Hot Summer Days

Wow the days are getting progressively hotter. So hot that it is almost dangerous to be out in the mid- day heat. Of course, for all of us “diehards” we won’t let Ol’Sol slow us down too much. After all there is not a much better place to be than out on the water in 105 degree temps., just drink lots of water and keep your head cool with wet towels and we have found that works great!

ThinWater Series Update and Cork Coming Soon!

Here at the shop we are busy working on orders to get rods out in a timely manner. We are also still working on the new line of rods, the ThinWater Series. Coming very soon now. And now there is a new addition coming to our already proven bass rods. We are going to be offering a very high grade cork grip on our most popular models, as well as the EVA Foam grips. This comes from quite a few of the anglers that love our rods, but are still loyal to a cork grip, so we listened. This high grade cork was designed by Tim and will be featured on our ThinWater rods as well. I know we have been saying these rods will be coming soon for some time now, but a lot of thought and research has gone into these rods to make them as unique as our bass rods and this all takes time. We want to thank all of our loyal followers for your patience, we think you will be pleased and it will be worth the wait.

Upcoming Tournament On Lake Amistad

On July 18-19, Amistad Marine will be hosting their Amistad Marine Open Tournament. Guaranteed first place is a 486F Stratos Boat with a 150 hp motor.  For more information call Gail or Betty at Amistad Marine @ 830-775-0878.

Now for Our Tournament Results for June & 4th of July Weekend

The tournament schedule has slowed down a bit, but there were still a few going on and we had some Power Tackle anglers doing quite well in June. I am including the weekend of July 4th is this newsletter because we actually did have a few things going on that weekend.

FLW BFL
June 20	Toledo Bend
2nd	Stephen Johnston	20.03
5th	Tim Reneau	13.01
Stephen Johnston is in 2nd place in the BFL Angler of the Year Standings.  He is just 6 points behind with one more tournament to go.
PRO ANGLER'S MEXICO TOURNAMENT
July 3-4	Falcon Lake
1st	Benito Flores/Rodolfo Gonzalez	55.10
	26.94 lbs. day one and 28.16 lbs. on day 2
Benito said he and his partner, Rodolfo caught most of their fish on the PG104 and the GM5.
ELITE SERIES
June 11	Mississippi River Rumble
40th	Mark Menendez	16.30
53rd	Brian Clark
AOY Standing through the Rumble
11th	Mark Menendez
Mark is just 278 points behind Kevin VanDam
64th	Brian Clark
ANGLER'S LODGE SUMMER SERIES TOURNAMENTS
June 7	Lake Amistad-3 fish limit
2nd	Jim Criswell/John Criswell	12.11
4th	Jaime Buitron/Jaime Buitron	10.66
5th	Tim Reneau/Ray Hanselman	10.55
Big Bass	Criswell/Criswell	6.01
July 5	Lake Amistad-3 fish limit
1st	Tim Reneau/Judy Churchill	18.15
3rd	Jim Criswell/John Criswell	11.69
Big Bass	Reneau /Churchill	6.71
2nd Big Bass	Criswell/Criswell	5.68

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.

June and July will be another busy tournament month here at Amistad as well as our other great lakes.  Be watching for more news on Amistad Marine’s next tournament in their series on July 18 and 19th.  They had a very good turnout on their first one in February and we are expecting and even better turnout in July. For more information on this be sure to call Gail or Betty at 830-775-0878.

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…

Keep on Fishing and sending us the good news about your catches! Til next time…