The 2020 Pa State Championship at Cayuga Lake is in the books. After four and half hours of a steady rain, the clouds cleared and the bite was on. When it was over Joe Pacholec Sr and Joe Pacholec Jr would bring in the biggest bags of their respective divisions, 19.80 and 18.93, to claim First Place. Joe Jr would add the big fish award to his payday. TOP Big Fish honors goes to CoAngler Don Dick bringing the heaviest fish of the event; a 6.18 smallmouth. Jason Shipton took home BOTH Big Fish awards on the Angler side with 5.19 and 5.80 largemouths; he would finish 0.76 ponds behind Pacholec Sr.
ANGLER | D1 | D2 | TOT | COANGLER | D1 | D2 | TOT | ||
1 | Joe Pacholec Sr | 18.44 | 19.80 | 38.24 | Joe Pacholec Jr | 14.91 | 18.93 | 33.84 | |
2 | Jason Shipton | 19.26 | 18.22 | 37.48 | Jason Cavanaugh | 18.42 | 14.68 | 33.10 | |
3 | Tim Dolon | 17.94 | 19.04 | 36.98 | David Palko | 16.83 | 16.18 | 33.01 | |
4 | Randy Shirk | 16.97 | 17.49 | 34.46 | Thomas Thompson | 15.33 | 17.01 | 32.34 | |
5 | Richard Witushynski | 17.09 | 17.09 | 34.18 | Adam Ivory | 15.35 | 16.52 | 31.87 | |
6 | Joe Culver | 19.21 | 14.31 | 33.52 | Bret Dalrymple | 14.27 | 16.56 | 30.83 | |
7 | Bill Ward | 18.21 | 15.14 | 33.35 | Donald Dick | 18.50 | 10.85 | 29.35 | |
8 | John Lorenzo | 18.09 | 15.13 | 33.22 | Andrew Hostler | 13.66 | 14.45 | 28.11 | |
9 | Shawn Richard | 15.99 | 16.78 | 32.77 | Zach Doka | 9.65 | 16.93 | 26.58 | |
10 | Deron Eck | 14.90 | 17.63 | 32.53 | Ron Gable | 15.20 | 10.21 | 25.41 | |
11 | Michael Shumanis | 20.24 | 11.84 | 32.08 | Jim Walker | 13.75 | 10.82 | 24.57 | |
12 | Tom Hafner | 15.96 | 15.88 | 31.84 | Hunter Bruner | 13.98 | 10.22 | 24.20 | |
13 | Mark Gruszkiewicz | 17.24 | 14.28 | 31.52 | Dave Wilt | 11.89 | 12.07 | 23.96 | |
14 | Michael Taylor | 15.79 | 15.54 | 31.33 | Orvill Ortwine | 12.43 | 11.50 | 23.93 | |
15 | Richard Knoll | 16.32 | 14.97 | 31.29 | Charles Englebright | 9.56 | 13.86 | 23.42 | |
16 | Ron Wolf | 14.67 | 16.10 | 30.77 | David Avvisato | 12.65 | 10.64 | 23.29 | |
17 | Derek Horner | 17.41 | 13.30 | 30.71 | Thomas Ruth | 4.67 | 16.40 | 21.07 | |
18 | Keith Houseknecht | 16.26 | 14.27 | 30.53 | Ken Leith | 12.11 | 8.26 | 20.37 | |
19 | Mark Bower | 16.95 | 13.49 | 30.44 | Bill Lidwell | 15.01 | 4.00 | 19.01 | |
20 | Nick Osman | 13.36 | 16.93 | 30.29 | Donn Troutman | 6.16 | 11.16 | 17.32 | |
21 | John Pascavage | 13.02 | 17.10 | 30.12 | Scott Hileman | 7.05 | 7.93 | 14.98 | |
22 | Edwin Fisher | 15.97 | 13.76 | 29.73 | Billy Hines | 8.97 | 5.96 | 14.93 | |
23 | Mark Snyder | 17.18 | 11.25 | 28.43 | David Kozlansky | 8.58 | 6.25 | 14.83 | |
24 | Jess Salmon | 11.72 | 16.71 | 28.43 | Thomas Jeffery | 12.73 | 1.70 | 14.43 | |
25 | Justin Kublis | 13.49 | 14.82 | 28.31 | Kevin Reimel | 6.39 | 6.71 | 13.10 | |
26 | Scott Fankhanel | 11.21 | 16.79 | 28.00 | Levi McCarty | 12.86 | 0.00 | 12.86 | |
27 | Larry Foor | 11.35 | 16.39 | 27.74 | Philip Lyons | 12.07 | 0.00 | 12.07 | |
28 | Jason Kiss | 10.58 | 16.29 | 26.87 | Jonathan Stewart | 4.34 | 7.71 | 12.05 | |
29 | Austin Hoke | 13.21 | 13.44 | 26.65 | Sam Noel Jr | 4.62 | 6.85 | 11.47 | |
30 | Bob Brody | 14.55 | 11.98 | 26.53 | Steve Koch | 11.41 | 0.00 | 11.41 | |
31 | Tony Dorman | 14.24 | 11.96 | 26.20 | Tyler Furrow | 7.79 | 0.00 | 7.79 | |
32 | Troy Davis | 13.80 | 12.26 | 26.06 | Harry Graver | 6.99 | 0.00 | 6.99 | |
33 | Bill Burnside | 11.72 | 14.00 | 25.72 | Grant Michael | 4.29 | 0.00 | 4.29 | |
34 | Bobby Lengyel | 17.15 | 8.52 | 25.67 | Jared Burrows | 0.00 | 2.46 | 2.46 | |
35 | George Bowers | 10.13 | 14.61 | 24.74 | |||||
36 | Matt Davis | 13.34 | 11.35 | 24.69 | |||||
37 | Austin Gaab | 10.14 | 14.24 | 24.38 | |||||
38 | Kevin Gergel | 8.81 | 15.13 | 23.94 | |||||
39 | Don Bridy | 12.47 | 11.12 | 23.59 | |||||
40 | Derrick Loser | 10.29 | 12.71 | 23.00 | |||||
41 | Mike Sabbi | 5.97 | 14.05 | 20.02 | |||||
42 | Chris Longo | 11.69 | 3.36 | 15.05 | |||||
43 | Ron Taylor | 5.25 | 9.64 | 14.89 | |||||
44 | Randall Follmer | 12.18 | 2.46 | 14.64 | |||||
45 | Jay Newsome | 5.29 | 9.10 | 14.39 | |||||
46 | Matt Kline | 13.77 | 0.00 | 13.77 | |||||
47 | Mike Galka Sr | 11.14 | 0.00 | 11.14 | |||||
48 | Mitch Heaton | 10.53 | 0.00 | 10.53 | |||||
49 | Harley Mills | 4.37 | 2.54 | 6.91 | |||||
50 | Chris Wilson | 1.89 | 0.00 | 1.89 |