I just wanted to thank everyone who came out and participated in the “Fishing for Independence Open Tournament” for the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. It was a great success with a showing of around100 boats. PIKE could have not done it with out you. We had a lot of limits and big fish. Congratulations to all the fishermen that came in with great stringers.

Top 15 (please excuse some of the misspelling, for it was hard to read some of your handwriting)

1. J.P. McKay/John Pate 31lb. 7oz.
2. Justin Hanold 24lb. 110z.
3. Lonnie Bergeron/Ron Sliman 24lb. 3 oz.
4. Tony Masiello 23lb. 14oz.
5. Alex Picos 23lb.
6. Juan Ruiz/Jacob Whitman 22lb. 13oz.
7. Ron Yetz 22lb. 6oz.
8. Mike Lendl/Andrew Ernst 21lb. 7oz.
9. Steve Forsesel/Rodo Slay 21lb.
10. Chris Ranen/Ron Roker 19lb. 6oz.
11. Bob McDaniel/Mike Allgair 19lb. 4oz.
12. Thadeus Ragan 18lb. 9oz.
13. Joe D’Ornio/Chad Lagent 18lb. 3oz.
14. Dave Aaron/Chris Korn 17lb. 4oz.
15. Keith Johnson/ Elmore Watkins 17lb. 12.

BIG BASS #1: J.P McKay/John Pate 8lb 3oz
BIG BASS #2: Ron Yets 7lb 7oz

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1st Place Finishers J.P. McKay/John Pate




2nd Place Finisher Justin Hanold



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BLM 21lb. 7oz.


Coming In for Weigh-In



The Crowd


If you don’t see a picture that you know we took, let me know, and I will post them up.

great job Alex , Tourney ran smooth and My son and I had a great Time. and It was nice to catch all our fish 4 seconds from the ramp :] hope you and your friends do it again next year....Bottom Line Mike ><///">

Thanks a lot mike. It was also great seeing you out there. We all had a great time. Yeah, a lot of people were asking me if we were going to do this again next year. We most definitely plan on doing it again. Actually, we had such a great time, that we might also do another one earlier. So be on the lookout everyone. Thanks again.

Alex

Tony M. who finished 4th place wants to know if you could post his catch.

Thanks a Bunch.....BLM

Hey Mike, I don’t have him holding up his catch, but I do have him receiving his prize money and also I believe I have a picture of his stringer inside the basket to be weighed in. Here are the pictures.

4th Place Tony Masiello 23lb. 14oz.

tHANKS A BUNCH ALEX.....BLM

That was one of the best run tournements of the year! Hope you guys do it again soon.

Thank you so much Carl. This is Pi Kappa Alpha's (aka nickname = PIKE) first tournament and we are planning on having more. We are talking about November and possibly February as well to hold the next ones. The "Fishing for Independence Open Tournament" will also be our annual tournament.

Another thing, I could not have done it without a lot of help from my fraternity brothers as well as my dad and another great friend of mine by the name of Kirk Osborne. It all ran smooth because of these gentlemen. Thanks again guys.

Alex

Had a great time. The tournament ran smoothly and I fish all over the Southeast and have fish tournaments twice this size and this was much easier in the morning. My only suggestion is to increase the entry a fee a little and payback more. $200.00 for a Top 6 is not that great, but it was a charity fundraiser understood. Based on the flyer, the payout should have doubled for at least the top ten places cause the flyer was based on 50 boats. Overall, that was my only suggestion and for such a small venue (2 ramps) you did an awesome job!!! I fish team trails that charge $120.00 per team and they have no clue so this was a pleasant surprise you guys are not even a tournament organization. Maybe work on getting some sponsors for next year. I can get Reaction Innovations involved. Overall super job. I'm an Okeechobee guy and this was really fun. See you at the next one Juan & Jake

How’s it going Ranger518. I am glad you had a great time. Opinions are greatly appreciated. If it will make the next tournament better and everyone happy, then changes will be made if needed. Sponsorship wise, I tried really hard to get some, but we got turned down by a lot of people. We would really love to have more sponsors next time. Hopefully we have better luck in the future. Well, I will see you next time out there.

Alex

how did you put the pics on this site go step by step ?

Alex most sponsors need a letter put in by oct. for the following year . I will send you some contact names of the King Of The Glades sponsors for 2007 . I cant say for sure if they will help but you can try.. I would love to have trix. Baits maybe Ranger can help me as well !!! :] .......... I will post the King Of The glades Dates so we can work around each other just send me your e-mail to lendlm@bellsouth.net ...BLM

That is great Mike. I will definitely send you my email for more information. This is very kind of you and greatly appreciated just for even trying to help. Let me know when you have your tournaments so that mine won’t interfere.

The way I post pictures on the forum is by codes. What I do is I go to a website called http://imageshack.us/. I first save all the pictures that I need to post into a folder in my computer. After going to the website mentioned before, I then click on the BROWSE button in order to upload the pictures that I need (I believe that you can only do one picture at a time). After clicking on browse, go to that folder that you saved before with the pictures, and click on the picture that you would like to upload and get the code for. Once it has uploaded, then just copy the code (which will not be the actual picture, just a bunch of numbers and letters) and paste it onto your message.

Steps:
1. save pictures onto the computer
2. go to http://imageshack.us/
3. upload pictures by clicking on browse
4. copy and paste the codes onto your message
5. preview the message making sure that the pictures show.
6. you are done

Alex