a full pound ahead of the 2nd place finishers.
Josh Haskins and Seth Davis also of Tennessee Tech came in second place. Josh is the current president of the Tennessee Tech bass fishing team. They caught their limit using a Lucky Craft Sammy as well as a variety of crankbaits and jerkbaits. Davis reported, "The current was rolling that day and we targeted main river current breaks halfway up the lake". Haskins and Davis weighed in 11.36 lbs, .09 lbs ahead of the 3rd place finishers.
Taylor Massingill and Alex Craw of the host school, University of Tennessee - Chatanooga, claimed third place.Craw is the current president of the UTC Bass Anglers and Massingill is the current vice-president.They ran a long distance upriver toward the Watts Bar Dam to start the tournament. After arriving at a slough upriver, Massingill and Craw fished a roughly 75 yard long stretch of bank with the boat sitting in three to five feet of water. They were targeting bass that were actively feeding on shad. "We would wait for the fish to start coming up in a feeding frenzy, then we'd put the trolling motor on high and blast in that direction casting lipless crankbaits, small crankbaits, and topwater lures at them," said Craw.The team caught four keepers this way and left with about an hour left in the tournament. They picked up their last keeper, which was a spotted bass, fishing a shaky head along a rip rap bank. Massingill and Craw‘s limit tipped the scales at 11.27 lbs.
1st Place - Joey Mallicoat & Mac Jones from TN Tech with 5 Fish weighing 12.30 lbs (3.61 lbs Big Bass)
2nd Place - Seth Davis & Josh Haskins from TN Tech with 5 Fish weighing 11.36 lbs
Joey Mallicoat and Mac Jones of Tennessee Tech finished in first place. They caught the majority of their tournament winning limit of bass by fishing a single fifty yard stretch of bluff bank with jerkbaits most of the day. The team also landed the big bass of the tournament (3.61 lbs). "We caught our second biggest fish with ten minutes left in the tournament out on a hump right in front of the boat ramp which bumped us up about a pound," said Mallicoat.That turned out to be the tournament winning fish as Mallicoat and Jones finished with 12.30lbs, almost a full pound ahead of the 2nd place finishers.
Josh Haskins and Seth Davis also of Tennessee Tech came in second place. Josh is the current president of the Tennessee Tech bass fishing team. They caught their limit using a Lucky Craft Sammy as well as a variety of crankbaits and jerkbaits. Davis reported, "The current was rolling that day and we targeted main river current breaks halfway up the lake". Haskins and Davis weighed in 11.36 lbs, .09 lbs ahead of the 3rd place finishers.
Taylor Massingill and Alex Craw of the host school, University of Tennessee - Chatanooga, claimed third place.Craw is the current president of the UTC Bass Anglers and Massingill is the current vice-president.They ran a long distance upriver toward the Watts Bar Dam to start the tournament. After arriving at a slough upriver, Massingill and Craw fished a roughly 75 yard long stretch of bank with the boat sitting in three to five feet of water. They were targeting bass that were actively feeding on shad. "We would wait for the fish to start coming up in a feeding frenzy, then we'd put the trolling motor on high and blast in that direction casting lipless crankbaits, small crankbaits, and topwater lures at them," said Craw.The team caught four keepers this way and left with about an hour left in the tournament. They picked up their last keeper, which was a spotted bass, fishing a shaky head along a rip rap bank. Massingill and Craw‘s limit tipped the scales at 11.27 lbs.
1st Place - Joey Mallicoat & Mac Jones from TN Tech with 5 Fish weighing 12.30 lbs (3.61 lbs Big Bass)
2nd Place - Seth Davis & Josh Haskins from TN Tech with 5 Fish weighing 11.36 lbs
3rd Place - Taylor Massingill & Alex Craw from UTC with 5 fish weighing 11.27 lbs
4th Place - Bradley Cooper & Evan Harb from UTK with 5 fish weighing 9.57 lbs
5th Place - Cody Gass & Adam Goodwin from TN Tech with 3 fish weighing 6.78 lbs
6th Place - Travis McFalls & David Lambert from UTK with 3 fish weighing 4.77 lbs
7th Place - Marcos Sanchez & Kyle Hillis from MTSU with 2 fish weighing 3.38 lbs
8th Place - Parker Bacon & Casey Murray from UTC with 1 fish weighing 3.26 lbs
9th Place - Brent Hollis & Ryan Maddux from TN Tech with 2 fish weighing 2.85 lbs
10th Place - Ryan Beeler & Luke Aaron from UTK with 1 fish weighing 2.60 lbs
11th Place - Caleb Lim & Robert Stewart from UTK with 1 fish weighing 2.26 lbs
12th Place - Cody Britton & Levi Coxey from TN Tech with 1 fish weighing 2.07 lbs
T-13th Place - Nick Pratt & Jayme Copenhaver from UTC with 0 fish
T-13th Place - Josh Flowers & Cody Deason from TN Tech with 0 fish
Prizes and Awards:
1st Place Plaque
2nd Place Plaque
3rd Place Plaque
Big Bass Award - Plaque and New Custom Rod from Joe Burns Custom Rods
Tournament Notes:
34 keeper bass were caught weighing a total of 72.49 lbs with all 34 keepers released alive.
The average weight per keeper caught was 2.13 lbs with the Big Bass weighing 3.61 lbs.
Special Thanks:
The UTC Bass Anglers would like to give thanks to everyone who helped us with this tournament. Special thanks to Chris Coleman, Steve Kite, and any other CBA members who helped with the weigh in and MC duties of the event. I'd also like to thank Sadler Signs & Awards in Nashville for helping design the plaques, and our sponsor Joe Burns who donated one of his new custom rods as the prize for Big Bass.
