Fazenbacker Crowned Deep Creek Champion Boater While Moo Bae Leads field from the back of the Boat
Deep Creek Lake Trail, September 9th
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By Jamie Coyle

Herb Fazenbacker (second from left) weighed in 9 pounds and 12 ounces of bass to take the winners check at Deep Creek Lake during the Maryland BASS Federation Nation's 5th Tournament Trail Event. Jamie Coyle (left) claimed second place and lunker with 9.1 pounds while W.T. Vanmeter (third from left) posted the same weight for third place. Bruce Shives (right) bagged 7.12 for 4th place.	Moo Bae (center) again leads the non-boaters on Deep Creek Lake with 5.12 lbs.(4 fish).  Gary Riley (4th from left) nailed down second place with 5.12 (3 fish), while Jay Crummitt's (second from left) bag weighed 5.11 for third. Joe Fleischman (left) placed 4th while Rick Macananny (right) rounded out the 5th place spot.

Fifty-Two anglers started off on a foggy morning on the famed Deep Creek Lake . Once past either bridge on the lake the competitors could reach their top water morning bites. This final trail event of the year had anglers on both the boater and non boater sides bunched up in points, as the AOY angler of the year titles were on the line.

Herb Fazenbaker captured first place, on the boater side, with a five fish limit of 9 pounds 12 ounces. Second place angler Jamie Coyle and third place angler W.T. Vanmeter tied with five fish each that weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce, Jamie’s 3 pound 5 ounce lunker differentiated second from third place. Moo Bae landed atop the non-boater side with four fish for 5 pounds 12 ounces. Following up in second place was Gary Riley with the identical weight, but Gary only managed 3 fish and third place went to Jay Crummitt with five fish for 5 pounds 11 ounces.

Asking each of these boater anglers what their secrets to putting those fish in the livewell were, all replied with the same info.  Early bite for top water fish with Spooks, Pop r’s, and shallow jerkbaits for these anglers produced early livewell keeper fish. After the fog burned off Herb went to shallow docks with jigs, Jamie went to deeper grassy points with  Jerkbaits, and WT went shallow also with Senko’s.

First place angler Moo Bae and second place angler Jay Crummitt on the non-boater side fished almost identical patterns, Senko’s, tubes and small jigs on docks next to grass produced there fish. Third place finisher Gary Riley’s fish  came from the North end of the lake around Stump point. Gary said he would have won a pickerel tournament that day.

Congrats to Jamie Coyle for locking up the Angler of the Year Title with his second place finish and to Darin Hoover for doing the same with his twelfth place finish on the non-boater side after five Trail events this year.