Bill’s Series-Big Chetac Lake - August 4, 2007
Sponsors:  First Bank and Trust, Menomonie, and Anderson Ford, Baldwin

Big Chetac Standings
 

First Place 5 Bass 15.68 pounds Chad Maves and Dennis Rhead	Second Place 5 Bass 14.20 pounds Robby Newhouse and Mike Anselmo
Third Place 5 Bass 14.11 pounds Larry Thorson and Rod Platson	Fourth Place and Big Bass 5 Bass 14.11 pounds Big Bass 4.17 pounds Dave Doty and Troy Ostby
Fifth Place 5 Bass 13.68 pounds Jerry Olson and Duane Nelson	Sixth Place 5 Bass 12.85 pounds George Diller and Adam Diller
Seventh Place 5 Bass 12.56 pounds Rex Hilgart and Gary Jarosinski	Good Samaritan Award Jim Welch and Andy Siverling They took about 20 minutes out of there fishing day to help Pat Havenor and Jim Lavaliere who had boat problems right away in the morning.

The weather was beautiful at the start of the fourth qualifying tournament in the Bill’s Series.  The skies remained cloudy and the temperatures comfortable throughout the tournament hours.

Fishing was great on this tournament day.  Thirty two teams brought 137 Bass to the scale, weighing 318.23 pounds.  Twenty six of the thirty two teams had 5-fish limits.  First Place honors went to the team of Dennis Rhead and Chad Maves with a winning weight of 15.68 pounds.  This weight was good enough to win the anglers a $1200 check for their efforts.  Big Bass of the tournament went to the 4^th place team of Dave Doty and Troy Ostby with a 4.17 pound largemouth, worth $320.  Combined with their 4^th place monies, they took home $770.

Check out all the results of this tournament in the results section of this website.

The 5^th and final qualifying tournament in the Bill’s Series of tournaments will be held on Chetek Chain.  The host site will be Northwoods Brew Pub.  The sponsors for this tournament are Crystal-Pierz Marine, Rice Lake and Bill’s Distributing/Budweiser Outdoors, Menomonie.

Big Chetac Standings

Birch Lakes Resort is a great place to spend on weekend on Birch and Chetac lakes. They have a very nice outdoor pool and a brand new Tiki Bar. They also have very nice docks for you to pull your boats up to worry free.