Round 5 went down July 11 from 10 PM until 6 AM – it was a true nighttime tournament. The last time this event was held was two years ago when the record for the heaviest 5 fish bag of bass was weighed by Team Oh-Son (31.77 pounds)! If you have not seen the Inside Sportfishing footage of this amazing bag, you can view it here: Inside Sportfishing (scroll down to the SWBA Long Beach 2009 section)
2 years later, almost to the day, the event was resurrected and the record was not only topped once with a 32# bag, but it was crushed with a 35.68# bag – Unfortunately it wasn’t a FIB’er team, but you can read their report: HERE!
Conditions for the night were very nice and all of the FIB’er teams weighed in limits of bass.
Dave and Jim landed in 13th place (first out of the $$) with 20.94#

Jayson & Ron ended up in 22nd place with 19.70#

Tom & Val ended up in 37th with 13.16#

Roy and Frank ended up in 40th with 12.90# (no picture available)

You can see the rest of the final results of the “Cyclone Flashback” HERE – Note how sometimes 5-10 spots are separated by less than one pound!!!

Going into the final event, it looks like all of the FIB’er teams stand a good chance of qualifying for the finale!!
Current overall SWBA Standings:
6th place: “Bassbusters” Jim Kiech and Dave Shill
10th place: “Shaka” Roy Fukushima and Frank Wong
17th place: “Reefrunner” Tom & Val Handzus
20th place: “Anchored” Jayson Quimby & Ron Withers