TinBoats Tournament results

[Ketchup]

What a fantastic day of "catching".  I caught over 100 bass in 8 hours. Had my limit at 8:52.  Those 14 1/2" bass just couldnt let the bait hit the water without swimming off with it.  I pulled into a cut in the back of a channel and caught 12 fish in 20 casts.  They were bunched up like sardines.  Not sure i went more than 8 casts all day without a fish.  

 My day started out throwing a white spinnerbait.  Hooked into a 14" fish on the 2nd cast.  I put that down and picked up a Swimmin Fluke and never put it back down the rest of the day. That bait was on fire. Even the crappie and walleye wanted it.  It got to the point around noon that my thumb was getting raw from taking fish off, that i started using my left hand to take fish off "which for me is an acheivement as im not left hand friendly".  Fished all gravel banks with most of the fish coming off shore in 8' of water. The smaller males were up tight to the bank, so in order to get any keeper fish, i started throwing out deeper.  The key was to let the Fluke free fall to the bottom. Alot of the time when i started my retreive a fish would already be on.  That was a common occurence.  One of those days you never forget.  

 Weighin echoed my day from the other anglers. Tons of numbers. The males were so abundant that the big girls didnt have a chance. Big fish was over 3 pounds.  

 Congrats to aarchdale and his partner on the win and big bass.  Now on to Pomme next month for some size.  

[moguy1973]

That's about what we saw the last 3 days also.  We didn't hit them as hard as you did but we did get over 100 fish between the two of us while we were there.

[dan hufferd]

Wow nice !

[Krazo]

Great day on the water!!  sounds like everyone had a good outing.

[Targa98]

Had a great time finally putting some faces to the names up there. We didn't fare quite as well.  Only had maybe 30 fish or so and only 2 keepers.  All in all we had fun and will be doing it again with you guys soon hopefully.  We wont be able to make it to the Pomme Event because of work that weekend but should be able to make it down to TRL for the following one and again back up to Stockton. Look forward to seeing you guys again. And to the other boat who caught the bonus walleye, I didn't skip out on you, I got back down to the boat and my buddy said he was going to go ahead and fillet him out for supper.  Sorry about that... LOL

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

No Problem man, i Let our walleye go, i was to worn out to clean them anyhow.  Nice meeting ya
 

[Ketchup]

Great to have you and your buddy Nick. looking forward to you fishing with us again.  Stockton was producing some fish Saturday, especially after the front and weather came in. I really thought it would be a tough day.