Good Ole Boys Bass Club

of

Central New York

Sodus Bay

Sunday, June 8th  2008

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Visit the Pit Stops all around the Sodus Bay area.

Sunrise, and the boats are getting in the water.

This was our first points tournament for 2008, and because bass season is not open yet, this is a "paper" tournament.  This requires all fish that were caught to be measured, length recorded, and the fish immediately released.  At the weigh-in everyone enters their 5 longest fish.

Dick Hyde finds a banana in his boat.  Looks like the "B" man has stuck again.

If you check the tournament standings you will find them listed by weights.  How we do this was by taking the inches and converting them to pounds by using the NYS DEC "weigh your fish with a ruler" web page.

Paul Hudson with a 16 inch bass before release

Everyone reports that they caught many bass, although there were a lot of sub-legal (under 12") fish. 

Connell Raate and Eric Wilsey

The bay was calm until 11 AM with a west wind of around 10 mph. Shortly after that a small shower came though that cooled things down for a while.

At 1:00 p.m., everyone returned to the launch, and we started de-watering the boats.

Everyone gathers around as......

The tournament committee figures the weights and standings.

Meanwhile, some products that were donated by our sponsors are handed out.

Bass Pro representative, Dick Hyde presents Dave Donhauser the Bass Pro Big Bass Award.

Again this year, Bass Pro is sponsoring our big bass award, know as the Bass Pro Big Bass Award.  Bass Pro is donating a $ 25.00 gift certificate which is added to the big bass pay out.

Bass Pro representative, Dick Hyde presents Jack Loughery the Bass Pro Just out of the money award.

Bass Pro also sponsors the Just out of the money award, 6th place, which is a new IM8 graphite rod, value around $50.00

Dick Hyde presents 5th place to Evan Smith

Dick Hyde presents 4th place to Dave Donhauser

Dick Hyde presents 3rd place to Eric Wilsey

Dick Hyde presents 2nd place to Tom Church

Dick Hyde presents first place to Chris Cartwright

Congratulations Chris, a good start to the year.

How did Chris do it.

This is a new tube, his original tube is destroyed.

Chris worked the inside weed edge along the shore line using the above blue and black  Venom   "flipping" tube, a # 3/0 Mustad hook, and a tru-tungsten weight.