Good Ole Boys Bass Club

of

Central New York

Fair Haven Bay

May 29th, 2011

Paper Tournament

Today was a great day to go fishing. A light wind out of the south and partly cloudy skies.

Boats are being launched and non-boaters are being loaded.

This is one of our "paper tournaments" that we run before the opening of the bass season.  All boats are issued a "bump board" by the club.  When a bass is caught, the other angler in the boat measures the fish up to the next quarter of a inch, and then the angler who caught the fish records it's length on paper. The fish is then quickly released.

Guy Cromp and Kevin Schneider

Through out the day all fish are recorded and after five have been caught, then shorter fish are crossed out (culled).

Mark Kratz and one of his fish.

Bill Peck and Jack Wilson ll.

Paul Hudson has a big smile on his face.

T.J. Church and his father Tom getting ready to move.

Connell Raate with a nice bass.

Jeff Botting seams very happy with this bass.

Paul Hudson and Jeff Botting.

We fish for 7 hours, so at 2:00 p.m. we pulled the boats and fired up the computer to figure the weights using the measurements. After all members bring there measurements to the computer, it's time for the awarding of the prizes.

Jeff Schneider, Evan Interlichia, and Tom Church

The Bass Pro Big Bass award is split between three members. All three caught a bass measuring in at 18.25 inches, with a paper weight of 3.45 pounds.

Ron "V" awards 6th place to Evan Interlichia

Evan Interlichia takes 6th place, the Bass Pro "Just out of the money" award. A $25 gift card.

Evan caught 10.38 pounds.

Ron "V" awards the prize to T.J. Church.

Fifth place goes to T.J. Church. T.J. caught 10.92 pounds.

Bill Kays has a big smile.

Fourth place goes to Bill Kays.  Bill caught 12.44 pounds

Ron shakes Kevin's hand.

Third place goes to Kevin Schneider.  Kevin caught 12.50 pounds

Ron and Tom

Second place goes to Tom Church.  Tom caught 12.51 pounds

Connell is happy.

First place goes to Connell Raate.  Connell caught 12.64 pounds.

Congratulations Connell.  Your starting the new year off right.

Now, how did Connell do it.

He worked these straight worm's (A "senko" type worm, but these were Bass Pro's Tournament brand) all day long. He had it "texas rigged" with a 1/32 oz bullet sinker and just slowly worked along the in 5 to 9 foot range.  In the morning the brown worked but as the sun came up the June bug color was what the bass wanted.