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It was awesome to meet Slim,Christine,Kendall,Chris,Snuffy,Ken, and everyone else whose name I forgot!!

Heres a couple pictures I took...not good..but ok

1.Team Death Dealers

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Team Pokaho

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Team Warning Shot

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No photos yet.

It's always good to meet up with friends, old and new. There were several folks that I didn't get to meet. I am sorry about that.

It was awesome to have so many teams show up. Too bad the fish took the night off! :eek:
It tells you something when 44 shooters couldn't manage to shoot as many fish as the second place team did last year. :(That's just how it goes sometimes.

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yea... We only shot 4....but lost 2.

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Yes, it was nice meeting the old and new. Thanks to the Missouri crew for coming over. I is always really nice to have out of state folks join us. Also the Kentucy guys for leaving your big heads and coming up. Sorry i did not get to meet you and about your boat problems.
Talking to as many teams as i did, did not talk to any one who shot a fish after 3am. They just left and went to Shelbyville or something. You know it is sad when you get to the ramp at 5:30 and there are 8 boats already in, and the Indy boys are GONE. Personally I had a great time. Thank you to Dave, Christine, Kendall, Rob for all the effort and job well done as usual. By the looks of the rigs and new guys the rough fish are in for a tough season.

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Thanks for having us over guys. It was some tough fishing for sure. We had some genny problems and stopped to work on a throttle cable a half dozen times. We really thought we were gonna get our butts handed to us. By about 4am I was tired of fighting with my throttle cable and we came back to the truck. If I had known we werent alone with our bad luck I would have stayed out the last couple hours and found a few more fish LOL. We had a great time and hope we make it over to shoot with yall again soon.

Josh
Team Womack Mafia
Womack, MO

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Josh,

We had bad luck gettin on fish as well...but hey I was happy to meet everyone and mabe next year I can get the Billy Davis Award!!

chase

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We shot almost all of our fish in one spot, we had to run the fan up in the grass and shoot em when they ran out beside us. My partners were right on but my shooting was really off last nite, but we were just glad to get out and see some fish. With the weather we have had this spring, I was happy to see as many as we did

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Same here...We shot all of ours in one little grassy area. We couldn't even see the fish.

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oo and it was nice to shoot with Jason(JWR)!!!

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I like this picture of Chris as he looks like the captain about to go down with his ship, :D

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haha...yea...I caught him at a bad time I guess!!

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Congrats on the win Slim. Or should I be congratulating Bill? Whoever the captain and shooters were, nice win. Hard-fought too.

Hey Rob, I heard you guys beat out 3 fan-boats to take second. Nice job!! Way to go, from the troller-ranks.

Bad weather and all, I wish I could have been there. Sounds like it was a nice turn-out.

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Impossible. He tightened the drain plug. :)

It was a tough shoot, but a fun time nonetheless. Heck, if it was always easy it wouldn't be half as much fun. At least we got into a bunch of fish after the shoot this morning. Near as I can remember, the few of us that stuck around to do some bank shooting ended up taking shortnose and spotted gar, common carp, bighead carp, buffalo and a dogfish. Not too bad for a "what the heck" afterthought outting. No goldfish though.

I really enjoyed seeing some old friends and meeting a bunch of new people. Thanks again to everyone who worked so hard to make this shoot a reality.

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yea man its a bad deal,,,, genny, fan ....

we stopped at the truck stop and fueled up before the shoot..... $90.00 of good ol water/fuel.... the genny was full before we left the house , so after it ran at out 12:45, we filled it up and it ran for another 45 min while we put 13 gar in the tub, then at around 1:30ish it QUIT..... we started it ....... QUIT..... messed around with it and finally took the carb screw out and drained and BUNCH of water out ...... started again ran for 2min.....QUIT......RAN .......Quit......RAN.........QUIT........then the FAN ....... Quit....... RAN.......Quit....... drained it too...... GOOD to GO ,,,,right 3mins more the genny quit again ,,,,, again,,,,, etc.... till 3:00 then we ran the spotlight for about 15 min, then realized we were beatin a DEAD horse....... back to the ramp at 4:00am with a whoppin 21................... LOL...... oh well ............ the NITES TOTAL: till 1:45 am seen probably 40 fish..............shot 21, had 5 pull offs..............[/align][/align][/align]i was busy as soon we pulled in the ramp.....Davy forgot to get a license last week , so we had to mess with that, before the shoot,,,,, didn't getta BS with anyone very much, heck i never even got a chance to eat....... very nice to see how this shoot has growed in 3 yrs................................ KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK [/align]

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I knew it was something bad because I watched yall drive out!

