Place: Union Lake, Millville, NJ
Time: 6:00am-2:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 02, 2016
Weather: Day after torrential rain...Blue bird skies and comfy 68 degrees at start with a slight breeze. Warming up to a Hot 88 Degrees later in the day.
Water Temps: 71 Degrees up the creek and 77 in main body of water
Water Clarity: N/A
Wind Gusts:
Best Lure: Blk Blue Jig
Depths fished: N/A
Bass Limit: 5
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What can I say men and women? Because of you and your desire to compete and come out on a 4th of July Holiday weekend and partake in our 13th straight Union Lake Open Buddy T., we thank you.
To the SJHT members that fished this event... Layne, David S., Mike White, Joe H., Brian *SubFish* M., Dan F. on the livewell checks and on the water oversight, Troop, along with VP Joe Reed on the Grill and at the weigh-in Table and Wayne *Moe* Sr. recording each teams bag. I personally Thank you for easing the load and making things run as smoothly as could be. Special Shout outs to Mike White for donating the Gatorade and the Cold sodas.
Next, I would like to Thank this Years 2016 SJHT Union Lake Open Buddy Sponsors Precision Tackle www.pttackle.com Located online and physically down in the Northeast, MD, Herb and his Pro-staff provide some of the finest tackle and equipment for your tournament needs.
Secondly, Give a big shout out to Jeff Jr. and Sr. at Blackwater Sports Center for donating a Michael Iconelli Rod. Blackwater is located in Vineland, NJ on Delsea Drive. With so many other activities and initiatives going on, Blackwater continues to support those that give back to there communities. Thank you once again.
and last but not least...our very own John *Bama* Barrett.... Title Sponsor of this years Union Lake Championship Belts Alarms by SAFE-TECH and Gloucester County Awards and Trophy out of Sewell, NJ. John Nestore does fabulous out of the box custom type trophies, plaques, and of course the Open Buddy Tag Team Belts.
Without there continued support and generosity, SJHT would find it very difficult to keep the level of expectations as High as we put it. Thank you Gentlemen once again.
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South Jersey Hook This! would also like to Thank all of the dedicated 25 boaters that came out to this event.
Okay... Let's get right to it. Without further adieu, Here is the official 2016 SJHT Union Lake Open Buddy Tale of the Tape
Let's give a big congrats to this years 2016 New SJHT 13th Annual Union Lake Open Buddy Tournament finishers.
1st Place and Lunker Team of John Gomez & Khris Razalcheck- 5 Bass weighing 14.37lbs $700.00Lunker went 4.79lbs for $250.00.
2nd Place Team and Lunker winner Michael Butterworth & Drew Zerra 4 Bass weighing 9.16lbs $420.00
3rd Place Team of Dom Corino & Ron Brown with 4 Bass weighing 5.89lbs $280.00
[b]High angle group shot
BN06 longview of weigh in
Even our Kayak community got into the action....
In Summary: 15 out of 25 Boaters caught at least 1 Bass. There were a total of 38 overall Bass weighed-in totaling 71.21lbs. That gave way to an avg. of 1.87lbs. There were 34 Largemouth Bass weighed in and 4 Smallmouth Bass weighed in. As one can surmise by the Tale of the Tape, there was only 1 Limit brought to the scales. In what can be said was a tough day, anglers reported some success up near the creek
Congrats to the prize winners and all that came out and supported the 13th annual SJHT Bass Fishing Club Union Lake Open Buddy Tournament.
Prepping for the weigh-in:
Jake Haas Keeper:
Taring the scale:
Runner up to 3rd place..otherwise 4th place finisher....Our very own Joe. R. Henderson:
Runner up to Joe....is the SJHT Team of Layne E. and David S.
Thanks again to all who came out on this 4th of July weekend event. I know you could have been in a million and one other places but we're just appreciative to all who showed the love.
BN06
Edited by BigNasty06 on 07/03/2016
BN06, President
Another one in the books, thanks BN for doing all the dirty work, hardest job i had all day was driving to millvile and back without falling asleep. That mudline in the back was something ive never seen there before personally. After seeing the rain that that area got the night before I was fully expecting to have to tow trees out of the parking lot again like back in 2012.
Edited by Crappie Jon on 07/05/2016
"2nd place is just the first loser"
Yeah... Jiggen Den. Great Turnout! and our SJHT members came out in force!!!
Dan.. I heard that mud line was something fierce. With the amount of rain the night before, I would have swore that anglers would stay far and wide of the creek.
fishintroop wrote:
Good jpb BN. Hope you're fully recovered...Dan, thanks for the ride. How is your trolling motor?
I think she survived lol no worries. My buddy ran it into a tree on 100% at the flats before it's a champ. I'll call u when it explodes in the middle of squan lol
"2nd place is just the first loser"
