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Baltimore Metro Reservoir Anglers Tournament #1 Director’s report:
Location: Loch Raven Reservoir 6/22/19
Participating Teams: 25
Fish brought to the scales: 112
Immediate Fish Mortality: 1 (0.892 %)
Lunker Largemouth Bass: 5.50 Lbs.
Lunker Smallmouth Bass: NA (None brought to the scales)
Weather: Sunny, 83 degree high temp. & breezy
Baltimore Metro Reservoir Anglers happily reports the addition of 6 new teams tor 2019, 5 of those teams participated in this, our first event of 2019. Twenty five of our twenty Six teams participated in tournament #1. Tournament 1 was truly a day of firsts!
First BMRA WIN: Congratulations to the team of Kevin Hollasch and John Miller for capturing their first BMRA tournament win in this event with a 5 fish limit weighing 19.70 pounds. Included in this bag was the 5.50 pound tournament lunker largemouth. Kevin and Jon have rapidly climbed the ladder since joining the club in 2014. By 2018 this team was well recognized as top performers. This fantastic performance, and win, is well deserved.
First Ever BMRA Tournament: Congratulations to the team of Seung Lee and Eric Miller who captured 2nd place in this their first tournament ever with BMRA. Their 17.66 pound limit of bass gave them an exceptional finish for these first-year members.
First Ever BMRA Tournament: Following closely behind in 3rd place, with a 17.65 pound limit was the team of Andre Sturkey and William Olfus. This is yet another remarkable performance by a team competing in their first ever BMRA tournament.
Fourth place was taken by long standing BMRA members, the team of Martin Cribb and Ken Denbow. Congratulations to Ken and Marty for their 17.05 pound 5 fish limit.
Thanks to Max Marchant, Holden Wolfe, Bob Standiford, and Matt Elliott for helping with Check-in and Weigh-in for the tournament. Thanks go out to our membership for participating.

Our 2019 annual meeting is scheduled for Sunday, February 24th. Location: Casa Mia's restaurant 17417 York Road, Parkton MD 21120. We will start at 1:00 PM, so come hungry, Casa Mia's has a great menu. We hope to see all Baltimore MRA members and anyone interested in joining the club. Don't miss it.
We are having a RAFFLE with some fantastic prizes, so bring some cash to purchase tickets. All proceeds go to the club.

Congratulations to the team of Waino Anderson and Ron Wolfe for winning the Angler of the Year Championship 2018. With 578 points for the 6 regular tournaments, Anderson & Wolfe with a total of 89.00 pounds for the season, won the top spot with the tie breaker rule over the second place team of Craig Gordon and Holden Wolfe, also with 578 points and 87.04 pounds. This was a fantastic effort by both teams. Waino and Ron also did very well in the Electric Bass Angling National Championship, finishing in 3rd place this season, against 7 clubs (150 + teams) in 4 states. Fantastic effort!