The Central Illinois Crappie Club hosted it’s 1st Open Tournament on Lake Shelbyville on Saturday, May 14th out of Bo Woods ramp. 23 teams competed for almost $1400.00 total prize money including over $500.00 to win 1st place. Some real quality teams took on Shelbyville's fickle crappie and what has lately become a standard 30 mph wind. All of the teams showed great determination using a wide variety of fishing tactics to bring fish to the scales.

Results are as follows:


Place Name Weight Big Fish
Big Fish Fermanian/Barnes 1.44

1 York 6.88 1.21
2 Jones/Brandenburg 6.55 1.29
3 Wilcox/Anderson 5.76 1.27
4 Marquis/Swaim 5.31 0.96
5 Jordan/Bugg 5.05 1.12
6 F. Revell/J. Revell 4.96 1.01
7 McCloud/Hotsinpiller 4.9 1.03
8 Peters/Suzewits 4.79 0.92
9 Grant/Wright 4.78 1.13
10 Sharp/Davis 4.75


118 fish caught @ 86.69# for a 0.73# average.