Monthly archives: October, 2019

Get Outta My Spot!

October 27, 2019 0 Comment

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.

A Quick Word on Angler Etiquette

October 12, 2019 0 Comment

As you all know, we are partnered with Kayak Bass Fishing (KBF) and we use TourneyX as our tournament management system. Massachusetts Kayak Bassin’ is run with integrity and respect to our anglers, and we trust and believe in these two companies, as they are aligned with our goals as a group.

We do not require our anglers to share those same beliefs, but openly and continuously disparaging our partners—or our sponsors, anglers, etc.—on social media undermines MAKB as a whole.

It will no longer be tolerated.

Going forward, if you choose this path, you will be removed from our groups and banned from fishing our events.

Constructive criticism is always welcome. Baseless accusations and conspiracy theories are not.

As leaders of this group, through input from our anglers and from others withing the kayak community, we make decisions based on what we feel is best for the group as a whole. We try, but we cannot please everyone. All we ask is that you trust us.

Thank you.

The Catch ‘Em All Fall Brawl

October 6, 2019 0 Comment

Originally called Oktoberfish, then changed to the Catch ‘Em All Fall Brawl, we held a late-season online no-limit event on October 5–6. The rules were simple: fish one of two days, 6 Am to 6 PM, on any public body of water, and catch as many fish over 12 inches that you can. Easy enough.

Well, it was a barn burner for some, and a very humbling experience for others.

I fished two lakes, one of which is a longtime honey hole and the other a place I’ve been fishing since I was a little kid, and I managed just two bass, only one being a keeper.

Yeah, that’s humbling. Haha. But let’s talk about the winners!

Yesterday, as most of you know, John Ferreira put up a seemingly unbeatable 414.25 inches, roughly 150 inches ahead of his nearest competitor.

Around noontime on day two, however, Allan Seniuk and Steve Scott started making some moves. Around 4 PM, Allan moved up into second place, inching closer to that top spot…

And then I turned off the standings. Don’t you love when I do that?

Allan did take the lead, bumping John down to second place, and he began adding to it, looking to reach 500 inches by the 6 PM deadline. He didn’t quite get there, though, and ended up with a whopping single-day total of 31 bass for 462.75 inches!

But…he didn’t win.

Emerging from the purgatory of 1x signal strength, Steve Scott began surging up the leaderboard as he uploaded everything he was unable to earlier in the day. Steve’s 36 bass totaled out at 471.50 inches, just shy of 500 but plenty enough for the victory!

Congrats, bro! And to Allan and John—great job out there!

Each of these three anglers beat the rest of the field by at least 100 inches! Wow!

Steve also won a YakAttack Park-N-Pole kindly donated by Dennis Kiroff. The top three won a prize pack from Three X’s Fishing, and the top five—which included Jay Sebastian (4th) and Joseph Daddeo (fifth)—won prize packs from KneeDeep Tackle!

Thank you for that!

We also had a few lunker side pots. For those, Cameron Burke took the largemouth pot with his 19.50, and Gabe Portes’s 18.25-inch smallmouth nabbed him the smallie pot. Awesome job, guys!

Thanks to everyone who fished this one! Next time we’ll do it earlier in the year.

To the winners, payments will be made within 48 hours. This will give us time to go through the submissions and make sure everything is accurate.

Thanks again, and congrats once more!