OAF First Annual One Bass

[Phil Lilley]

[Quillback]

Great video Phil! Here's a couple of still shots.

Things really came together yesterday, Phil and Bill brought a ton of food, really good food I might add. Bill's wife Becky made a great chili mac, best I ever had. RPS made some mean wings. Donna's potato salad was great and the big bucket of it that she brought emptied out fast.

When I got there at 0630, Robert (Muddy Water) already had a canvas overhead set up that kept us dry through the morning rain, and thanks to his wife Karen for her help also.

Some great deserts were contributed, thanks to all of you that added to the buffet!

And thanks Ketchup and his wife for bringing some fold-out tables - they were needed to set up all that food!

Thanks to Bo (Nutech), Dave (Dtrs5kprs) and the folks from Lew's for the great tackle gifts.

And I believe Phil put Duckydoty in charge of providing the trophy. Very nice looking trophy, and congrats to Kbilb for the win!

As far as the fishing:

The water was on the rise the whole day, came up over a foot on Saturday alone. Reports were that the backs of the coves were fairly muddied up from runoff. Quite a bit of small debris in the water. Steady rain throughout much of the morning. I heard water temps were around 46-47 degrees.

Most of the folks reported anywhere from 5 -10 fish caught, with a keeper or two on average, Big fish were tough to come by. I heard of fish being caught on Jerk baits, jigs, the Ned, and a couple of Wart fish.

[Fish24/7]

very cool ,congrats to the winners !

[motoman]

Thanks for posting that vid Phil! Cool to put faces to a few names, for those of us who couldn't make it.

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Looks like a good time and great turnout. Hope to make it next year!:-)

[Chunk Rock]

Awesome !!! Wish I could have made it.

[tho1mas]

Yesterday's weather was about as bad as the weather we had at Cape Fair a couple of years ago.

[kdc]

Thanks for posting it looked like a good time wish I could have been have made it but was on call maybe next time

[Macsimus]

Great video, great event, and just a thoroughly enjoyable day. Y'all are some great people down here. My thanks to Jeff, Phil, Bill, and everyone else that made it possible.

[dtrs5kprs]

Glad it came off well. Wish we could have made it down. Let's hope for clear, stable water next year.

[abkeenan]

Thanks for posting the video Phil. Looks like an awesome event and Quillback deserved that round of applause for setting it all up. Hopefully next year I'll be able to participate.