NW BASS Banks Lake

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Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on April 8, 2009 at 11:27pm

Not going to make it on this one guys. Good luck to everyone out there!

Permalink Reply by Mike Matkowski on April 9, 2009 at 6:07am

I am sure Abbot and Flowers found something. I ran into them with boats coming over Snoqualmie pass Thursday afternoon before the deadline and the four of them were already starting a three day prefish. Must be nice! I am jealous.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on April 9, 2009 at 6:27am

Steve Cotton and myself will be fishing the circuit this year. Pre-fished last weekend, and caught tons of fish in 75' of water. I'm sure some fish will move shallower with the warmer weather, so we will be looking to catch some in the 50' range this weekend. Had to fish super slow with 1/8oz darter heads, and 3" ikas. If it hadn't taken 5 minutes for our baits to get to the bottom, we would have hooked a lot more.

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on April 9, 2009 at 8:22am

Looking forward to it ! i plan to give it my all !!

NickBarrFishing.com said:

Me and Dez will be fishing it together this weekend. I will be there Friday morning. I will be giving free battery checks and be selling batteries during registration. Looking forward to the good turnout!!!

PS. Pre-fished on Sunday, touched 1 fish all day....but with the warming trend, things should get better!

Permalink Reply by Dave Massey on April 9, 2009 at 9:19am

Which small lake are you talking about around Wenatchee? A couple of these little lakes still have a little bit of ice on them?

Brian Bassguy Walters said:

Hell ya man. That will be great. Come see me, or give me a call on Friday when you are on your way. We are going to stop and fish a small lake just out of wenatchee for a few hours but other then that I should be there. If you need anything let me know and make sure to say hi.

Brian Walters
206-713-0003
David Parnicky said:

So inspiration struck in the last two hours and Im gonna give NWBass a go for the first time this year! Im driving up Friday and registering! I talked my neighbor Mike into fishing these with me. Gotta start sometime right? I have absolutely 0 expectations for how I do, but I am going to try as hard as I can, learn as much as possible from the experience, have a lot of fun, and be ready to do better next year! See everyone Saturday!

Permalink Reply by Thayne on April 9, 2009 at 11:35am

Phil and I will be there.

Thayne

Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on April 9, 2009 at 11:42am

How big were those perch? I have caught some big ones at Banks!

ciao,
Marc

Chad Simon said:

Steve Cotton and myself will be fishing the circuit this year. Pre-fished last weekend, and caught tons of fish in 75' of water. I'm sure some fish will move shallower with the warmer weather, so we will be looking to catch some in the 50' range this weekend. Had to fish super slow with 1/8oz darter heads, and 3" ikas. If it hadn't taken 5 minutes for our baits to get to the bottom, we would have hooked a lot more.

Permalink Reply by troy kelly on April 9, 2009 at 5:09pm

myself and mike stahlman will be there. looking forward to my first nwbass tourney

troy

Permalink Reply by Brian Walters on April 9, 2009 at 9:42pm

See now I know your lieing cause them fish aint no where near that shallow. Good try but you cant fool us

Brian
See ya there


Chad Simon said:

Steve Cotton and myself will be fishing the circuit this year. Pre-fished last weekend, and caught tons of fish in 75' of water. I'm sure some fish will move shallower with the warmer weather, so we will be looking to catch some in the 50' range this weekend. Had to fish super slow with 1/8oz darter heads, and 3" ikas. If it hadn't taken 5 minutes for our baits to get to the bottom, we would have hooked a lot more.

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on April 12, 2009 at 12:34am

Anyone have the results?

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on April 12, 2009 at 6:02pm

Congrats to all who did well! Banks was fishing very tough. I gambled for LM a lot and it didn't pay off at all. I caught one little smallie for 1.8 lbs. Definately learned a bunch, met some cool people and had a good time. The biggest thing i learned was to pay attention to every sign the fish give you. Even though I thought I was pretty good at this, I was way too stubborn about how I was fishing at this tournament. I came into the tournament thinking the main lake would be too cold for a consistent bite, and the bays would be the place to be. i figured even if I couldn't catch a LM, there would be some smallies there too and I could at least get them to go. After 1/2 a day of zilch fishing for LM, catching a 1.8 smallie on the main lake is definately something and I feel I should have stuck the main lake bite out more. Instead I got frustrated about the size of that fish and ran back to my LM areas which I obviously didn't have figured out very well. These are thedecisions I think you learn how to make better by fishing more tournaments. Overall, it was a great experience for my first NWBass tournament though.

P.S. I really appreciate and want to thank Gary Stiles and Jeff Priester being very kind, approachable and easy to come to for questions regarding the tournaments. This really helped out with the overall experience of fishing my first NWBass tournament and got us in the water before the crowd of boats right before the drivers meeting! The NWBass tournaments are very well run!
Also, I really want to thank Brian Walters for helping me. Being able to talk to people that have done these before really helps a lot! Thanks man!

Mike and I will definately be fishing the rest of the series this year. Can't wait!

Permalink Reply by Brian Walters on April 12, 2009 at 10:10pm

Welcome, and it was nice to finally meet ya. Good job out there, and you are right it was really tough. But live and learn and just keep fishing. I feel like I know Banks VERY well and I found fish but was having problems getting them to bite, not to mention boat issues but other then that, I dont think I would have fished to much diffrent, except a little longer at a few of my spots. Well good luck and see ya at Washington

David Parnicky said:

Congrats to all who did well! Banks was fishing very tough. I gambled for LM a lot and it didn't pay off at all. I caught one little smallie for 1.8 lbs. Definately learned a bunch, met some cool people and had a good time. The biggest thing i learned was to pay attention to every sign the fish give you. Even though I thought I was pretty good at this, I was way too stubborn about how I was fishing at this tournament. I came into the tournament thinking the main lake would be too cold for a consistent bite, and the bays would be the place to be. i figured even if I couldn't catch a LM, there would be some smallies there too and I could at least get them to go. After 1/2 a day of zilch fishing for LM, catching a 1.8 smallie on the main lake is definately something and I feel I should have stuck the main lake bite out more. Instead I got frustrated about the size of that fish and ran back to my LM areas which I obviously didn't have figured out very well. These are thedecisions I think you learn how to make better by fishing more tournaments. Overall, it was a great experience for my first NWBass tournament though.

P.S. I really appreciate and want to thank Gary Stiles and Jeff Priester being very kind, approachable and easy to come to for questions regarding the tournaments. This really helped out with the overall experience of fishing my first NWBass tournament and got us in the water before the crowd of boats right before the drivers meeting! The NWBass tournaments are very well run!
Also, I really want to thank Brian Walters for helping me. Being able to talk to people that have done these before really helps a lot! Thanks man!

Mike and I will definately be fishing the rest of the series this year. Can't wait!

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