Tag: Team Tournament

Boobs on Top!

Unless we get a day of unseasonably warm weather, yesterday will likely have been the last MAKB event of the season.

Each year, after the regular season is over, we run at least one fun event, try a different format and such. Yesterday, we went with two: a mystery lake, randomly chosen Friday evening, and a team format.

We chose the lake from a list of fifteen, with some smaller locations being combined for a split lake event. Two of the smaller lakes on the list were A-1 and Chauncy Lake, which were chosen. We’ve fished with a full field at A-1 before, but once the weeds come up, the fishable portion of the lake shrinks quite a bit, so we paired it with Chauncy for this event.

Seven anglers fished at each location, one from each team, and with the temperature being about 28 degrees at the start of the tournament, fishing was tough for most. Thankfully, the “light and variable” wind forecasted was accurate for a change, so after the first hour or two, it wasn’t so bad. Overall, a really nice day out there.

We introduced the Double Down option for this one, which is a winner-takes-all side pot. We’ll be doing that at each live event next season.

We also had our standard optional pickerel lunker pool, which was won by Valber Santos, with a 21.75.

Gerard Elias took down the lunker bass prize, with a healthy 18.75.

As mentioned, this was a team event. Instead of the normal five-fish limit, we went with eight for this one, making it a bit more challenging, which it was. Only two teams filled a limit, but if we’d had the traditional five-fish limit, only three teams would have achieved that.

Second and third place would have swapped, though.

This time, however, third went to team Shake and Bake, consisting of John Ferreira and Nate Chagnon, who put up six bass for 95 inches.

The second-place team, The Green Machine, comprised Shawn Dominik and Scott Rhodes. They had a full limit that went for 111.50.

Promising your kids that they could name your team probably isn’t wise, as Ray Figueroa and I ended up on team Banana Boobs, courtesy of my goofball kids. I feel like they’re telling me I need to hit the gym. But a promise is a promise, and we took that name to the top with 123.75!

I was also fortunate enough to put up the biggest five-fish limit and take home the Double Down prize with 84.75.

Great job, everyone! Had a great time out there.

Check out the full results and the rest of the “very professional” team names here.

If this is our final event of 2021, it’s been a great season. Looking forward to next year, and hopefully we can finally pull off some ice-fishing events before the start of the 2022 season.


Get Outta My Spot!

Yesterday, eighteen of us ventured to Oldham Pond for a post-season team/zone event. Anglers were paired randomly and then one drew for their starting zone, A or B. Anglers then fished each zone for four hours.

It was not our most efficiently run event, new format and all, but we made it through. Definitely needs some tweaks if we’re to ever do it again.

Because we were fishing Oldham, we ran an optional crappie lunker pool, as they’re abundant there and usually pretty aggressive.

In addition, we ran optional smallmouth and pickerel lunker pools.

Smallmouth are even less abundant, but appearing in greater numbers as time passes. Only one smallie was caught, though—an 18.75 fatty caught my Kevin Amaral Jr., who once again did not enter the lunker pool. Someday he’ll learn…

Those who did enter got their money back.

Pickerel lunker was a three-way tie between me, Peter, and Bruno. We each had a 20-incher and split a $100 pot. Though, upon further inspection, my pickerel was very clearly a 20.25, which makes my taking a smaller cut of that uneven $100 pie even sadder. Haha.

Ari Stonehill walked away with the crappie lunker, catching an 11.25, the only one caught all day.

The day’s biggest largemouth was hauled in by Zachary Smus, who put up a 20.50-inch largemouth. A bit of good fortune, as he also lost his phone to the depths. Sorry, dude!

Since this was a team event and pots were being split, we paid out only three spots.

Coming in third place was the very creative Team Lame Name, consisting of me and Ari. Prior to culling our smallest fish, Ari had the biggest limit of the day with 79 inches. As a team, though, our best five went 81 inches. I only caught two fish on the day, so Ari most definitely carried us. Thanks, buddy!

Gerard Elias and Mike Elrick comprised Team Hobie, and they managed to maneuver around the rocks and shallow areas without breaking those cheap drives (LOLZ, I keed, I keed), ultimately catching enough bass for second-place with 82.75. Congrats, fellas!

And first place went to…

Team Get Outta My Spot!

Rude, am I right? Not unexpected, really, coming from John Ferreira and Kevin Amaral. Mean bastards, those two.

Anyway, their best five went 83.75, enough to cement the victory in our first ever team event. Great job, you big meanies!

Full results here.

(Ignore the angler standings, as fish were culled, making those irrelevant.)

As always, thanks for coming out, everyone. Pretty sure this was our last event of the season. I’m not burnt out, but I’m looking forward to a break from fishing. I have a lot of other things I need to work on. But if the weather remains mild and some of the other guys want to run one, go for it!

We’ve been discussing it for years now, but I think we’ll finally see an MAKB ice tournament this winter. If you’re into that, keep an eye out for details.