First Tourney of the year
Well Sheldon and I have finished our first tourney of the year and even though we didn’t get the win we were looking for we still had a good time and it was good to be in tournament mode. We were 12th on blast off but we quickly passed most of the field to get to the prime spot. We dropped our first bottom bouncer and spinner and didn’t even get a chance to have it hit bottom when Sheldon yelled fish on. Quickly reeled him in and into the live well she went. Great start to the day. We trolled the damn area for another 2 – 2&1/2 hours without anything hitting. Sheldon and I agreed to move to our next spot. We arrived to our 2nd spot to find quite a few people fishing for perch. Since it wasn’t going to be a good place to troll we made the 18 mile run to the Raisin River. We fished in the river for another 3&1/2 hours and caught some beautiful bass but no Walleye’s. We did see the Ministry out once again doing it’s checks. We had a chat with him and he told us that he issued 16 fines so far ranging from no license to people keeping Bass.
After we left the river and ran back to that spot I was speaking about earlier we started our troll without any success. We went back to where our day started to see if we could add to our numbers. When we arrived we noticed four of the boats from the this morning were still there. We chatted with a few of them as we made our pass and they told us they hadn’t landed anything. We ran back to the weigh in and the top weight was 24 pounds. This team ran to the locks and fished another section of the river where they were last week when they won a tournament. Second place came in around 11 pounds and 3 and forth were about the same. Afterwards at Don’ Cherry’s they handed out the cheques and the many prizes. Luc (the gentlemen who organized the tournament) did an awesome job with the tourney as well as the prizes. Next year we’ll make sure we both have our New York State licenses and we will expand out fishing grounds. Still an great time though.