West Central Bass League - Week 7 & West Central Tournament Series - Lake Koronis

West Central Bass League - Norway Lake - July 17th


We continued our great turnouts for the West Central Bass League this year as 21 teams showed up to fish Norway and Games Lakes this evening. As usual over the past couple of weeks the fishing ended up being really good with some of the better overall weights we have seen on Norway in recent years.

1st - Paul & Pete - 3 - 9.91 lbs
2nd - Ross & Rob - 3 - 9.83 lbs
3rd - Tim & Grant - 3 - 9.75 lbs
4th - Andy & Mike Nitchals - 3 - 9.66 lbs
5th - Brian & Joy - 3 - 9.24 lbs

Big Bass - Tim & Grant - 5.09 lbs

Over the past few years Norway usually has one of the lower average weights of the lakes we fish during the league season. Obviously the weights were pretty strong on this night although from the sound of it the fishing wasn't great for numbers. We certainly didn't catch a lot of fish but with the weight we had I expected to do better than 4th. We started on shallow cover but after an hour with only 2 fish in the box we headed to deep water for the rest of the evening. Like I said the bite wasn't fast but every once in awhile we would get a quality bass to bite. Our weigh fish came on 10" inch Berkley Power Worms and Rapala DT 16 and DT 14 crankbaits.

West Central Bass League - Lake Koronis - July 18th


Koronis is not one of the more popular lakes on the West Central Bass League schedule and it showed as only 17 teams showed up to fish. 17 teams fishing is a pretty strong number but still it is one of the lowest numbers we have had so far this year. Koronis can be a tough lake to figure out but the fish are certainly in there and the weights showed it.

1st - Dean & JD - 3 - 10.44 lbs
2nd - Paul & Troy - 3 - 10.01 lbs
3rd - Travis & Hunter - 3 - 9.43 lbs
4th - Ross & Daryl - 3 - 9.36 lbs
5th - Ron & Joe - 3 - 9.34 lbs

Big Bass - Dean & JD - 4.09 lbs

We ended up having a really tough night but ended up catching a couple upgrades in the last minutes to move up to 6th place with 3 weighing 8.62 lbs. We started on docks which is what I thought would produce some really nice fish. But after fishing a bunch of them we only had one quality bass in the 3 lb range to show for it. That fish came on a Okeechobee Craw Berkley HAVOC Pit Boss. After that we junked around for awhile trying different things but nothing was really working out. At the end of the evening we ended up on a shallow sand and weed flat where we put 2 decent smallies in the boat on Super Spooks to salvage what would have otherwise been a terrible night.

West Central Tournament Series - Lake Koronis - July 22nd


By luck of the draw the West Central Bass League visited Lake Koronis a few days before the Tournament Series so those of us fishing both had a little more time on the water than some others might have had. As it turned out it didn't really matter. For me the fishing has been tough on Koronis but as almost everyone proved the fish are biting good and they are nice ones. We ended up weighing a 6 fish limit for 17.53 lbs which is a pretty impressive average weight but it was only good enough to place 10th out of the 23 teams fishing. The full results can be found here:

http://www.wcmnbassmasters.org/resources/LakeKoronis.pdf

We started our day where we ended the previous league night. Despite having several fish slash at the Spook I was only able to put 1 smallie in the boat that weighed about 2 1/2 lbs. That fish ended up staying with us all day long and wound up being the smallest fish in our bag. After that it was off to a point that would have normally had nice coontail on it but this year the only weeds in almost the entire lake are just stringy grass. Despite that there was a good sized school of fish living there but the problem was they just weren't big enough. We ended up filling our limit on that spot but all of those fish would eventually be culled. Our next stop was a similar type of area but the fish there were much better quality although not the quality needed to compete for a win on this day. In the afternoon we focused mostly on docks and 3 of our weigh fish ended up coming from the docks. It's hard to complain when you are catching 2 1/2 to 3 lb bass which are nice fish but on Koronis these days that is just run of the mill as our results showed.