It was a war !

After letting mother nature beat us three times we finally got it done !The 2017 N.C./S.C. Clash is in the books !
We had to move it over to the enemy territory but finally got it in. Started out a bit chilly. Oh heck no it was COLD ! My little guage in the truck had 23 at launch time. The one on the boat showed 22. Either way it was cold. Other than that is was smooth sailing. Little ice on the ramp but everyone managed it just fine. High Rock Lake was down about 4 ft. I heard. So where do you look for fish when its that cold and water down . In the water was a good place to start. Water temp was 44 up to 46 at weigh in. Little breeze but not bad. We had a super turnout for the event. Four brave crews from S.C. made the trip. There was I think 7 or 9 N.C. boats. Cant make out the writing Stevie put down. Anyway the odds were against us S.C. boys, but we dont back down from a good scrap. The fishing was a little off but if you searched around you could find a few. They were anywhere from 15 down to 30 fow. Figure that one out.Some guys pulled jigs and caught fish . Others tightlined minnows. Met some of the faces behind the names you see on here. Glad to meet everyone of you. A few people promised they were signing up on C.D.C soon as they got home.Join the fun. You will never meet a better bunch of guys and girls to fish with or talk fishing. Welcome aboard to ya !. Hope to see you again soon. Now the good stuff. For the top 7 for individual spot was:
Cecil & Cecil with 7.11 lbs.
2nd went to Mr. Ken. Sorry cant make out the last name. at 7.6 lbs.
And 3rd went to our favorite team. Team Remus with 7.4. lb
Congratulations to you guys. Well done.
Now individual big fish went to : Cecil & Cecil with 2.8 lb.
A note here on the weights: The weight is with a 7. oz pan in the weights. So for more precise totals subtract 7 oz. from each weight. But everyone got the weight with pan included. Scale master to lazy to keep zeroing it out each time. But everyone was weighed the same.

Now for the Clash results. After a vote among everyone there it was decided to weigh the four biggest fish from each team. Therefore after a handpicked team of expert mathmaticians

and score keepers it was decided that

With a total of 4 big fish at 6.21 lbs against a total of 7.04 lbs the winning state will be !!!!



Bet ya waitin on the results aint ya. Well hold on one more moment.
Let me say Thanks to everyone that came out. And to those that donated time and effort into this event Thanks Daniel ,BiggDawgg , turkeyfoot , and everyone else I missed. Thanks !

O.K I run my yap enough.
This years winner of the N.C. / S.C. Clash will be SOUTH Carolina by a slim margin. Again Thanks to all
Oh yes , That is all ice on the ramp in the picture !

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Congrats to South Carolina on the clash! But it was a good time as always, no matter who won what. Always good to see old friends, and meet the new guys too. Hope we can have another gathering soon!

Newby now on board. Thanks for the invite, really enjoyed meeting
everyone today and forward to the next gathering.

Congratulations South Carolina boys well deserved for the long trip. Me and the wife had a fantastic time great finally meet you guys will definitely have to get together and do it again even if it's not a Clash.

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Brrrrr, you guys are more brave than I. Great job though, congrats to the winners. Fantastic pics, thanks for sharing.

Great Job guys! looks like yall had a good turn out! Dont forget i have my new year Tourney on Jan 6th at Shearon Harris. I will be posting info soon getting a few final things worked out but it is going to be a good one!

Congratulations South Carolina, you came, you fished you conquer the North. Bragging rights till next year.

