HSV Anglers News COMMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT
Your Organization Inside News June, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 6 www.hsvanglers.com The next Club meeting is 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 2nd at the Coronado Center. Speaker for the meeting will Bryan Hendricks outdoor editor for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Be sure to set aside Thursday July 9th to participate in our annual Fishing with The Blind event. This is a fun and rewarding event that I encourage you to join. Boaters and non-boaters are needed contact Ralph Scantlin at 501– 922-0490 or email cleansweep14@suddenlink. net. Don’t forget to bring your aluminum cans to the meeting. George Lafargue has volunteered to collect the cans. The club’s mentor program matches an angler familiar with local fishing techniques with anglers new to the area or unsure about how to use new techniques. Anyone that is interested in participating contact Scott McCord (phone - 915-0975 or email - [email protected] . Sign-up for tournaments will be prior to the Club meeting. Tournaments are scheduled for Mon 6/8, Thur 6/18 and Tue 6/30. HSV Anglers News COMMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT My thanks to all of our members for the support of our annual Military Fishing Day. A special thanks to Dave Keith for heading up this very successful event. Even with the wet weather, it was a great day of fishing and I know our Military guys and gals appreciated the day. As a reminder, June 6th is the annual Jessieville Fishing Derby for kids under 16 and Arkansas Game & Fish has a kids fishing derby 6/13, both groups would like our help to teach the kids how to fish. Contact Craig Schilling about helping with the Jessieville derby and Don Langston about helping with the Game & Fish derby. I look forward to seeing you all at our club meeting June 2nd. Thanks, Bob 2015 Military Fishing Day a Great Success As a show of support for our troops HSV Anglers Club members along with other volunteers took a group of active duty military personnel fishing Thursday May 14th. This is an annual event and this year 26 military personnel participated. Fun was had by all and most caught fish. The largest fish caught by species were; catfish - 17 lbs, bass—3 lbs, crappie—2 lbs and bream 15 oz. Work has already started on next years event. Service Personnel at 2015 Military Fishing Day May Club Tournaments—Post Spawn The April 28th tournament was on Balboa. Twenty-six members fished the tournament weighing in 77 bass with a total weight of 142.1 pounds. The majority of the bass were caught on the baits pictured below around main lake points or docks. Wayne Beach caught the big bass of 5.5 pounds using a Texas rigged green pumpkin trick worm (bottom left). Texas rigged green pumpkin and green pumpkin/magic Zoom ultra vibe speed craw (lower right one up) worked well. The Zoom shakey tail watermelon with red flake worm (bottom center), Zoom green pumpkin magic baby brush hog (lower right) and Zoom green pumpkin mag swamp crawler (center right) also produced well. Plastic baits were the successful baits at the Balboa tournament but that was not the case at the May 7th tournament on Ouachita. Twenty-two anglers fished weighing in 36 bass with a total weight of 68 pounds. Spook type topwater baits (upper left) produced early along with swimbaits (center) and swim jig with green pumpkin trailer (center left). Several anglers had success with crankbaits. Shallow with the Strike King 1.5 square bill (upper center) in sexy shad and deep with a deep running crankbait in baby bass color (upper right). The green pumpkin Zoom magnum swamp crawler (center right) also did well. The May 19th tournament on Lake Hamilton has been canceled due to dangerous conditions caused by high water and floating debris. Summer Fest As part of the HSV POA Summer Fest the HSV Anglers Club is hosting 2 fishing tournaments on 7/2/15: one for children 15 and under and the other a team tournament. Children can fish on any lake in the Village but must bring their fish to the Lake Balboa ramp between 10:30 and noon to be weighed. Trophies will be given for the biggest bass, biggest bream and biggest catfish. All children bringing fish to be weighed will receive a certificate. The team tournament will be a 2 person team tournament on Lake Balboa from 6:30 to 11:30 am. There is a $20 entry fee per team with 100% payout to the top two or if 10 or more teams enter top three teams. 2
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