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Lake Fork was the host of the first ever Great American Crappie Challenge in Texas on Saturday August 21, 2010. Lake Fork for years has been known as one of the best bass fishing lakes in the world but it is also home to a tremendous crappie fishery that is on the verge of exploding. By early afternoon on the day of the Challenge, the temperatures soared to over 100 degrees with full sun, but a gentle breeze kept it from being unbearable. Lake Fork Marina and the Minnow Bucket provided tremendous facilities for the simultaneous weigh-in locations. Having both locations allowed the Challengers to fish their favorite spots on Fork and safely make it to the scales to weigh their biggest fish every two hours. David Chenault and the KMOO 99.9 crew kept everyone on and off the water up-to-date with the all the action and the winning weights. It didn't take long to find out that Jay Don Reeve and his wife Rhonda Reeve were on some very, very good fish. In fact Jay Don Reeve was not only crowned the first ever Challenge Champion with a 2.16 lb A large crowd gathered in the Heritage Hall at the Best Western Trail Dust Inn and Suites in Sulphur Springs, TX for the Awards Ceremony The Early Bird Bonus sponsored by Minn Kota and Humminbird is awarded to an angler drawn at random from the Challengers present at the Awards Ceremony whom register prior to the early registration deadline. The bonus valued at over $600.00 went to Roger Putman whom not only registered early, but promoted the Lake Fork Challenge for months all around the Lake Fork area. For a complete list of the Lake Fork Challenge results, click here.
Super Slab Series would like to thank all of our National Sponsors, including B'n'M Fishing, Minn Kota, Humminbird, Vicious Fishing, Kevin Vandam's Line and Lure Conditioner, BTS all surface protectant, Okuma, Tite Lok rod holders, Bryant's Osage Outdoors and Andrew W. Renken, Attorney at Law, for making the Super Slab Series a recognized national tournament trail. The Lake Fork Challenge would not be possible without the tremendous local sponsors, including Sulphur Springs Department of Tourism, Lake Fork Marina & Motel, the Minnow Bucket, KMOO 99.9, Fisherman's One Stop, Lake Fork Chamber of Commerce, Crappie Anglers of Texas, Lake Fork Trophey Lures, and Best Western Trail Dust Inn and Suites, |
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Super Slab, he also weighed in 3 of the 4 largest crappie of the day. Jay said that he and his wife had located a huge school of suspended crappie the weekend before the Challenge and that they were still in the same spot the day of the Challenge. They used B'n'M Capps and Coleman double minnow rigs and vertically tightlined single rods. The fish were not aggressive and the 
bite was very light. Jay estimated that by the end of the day they had caught over40-50 slabs that were more than 1.5 lbs. Rhonda Reeve also did very well and finished 2nd in the 9-11 time slot. Once all the checks were handed out, the Reeves cashed in with 8 separate checks and received 4 of the 7 plaques handed out. Jay Don and Rhonda are the owners of the Finny Tribe (www.finnytribe.com), the best crappie tackle store in Texas. 
and the $20,000.00 Bonus opportunity sponsored by the Sulphur Springs Department of Tourism. In less than an hour, the Super Slab Series handed out over $1300.00 in B'n'M Crappie Poles, Vicious crappie fishing Line, Tite-Lok rod holders, Kevin VanDam's Line and Lure 
Conditioner, Humminbird marine radio, Okuma reels, Sweetheart Crappie Baits, Lake Fork Trophy Lures new Live Baby Shad, and most importantly 48 checks to the top Challengers. Included in the checks were 5 $100.00 bonus payouts awarded to the Challengers whom purchased the Bonus T-shirts and finished first out of the money (9-11 Wayne Hunter, 11-1 Bob McAffrey, 1-3 Bob McAffrey) and with exact weight crappie (1.00 - Bill Mouw, 2.00 - Gary Sims). 
