Amateur Bass Series, Maple Lake
Amateur Bass Series
July 9th,2011 Maple Lake
This blog is on the second tournament of the Amateur Bass Series and the second tournament with my new favorite partner Jenny Fisk, Maple Lake is located between Buffalo and Annandale,MN. I fish Maple alot and feel confident about or chances to do well. Jen and I got out the Monday before the tourney to do little scouting around and at the same time it was the 4th of July so we wanted to also relax on the water and enjoy our day off. So my thinking is to cover as mush water as possible early before the the pleasure boaters get out so we started throwing reaction baits which cover a lot of water quickly, Jen was throwing a Leena Lures spinnerbait while threw a Rapala clackin rap. We caught some fish but nothing of much size so we moved out to fish the weedlines with a slower approach and found some better fish but they were not grouped up at all it was a one here one there kind of deal. The lake was now filled with people enjoying the nice holiday weather so we put are rods down and just kinda idled around and enjoyed the weather for a bit and then headed back to the launch to load the boat and go hangout and chill.
Well it is now tournament morning and Jenny and I both really pumped up and ready to get started. I decided we would start on a deep mainlake point, as we were flying across the lake towards the point there were 2-3 other boats ahead of us and I was worried at least one of them would stop there since it is an obvious spot. We got lucky they all passed the point and I turned the boat and came off plane and idled up to the point and killed the Mercury and jumped up and dropped the trolling motor in all in one swift motion. I picked up my jig rod and fired out a 1/2oz. Secret Lures MVP HD jig and Jenny picked up a spinning rod and started fishing her new favorite technique which is dropshotting and this was a good looking area for that. On about my 5th cast I felt the telltale thump of an aggressive bass inhaling my jig so I quickly slammed back my rod and started fighting the fish back to the boat, Jen netted the nice 3'lb largemouth and high fived me. As I was putting the fish into the well I noticed it had started to rain so we both put on our gear and proceeded to fish the point but could not pick up any other fish here. The wind is now blowing pretty good and we had moved out onto the mainlake to try a weedline that the wind was blowing into and what happens next is complete chaos, as we get set up on the weedline I fired out my jig and just as it hit the water I my line pulls tight and I set the hook and call for the net but Jen was in the middle of making her first cast so by the time she grabbed the net I already had the fish by the boat and made the decision to just flip it in seeing it was only about 1-1/2'lb's, I put or 2nd fish in the box and quickly repositioned the boat and made another cast to the same spot and got bit before the jig hit the bottom and reared back on another fish and flipped him in the boat and put it in the well, it looked too be identical to the last one. As I picked up my jig and straightened the trailer on it I jokingly told Jen to set her rod down and get the net ready as made my third cast out, she just laughed and continued fishing as I set the hook into another fish and lifted it into the boat and another 1-1/2'lb fish and tossed my jig out and caught two more twins on consecutive casts to round out or 6 fish limit. by the time the chaos ended I think I caught 10 fish in a row all along fighting the waves and culling fish to get our best 6.
As this school of fish we found stopped biting we started to move around and try to upgrade our catch but couldn't end up doing so, Jenny did end up catching a couple of bass but they weren't quite big enough to help out. It is now time to go in and weigh our fish, I am not feeling good about our chances as normally you need like a three pound average or better to do well. We ended up weighing 6 fish for 10.50 and came in 9th place out of 17 teams, 1st place only weighed 14.76lb's so all in all it was a tough day for all, but I had a great time fishing with Jen even though she was bummed out cause she didn't contribute to to cause today, but I told her that this is how team fishing usually goes and next tournament she may be the one with the hot stick.
July 9th,2011 Maple Lake
This blog is on the second tournament of the Amateur Bass Series and the second tournament with my new favorite partner Jenny Fisk, Maple Lake is located between Buffalo and Annandale,MN. I fish Maple alot and feel confident about or chances to do well. Jen and I got out the Monday before the tourney to do little scouting around and at the same time it was the 4th of July so we wanted to also relax on the water and enjoy our day off. So my thinking is to cover as mush water as possible early before the the pleasure boaters get out so we started throwing reaction baits which cover a lot of water quickly, Jen was throwing a Leena Lures spinnerbait while threw a Rapala clackin rap. We caught some fish but nothing of much size so we moved out to fish the weedlines with a slower approach and found some better fish but they were not grouped up at all it was a one here one there kind of deal. The lake was now filled with people enjoying the nice holiday weather so we put are rods down and just kinda idled around and enjoyed the weather for a bit and then headed back to the launch to load the boat and go hangout and chill.
Well it is now tournament morning and Jenny and I both really pumped up and ready to get started. I decided we would start on a deep mainlake point, as we were flying across the lake towards the point there were 2-3 other boats ahead of us and I was worried at least one of them would stop there since it is an obvious spot. We got lucky they all passed the point and I turned the boat and came off plane and idled up to the point and killed the Mercury and jumped up and dropped the trolling motor in all in one swift motion. I picked up my jig rod and fired out a 1/2oz. Secret Lures MVP HD jig and Jenny picked up a spinning rod and started fishing her new favorite technique which is dropshotting and this was a good looking area for that. On about my 5th cast I felt the telltale thump of an aggressive bass inhaling my jig so I quickly slammed back my rod and started fighting the fish back to the boat, Jen netted the nice 3'lb largemouth and high fived me. As I was putting the fish into the well I noticed it had started to rain so we both put on our gear and proceeded to fish the point but could not pick up any other fish here. The wind is now blowing pretty good and we had moved out onto the mainlake to try a weedline that the wind was blowing into and what happens next is complete chaos, as we get set up on the weedline I fired out my jig and just as it hit the water I my line pulls tight and I set the hook and call for the net but Jen was in the middle of making her first cast so by the time she grabbed the net I already had the fish by the boat and made the decision to just flip it in seeing it was only about 1-1/2'lb's, I put or 2nd fish in the box and quickly repositioned the boat and made another cast to the same spot and got bit before the jig hit the bottom and reared back on another fish and flipped him in the boat and put it in the well, it looked too be identical to the last one. As I picked up my jig and straightened the trailer on it I jokingly told Jen to set her rod down and get the net ready as made my third cast out, she just laughed and continued fishing as I set the hook into another fish and lifted it into the boat and another 1-1/2'lb fish and tossed my jig out and caught two more twins on consecutive casts to round out or 6 fish limit. by the time the chaos ended I think I caught 10 fish in a row all along fighting the waves and culling fish to get our best 6.
As this school of fish we found stopped biting we started to move around and try to upgrade our catch but couldn't end up doing so, Jenny did end up catching a couple of bass but they weren't quite big enough to help out. It is now time to go in and weigh our fish, I am not feeling good about our chances as normally you need like a three pound average or better to do well. We ended up weighing 6 fish for 10.50 and came in 9th place out of 17 teams, 1st place only weighed 14.76lb's so all in all it was a tough day for all, but I had a great time fishing with Jen even though she was bummed out cause she didn't contribute to to cause today, but I told her that this is how team fishing usually goes and next tournament she may be the one with the hot stick.
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