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good job to the winners it was a rough night.

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Actually 4 fan boats but who's counting, :D Of course I'm countiing because it's never going to happen to me again unless I can figure out how to get water into the fuel tanks of all those fan boats, oops, Sorry Alex.

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Here are more picures. http://www.siloutdoors.com/showthread.php?t=4947

We had several photographers there so there are still more pictures to come!


A hearty thank you to everybody who came to this event. A special thank you and hugs to Billy's family for continuing to come out and feed us and keep us company. It's almost impossible to keep a dry eye while looking at the pictures of Bill. We miss him greatly.

The tournament was a tough as they come. Slim and I agreed that the fishing would be tough, but we had no idea it was going to be that tough.Muddy wateris one thing....but the fish were all hiding out in the middle of the lake or something.I didn't think the cold snap was going to hurt us, but it did.

I had a great time tho'. It's wonderful just to see old friends again and I was very happy to see all the new folks there.

Thanks everybody!!

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Alex,[/align]I was sorry to hear about your motor/gas/water problems. I only heard about the genny not working but didn't realize all that you and Dave went thru to get everything up and going. Same thing happened to me several years ago, of course no fan but all the other motors and it was a royal pain in the a$$ to get things back to normal and took several days to get it corrected. I went back to the station to let themknow I wasn't happy and of course I wasn't the onlyone affected. Right after this the station closedand changed hands. [/align] I always enjoy whatyou guys bring to our events and wanted tothank you for securing the door prizes from Ron SkirvinShur Shot points, Cajun merchandise and all the other stuff. We reallydo appreciate it. [/align]Again, thanks for all your help and look forward to getting trounced by you guys in the near future.[/align]

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I just realized that while I remembered most of the stuff that I needed to bring for the tourney.... I forgot to invite the fish. My bad.
sorry! [:o]

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Just wanted to say what a great tourney eventhough the water and weatherconditions weren't the best. I can't thank my partners Mark Shipton and Drew Homan enough. What a great pair of guys to spend the evening with. Both were gentlemen and crack shots. Without them,we couldn't beginto get that Triton of Terror moved up near thered zoneon the terror danger alert. Heck, at $280 for second place, we ALMOST even paid for our gasoline.
(BTW, Christine I think we need a newupdatedalert chart :)

I want to thank all the sponsors for their generous donations and hope that many here will send them just a quick single sentence thank you if nothing else for their help in putting on the Billy Davis Memorial Tourney. Believe me, sponsors really do appreciate that. More photos and stuff to come later.

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I think that was about the hardest I've ever worked to put fish in the boat! With conditions the way they were, I'm surprised at the amount we did shoot! Looking at all those pictures makes me feel cold again. I felt bad for the teams that drove a ways and didn't get to shoot a bunch of fish, including myself! But I'll keep coming back and I sure hope everyone else does too, because we'll probably never see those conditions again and I'm positive I can put over 200 fish in the boat there. That's right, I'm officially starting the smack talk for next year's shoot.

Thanks so muchto Billy's family for feeding us! That alone was worth the drive. Thanks Rob for giving me a spot onyour boat and for all your hard work putting us on fish! Thanks to all the sponsors and their great contributions.(Do we have a full list of the sponsors? I know there were a bunch.) And thanks to our club officials for making the shoot fun and organized at the same time!

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This is the only picture that I took the whole weekend. [:o]

Our three door prize tables.



Billy Davis Memorial Bowfishing tournament sponsors:

Muzzy Products
AMS Bowfishing
Shure Shot Points
Backwater Bowfishing
Bowfishing Extreme
Thumper Custom Reels
Bigtime Bowfishing
AimLow Productions
Rivers Edge Productions
Cajun Archery
HuntingNet.Com

I'm probably forgetting somebody.

We also need to thank Mike Hooe, the IDNR staff at Rend Lake and the Army Corps of Engineers at Rend Lake. Thanks!!!

