Potholes Open Results

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Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on April 23, 2012 at 9:54am

I don't have the results for you but I can tell you that just a hair over 40lbs won it.  I have never seen the fish shut down as much as they did over there over the weekend.  I got 1 bite on Saturday and 0 bites on Sunday.  I think my buddy O'Connell weighed in 15 and some change on Sunday and that was the one of the biggest, if not the biggest smallmouth bag of the weekend.  He struggled like I did on Saturday with 2 small fish for 2lbs and some change and scraped the 15+ bag on Sunday for a 17th place finish.  Tough, tough, tough!!!! 

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on April 23, 2012 at 11:52am

Anyone hear how Russ Baker finished by chance ?

Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on April 23, 2012 at 12:13pm

I know he only had 5lbs on Saturday, but not sure of how things went on Sunday for him.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on April 23, 2012 at 1:22pm

Amazing how all his 8lbers keep getting smaller every year :)

WCCT said:

I know he only had 5lbs on Saturday, but not sure of how things went on Sunday for him.

Permalink Reply by Russell Baker on April 23, 2012 at 1:25pm

Well Sunday for us was even tuffer. Saw 25-26 fish from 4-9 lbs that wouldnt bite squat. Found 64 degree temps for two days and just couldnt get anything going. Thats fishing!!

 

Russ

Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on April 23, 2012 at 2:48pm

Russ, I heard similiar things from other guys back in the dunes.  Very frustrating!

Permalink Reply by Paul Harmon on April 23, 2012 at 5:38pm

Amen to that brother, all my fish from the week before vanished. Ive nenver been so frustrated on Pothles before. My son and I were fishing around Russ and he could not believe it either.
 
WCCT said:

I don't have the results for you but I can tell you that just a hair over 40lbs won it.  I have never seen the fish shut down as much as they did over there over the weekend.  I got 1 bite on Saturday and 0 bites on Sunday.  I think my buddy O'Connell weighed in 15 and some change on Sunday and that was the one of the biggest, if not the biggest smallmouth bag of the weekend.  He struggled like I did on Saturday with 2 small fish for 2lbs and some change and scraped the 15+ bag on Sunday for a 17th place finish.  Tough, tough, tough!!!! 

Permalink Reply by Ben Holten on April 24, 2012 at 9:06pm

Something wasn't right out there. We weighted over 29 pounds on Sat last year. Pre fishing we thought we had some stuff figured out, and we got zeroed. We started right next to Harnasch on Sat. We were talking with him, and nothing.

 

I would have thought the nice weather would have really triggered the fish, but it seemed to almost due the opposite. We just saw lots of things that didn't make sense. The water was warmer, but didn't see carp like normal. The smallmouth fishing should have been off the hook, but it wasn't

 

As soon as I get the results sent to me I will post them up.

Permalink Reply by Bruce Beatty on April 26, 2012 at 7:17pm

Kudos to Mr. & Ms. O'connell on Sunday!!  We stopped by their area the last half hour on Sunday and watched them finish their limit in the last 10 minutes of fishing!  Made us second guess our decision to LM fish on Sunday!!

Permalink Reply by Shawn O'Connell on April 26, 2012 at 9:03pm

Thanks Bruce, we were pretty lucky in my opinion as I have no idea why the bite was so tough. This is the second year in a row we have placed 17th and my wife has caught the biggest fish both years. I hope she does it again on Palmer this weekend.

By the way those new power poles look sweet.