FUNFEST 2011 – WINNERS AGAIN? Not exactly…

slayer — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:27:24 +0000

Well FUNFEST 2011 was held this past Saturday, September 17th, and though the fishing was slow “the show must go on”! This is the third year of the event and like last year, we had 60 boats competing. Jonathan, Rick, Doug and myself started bright and early Saturday morning and though we didn’t have high expectations, I knew we’d boat a few. The question was would they big enough to matter?

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Tuesday August 16th Trip

slayer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:03:27 +0000

Hit the lake today with Rick and Nick and once again the three Musketeers had a strong day. We finished up with 15 boated; several of these fish were 15 lb’s or larger including two 18 lb’ers and 1 that may have been over 20 lbs. We’ll never the know the exact weight of that fish (nor will we have a picture) since Nick and Rick decided to let it go “prematurely”. In other words, they dropped it back into the lake before we could get anything official on the camera or the scales!

Thursday August 11th Trip

slayer — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:07:49 +0000

Nick, Rick and I hit the lake again this past Thursday and had a decent day. The bite is no doubt slowing as we approach the full moon that’s about to hit Saturday the 13th. I fully expected our day to have a limited window of opportunity and I was right. My Striper instincts said we’d have the best shot sometime between 3-7 and I was right. We found fish immediately and as it turned out, we were lucky we did! The first fish came on a shallow spoon trolled over the trees out in the front of Big Creek.

Tuesday August 9th, 2011

slayer — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:50:52 +0000

Hit the lake with Rick and Nick. I fully expected the bite to be late in the day but we started around noon just in case. Overall fishing was very slow until 5:00. We looked everywhere but it was like the lake was empty! After 5 hours we had nothing to show for our effort but my three bites and three fish to the boat including this 15 lb’er:

Striper Slayers – Wednesday July 27th 2011

slayer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:56:37 +0000

Rick and I hit the lake for a late PM trip and it paid some big dividends. As expected, the fish were “on” from 5:00 to 7:00 and we boated 16 during a 1.5 hour run. The big fish of the day was a 16 lb’er that hit my small swim bait. Silver spoons, hopkins and small Daredevils were also producing. Five fish were trolled and eleven jigged so overall we did well.

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