Congrats to South Carolina. My son Tom and I had a great time and throughly enjoyed meeting everyone. Looking forward to the next time. You guys are great


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It was the good, the bad, and the ugly! The good was we had fun, the bad was we had to quit and go home and the ugly, well that was John!:Rofl Thanks to everyone because you made this happen and there will be always another one. John! You and Turkeyfoot put on a good event Thank You! I along with team Remus were glad we could be part of it. We had a tuff time finding the few fish we had but our young man of the group pulled in a few whoppers to help our live well fill up! Cameron ( Perch Fox ) is a fine fisherman one heck of a boat mate!:twocents I'm glad to have made everyone's acquaintance and enjoyed hearing you laugh at all of us. We are considered not to be right in the head as you may have heard. High Rock is a very nice place to fish and I would like to fish it again if Jig Puller will let me have a few of his jigs of choice.
Thanks and Merry Christmas to everyone :santa

That's my Dawgg. Still beggin for a handout not a bone ! :Rofl Dawgg . You know we gonna do it again son. Just hope Jig Puller don't clean em out before we get back. Welcome to Watertester. You found a good home for fishing info and lots of other stuff. Some of it you should not believe ! Thanks again to all that came out.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL and may your crappie bite !

Hey Guys! Thanks again for having us at the Clash yesterday, we had a great time and really enjoyed meeting everyone! This was our first tournament ever and Dad and I couldn't think of a better group of guys to spend a nice day on the water with! Can't remember everyone's name but a special thank you to John and Turkeyfoot for putting on a great event and teaching us newbies a thing or two about crappie fishing! Congratulations to SC for winning the clash, us NC boys are coming for you next year! Hope to see you folks again before too long and Merry Christmas to you and your families!
Tom C

Welcome aboard. Glad to have new faces in the crowd. Hope to get something together after the holiday rush. Thanks for coming out. Don't let it be the last. It only gets better.

Welcome to watertester to the boards and banjo picker also

Hate I missed the Clash. Sounds like it was a good'en.
Hope to be apart of next year's.
Congrats to all.

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It was great meeting all you guys. Now that I've been to one of the events, I'm hooked. Let me know when the next one is and do my best to be there at sign in. We didn't weigh any of our fish because we didn't get on the water till around 9 and didn't sign in. At weigh time we had 23 keepers in the livewell. I'd guess our best 7 was about 6lbs which wouldn't have been in the top 3, but our biggest was over a pound so that added to the .7 bucket woulda helped the north a little.
After the tourney and a very good lunch at the restaurant at the landing, we went back and fished one more dock. They were there! In total we caught over a hundred for the day and took about 45 home for the grease.
Biteman and Bobbin that were fishing with me has both sworn their allegiance to the C.C. family and you should see them participate soon!

Chris

NCKenner, Glad you made it out, you should have signed up when you got back in.
Check the South Carolina board as well as North Carolina, we post events like night stalks and other events, everyone is welcome

Yeah, you should have spoke up because its all in fun. No money pay out I'm sure it would be okay with NC guys but SC guys might have to sic the Dawgg on you!:Rofl I knew once it warmed up some fish had to bite some where. If we were more familiar with the lake we might have done a little better.:dono Glad you made it out and joined in with us. We aren't that bad of a bunch of fellows. Like John said we'll have something going soon. May be a perch jerk or another nightstalk some where! I would like to do Fishing Creek at Great Fall SC or Stumpy Pond same area in Jan or Feb. Day time of coarse. Small Lakes but good fishing in there!:highfive Glad I got to meet you.

Here's a picture of the crappies I brought home for Ms. Laura. She said thank you and she'll have the fish fry Saturday if she can wait that long. Thank you'll for the help. Surly made her day! :highfive
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I was one of those that promised to join. It was awesome to check out the weigh in and got to see a few slabs. Looking forward to being a part of the forum and getting into some of the tourneys. (Gary Rowe, Hickory, NC.)


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Had a blast even though i was one away from a skunk. Lol
It was great to put some faces and names together, great group of guys. I look forward to fishing and talking to everyone in the future!

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Welcome aboard to all the new guys. Glad you could join us . Don't be shy to come to any of our events. Keep check on the N.C and S.C. boards. Something always going on here. And crappiehuntmike, Don't feel bad. I been in that boat many times. That's what makes it fun. If we caught em everytime wouldn't be any left ! Come on back and join us any time.

Nice post. Sounds like a cold but awesome time. Thanks for sharing.