Thirty-nine teams braved the 98 degree temperature and high humidity to fish the thirteenth Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament on Lake of the Ozarks. The lake is still on a slight rise and turning dingy from water being released from Truman Lake.
The bass seemed to be spread out in depths of 10 to 25 feet, however, if fish were caught on a certain bank or type of structure the day before doesn't guarentee they will be there the next day. In short, catching a good limit of bass is beginning to get a lot tougher in the last couple of weeks.
There were only twelve five fish limits out of thirt-nine teams and only two bass over 4 pounds and two bass over 5 pounds brought to the scales. Jigs, deep diving crank baits and plastic baits were the better bite.
Big bass of the tournament was caught by Dan Weber weighing in at 5.35 pounds.
Free entry for next week's Missouri Angler Wednesday Night Tournament was drawn by the team of Jeff Neihaus and Aaron Gardner.
1ST PLACE -- DAN WEBER AND MAGGIE
2ND PLACE -- TIM JEFFRIES AND MIKE MALONE
3RD PLACE -- RON CLEMENT AND TERRY BLANKENSHIP
4TH PLACE -- CHRIS SOSTMAN AND RICH WAGNER
5TH PLACE -- ED BICK AND JEFF GREEN
