Tag: Roadrunner Event

A Gamble Pays Off

Well, if you’re sick of fishing rivers as much as I am, I have some good news: no more river tournaments this year!

I think. I hope. We do still need to make up one of our canceled dates. Taunton River again?

Anyway, today marked our fifth tournament of the season and second on the Charles River. During our last tournament on the river, only one angler broke 75 inches, and he did it in a big way, putting up 89.25 inches overall.

Eleven anglers crossed the 75-inch line today, with three going past 80 inches. Definitely a better day than last time, that’s for sure.

For this one, I wanted to get away from the crowds, so I scouted a few areas I’d never fished before. I put up 72 inches at one spot on Wednesday and 86 on Thursday at a different spot. I gambled on the latter, hoping that the handful of laydowns that produced on Thursday would do so again today.

Thankfully, most of them did.

Here are the official results pending any protests:

Pickerel Lunker: Ari Stonehill (17.25)
Lunker: Ken Wood (19.25)

Fifth Place: Lee Kennon (77.50)
Fourth Place: Valber Santos (79.00)
Third Place: Steve Scott (80.25)
Second Place: Domenic Eno (82.25)
First Place: Ken Wood (84.00)

Congrats, gentlemen. Great job out there!

(Now, if Lee hadn’t caught that 17.75 and 16.50 on back to back casts right next to me, I might have also won the KBF Trail event. Haha.)

Find the full results here.

Since I’m fishing again tomorrow, payments will likely go out on Monday. =)

Our next event will be our annual random-draw Three Lake Throwdown event on August 15. Good luck to everyone taking another swing at the Charles tomorrow for the second KBF Trail event.


Dominant Dominik

Yesterday, twenty-seven of MAKB’s finest hit the Nashua River for our fourth event of the season!

No one launched north of the covered bridge in Groton, so as suspected there doesn’t appear to be any easily found launches up that way, if any at all.

Also, no smallmouth was caught, so I don’t know if the information I received was incorrect or if they’re just not abundant south of Groton. Either way, everyone who got in on that lunker pool will be refunded tonight.

Going in, I had expectations of countless blow-ups as I chucked a frog all day long. At least for me, that didn’t happen. I brought two frog rods—one for a hollow body, and the other for a soft plastic frog—and I didn’t get a single damn blow-up all day. I’m still confused.

Even more confusing, Kevin Amaral Jr. said he got all his fish on the frog and, at least for a time, I was fishing in the same general area as he was. Go figure!

Most of my fish came on a chatterbait, while the others came on a soft-plastic “thingy.” And I didn’t catch many, which was also baffling. Not sure if the cooler temps the night before affected the bite, but it wasn’t there for me.

I kept grinding, though, running about three miles south looking for a bigger bite, and it came around 12:30 PM…and I lost it. A giant, but for some reason I thought it was smaller than it was, so I tried to muscle it into the net. It went on a run, pulling drag, jumped, and came unbuttoned (see the video below). Heartbreaking.

Anyway, that was my day, how was yours?

Here are the official results pending any protests…

Pickerel Lunker: Scott Weismann (19.00)
Lunker: Peter Arruda (20.25)

Fifth Place: John Ferreira (72.75)
Fourth Place: Valber Santos (72.75)
Third Place: Kevin Amaral Jr. (74.75)
Second Place: Donald Davis (79.50)
First Place: Shawn Dominik (80.00)

Like our last event, one good fish or two decent ones would have vaulted anyone in the top 16 into the top five.

So congrats to those who did find (and land) the right fish!

Standings can be found here on TourneyX.

Our next event is once again on the Charles River on August 1. Same deal as last time. This time, we are also hosting a KBF Trail Event, and another one the following day. Let’s have a huge turnout for this one, guys!

If you are not currently a KBF member and want to fish the Trail Event, head over to KBF and join. You may, however, just fish our event if you want to.


D’Addeo Does It Again!

The Taunton River tournament is done, and it has been banished to the black list for all time! If it gets voted in again? Executive veto! Haha.

