Massachusetts Kayak Bassin’ founder, Ken Wood, has joined the Jackson Kayak Fishing Team. Here is his statement…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
My interpretation of this quote has always been a simple one, but Louis L’Amour probably said it best: “Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”
Where you start doesn’t determine where you finish. It’s……
The first tournament of the year is in the books! We had 26 anglers—our biggest turnout yet!—and paid out five spots and lunker.
We were supposed to fish Santuit Pond but were forced to relocate at the last minute, so we fished Norton Reservoir instead. I think most of us would have preferred to fish Santuit, but at least we didn’t have to cancel the event……
For those of you who’re into stats, we added a few new pages to the website. They are as follows:
Top 10 Limits
Top 10 Lunkers
Top 10 Season Length
Pretty self-explanatory.
Here is a more detailed breakdown of our year…
This year we ran a total of 14 tournaments, including the post-season Sabbatia event, which were attended 228 times……
Though a lot of New Englanders have retired their fishing gear until next Spring, eight of us ventured out to Lake Sabbatia today to compete in one more tournament. It was cold in the morning, but with virtually no wind it wasn’t unbearable. Pretty nice day overall, actually, especially for November 18.
We paid out two spots and lunker, and it was a battle between this year’s Angler of the Year, Bruce……
Our annual Knockout Series came to a conclusion on October 28 at Lake Maspenock in Hopkinton. It was another great year with some very close matches and stiff competition. One even resulted in a tie, which was broken by big fish. Can’t get any closer than that!
We started the series with 32 anglers and ended up with just two—Ken Wood and Shawn Renes.
Shawn made it to the finals last……
Seventeen anglers closed out our final regular-season tournament of the year, which took place on a foggy morning at Lake Maspenock. In a few words: it was a grind. Super-tough bite for everyone. Only two limits were caught!
With just 28.75, Donald Davis took fourth place. He also caught one of two smallmouth on the day (Ken Wood caught the other), with his being the bigger of the two, which was good……
Well, for the second year in a row, our No Limit tournament turned out to be a lesson in irony. Only one angler caught more than five fish today!
It was a struggle.
Fish under 12 inches were abundant, but finding fish over that was a challenge for all 21 of us. Out of 61 fish submitted, only six were over 14 inches long. Awful.
Four of those six were……
So we had 23 anglers today! Our biggest turnout to date. And on a relatively crappy day, too. Pretty awesome!
It rained off and on throughout the day, heavily for a bit. Ken Wood’s wife warned him of a storm that was clobbering Taunton and then heading our way—torrential downpours, thunder, lightning, and hail! Luckily it passed just west of us. Dodged a bullet there.
Anyway, we expected a tough bite……
Well, that was fun!
We had 22 anglers compete at Oldham today. Our biggest turnout yet! Awesome.
The weather was great, if maybe a bit too calm at times. But it was a good day, and a lot of good-size bass were caught!
At 1 PM, when the standings were turned off, Ken Wood was in first place and Steve Scott was in second. Unfortunately in the last two hours,……
Okay, folks, here it is, the official results for the first ever Northeast No Limit Showdown!
Once again, sorry for the delay in getting everything judged. The amount of fish submitted exceeded our expectations by quite a bit. We had been judging every submission each day, but once we got behind there was just no way to catch up.
Because a TON of fish were caught!
We had 40 anglers……
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