Seminole Ramlins
by Jack Wingate

Hunting and fishing is the only true sports we have on earth today. All the other sports are played with balls or checkers and chess moves and those are "games."

The Seminole Team Trail Fish Out finished like this had 15.20. The Bainbridge Bass Club was like this: Cedric Suber had 15.02 lbs. and the Big Fish was a big 7.62 lbs.

The last of this year's Fishermen for the Hungry finished in this order: Robert Tindell & Brad Gatlin had most fish with 18.2 lbs., Hambric and Hambric took 2nd with 16.97 lbs., Big Fish was 7.46 lbs. by Brian Davis. There was a huge shoal bass taken by Matt Baty that weighed 4.84 lbs. Of the 52 bass that was taken, only 3 died due to a great release boat furnished by Wingate's Lunker Lodge and Kelly Brown.

The Big Bend Bass Club fished out of Chattahoochee Park on Saterday. Fishing with them was a Jr. Member of the club, one in each boat. It's great to see grown men spend time with young people.

They remind me of what Abe Lincoln sed, "Strive not to be a man of importance, but a man of value."

We have all week long been covered with bream, with catfish coming up second. The bream and crackers took all the crickets and worms we had, but we got restocked on every thing but minnows. It's so hot that minnows will die. This is the time of year when the ideal minnow is a "Potgut" rite out of the Lake. The water must be kept at the same temp as the Lake and out in the sun, maybe not in direct sun but so as to not change the color. They are a natural bait, and the perch love them.

Matt Baty of Bainbridge with a huge shoal bass (4.84 lbs.) he caught Saturday in the Fishermen for the Hungry Tournament out of Wingate's Lunker Lodge