SHOE'S TOP BASS
TOURNAMENT TRAIL
**Challenge 2**
July 23rd, 2022 on Houghton Lake
SHOE’S TOP BASS
TOURNAMENT TRAIL
The Frank’s Great Outdoors *Challenge 2*
July 23, 2022 on Houghton Lake
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Top Bass Tournament Trail held its sixth tournament of the 2022 season July 23rd on Houghton Lake. This tournament was named “The Frank’s Great Outdoors Challenge 2”. This was a normal one day tournament, with an optional twist. For those who also wanted to participate in the 2 lake Frank’s Challenge, they paid an extra $30 and then their Missaukee and Houghton weights were added together to see who won the 2 lake Challenge & payout. A special THANK YOU to Frank’s for their sponsorship of the 2 Challenge tournaments.
The weather was pretty good as we had temps in the 80’s and a little above normal winds. The fishing was also pretty good, as we had 29 limits come to the scales, and 191 bass in total got weighed in.
Congratulations to J P, from Houghton Lake, who held about a ½ pound lead over the Second place finisher, by weighing in a quality bag at 16.30#. He also had Big Bass for the tournament at 4.82#. Following in Second, was Bob Wingate, from Lake. Bob had a limit at 15.83#. John Franko, from Clare, was not far back, as his limit hit the 14.42# mark, to secure Third Place. Fourth Place went to Keith Gyulveszi, from Clare, with 13.16#. Paul Affholder, from Traverse City, rounded out the top 5 places, by weighing in 12.95# for 5th Place.
As for the Frank’s 2 Lake Challenge, J P, from Houghton Lake was able to take his 16.30# from Houghton Lake and add it to his 11.39# from Missaukee to win the 2 Lake Challenge, by a little over 1.3#, over Mark Reinke from Gladwin.
TOURNAMENT STANDINGS – Top 24 only
J P, Houghton Lake 16.30#
Bob Wingate Lake 15.83#
John Franko, Clare 14.42#
Keith Gyulveszi, Clare 13.16#
Paul Affholder, Traverse City 12.95#
Jacob Jackson, Houghton Lk 12.95#
Andy Maier, Midland 12.57#
Jeff Crowley, Goodrich 12.55#
Bob Hitchcock, Clare 12.53#
Jim Clevinger, Beaverton 12.02#
Mark Reinke, Gladwin 11.97#
Ron Conner, Oxford 11.92#
Peter Jones, Midland 11.63#
Brian Anderson, Linwood 11.49#
Kevin Vida, Clare 11.45#
Randy Bigford, Spruce 11.23#
Elmer Daniels, Jackson 11.16#
Brendon Gyulveszi, Clare 10.88#
Kyle Kigar, Gladwin 10.60#
Tom Shoemaker Jr. 10.54#
Chris Barrett, Holt 9.84#
Cal Tomlinson, Midland 9.81#
Steve Slackta, Grand Blanc 9.69#
Randy Yochum, Alpena 9.47#
ANGLER OF THE YEAR RACE – Best 5 of the first 6 Tournaments – (dropping 1)
(Angler Of The Year, goes to the person who weighs in the most total weight for their best 7 of the 9 tournaments)
Kevin Vida, Clare 65.22#
Mark Reinke, Gladwin 64.83#
Peter Jones, Midland 62.40#
Mike Sielinski, Gladwin 62.23#
FRANK’S 2 LAKE CHALLENGE – Missaukee 7/9 & Houghton Lake 7/23/22 – Top 5
J P, Houghton Lake 11.39# + 16.30# = 27.99#
Mark Reinke, Gladwin 14.64# + 11.97# = 26.61#
Jacob Jackson, Houghton LK 10.46# + 12.95# = 23.41#
Ron Conner, Oxford 10.56# + 11.92# = 22.48#
Brian Anderson, Linwood 10.86# + 11.49# = 22.35#
NEXT TOURNAMENTS
August 6th - Lake St Helen - The SPRO and Gamakatsu Open
August 20th - Saginaw River/Bay - Dick's Sporting Goods Open
August 27-28 - Saginaw River/Bay - Hummingbird/Minn Kota 2 Day CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT presented by Northwoods Wholesale Outlet (To qualify – you MUST have paid for 2 of the one day tournaments to fish this event)
Also remember, that the Entry is $140, and option & BB pots are doubled.
Cash & prizes to the top 15 place finishers, with 15th Place receiving over $275 in cash & prizes.
FOR INFORMATION – CALL – ELMER DANIELS (517) 962-2345 E-mail – topbass2@comcast.net
OR - TOM SHOEMAKER (989) 313-0700