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Our 2020 annual meeting is scheduled for this Sunday, February 23rd. Location: Casa Mia's restaurant 17417 York Road, Parkton MD 21120. This is open to all anglers that were members of MRA in 2019. For those anglers who are interested in joining and were not members in 2019, please contact us to discuss your interest. We have a limited number of openings this year.
We will start at 1:00 PM. Casa Mia's has a great menu, so come hungry. We hope to see all Baltimore MRA members Don't miss it.

Congratulations to the team of Rubin Holbrook and David Holbrook. The father and son team scored a big win in the 2019 tournament of champions with a two day total of 10 fish weighing 18.64 lbs. Rubin and David surged with an 11.02 pound bag on day two, after being in 5th place on day one of the two day event. Great job!
The team of Chad Wisner and Lenny Wisner took second place in the tournament of champions. Chad and Lenny (another father and son team) weighed 10 fish for 18.42 pounds in the 2 day event, including the 1.61 lb smallmouth lunker on day two. The team of Chad Buckland and Rocky Peranio won the day 1 smallmouth lunker with a 1.87 pound smallie. The team of waino Anderson and Ron Wolf took the Largemouth lunker prize on each day. Their day 1 largemouth weighed 4.92 pounds and their day 2 largemouth monster weighed a whopping 6.39 pounds.
Great effort to all who participated in this incredibly challenging event.
Thanks to the folks who helped with check-in and weigh-in.
Matt Elliott, Holden Wolfe, and Max Marchant.

Baltimore Metro Reservoir Anglers Tournament #6
Location: Liberty Reservoir 10/6/19
Participating Teams: 21
Fish brought to the scales: 87
Immediate Fish Mortality: 0 (0%)
Lunker Largemouth Bass: 4.76 Lbs.
Lunker Smallmouth Bass: 4.86 Lbs.
Weather: Cloudy, 62 low to 72 degree high temp. Occasional light rain. Light morning breezes growing to 15+ mph, in the afternoon.
Twenty one of our twenty Six teams participated in this event. Only 13 teams were able to catch their 5-fish limit. The average bag was comparatively low in this event, and only two fish over 4 pounds were caught.
The team of Chad Buckland and Rocky Peranio grabbed 1st place honors with their dominating 16.13 pound limit of 5 bass. Rocky and Chad also brought the tournament lunker smallmouth to the scales, a beautiful 4.86 Lb beast. In second place, the team Eric Holmes and Jason Eaton had a nice limit weighing 13.13 Lbs, clinching the Anglers of the Year title! Third place was captured by the team of Greg Bell and Chris Brown with another nice limit weighing 12.55 Lbs. The tournament lunker largemouth weighing 4.76 Lbs, was caught by Tom Kobus, fishing without his partner (and additional lunker magnet) Jason Yu, who was unavailable to fish Sunday. This is yet another in a long line of big fish heroics from Tom “lunker” Kobus.
As always, our appreciation goes to the fans that attended the weigh-in. Thanks to Gary Gangi, Max Marchant, Holden Wolfe, and Bob Standiford for helping with Check-in and Weigh-in for the tournament. Thanks go out to all our participating members. We are grateful to our sponsors, Batteries Plus bulbs and Elco Motor Yachts Electric Bass Angling National Championship (founding sponsor).