Top
5 Finishers, Right to left , 1st to 5th place:
Mark Hertlein, Jim Missel, Dave Livingston
Dave Kotwas, Rodney Magee (not Pictured)
Irondequoit Bay 7-29-2006
Tournament results
The day
started out very promising we had 17 anglers pre registered for this
tournament. Everyone had been looking forward to this tournament,
possibly because it is home water to many of the anglers. A total
of 27 anglers participated in the event. With only a couple of tournaments
left for the 2006 season and the 2 day event coming up in 3 weeks
anglers are scrambling to get the needed 4 one day tournaments required
to participate in our district final. They are also trying to increase
their point totals to qualify for the national competition which will
be held in Tennessee the first week of October. The day started cloudy
with the weather man predicting a high in the 90’s with the
winds south west 5 to 15 mph. changing later in the day to westerly.
Anyone planing on going into Lake Ontario with this wind direction
could have a bumpy ride getting back to the launch site for weigh
in.
Many
of the anglers chose to fish the bay area itself. Some of us did venture
into the lake and make runs to East Bay, Sodus Bay and Braddocks Bay.
The water temperature in the bay in the areas that I fished was from
78 to 81 degrees the lake temperature was in the low 70’s. This
Bay is strictly enforced by the D.E.C with a speed of 25 mph max.,
also fishing licenses and boat safety checks are quite regular. We
did have several anglers say that they had been pulled over for these
inspections. One angler received a warning for a safety issue while
another did not have his fishing license with him and had to be DQ’d
from the event.
From
what I could tell while going around the bay fishing different locations,
the anglers were in many different locations some fishing the humps
and drop-off’s while others were hitting the shoreline where
they could find weed lines. The anglers were very tight lipped about
what they were using. Reason being that our 2 day event is just up
the lake a few miles and many could run to the bay and fish it. However,
I do know the winning pattern and sorry Mark I’ll let the cat
out of the bag. Pumpkin jig with a white trailer and throw in a senko
the mix for a different look. Oh Don’t forget to dip the trailer
in some garlic chartreuse dye. How the heck did you come up with that
combination Mark??
The Top 5 finishers are:
1st Place Mark Hertlein 17.75lbs.
2nd Place Jim Missel 16.35lbs
3rd Place Dave Livingston 14.33lbs.
4th Place Dave Kotwas 11.70lbs.
5th Place Rodney Magee 11.54lbs
Big Fish honors went to Mark Hertlein with a 4.80
Dave Livingston and Jim Missel shared 2nd place big fish with a 4.23
pounder each
Our next
tournament is on August 12th on Butterfield Lake. I’ll be at
the ramp at 4 am. Hope we can have another full field for another
200 point tournament! Don’t forget Burnie, District 124 has
a tournament the following day, August 13th, at Henderson Harbor.
