The Trophy Bassmasters bass club crash landed back to reality after the utopia of the last tournament on Lake Erie. Lake Erie produced fish for everybody with multiple catches by several anglers and large fish to boot. Lake Loramie proved to be quite another foe as the harvest was slim both in numbers and size. Only 7 of the 17 anglers brought 12" keeper fish to the scales. No angler had more than 2 fish and 8 of the 10 keepers weighed in at close to 1lb each. Total catch for the day: 10 bass - 14.15lbs. All were released alive. Boyd Downey took first place and big bass honors with just 2 fish. Total weight was 4.11lbs and the big bass weighed 3.10lbs. This is Downey's 2nd win in a row which is tightening the Angler of the Year race. More on that in a moment. Second place went to current Angler of the year leader, Heath McGrew. His 1 keeper bass weighed 2.51lbs. Third place was awarded to Mark Dairy. His 2 fish totaled 2.27lbs and allowed him to maintain the 2nd position in AOY points. The club now proceeds to the last 2 tournaments of the year. Both of them are on Lake Erie which will help the club's morale. The point system now moves into the second phase as each member may only count their best 9 tournaments. The Loramie tournament was the 9th tournament. The top 5 anglers in the AOY race have each competed in all 9 events. The last 2 tournament scores will affect each angler differently as their finishes are calculated and low scores are thrown out. An angler is awarded 35 points for a tournament win, 30 points for 2nd, 27 points for 3rd, 25 points for a 4th place and 1 point less for each declining position. For a list of each angler's finishes throughout the year, go to http://www.trophybass.org/scores.htm