Clubs end regular season

Southern Ohio Bassmasters, Y-City Bass Club and Cranberry Marsh Bass Club all held their final regular tournaments of the season Sunday. Southern ohio fished the Muskingum River at Zanesville, Y-City fished Hoover Reservoir and Cranberry fished Delaware Reservoir. None of the club faced great conditions: Hoover was at least 10 1/2 feet low, the Muskingum was low and some kind of brown, oily slick coated the water in the morning and Delaware was close to a foot and a half low. On top of that, there was a chilly north wind blowing most of the day.
I don't have Cranberry's results yet, so let's get to the Zanesville clubs.

Southern Ohio
Scott Siemer won the tournament with a nice catch of five smallmouth bass weighing 7 pounds, 15.8 ounces. He actually had almost 8 1/2 pounds, but lost 8 ounces due to a dead bass. However, it made no difference as Alan Fulks was a distant second with five bass weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces.
Mike Baughman finished third with a five-fish limit that weighed only 3 pounds, 13.4 ounces; Eric Woodrow took fourth with three fish weighing 3 pounds, 1.6 ounces, and Terry Ryan placed fifth with two bass weighing 2 pounds, 15.6 ounces.
Big bass was a 2-pound, 12.6-ounce smallmouth caught by Siemer.
Eighteen members fished, with 17 weighing in 44 bass.
The Muskingum was low and treacherous as you headed upstream, but Siemer managed to make his way to the Ellis Dam tailwaters where he hit a smallmouth jackpot. His best lure was a 2-inch Berkley Gulp minnow fished on 4-pound test line. One other boat made it to the dam, but caught big hybrid stripers instead of smallmouth or spotted bass.
I caught plenty of fish (a mixed bag of smallmouth and spots, most on a hand-poured Senko), but could only manage to get one keeper in the boat.
There was no suspense as far as the angler of the year title was concerned, as no one was close enough to catch Kenny Fulks, even if he failed to catch a keeper (he did weigh in a fish). In fact, the top 10 did not change, except that Terry Ryan moved from tenth to eighth.
following Kenny in the top 10 were Eric Woodrow, Alan Fulks, Bob Fulks, Chris Lighthizer, Mike Baughman, Greg Montgomery, Terry Ryan, Tom Sprankel and Bruce Reavley.
Those 10, plus five members ho fished at least nine of the 10 tournaments, are eligible to fish the championship Oct. 23 and 24 at Rush Creek and Piedmont.

Y-City results
Jeff Turner won the Hoover tournament with an impressive catch of five bass weighing 12.23 pounds, including a 4.01-pound fish that took big bass honors.
Wesley Hammer finished second with five bass weighing 8.97 pounds, Ryan Boyer placed third with five fish weighing 8.22 pounds, Bob Hammer took fourth with five bass weighing 7.56 pounds and Mark Lasure was fifth with five bass weighing 7.13 pounds.
Thirty members fished with 22 weighing in a total of 73 bass. Eight limits were weighed in.
Wesley Hammer had a comfortable lead in the anger of the year race and his second-place finish was more than enough to claim the title.
Following Hammer in the top 10 were Ryan Boyer, Mike King, Tyler Shawger, Bob Hammer, Dave Allen, Dan Allen, Tom Hoffer, Mark Lasure and Kenny Simpson.
The club's championship tournament will be held Oct. 3 at Alum Creek.