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Well that was my first tournament..... even though we only pulled in 3 fish I had a good time and got to test out the boat. That was only the 2nd time it has ever been in the water since I have owned it. It was great to meet everyone and see all the boats. When we left rend me and my teammate jason went to horseshoe lake to do some scouting for when it opens to bowfishing. I couldnt believe my eyes. Seen several hundred gar and prolly a 30lb grass carp. All could have been taken by bow easy. So when it opens to shooters (May 1st)I hope to see some people out at horseshoe. If anyone would like any info on horseshoe get ahold of me. I would be glad to see some people out there shooting. I have only seen 1 other person bowfishing there and he was doing it from the banks. Its about a 2,800 acre lake that is loaded with carp, gar, bowfin and buffalo. Its all real shallow with lots of great shooting areas.

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Just wanna say thanks to Illinois bowfishers, christine and all the sponsors, it was a great tourney and we enjoyed comin over to shoot with yall. Sorry we couldnt hang around long after the weigh in but turkey season started this morning here in MO and my crew was ready to get home and get ready to bag a bird. If you would have told us when we were coming in with our 27 fish that we were gonna be 4th I would have said you were crazy but apparently we were not the only ones that were having trouble finding fish. Just a thought, I checked the lake levels for Sat. night, right at Midnight the lake crested and started dropping. That is about the same time the fish dissapeared for us and some other teams. Hope we can come shoot with you guys again before the year is over

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a big thanks to all the sponsors. we all need to send them a thanks for all they done. I was glad to see so many new faces and rigs the sport is deffinatly growing. It was a tough night for us we just turned on the lights and bills new generator wouldnt pull the lights. rearanged the plugs no good. took a bulb out of all the series no good. killed the genny and blew alll the bulbs. drove back to the ramp and drove 45 min to my house to get my genny and spare bulbs. at 10:30 we put back in and went north. followed boat tracks in the weeds all the way north to the rail road tracks. still picked up a lot of fish by gettin out and pushin the boat even shallower than the fan would push us. headed back south and got a few more then started spot hoppin tryin to get a few but only got 3 in 3 hrs. gave up at 4:30.
Yeah its bills boat but i was drivin still. hes a little uncertain about the lake and where to go yet.
I couldnt help but think all night , In a month all this pushin a boat crap is over!!!! Can't wait to see if we can get 500 in one night with me bill alex and luke shootin in the new airboat

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Wooooo Hooooo id just like to add my 2 cents lol this tourny is growing and the competition is getting tougher way to go everyone i love it true the conditions were tough but at least in htis game everyone is dealt from the same deck of they're boat yuk yuk....Seriously though the meal was great as always and the friendships old and new are well worth losing a few hours of sleep anytime,,,,,good job to all who placed and hope everyone who had trouble gets it all worked out and hope to see everyone at the state shoot hope it grows as well........

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thanks for all the support guys and gals... we had some really bad luck the other nite ,but we should have been prepared anyways.....we always pack two gennys and got lazy this time ........... GREAT JOB TO ALL , you all once again put on a great shoot, nice to see everyone, just too bad i didn't getta talk with ya ll more , ...

see ya soon......... and remember keep your GAS DRY...............LOL

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That was a heck of a spread the sponsors and donors came up with. 45 shooters, everyone got two things and there were still a few items left over. I just finished watching the DVD that Cajun donated (Dangerous Game Down Under). If anyone likes seeing bowhunters up close and personal with 1-ton mean critters, I highly suggest it!

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Hey folkz....it was so nice to get to meet alot of you!!! After doing the video last year I recognized so many faces.....;)


I did just finish this one and I thought I would show you all.....Looks like your crowd is growing....




Ill try to get some more posted soon.....Thanks, Bam!

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bambam...thats picture is phenomanal(spelling)!!

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Very nice pic BAMBAM.
That really IS quite a crowd of people.
...especially considering the weather.

Thanks for coming out.

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Kyle, are you talking about the Horseshoe Lake in Madison Co?

Great picture Bam!

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Bam thanks for coming out in the cold and rain to help make this event get better and better.......;)

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Yes, Christine he is.

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Yes Christine. The Horseshoe lake in madison county. Opens for bow fishing next thursday and I will be there after I get off work till dusk. I am going to hit that lake hard, the 1st - 4th to see what kind of damage I can do. Like I said anyone is more than welcome to come out and shoot some fish. I am looking forward to seeing everyone soon. Looks like I may be hitting a few more Illinois bowfishers events. I really enjoyed the crowd and how everything turned out (except the lack of dead fish).

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hey scribe917, horseshoe is in my area, i would be interested in that trip! i've heard from a friend that it's full of buffalo.

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No prob.....I had just as muchfun as you all did!....;)