It’s not often that you can catch only four bass weighing only 6 pounds, 3 ounces, and earn a $10,000 check for making the two-day cut in an Elite Series tournament. But Fred “Boom Boom” Roumbanis did exactly that yesterday.
And he needed a tiebreaker to finish in the final 51st place cut-off position. Roumbanis and Jesse Tacoronte tied with a two-day total of 21-10, but Roumbanis’ Day 1 bag of 15-7 gave him the final spot for Day 3.
Maybe it was karma – what goes around comes around – working for him. Roumbanis and his wife, Julie, are hosting four Elite Series anglers this week at their newly completed home/shop near Lake Dardanelle. And maybe the karma is all Julie’s, since she’s the one keeping up with their two young sons and putting the food on the table for five hungry fishermen each night. Yeah, the more you think about it, that $10,000 should definitely be going in Julie’s account. Fred’s just fishing.