Battle At Fish Creek Dam!

Tournament number three hits the books and for the third time this year we have a new champion!  Competition has been fierce so far this year.  Tourney day rolled around and as I approached the boat dock I saw vehicles and boats everywhere! It was certainly going to be a full tournament; the club had a very good showing for the tournament.

  There were a couple new anglers in the crowd Eric brought a friend along and I brought my daughter Shania who is only 11 she did well and managed to weigh in two fish one smallmouth and one largemouth bass, and caught a lot of trout in-between!

  Fishing as a whole was pretty good conditions were cloudy and a little breeze in the morning start and as the day wound down the sun came out and the wind died down and it was another beautiful day on the water. 

  The bass were bedding big time with the approaching full moon and the sunny day it was prime time for bed fishing and the Sullivan’s, Matt and Stephanie took full advantage of that, Paul was after the bedding fish also finishing early in the day, I fished the dam area along with Bob and Tony and several other boats, it's a small lake and everywhere you wanted to fish there was either someone on the bank fishing or another boat but everyone did a great job and shared the water with fellow anglers.  The theme for the day seemed to be either fish the dam or look for bedding LMB in the bays plenty of anglers could be seen doing exactly that anyplace you looked, some did it better than others being from the south Matt has extensive knowledge of fishing for bedding bass and he proved it by defeating the rest of the field by more than 3 lbs!  Results are as follows.

  1st:  Matt Sullivan:        10.99 lbs (3 LMB) and big bass at 4.08 PDS

  2nd:  Marty Mantz:        7.23 lbs (1 LMB 2 SMB)

  3rd:  Eric Ehn:               6.82 lbs (2 LMB)

  4th   Stephanie Sullivan: 6.32 Lbs (3 LMB)

  5th   Paul Reinbold:        6.27 Lbs (3 LMB)

  Honorable Mention 11 Y/O Shania Mantz 1 SMB 1 LMB 3.5 Lbs.  A total of 28 anglers participated in the tournament catching 29 Bass weighing 68.50 PDS for an average of 2.36 Lbs per fish.

  Next tourney is the club camping weekend to be held at Pudwell dam in South Dakota and Raleigh Dam in ND, on the weekend of 18 and 19 June.  Full details will be in the next report, till than stay safe and see ya on the water.

 Marty.