11-05-11, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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First Tournament Results
Hey guys, just got back from my first tournament at the Northeast River in MD. I placed 5th out of 14 people with 4 fish weighing 11.24 pounds. The water temp was 51 degrees and the boater decided to spend almost all of 8 hours fishing dead grass along the shoreline.
I caught 3 on a shakyhead rig and 1 on a chatterbait. My biggest was 3.74. The boater won the tournament and $400 with a limit weighting 18 pounds. He was a really nice guy and give me a lot of good insight on fishing the river. I'll be fishing another tourney in two weeks, I'll keep you updated. |
11-05-11, 06:36 PM | #2 |
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Great job. You learned, you had fun, you placed, what a great day. Just a little warning...Tournament fishing is quite addicting. Once you start it's very hard to stop.
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11-05-11, 06:54 PM | #3 |
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Glad you had a good time. I agree with Joedog about tournament fishing being addictive. I have been consumed by it for several years now and I can't shake it. To a degree it even takes some of the fun out of fun fishing because I almost feel like I am not fishing for a purpose when fun fishing. Don't get me wrong, I still love fun fishing but not as much as tourney fishing.
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11-05-11, 07:03 PM | #4 |
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OUTSTANDING!! congrats to ya bud! 5th out of 14 is great.
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11-05-11, 07:06 PM | #5 |
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Cool man sounds like you guys figured out a pattern. Way to go.
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11-05-11, 07:20 PM | #6 |
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Yeah it was a blast, I can definitely see how it can be addicting. It wasn't "we" who figured out a pattern, it was the boater lol. He knew exactly what he was going to do, and he did it.
He caught 9 fish throughout the day, all above 3 pounds. He also broke off two nice ones. 7 of his 9 were caught during the first three hours during high tide, when the tide went out, the fish stopped biting. |
11-05-11, 07:45 PM | #7 |
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Good job .nice experience.
As for tide bass they reposition them selves when outgoing. |
11-05-11, 08:24 PM | #8 |
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Interesting choice. I have almost no experience fishing tidal water, so there must be overriding factors like baitfish, topography, current and who knows what else at play, but I have always avoided dead fall grass like the plague. Good for you!
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11-06-11, 10:59 AM | #9 |
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Yeah I personally wouldn't have fished dead grass if I was the boater, I would've been hitting the docks and pilings all day. The bass were really clumped up in that grass though, I've heard dead grass holds heat, that might be why.
I chose to fish a shaky head rig because I feel its more weedless than a texas rig, and I would bounce it through the grass a few times, and the bass would pop out and take it right as I bounced it out. |
11-06-11, 04:23 PM | #10 |
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That is why fishing as a nonboater can be so valuable when you start tournament fishing. You learn so many things that you would probably never figure out if you were a boater, or if you would figure them out it would most likely take you years to do so. Almost every tournament I have fished as a nonboater I learned something that I put in my memory bank and use from time to time now that I fish the boater side.
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Hey, way to go on your 5th place finish. First time tourney, thats pretty darn good. Keep up the good work!
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11-06-11, 09:58 PM | #12 |
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I'll be fishing my next tourney on November 19th at the same place. Here is the website in case any of you are near philly or maryland and want to enter. http://www.pabasstournaments.com/ Theres a pic of me and my partner on the front page, under "today's news," holding a couple of nice bass we caught. I'm the only asian kid among the 13 white guys haha.
P.S. just realized I finished in 6th place, not 5th. Sorry for misleading you guys! Last edited by fishingprodigy; 11-06-11 at 10:13 PM. |
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11-08-11, 08:08 PM | #14 |
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Great job on your first tourny! You did better than I in my first one. I was 16 and tied for second in a 30 person tourny. Problem was I tied with the other 28 guys that didn't catch a single keeper! Gotta love winter tournaments on a lake that's tough at it's best.
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