Yesterday Kevin P Amaral and I fished our round-four Knockout Series match at Cook Pond. I was lucky enough to narrowly take the win with 47.75 to his 45.50. Pleasure fishing against you, sir!
The last match of this round takes place today between Steve Scott and Jason Gardner. The winner will be meet me and Nick Booth in the finale. Good luck, guys!
Anyway, on Thursday I checked to see if there were any tournaments scheduled at Cook yesterday, and there weren’t. So I asked Kevin if he wanted us to put together a last-minute no-limit tournament and invite others. He said, “Sure why not.” So we did…
And everyone was like, “Pffft! Screw that. Losers.”
We had seven people show up, including Tyler Lehane, fishing his first-ever tournament. It was chilly and windy. Not the best combination, but there was a decent bite early in the morning. Not great, but we put fish on the board.
In the past, our no-limits events have been pointless because the fishing sucked. It wasn’t great yesterday, but seven people put up 39 fish compared to last year at Lake Rico where 21 could only manage 61 fish. Slight improvement.
Though we had just seven anglers, we paid out three spots and lunker for largemouth and smallmouth.
Peter Arruda nabbed lunker largemouth with a 17.75, and I landed the biggest smallmouth, a 16.75, my biggest to date there, caught on the smallest lure I’ve ever thrown there. Go figure.
Kevin Amaral took third place with six fish coming in at 87.25 inches.
Rob Harnish put seven fish on the board for a total of 104.25 and second place.
Despite the cool temps and cloudy day, I kept going back to an area of dying lily pads, tossing the frog. I managed to catch five fish in there throughout the day, which allowed me to pull ahead of the pack with 11 fish and a total of 156.50 inches, which was good enough for the win.
Great day on the water despite the cool breeze and tough bite for most of the day. Always a good time, no matter how many people show up.
Congrats, fellas! Great meeting you, Tyler. Hope to see you at another one.
Our next tourney is on September 29, our first ever Three Lake Throwdown. It’s gonna be a fun one!
