The Warm Weather is Officially Here

The nights are now consistently warmer and the days here in Del Rio have been downright hot! With the weeks’ forecast to have highs in the 100’s already, that means that it could be a long hot summer. No problem though. It could also mean that the big girls could be about to start snapping at Lake Amistad. Seems like the big ones have been pretty elusive around here, making us all scratch our heads and come up with all kinds of theories. Some of which even say that the giants are gone, but I doubt that. These girls are seemingly just a bit smarter than the average bass! Never the less, we will not stop our pursuit in trying to land a big head! From our reports, fishing in all of our lakes is picking up and lake records across the state could be broken this year!

April tournament results from our Power Tackle guys!

Now on to who had success this past month with our rods. If we have not listed someone, please forgive me and please let us know when you have placed in a tournament with Power Tackle rods.

FLW SERIES
April 1	Lake Eufaula
18th	Keith Combs	42.10
April 23	Lake Norman
11th	Jerry Green	22.05
May 2	Red River
Boater Stephen Johnston of Hemphill, Texas, won the May 2 BFL Louisiana-Texas Division tournament on the Red River to earn $4,199. - photo courtesy FLW Outdoors
1st	Stephen Johnston	16.05
This win pushed Stephen to the number 2 spot in the Angler of the Year Race in this division.
BASS CHAMPS
April 4	Lake LBJ
1st	Lowell Bennett & Charles Reagan	17.58
21st	Charles Whited & Bill Polkington	12.06
April 18	Falcon Lake
1st	Will Welch & John Basinger	34.36
6th	John Mills & Scott Burris	32.62
11th	Tim Griffin & Mark Pena	28.62
14th	Bubba Haralson & Trent Huckaby	27.04
20th	Lee Beuershausen & Charles Whited	24.96
23rd	Monte Reagan & Hunter Jordan	23.68
April 25	Lake Fork
21st	Landan Ware & Michael Sewell	9.88
May 2	Lake Belton
1st	Gerald Poboril & Jack Powe	22.78
4th	Bret Stafford & Ronnie Trower	18.22
5th	Mike Kernan & Tim Wilcoxson	18.12
13th	Charlie David & Shane Moore	16.14
ELITE SERIES
April 25	Smith Mountain Lake
40th	Brian Clark	34.4
80th	Mark Menendez	19.15
Angler of the Year Standing through Smith Mountain Lake
Mark Menendez is currently in 14th place with 876 points
Brian Clark is in 44th place with 731 points
Looking good for both of our Elite guys to make the Classic this year!
SKEETER OPEN on Lake Waco
Lowell Bennett - Skeeter Open on Lake Waco - 1st place 25.09 and big bass 8.93
Again, Pro Staffer Lowell Bennett continuing his HOT streak with this win with 25.09 and a big bass that won with 8.93.  Lowell won this tournament with his Power Tackle PG144 7’0” and a buzzbait
BASSMASTER OPENS
May 2	Lake Wheeler
2nd	Mark Menendez	41.6
Continues his money winning streak with a prize of $20,000
TEXAS BASS COUPLES
April 26	Lake Amistad
1st	Tim Reneau & Judy Churchill
2nd	Clay & Lindsey Young

As always, please do not hesitate to use the Contact Us section of our web site for any questions or comments you may have. We greatly appreciate any product reviews or ideas that you have that will improve our current products or help in the development of new ones.

Be watching for more results in the next issue. The FLW Texas Stren Series will have its next stop here at Lake Amistad on May 21, so many of our Pro Staff will be competing right here at home. The FLW Tour goes to Beaver Lake on May 14th, and then the Elite’s next stop will be Lake Guntersville beginning on May 7. Several more BassChamps will be held so a busy month we should all have. With all of the negative news we all hear all of the time, it is a good time to turn off the television and head out to the lake!

Make sure you send us pictures of your fish with your Power Tackle rod or a Power Tackle t-shirt or cap and we will get them on our Braggin Board! Be looking for more BIG results in our next issue…

Until next time…good fishing to you all!