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Author:
slimecoat
Date:
Oct 26, 2009
Subject:
Empty Lake Bass Club - CT River Salmon River 10-25
Message:
Conditions: Air temps: 50 in am warming to 60 in pm Water temps: anywhere from 50 to 54 degrees depending on where you were Winds: 15 to 20mph with 25mph gusts Water clarity: stained in most places Skies: party cloudy, some sun The day started out with some difficulty. We tried to raise the motor to remove the transom saver, and found the cranking battery dead from the master power switch being left on after the last event by someone who will remain nameless at this time. :roll: So after jumping the trolling motor battery to the cranking battery to remove the transom saver, we dropped the boat in the water. We tried to jump it from another boat, to find out that the battery was so low that we needed a truck to do the job. So at 7am away went the rest of the field and we are dead at the dock. So I pull my truck all the way out onto the concrete dock section and proceed to jump the boat battery after 20 minutes of charging. 8) So by 7:30am we are at our first spot bridge pilings, and pointing dog catches a short smallie on a grub. We head to the second spot to find no moving water, but very warm, no bait and no bass after a 30 minute sling fest of everything we had with us. We head back to fish the bridge pilings more thoroughly and p dog gets a keeper smallie ( pound and a quarter) on a tube and she comes unbuttoned half way back to boat after an airborne flight. :cry: We decide to move to Chapmans pond, to find 2 other boats in there, and oh yeah 9 to 12 mph winds my ass. Try more like 15 to 20 and gusts to 25 at least. It would be nice if the weather men could get it right just once in a while. :shock: We come up empty in there too, after almost getting stuck in the south end, sucked some sediment up in the water pump, and warning buzzers started going off, but no harm done, it cleared out and we we on our way. We decided being wind burned, and with the tide going out and things getting skinny that we would head to Chester creek. So we head to the back and some cockers from the tournament out of Haddam Meadows, are pounding the train bridge, so we idle past them and head up to the second bridge. We turn the corner to find that the bridge has been under construction for some time, it is a CF, and is not what it was. :cry: We spend a half hour there and after not so much as a bump we head back out to muscle the other boat off the train bridge. They see us coming and head back out and hap hazzardly hit the docks and take off. Thank you for leaving us 5 fish. :lol: So at about noon, P dog gets 2 or 3 - pound and a quarter largies from the bridge on a tube, and the skunk is out of the boat, and we both start throwing tubes. After beating the bridge for a half hour or more with various baits we decide to hit the docks right next to the bridge, and P dog gets 2 more cookie cutters on the same tube. Then I make a perfect skip under a platform dock and get bit big time on my bitsy bug with paca craw trailer, and set the hook on a (guessing) 4lb fish. :shock: It instantly snaps my line on the hookset, bad or weak knot and the big girl is thrashing around under the dock trying to throw the bait that is now stuck in her mouth. That lost fish cost us the win, I knew it, but you move on. I finally boat fish # 5 a cookie cutter largie on the same tube. So tubes it is and we proceed to hammer docks on the way out and we catch 2 more cookie cutter largies for 7 keepers total for the day. We culled for a few ounces, we know it won't be enough. So we head back up river to weigh in. I proceed to jack knife the trailer backing down the ramp, because I was stupid and forgot to drop the tailgate and lost sight of the trailer, and smashed the other taillight, so now she has a matching set. So after mentally and verbally abusing myself and others around me, I parked the truck. :lol: :lol: All in all not a bad day, 2 lost fish, 1 (mine) hurt us, but it is what it is. 1st place - Greg by himself with 2 fish 7lbs 7oz with a 4-13 lunker largie 2nd place - Mike S. and Rich B. with 5 fish for 6lbs 4oz 3rd place - Pointing dog and Slimecoat with 5 fish for 6lbs 2oz A couple other boats caught fish, but only 2 - 5 fish limits. The points standings finished out as follows: Pointing dog and Slimecoat with 2300+ points for 1st place team :D Mike S. and Rich B. with 2200+ points for 2nd place team Ron B. and George with 1800+ points for 3rd place team Pointing Dog with a 5-10 largemouth from Quaddick for Lunker of the year :D This is the last Tournament for the year, so see you all in the spring...........
Author:
Bass Addict
Date:
Oct 26, 2009
Message:
dam, sounds like you earned that one. I hate when I have days like that. congrats on 3rd.
Author:
Phish
Date:
Oct 26, 2009
Message:
I love these reports.
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