| __________________________________________________ April 22, 2003 - Vol. 4 No. 15 __________________________________________________ EDITOR'S LOG by Russ Bassdozer This week's issue speaks about the Yamamoto Okeechobee Open tournament held April 12th in Florida. Plus we announce the next two Yamamoto Open Tour stops in New York in June and in Alabama in September. It all leads up to the Yamamoto Classic Championship where you can be crowned the Yamamoto Angler of the Year, the country, indeed the world! Read on for details below. __________________________________________________ YAMAMOTO OPEN ON OKEECHOBEE STORY AND RESULTS There's no finer bass than a Florida bass. The Yamamoto Open on Okeechobee April 12th was a special event. I will always remember being part of it. Sacks were brought in topping 25 lbs and whopper bass up to 7.9 lbs, exclusively on Yamamoto soft baits. Thank you everyone of the sixty-one angler teams who made the Okeechobee Open possible. Teams from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Quebec, Canada. Plus a guy named just Tennessee. Thank you Kevin and Kim and their dog named Senko; Scott and Jeff Turner; Rick and Roxann; Doug and Claire; Harland and his wife; Tony Menna, Sherman and the Florida firefighters contingent; Sal Degregorio; Joe Gaglio; George & Scott Welcome; Dave & Dennis; TJ Fagan and his family; Bob Kostrzewa, Ron Benenati, Doug, Jimmy Fones, Rocky, Randy, Charlie Hays and the 14 teams who represented the Florida State BASS Federation. Thank you every angler for the time we spent together at the barbecue becoming friends and fishing Okeechobee. There is no finer bass than a Florida bass. No fonder memory than the good day we all shared at Okeechobee. For full story and complete results, go to: YAMAMOTO OPEN ON OKEECHOBEE STORY AND RESULTS http://www.acopens.com/ __________________________________________________ COME AND GET'CHA SOME! NEXT TOUR STOPS IN NEW YORK JUNE 22ND Come and get'cha some of them thar whopper Senko bass when the Yamamoto Open Tour stops on Catskill, New York's Hudson River June 22nd. It's the Big Apple Open, and the bass will be biting! There's 100% payout with first prize of $5,000, second place takes $3,000 based on a field of 100 boats. For more information on the Big Apple Open, visit: YAMAMOTO OPEN ON THE HUDSON http://www.acopens.com/hudson_river.html __________________________________________________ THEN IT'S ON TOUR TO ALABAMA'S NEELY-HENRY SEPT. 6TH The Yamamoto Open Tour visits the anglers on Neely Henry Lake, Gadsen, Alabama, September 6th. So start sharpening those hooks! Launch will be at the Riverside Bait Shop (City Dock). Registration Friday, Sept 5th at the Gadsden Convention Hall, 344 S. First St. from 3-6pm (256) 549-4669. There will be a hosted banquet and pre-tournament meeting at 7pm Friday, with seminars, mucho mingling among anglers, and hot new sample products for all in attendance. Just ask the brothers who won the Okeechobee Open, Randy and Kevin Marrs. They used the sample baits they got at the registration meeting (9-10-323 Senkos) to help them take first place! Hope to see you there and to experience Neely-Henry fishing at its very best on September 6, 2003. __________________________________________________ IT ALL LEADS YOU TO THE YAMAMOTO CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP It all leads you to the Yamamoto Classic Championship where you can be crowned the Yamamoto Angler Team of the Year, the country, indeed the world! What a title that would be, and someone's going to win it! May as well be you~ How it works is you and your team partner will be invited to partake in the Yamamoto Classic Championship if you've finished 40th or above in any one of the 4 Opens (Oroville, Okeechobee, Hudson or Neely-Henry). At the Classic, Champion Boats will award the first place Yamamoto Anglers of the Year with a first place prize 206 Elite Champion bassboat. There's no entry fee to pay for the Yamamoto Classic, and if any of the top 40 teams can't attend, then the invitation will be extended to the 41st team and so on until a full field of 160 boats is reached! So, you have an excellent chance of making it to the Yamamoto Classic where you and your partner can be crowned the Yamamoto Team of the Year. Best of all, in addition to the first place prize of a Champion 206 bassboat, Champion Boats will also award one 188 Elite Champion bassboat at random to a lucky team in attendance! So, you may win a beautiful Champion boat just for being there! Sounds pretty exciting, eh? It's going to be great! The Yamamoto Classic date and location will be released shortly. All I will say for now is the Yamamoto Classic will be centrally-located somewhere between California, Florida, New York and Alabama, the sites of the four qualifying Open events. It was great to meet everyone at Okeechobee, at Oroville and I look forward to meet you at the Hudson in June and at Neely-Henry in September. Then let's meet again at the Yamamoto Classic, give away two beautiful Champion Boats prizes, and crown some team among us as the best Yamamoto Anglers of the Year, the country, indeed the world! Thank you. Regards, Russ Bassdozer __________________________________________________
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