Lake Beaver crappie masters tourney

I'm a wore out puppy driving nearly 500 miles total in the last two days traveling to the tournament and back. Thunderstorm, wind and more rain than you can shake a stick at during the tourney. The tourney was a benefit tourney for the Children's Miracle Network, sponsored by Wal-Mart, raising several thousands of dollars for this great charity. Crappie Masters brought out all the stops and invited some of toughest gunslingers on the tournament trail to include National champions, state and ultimate pole champions coupled with locals for a combined reported 66 teams to compete. But at the end of the day, Jason Westerberg and dad Jim took home top honors winning first. What a tough field to win in with the high level of Pro's all competing on one lake. Good job Jason! As for Team Midsouth, we fell short of Jason and finished 10th out of 66 teams. Rough conditions and extremely tough competition makes me proud that 2 top 10 teams came from right here in central Arkansas!

A big thanks to LrJoe, who played like a pro with us on this tournament and kept us in line while on Beaver Lake. A stand up guy who can catch fish with the best of them. And can sure put the 14 foot ozark rods to a challenge landing 20lb stripers, lol! Thanks again for everything Joe!

Congrats to everyone who participated! Well done! :ThumbsUp

congrats guys! awesome work

Congrats to Jason and Jim on the 1st place and congrats to you Mid South. Top 10 is a great thing!

Great job fellas congrats on the finishes and more congrats on helping raise money for a worthy cause. Way to go joe for competing with the pros! I'm interested in the winning weights and maybe a pic or two if your not to worn out Dennis!

Thanks for the update. Congratulations to Dale Jr. and Jim for 1st and also to you Dennis, and LrJoe.

Congrats, Jason and Jim. First in a 66 boat field of that caliber is stout! And Dennis, 10th place in a field like that on unfamiliar water is dang stout too! Congrats to both teams for fishing for such a worthy cause. Now get back to work and get some rest!!! :Rofl Oh yeah, post some pics when you get rested up.

Congrats to all! Most of all to the Arkansas teams...

I had a great time fishing with Dennis, and a great time getting to spend time with Jason and Jim. We were in a good area that had fish, but Saturday threw all it could at us. HEAVY rain in the morning, wind, falling barometer, and the water temp that had risen 12 degrees in less than a week. Those crappie did not know what was going on.

Anyway, it was fun to be a pro for a day and get to fish with Dennis. We had a great time! I was happy (don't know about Dennis) with that top 10 finish. There were some folks out there that knew what they were doing.

Thank you all! We had a great time fishing the charity tournament it was for a great cause!
I want to Thank LRJoe for all he did for us while we were there he is the man on Beaver lake! It sure was nice to fish with great people like Midsouth man and LRJoe!! We are headed to Grenada this week wish us luck!!!
Jason

Attachment 120801. First try to ever post picture hope it works! It should be of Midsouth man and LRJoe.

Congrats for great finishes guys. Y'all made AR. proud!!!


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Looks like I need practice posting pictures! Hard to do on my phone!

Congrats on the win Jason.

That was my first crappie tournament, and had a lot of fun. Fished by myself and ended up in sixth place overall with my biggest seven weighing 8.00 lbs. I caught over 100 fish saturday but only was able to get 4 fish over 14 inches. I hope they put on this tournament again next year and may look into fish a few more.

Congrats to all that braved the elements Saturday. Lr joe great job did you catch any from "the spot".

Congratulations! That's a great finish any way you look at it.....those were heavyweights fishing that tourney and I understand the conditions were tough!!

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Originally Posted by grits and gravy

That was my first crappie tournament, and had a lot of fun. Fished by myself and ended up in sixth place overall with my biggest seven weighing 8.00 lbs. I caught over 100 fish saturday but only was able to get 4 fish over 14 inches. I hope they put on this tournament again next year and may look into fish a few more.

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Congrats guys. Good luck at Nader.

RL, they were in "the spot".

Congrats to all you'll

Enjoyed seeing all the AR CDC Members up there supporting this event and even more exciting to see yall finish at the top or close too. Looking forward to seeing all of you at CDC camp at Dardenelle in a few weeks.....for now....It's off to Grenada, MS to sell some apparel and eat some BIG OLE Crappie fillets.

Thank you to all! When I organized this event I I in visioned over 100 boats, but I believe the weather scared a lot off. I truly appreciate all the people who drove in to help make this event successful! My 8th place finish was truly humbling, I never could get on big females. I am currently working on putting the date together for next year with Crappie Masters, once decided I'll let everyone know!