The Rock 2009 Annual "tournament"

[mrcold]

Well, we’re back from “The Rock” annual fishing tournament. We fished Wednesday the 13th through Friday the 15th (though boat trouble cost us the afternoon session on Friday). Three teams of two, with categories being first keeper, biggest fish, and most keepers. Mrcold/Chad vs. Curt/Chris vs. Marty/Brad

As always, there were plenty of unexpected surprises:

Brad with a nice clam…the hook was actually all the way inside the clam.

I got into a mess that I really didn’t want to deal with.

This guy just got scooped up for a picture...I was amazed at the number of turtles in this lake.

We did find fish, but not the right ones for awhile.

Then things started to go better:

Brad with a pair of smallies, 3-4 was the bigger of the two.

Chris with big fish of the trip, a nice 3-10 smallie.

Chad found his keeper.

Then, most importantly, I caught fish.

Final keeper Tally:

Curt – 1

Chris – 1

Marty – 3

Brad – 3

Chad – 2

me – 11

Biggest fish went to Chris.

First keeper went to me.

Chad/Mrcold, 2009 “The Rock” Champions

By the way, all keepers except 1 were caught on doctors/centipedes. Four fish in the 15-16" range were cleaned on day 1, all others were released.

Thank you so much to all of you on this great forum!

[Hunter91]

Looks like a great trip!! Congrats!!

[Whack'emGood]

Glad you had fun MrCold.

Love the classic "shirtless fisherman" pics.

My dad used to fish shirtless all of the time when I was little... brings back memories.

Whack'em