Surprisingly, a lot of fish were caught. I caught a ton myself, mostly small, but I put together a decent limit when all was said and done. I lost a giant at the end (the winning fish), which still has me confused. The thing hit my chatterbait three times, the last time right next to the kayak. Never got a hook in it. I think it was blind.

I also caught a big fallfish. I think, anyway. Not sure how big they get, but this one was 13.5 inches, which seems big. PB fallfish, though, so…yay or something.

Anyway, I fished one of the tributaries. Lots of grass with small open areas in between and clear channels running along the edges. I caught most of my fish on Jason Gardner’s Dirigo Bait’s ned craw paired with a Ned EWG Jig Head by Lifted Jigs.

My biggest came on a frog, teabagging it over a branch above a small patch of grass and duckweed. Damn thing had a mouse sticking out of it’s gullet, too, but he was still hungry, I guess.

The chatterbait bite turned on at the end of the day. Unfortunately I ran out of water (laydowns in the way) and time. But I did catch a 16.75 on the way back to my launch spot, at 2:15 (also the winning fish).

With 24 guys registered, we’re paying out five spots and lunker…

Lunker: Valber Santos (18.50)

5th Place: Chris Nardi (74.25)
4th Place: Angelo David (74.50)
3rd Place: Ken Wood (75.00)
2nd Place: Valber Santos (76.50)
1st Place: Joseph Daddeo (77.25)

Joe does it again! The ultimate grinder, this guy. A Hail Mary cast up a small creek at the end of the day landed him an 18.25, culling a 9.50, and propelling him to the top!

One big fish for basically the top eleven anglers would have resulted in a win. Kickers make a difference!

Congrats, fellas! Great job.

Full results here.

Thanks to everyone for coming out, especially under potentially poor conditions. But the meaty urologists got it wrong again! Waaaaaay wrong. Holy crap!

Our next event on the Nashua River is coming up next Saturday, July 18. This is a make-up event for one of our canceled tournaments. A bit farther away than our normal events, but we’re still practicing social-distancing and this will yet again allow us to fish while not putting anyone at an unnecessary risk.

So, far away but supposedly a fantastic fishery. You can register now on TourneyX.


Crushed It on the Charles

The first official event of 2020 is in the books!

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, we ran this event as a “roadrunner” event, which allowed anglers to launch from any public ramp/launch area within certain boundaries, roughly Millis to Boston. With anglers spread out over such a wide area, I’m not sure how things specifically played out for everyone, so this is more of an individual write-up on my day.

We had 21 anglers, so we’re paying out five spots, plus lunker and pickerel lunker.

For me, my spot just didn’t pay off. I spent the first 2.5–3 hours targeting striper. They were stacked up below the Watertown Dam and I just couldn’t resist. I’ve caught some hybrids down south, just by chance, but never fished for them specifically anywhere. So yeah, wasted the first three hours doing that. Haha.

Slayed them, too. Had a blast!

I don’t think losing those hours would have made much of a difference; I just wasn’t in a productive spot today. Other spots were, though. Eleven limits were caught, and 19 anglers caught fish. Pretty good day overall. Better for some, of course, with one them crushing it!

With that said, here are your winners…

Pickerel Lunker: John Ferreira (23.25)
Lunker: Joseph Daddeo (18.75)
Fifth Place: Ryan Pierce (72.50)
Fourth Place: Ari Stonehill (73.50)
Third Place: Valber Santos (74.75)
Second Place: Steve Scott (74.75)
First Place: Joseph Daddeo (89.25)

Joe is an absolute beast, guys! When he told me where he was going to fish, I almost told him not to. It’s not a bad spot, but it’s a difficult part of the river to fish. Clearly that didn’t matter, though. With no pre-fishing, fishing the toughest section of the Charles, he wins by 14.5 inches! Badass, brotherman!

And congrats to everyone else. Great job out there. Payments will go out tomorrow, barring any protests.

Full results can be found here.

Donald Davis did all the judging today. Thanks, bro!

Our next event is June 20. Not a roadrunner event, but there are three areas to fish, two big parking areas, which should keep everyone at a safe distance from each other.

We will still do everything through PayPal and all that to limit contact, but this one should be closer to a normal live event.