Freeze Your bASS Blast 2013

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Permalink Reply by Mark Maderos on February 24, 2013 at 9:35am

Chad,  interesting thoughts on the quality fish.  Austin and I also caught 4 rats to go along with our 5 decent fish.  We had a 4lb, 2 fish at 3lb's, and 2 fish at 2.5lbs.  The rest were truely 12" rats.......  I also noticed that some of the better fish we caught had scars right where you had to fizz them, which I interpret as they had been previously caught and fizzed before. 

  I think the diference for Austin and I was the "Floss shotting" technique that I have developed over the last couple of years.  Getting that bait much higher off the bottom than what other anglers were doing.  We fished mostly community holes, (who doesn't in this tourney).  We had one area to ourselves that did produce fish, but it had the 4 rats plus two good ones on it.

  As for Washington, I haven't noticed a decline in quality fish there except in the east channel area.  That area just gets pounded by anglers.  As I have continually looked for different water to fish, I feel the quality on Washington is there, you just have to run around a little more than in the past to get them.

Mark

Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on February 24, 2013 at 10:48am

Nice job Mark and Austin!  

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on February 24, 2013 at 1:38pm

Congrats Mark and Austin!

Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on February 25, 2013 at 9:53am

Boy that was a hellluva guess wasn't it?!!! Great job to Makr and Austin figuring it out on a really tough day.

I agree Chad, I think that both Washington and Sammamish are on the lower swing of things right now. Seems like all lakes go through this though. Just look at the results from the past spring tournaments like the sammamish open where it used to take high teens to pull that off, the spring lake washington tournament that was always 20+lbs to win, and the mickelson that seemed to always take high teens to pull off. On the flip side, places like Potholes and Roosevelt are kicking our bigger bags than ever. I think there was a topic about this not too long ago in the fall.

Permalink Reply by John McHenry on February 25, 2013 at 11:05am

Anyone know how many fish were caught?

Permalink Reply by John Mark Minica on February 25, 2013 at 1:33pm

I will post the full results soon. Off the top of my head I would say 25-30 fish were brought to the scales. About half the field weighed 0.

 

Thanks to everyone who came out! We only had 19 boats this year, but it was a good time anyways.

The weather worked out great right up until when we were packing up, then it cut loose.

Maybe we will discuss trying this event on a different lake next year.

JMM

Permalink Reply by Mark Maderos on February 25, 2013 at 5:49pm

Yeah, I would love to see this on Washington.  The only issue with Washington is if it's windy.  Then it will fish small like Sammamish.  If it's relatively calm, it opens the whole lake up and there is plenty of room to find your own spot and enjoy the day.  The other option would be the lower columbia, but I haven't fished it this time of the year to know what the smallie bite is like.

Mark

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on February 25, 2013 at 6:54pm

If the Freeze abandons Lake Sammamish what is left out there for a fun and relatively good paying event?  I didn't fish this year because of illness mostly and it was on a special day at work, but I plan on fishing this again in the future and would like to see it kept on Sammamish if the only alternative is Lake WA...

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on February 25, 2013 at 8:02pm

As much as I despise Lake Sammamish, I will say we have yet to have a repeat winner. This says a lot about this tourney. I would love to see it moved to Washington from a personal perspective, but I would vote that it stays on Sammamish if we do go forward with it next year. Thanks again to all who made it out, and our numerous sponsors.

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on February 25, 2013 at 8:12pm

Chad,

Is it possible that this event may not happen again? I sure hope I was mis-reading between the lines. I love coming over for this deal. It is a pain in the ass and the drive is almost always BRUTAL but I look forward to it every year. I HATE the month of February but this tournament gives me something to look forward to. You have to do what you have to do but I sure hope you continue to put it on. I almost drug a couple more from the east side over with me but the pass conditions scared them off. As long as you hold it I will make the drive.

Permalink Reply by Willie Parsons on February 25, 2013 at 8:55pm

19 boats doesn't cover the cost of holding the tournament the way we all like to see it, 30 boats and it supports itself. Several members and a couple former members work real hard to get donations to try and cover the $1000.00 big fish pot, it hasn't happened in the last couple years, probably a result of the economy. Maybe we need to have a minimum number of boats to offer the big money, something like an incentive to pre register. If more people would have sent a check in they would have came and found out that the weather was actually good. Last year and the crappy weather Friday certainly had an effect on participation. Potter nailed it in his post, it's a fun way to get out and start the year, most of the entries this year have been there every year since it started and we appreciate it. It's more work, and cost, to get a permit than it used to be so we have to find a way to make it work. We have been using proceeds from this to fund our warrior event in July so hopefully we can continue both events.
Thanks to all that came out.

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on February 25, 2013 at 9:09pm

Well Willie I certainly appreciate the effort you guys put into that deal and I would definitely understand why you couldn't justify doing it with low turnouts. If you aren't getting a decent return on your effort then you gotta go another route. It would be a shame and a few of us would really miss it. I would like to help with fundraising next year if you guys decide to give it another go.

I wish a few guys from Spokane would come over with me. Maybe next year. I even made almost enough money to get myself back over the hump; despite fishing with a handicap.

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