{"id":58278,"date":"2013-07-22T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T03:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/in-search-of-the-big-fish\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:09:28","slug":"in-search-of-the-big-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/in-search-of-the-big-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of the big fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The local BassMaster\u2019s tournament was the fifth of six tournaments in the 2013 season. Ten contestants participated and overall, the fishing was good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the lake is low, the fishing is fine right now,\u201d said tournament contestant Mike McAndrews. \u201cMost of the fish were caught in the morning. Once the sun got on the lake, the fishing slowed down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fisherman Terry Belden won the tournament with a five-fish total weight of 7.45 pounds. Thad Trujillo finished second with a total of 3.45 pounds, and Joe Stevens place third with a total weight of 3.31 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The big fish prize was won by Terry Belden who landed a nice bass weighing 2.75 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament left anglers looking ahead to the season ending tournament on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the tournament went well,\u201d said McAndrew. \u201cWe\u2019re really looking forward to the last tournament of the year. Fishermen will be camping in the House Creek Campground. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in more information about the tournament or more information about the Cortez BassMasters can contact Mike McAndrews at (970) 749-2422.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>local BassMaster\u2019s tournament was the fifth of six tournaments in the 2013 season. Ten contestants participated and overall, the fishing was good. \u201cEven though the lake is low, the fishing is fine right now,\u201d said tournament contestant Mike McAndrews. \u201cMost of the fish were caught in the morning. Once the sun got on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-58278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58278"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63040,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58278\/revisions\/63040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58278"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=58278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}