Top Bass Tournament Trail - Saginaw Bay/River May 27th 2023

SHOE'S TOP BASS

TOURNAMENT TRAIL

May 27th, 2023 on Saginaw River/Bay

TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Shoe’sTop Bass Tournament Trail opened up their 27th season with a tournament on the Saginaw River/Limited Bay, out of the Independence Bridge Launch, on Saturday, May 27th. The event was named, “The Mercury Marine Open”, after one of our very good sponsors.

The weather for the tournament was some of the nicest that we have ever had for opening day. The temp was in the 80’s, with very light winds. With such great weather, we had a good turnout. With all those who fished, we only had 3 anglers to not weigh-in, and 38 - 5 fish limits came to the scales. A total of 231 bass came to the scales with 100% live release. Good job to all who fished!

Congratulations to Billy Booth, from Midland, who won the event with a limit @ 19.96#. 2nd Place, went to Keith Gyulveszi, from Clare, with 17.64#, and he also took the RecLending Big Bass Award, with one @ 5.14#. Third Place went to Peter Jones, from Midland with 17.11#. Elmer Daniels, from Jackson, took 4th Place with 16.29#. Dan Houser, from Washington Twp, followed in 5th, with 16.13#

Special “Thank You” to Mercury Marine, for being the titled sponsor of this tournament.

TOURNAMENT STANDINGS

(Top 30 Only)

Billy Booth, Midland 19.96#
Keith Gyulveszi, Clare 17.64#
Peter Jones, Midland 17.11#
Elmer Daniels, Jackson 16.29#
Dan Houser, Washington Twp. 16.13#
Chris Barrett, Holt 15.35#
Jeff Plutt, Houghton Lake 14.56#
Jim Baker, Bay City 14.43#
Brian Anderson, Linwood 14.36#
Ron Conner, Oxford 14.23#
Morris Collins, West Bloomfield 14.18#
Trevor Bowland, Sanford 14.05#
Al German, Vassar 13.94#
Bob Wozniak, Pinconning 13.92#
Andy Maier, Midland 13.59#
Mike Parsons, Clare 13.50#
Ken Wisniewski, Bay City 13.23#
Nathan Derdowski, Midland 13.20#
Nate Collins, Clinton Twp. 12.79#
Brent Clark, Sanford 13.15#
Mark Reinke, Gladwin 13.12#
Michael Sielinski, Gladwin 12.84#
Danny Glass, Flint 12.65#
Jim Clevinger, Beaverton 12.60#
Eric Hanover, Bay City 12.52#
Chris Santti, Redford 12.37#
Kyle Kigar, Gladwin 12.31#
Steve Slackta, Grand Blanc 12.30#
John Franko, Clare 11.73#
Dave Newcomb, Sanford 11.44

NEXT TOURNAMENTS

June 3rd – Saginaw River/Bay –The D & R Sport Center Open

June 17th – Lake St. Helen –Frank’s Great Outdoors Challenge – 1

June 24th – Houghton Lake – Frank’s Great Outdoors Challenge – 2

July 8th – Missaukee Lake – The EGO Fishing Open