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2011 Lake Whatcom Spring Open

Borderline Bassin Contenders will be holding their annual Lake Whatcom Spring Open on Saturday April 30th, 2011. Driver's meeting will be at 5:45 AM sharp and blast off will be at safe light. Please try to be registered with your boat inspected prior to the driver's meeting. I will be in the upper portion of the parking lot at Bloedel Donovan Park at 5 AM accepting entry forms and doing boat inspections as people drive in. I figure this should make things run smoothly. Entry fee is $100 per team plus $20 big fish. Entry fee is paid back 80% and big fish 100%. Payout is 40% to 1st, 35% to 2nd, and 25% to 3rd. We can have a vote at the driver's meeting to see if people would rather have weigh in at 3 or 4 PM. I have attached the entry form and rules to this thread. If you would like to mail your entry in early, PM me and I can provide you with my address. There have not been any issues yet with people just showing up on tourney morning with their entry forms. Also, please try to bring your own signed entry form to the tournament if at all possible. I will bring extras but hardly anyone brought their own last year and I used every last spare form I brought. If you have any questions, shoot me a PM. As it is every year, this tournament should be a blast and the fishing should be excellent! Hope to see all of you that can make it there!

Clarification on issues that have come up in the past, these will be handled at my discretion:

1) Each team will be allowed one re weigh. If you choose to re weigh, you must take your second weight regardless of what it turns out to be.

2) Carbureted two stroke outboards are not allowed on Lake Whatcom. You are allowed to have one on your boat and only run your trolling motor however. Therefore, Borderline will not tell someone whether or not they can fish based on their outboard. Also, it is impossible for me personally to watch everyone so I will not take any protests involving people saying someone was running an illegal outboard. However, if you do run a carbureted two stroke motor, you are subject to being written a ticket. There was no one on the lake enforcing this law last year but I cannot gaurantee this will be the case again this year. I haven't heard any news on whether they will be enforcing this law this year. If you do run a carbureted two stroke motor, understand that you are doing so AT YOUR OWN RISK. Borderline will not assume any responsibility if you are written a ticket.

3) Off limits - This lake is closed to fishing until the day of the tournament. Boats can be run on the lake while it is closed to fishing but you are NOT allowed to have a boat on the lake within 5 days prior to this tournament if you wish to compete in it.

Attachments:

WHATCOMOPEN2011.rtf, 33 KB
NEW TOURNAMENT REGULATIONS 10-06-10.rtf, 39 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on April 27, 2011 at 8:52pm

Whew! I was worried you found the other secret document at first!! No secrets there!

Tag Watson said:

I got a hold of one of Parnicky's and Dez's secret documents from their strategic planning sessions: The Whatcom Menu...

BigBass Dez said:

pillsbury doughboy is up too his old shenanigans again i see !! lol

See what you dont know is that DP and i have been strategically planning for this saturday since last summer so i hope you bring your A game , the scales are waiting bro :-) ...Man this is gonna be a fun event , cant wait !!

David Parnicky said:

All I have to say is his hooks had better be sharp on Saturday!!

RFatt16 said:
David- Your partner is holding you down. I'd drop him before the tourny. Dez was saying he was going to have to carry his team this year and bla bla bla. Team chemistry seems a bit weak if you ask me

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on April 28, 2011 at 2:16pm

Wazz up with the pics taggy ? you do know we are fishing for smallmouth right ? next your gonna try to tell me that smallmouth actually eat this stuff shown above.. No way bro , everyone knows that smallies only eat earthworms and prawns in that lake ..duh

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on April 28, 2011 at 5:54pm

Looking at the weather forecast, you may want to bring a couple dozen earthworms

BigBass Dez said:

Wazz up with the pics taggy ? you do know we are fishing for smallmouth right ? next your gonna try to tell me that smallmouth actually eat this stuff shown above.. No way bro , everyone knows that smallies only eat earthworms and prawns in that lake ..duh

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on April 29, 2011 at 7:46pm

I just got done testing the scale. It is 100% spot on! Tomorrow should be fun! See you all there!!

Permalink Reply by Austin Heyer on April 30, 2011 at 11:03pm

So what were the results?

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on April 30, 2011 at 11:24pm

Thanks to everyone that made it out for the open! I had a blast fishing it with Dez and picked up a few jerkbait and crankbait tricks from him! I want to thank Dez for helping with the weigh in and Bob and Ken for helping with registration. The bite wasn't great but there seemed to be a decent reaction bite and that always makes for a fun day on the lake!!

Here are the complete results:

1. Ky Carlton and Fred Vander Werff - 5 fish - 17.13 lbs.

2. Ron Hobbs Jr. and Mike Wolsky- 5 fish - 16.50 lbs.

3. Chris Ferry and Nick Berto - 5 fish - 16.25 lbs.

4. David Parnicky and Dez Ruffin - 5 fish - 14.89 lbs.

5. Jordan Doucet and Chris Rider - 5 fish - 14.51 lbs.

6. Jason Nielson and Ron Gayton - 5 fish - 14.41 lbs.

7. Ryan Fattore and Abrian Jones - 5 fish - 13.63 lbs.

8. Ken Rundle and Chris Adams - 3 fish - 13.57 lbs.

9. Willie Parsons and Tyler Parsons - 5 fish - 12.15 lbs.

10. Bill Smith and Ron Helvey - 5 fish - 12.09 lbs.

11. Bob Mustappa and Casey Bahr - 5 fish - 10.91 lbs.

12. Ryan Cristoph and Mike Ward - 5 fish - 10.83 lbs.

13. Jason Dempsey and Matt Marsh - 5 fish - 10.26 lbs.

14. Doug Brown and Curt Huisman - 5 fish - 9.65 lbs.

15. Brandon Thomas and Bill Ducker- 5 fish - 8.50 lbs.

16. Erik Faiola and Luke Loeffler - 2 fish - 8.19 lbs. and BIG FISH of 5.19 lbs.

17. Joe Boyd and J.R. Johnson - 4 fish - 7.70 lbs.

18. Shawn Smith and Chris Blake - 2 fish - 3.91 lbs.

19. Joel Alinen and P.J. Koshi - 1 fish - 1.10 lbs.

20. Derek Eggimann and John Minica

20. Marvin Flones and Shane Bass

20. Russell Avery and Travis Avery

20. Wade Randall and Rod Holmes

20. Jaimee Mendoza

20. Malcolm Thomson and Jeff Wanlin

Permalink Reply by Ron Gayton on April 30, 2011 at 11:37pm

Thanks for getting the full results up so quickly.Great tourney and turn out this year.And I think it ran very smoothly.Good job David.Congrats to all the winners....Jon boats rule!!!

Permalink Reply by Nick Berto on May 1, 2011 at 1:14pm

Thanks Dave for putting on the tournament, it was ran very smooth and a lot of fun.

Permalink Reply by Willie Parsons on May 1, 2011 at 9:58pm

Thanks Dave, it was a great hour and a half in the morning, not so much fun the rest of the day, learned a lot. Can't wait for the fall open!

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on May 2, 2011 at 8:40am

Thanks for a fun day out on lk whatcom David , Had a blast fishing with ya bud you know my feelings are still hurt about losing one of my favorite jerkbaits ! The event was ran great IMO , Funny moment was the video of "bass anglers gone wild" lmao ....I Look forward to the 2012 spring open for sure , Thanks again bro :-)

Permalink Reply by RFatt16 on May 2, 2011 at 9:42am