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
Nice job Mark and Austin!
Congrats Mark and Austin!
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.
Anyone know how many fish were caught?
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
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
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...
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