West Central Bass League - Diamond Lake - July 25th
As hot as the fishing has been for the West Central Bass League over the past few weeks, it was nothing compared to the weights brought in on Diamond Lake. They weren't the heaviest weights ever seen but for Diamond it had to be the best night of fishing the lake has ever produced. Not so long ago the entire field blanked not once but twice on ths very body of water. Those days are definitely long gone.
1st - Jim & Brad - 3 - 13.13 lbs
2nd - Paul & Pete - 3 - 12.63 lbs
3rd - Lee & Nick - 3 - 11.98 lbs
4th - Ron & Joe - 3 - 11.81 lbs
5th - Troy & Brett - 3 - 11.35 lbs
Big Bass - Jim & Brad - 5.00 lbs
We brought 3 to the scales weighing 10.29 lbs to end up 6th out of the 22 teams fishing. I thought we were having a pretty good night and normally it would have been but not only were we out of the money, we were more than 1 lb out of the money. We clearly spent most of our night on the wrong pattern although what do you do when you catch a ton of fish and end up with over 10 lbs for 3 fish. We spent our night fishing docks and trees and our weigh fish all ended up coming on various colors of the Berkley HAVOC Pit Boss.
West Central Bass League - Lake Solomon - July 26th
The good fishing for the Bass League had to end sometime and many rightfully predicted that this would be the lake to break the streak. Solomon is an excellent lake in the spring where 10 lb bags are common, but in recent years the fishing has been downright tough to impossible in the mid summer months. This night kept that trend alive as only 8 of the 18 teams fishing were able to bring a 3 fish limit to the scales.
1st - Ron & Joe - 3 - 11.51 lbs
2nd - Andy & Mike Nitchals - 3 - 9.40 lbs
3rd - Lee & Andy - 3 - 9.07 lbs
4th - Scott & Kelly - 3 - 8.94 lbs
5th - Paul & Troy - 3 - 6.64 lbs
Big Bass - Ron & Joe - 4.62 lbs
Normally I don't mind talking about how we caught our fish, even though it probably hurts me among this group of anglers, and I'm sure some of the readers of this blog know how we caught them but I just don't feel like revealing too much for this one. It is something I'd like to keep in my pocket for the next summer visit to Solomon. I can say we caught all of our weigh fish on jigs and that is about it.
Green Mill/West Central Bass Masters Summer Classic - Green Lake, Spicer - July 29th
Normally our club holds this event at the end of June but this year we decided to move it to a mid-summer date. June fishing on Green Lake can be dominated by bed fishing and we wanted to have a different type of event with the anglers using different patterns to catch their fish. Maybe that was a mistake because the attendance certainly dropped off as only 24 teams showed up. After some morning rain the weather was great and by all accounts there were a bunch of fish caught. As always on Green Lake the key is finding a limit of those 3 lb class fish and several teams were able to do that and more. I don't have the official results at this time but 1st place was a 6 fish limit weighing 20.24 lbs and 2nd place was 19.59 lbs. As usual this year my dad and I struggled and our 6 fish limit of smallmouth weighing 17.11 lbs was only enough to put us in 12th place.
I had a pretty tough practice for this event but I thought I had a pattern put together where we would be spending much of the day in 8-12 feet of water. How things change come tournament day though as none of the fish we ended up weighing came from that depth range. 5 of our weigh fish ended up coming from water 6 feet or shallower and the final keeper came from 25 feet deep. It goes to show that you need to keep an open mind even though the fish we weighed on this day were only good enough for a middle of the pack finish if we had stuck to the original plan it would have been even worse. Our fish for the day came on green pumpkin Strike King Coffee Tubes and green pumpkin Berkley HAVOC Bottom Hopper worms rigged on a dropshot.
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