It was a very interesting tournament. I use the word interesting when the fishing is hard. Eleven boats were entered and seven caught fish. Four out of five club boats and three out of six outside boats got lucky. I guess you darksiders need to practice more with lures. LOL. There were only three limits (3 fish), three boats got two fish and one boat got a single fish. The way the fishing has been the last few months, it was actually not a bad day.
I got my first fish a little after 9am. I caught it at the point just before Morgan’s. It was our big fish-a nice tuc at 3lbs 4oz. Hey Tommy, where did you get yours? We caught our fish at about the same time. I caught it on my “magic” lure-a 1/8 oz gold kastmaster. I buy them by the dozen as it has worked for me for the last couple of years. Things were slow for us until after 2pm when we saw some fish busting near the Masonic Temple. We assumed they were Tucs and started throwing all sorts of lures at them. No takers. Then I figured what the hell and started throwing my brand new Sebile. I was using the suspending one-never got a bite on the floating lure. On my first cast, I got a bite. It felt like a Tuc but when it came close to the boat, the color was wrong. When my partner got it into the net, what do you know, it was a smallmouth. I never saw them this far up the south fork. It has been over a decade since I caught one. After several more casts, I caught another one! What a day! And to top it off, our three fish was enough for second place. We improved one place up from last year. I hope it carries over into next year!
Hey Tommy, sorry about the misunderstanding about your choice of “bait”. I saw you at BBP but saw you working your lure so didn’t think you were using live bait. I didn’t know anything about it until Lance said something but I saw your facial expression of surprise and didn’t think anything about it. I also saw the postings here and I guess the matter is resolved.
I also wanted to say thanks to everyone for allowing me to weigh-in my stressed fish early. Because of this I am thinking of having a lunch time weigh-in next year or a “come find me” weigh-in if you have a stressed fish. We have this in our club but as a courtesy allowed by the weigh master and not a rule. What do you guys think? If you have any suggestions on improving next years tournament, post them here. This was only our second year so it is still a work in progress. What I would really like are suggestions on how to reach more anglers. Remember, our goal is to have twenty “outsider” boats in the tournament. Our club members only fish when there are openings.
I have posted the results and have eliminated last names in case some of the people wanted to remain anonymous.
[/img]
