Renegade Bassers Maple Lake
Renegade Bassers
Maple Lake,MN
June 5th,2011
Ok this will be the Renegade Bassers first tourney of the 2011 and it is on Maple Lake which is located between Buffalo and Annandale on Hwy 55. So I fished in a team tourney yesterday and stunk it up so I'm hoping for much better results, I fish this lake often from spring through late fall and feel like I should have good. I have Mark Nistler fishing in my Ranger today as a non-boater. As we took off I headed to the far end of the lake as I had a phenomenal day last week with my son, we must have caught 60 bass on spinnerbaits and rattle traps in 5hr's and a number were in the 2-3lb range with a few 4lb'ers thrown in. As I dropped the trolling motor in and started casting I hooked up with a small fish right away it went 13" and then caught another little one then Mark set the hook on a fish that blew up on his topwater frog as I lifted his fish up into the net I see that he has a much nicer fish then what I caught his was all of 2lb's and before you know it I have the worlds smallest limit of fish but these ok still have all day to upgrade, I then notice that I am not hearing the livewell running so as I go back and check I find out it is not filling up and hardly any water in there. I told Mark to go up front while I mess around with this crap. An hour and a half later I finally had the livewell working again(what a pain in the ass) anyways we are back in business and fishing but the catching sure slowed down so we made a move and continued to struggle but we would pick up a fish here and there doing different things. Mark has 4 fish but he has two decent ones and I still have 5 dinks in the well, time is really running out and the fishing is down right bad for us, we are bouncing from shallow,mid-depth and out deep and I can't figure them out. with about an hour left Mark throws a small little finesse worm wacky rigged up on the bank in some stained water and next thing I know he sets the hook on a real nice fish and fights it to the boat were I net a beautiful 3-1/2lb'er to round out his limit and that was it for anymore fish catches and it's time to head in for the weigh-in. I just got my ass kicked by pretty much everyone in the club, Pat Porter won with 14.19lb's good job Pat and Mark started off his year with a good tourney also, he weighed 5 for 9.62lb's for 6th place and then I brought my dinks up and they weighed in at 6.44lb's for 13th place
ps. I almost forgot to congratulate my friend Darin Sorenson, this was his first ever club event and fished with my buddy John Pozarski. Darin ended up beating me he came in 12th with 5 fish that wieghed 6.73lb's
Maple Lake,MN
June 5th,2011
Ok this will be the Renegade Bassers first tourney of the 2011 and it is on Maple Lake which is located between Buffalo and Annandale on Hwy 55. So I fished in a team tourney yesterday and stunk it up so I'm hoping for much better results, I fish this lake often from spring through late fall and feel like I should have good. I have Mark Nistler fishing in my Ranger today as a non-boater. As we took off I headed to the far end of the lake as I had a phenomenal day last week with my son, we must have caught 60 bass on spinnerbaits and rattle traps in 5hr's and a number were in the 2-3lb range with a few 4lb'ers thrown in. As I dropped the trolling motor in and started casting I hooked up with a small fish right away it went 13" and then caught another little one then Mark set the hook on a fish that blew up on his topwater frog as I lifted his fish up into the net I see that he has a much nicer fish then what I caught his was all of 2lb's and before you know it I have the worlds smallest limit of fish but these ok still have all day to upgrade, I then notice that I am not hearing the livewell running so as I go back and check I find out it is not filling up and hardly any water in there. I told Mark to go up front while I mess around with this crap. An hour and a half later I finally had the livewell working again(what a pain in the ass) anyways we are back in business and fishing but the catching sure slowed down so we made a move and continued to struggle but we would pick up a fish here and there doing different things. Mark has 4 fish but he has two decent ones and I still have 5 dinks in the well, time is really running out and the fishing is down right bad for us, we are bouncing from shallow,mid-depth and out deep and I can't figure them out. with about an hour left Mark throws a small little finesse worm wacky rigged up on the bank in some stained water and next thing I know he sets the hook on a real nice fish and fights it to the boat were I net a beautiful 3-1/2lb'er to round out his limit and that was it for anymore fish catches and it's time to head in for the weigh-in. I just got my ass kicked by pretty much everyone in the club, Pat Porter won with 14.19lb's good job Pat and Mark started off his year with a good tourney also, he weighed 5 for 9.62lb's for 6th place and then I brought my dinks up and they weighed in at 6.44lb's for 13th place
ps. I almost forgot to congratulate my friend Darin Sorenson, this was his first ever club event and fished with my buddy John Pozarski. Darin ended up beating me he came in 12th with 5 fish that wieghed 6.73lb's
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