Northwest Bass Potholes Results

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Permalink Reply by Jake Anderson on July 11, 2010 at 10:44pm

Some great bags, and some great fisherman turning in some small bags! It'd be interesting to hear what the difference was.

Permalink Reply by eric mccarthy on July 12, 2010 at 9:25am

This is my first year fishing the NW bass tourneys I am not really a contender yet but figured it would be a great way to learn I dont know the potholes well we fished the rocky shorelines along the road and some rockpiles and islands and then perch point trying to put together a good bag of smallies. We ended up with only a little over 6lbs total. Caught about 30 dinks most are fish were on tubes. We prefished one day and explored some areas up in the shallow sand dune areas pitching to bushes and stuff but no luck. I wonder where the winners were fishing and what they were doing.

Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on July 12, 2010 at 7:45pm

Wow... So much for Iaconelli's rule of "Never Give Up!"

Sounds like we had the same story as you. They weren't eating topwater very well at all. Seems like they would blow up and miss it or short strike. We were also fishing some real thick cover and lost quite a few big fish. This time, nothing went right for us, unlike the last tournament! Congrats again on a great bag.

Aaron Echternkamp said:

No they just caught all their fish early and did not upgrade anything for 6 hrs and said forget it.. We just had one of those days where everything went they way it was supposed two. We lost some big fish but were asking for it due to fishing such heavy cover.. We even caught a fish we broke off with the hook in his mouth still thats when you know everything is in your favor. Like I heard people talking we lost some big ones in the am on top water. They were short striking but it was exciting to see in the am.. those fish were riled up..

Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on July 12, 2010 at 10:02pm

Congratulations again, Aaron. There were certainly a lot of great bags for us to end up in 22nd place 16.18 pounds for 5 largemouths. Obviously we did not fish the same part of the lake you guys did because we didn't have the short striking problem (two of the bass we weighed had choked a SnagProof frog so deep it was hard to remove with needlenose pliers), and we also didn't find the big bass even though we only used big bass lures.

I'm looking forward to going back in a couple of weeks for the ABA tourneys.

Congrats to Ron and Mike also on another great bag and finish.

ciao,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on July 13, 2010 at 9:37am

That guy in 25th has an interesting name. I heard Wolsky has been asking around for his number.

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on July 13, 2010 at 11:34am

I hear ya on that Jon , I fished with aaron once on potholes and after our 3rd stop i said too him "is this where we started" ..lol After about an hour of running around i gave up tring too understand where we located , aaron knows that lake like the back of his hand without dout ..lol He cracks me up as he just stands there with that smile of his face like its no big deal (OLDMAN) ..hahaha

Jon Sessler said:

.....and how do you know if you are in an area you know?

The place is like a f-ing time warp, as EVERYTHING looks the same. I can't tell if I've been in an area last year, or 15 minutes ago!

Aaron Echternkamp said:

The best thing you can do on potholes to learn, is get into the dunes and put your trolling motor down and don't pick it up if you do not know the area.. There are fish all over but do congregate in areas. this changes each year too..Just go out to that lake and look for a bank with a 45deg break and willows that run into the water..Pay attention to every fish you catch and what you caught him on.. example a dead will big bushy green one, floating dead ones etc.. then go look for more of the same stuff.

eric mccarthy said:

This is my first year fishing the NW bass tourneys I am not really a contender yet but figured it would be a great way to learn I dont know the potholes well we fished the rocky shorelines along the road and some rockpiles and islands and then perch point trying to put together a good bag of smallies. We ended up with only a little over 6lbs total. Caught about 30 dinks most are fish were on tubes. We prefished one day and explored some areas up in the shallow sand dune areas pitching to bushes and stuff but no luck. I wonder where the winners were fishing and what they were doing.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on July 13, 2010 at 12:25pm

We haven't put our time in on that lake, and we didn't prefish, so we got what we deserved! Why the heck were the weights so much better this year? High water? Stable weather? Hot weather that warmed it up the days prior? Is it better in general this year?

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on July 13, 2010 at 2:51pm

I don't really know why it was so much better than last year. I only got 4 bites in the one day I pre-fished but we got lots of bites during the tournament. The weather did stabalize leading up to it.

Chad Simon said:

We haven't put our time in on that lake, and we didn't prefish, so we got what we deserved! Why the heck were the weights so much better this year? High water? Stable weather? Hot weather that warmed it up the days prior? Is it better in general this year?

Permalink Reply by RFatt16 on July 13, 2010 at 5:44pm

I was told that was Dez's "on set name"



Eric DeLay said:

That guy in 25th has an interesting name. I heard Wolsky has been asking around for his number.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Grimes on July 13, 2010 at 7:39pm

That is exactly right...

Jon Sessler said:

So what you are saying is ...... you don't have a clue!

Josh Potter said:

I don't really know why it was so much better than last year. I only got 4 bites in the one day I pre-fished but we got lots of bites during the tournament. The weather did stabalize leading up to it.

Chad Simon said:

We haven't put our time in on that lake, and we didn't prefish, so we got what we deserved! Why the heck were the weights so much better this year? High water? Stable weather? Hot weather that warmed it up the days prior? Is it better in general this year?

Permalink Reply by eric mccarthy on July 13, 2010 at 9:32pm

Thanks for the tips Aaron good stuff.