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"Ringer" at Delta?

First of all we want to welcome our newest member, Doug Stuper, of Chittenango. Welcome!

With that out of the way let me be the first to complain "WE HAVE A RINGER!". On first tournament as a regular member Doug comes to the scales and cleans everyone's clocks with a limit weighing 12.65 lbs, a very respectable bag coming from Lake Delta.

Coming in second place this Sunday was Doug's co-angler, Brad Ostrander with a limit weighing 9.54 lbs. Third place was won by John Williams with a 8.23 lbs limit of five smallmouth.

The rest of us found Lake Delta to be quite a challenge. With bait busting the surface all over the smallie's must think it's fall. The one smallmouth I caught was coughing out 3" minnows and crabs.

Best of all we ended the day just minutes before the hurricane hit Rome. Next stop is the Club Team Championship.

All kidding aside, we would like to welcome all of our new members for 2008, Brad Ostrander, Fred Chilluffu, Nikki Lowe, Rich Tehan, Jacon Bouck, Bill Baldwin, and Doug Stuper!

 

Un-Officially, "Rookie" takes 1st at Chaumont, Rookie and Angler of the Year! Way to GO Brad!

That's right, Brad Ostrander not only took 1st at Chaumont, but almost broke the all time club bag record with 18.60 lbs of Chaumont Bay smallies. Coming in a respectful 2nd was Mike Sudol with 3 fish weighing in at 12.76 lbs, a 4.25 lb average! 3rd was won by another newcomer, Doug Stuper, with a five fish limit weighing 12.42 lbs. Official standings will be certified at the November 2nd meeting at the Chittenango Firehouse.

Casting Kids Event 4/19, 9am

The Casting Kids event was a great success. Thanks to all the members who attended, especially to TJ for the new club banner and Scott for Bringing his boat.

A reminder we have one more event in June at the derby in Camden on the 14th. More details to follow.

 

Casting Kids Event 6/14, 9am

The Casting Kids event held at the Annual Camden Fishing Derby was fantastic. While kids and their families were participating at the derby they had the opportunity to stop at the Casting Kids contest to test their skills at flipping, pitching and casting to targets.

 

 

Ottman finds the largemouth in Sandy Pond, takes first!

At the invitation of Mike Gee, Dave Ottman joined the club to fish in our September 28th tournament on Sandy Pond and took first place with a five-fish limit weighing in at 11.73 lbs.

Some of you might know Dave as one of the Gander Mountain Pro Staff members. Dave not only works at the Cicero store, but also presents fishing seminars and competes in many national tournament trails, as well as with several other local clubs.

Second place was won by John Williams with a five-fish limit weighing 11.31 lbs, Nice job John.

Third place was won by John's boater, Al Salisbury, with a five-fish limit of 10.90. Al takes over the leader board for Angler of the Year, with just two tournaments to go.

Sandy Pong Lunker, a 4.41 smallmouth,  was taken by Scott Sprole.

 

 

 

"Ringer" at Delta?

First of all we want to welcome our newest member, Doug Stuper, of Chittenango. Welcome!

With that out of the way let me be the first to complain "WE HAVE A RINGER!". On first tournament as a regular member Doug comes to the scales and cleans everyone's clocks with a limit weighing 12.65 lbs, a very respectable bag coming from Lake Delta.

Coming in second place this Sunday was Doug's co-angler, Brad Ostrander with a limit weighing 9.54 lbs. Third place was won by John Williams with a 8.23 lbs limit of five smallmouth.

The rest of us found Lake Delta to be quite a challenge. With bait busting the surface all over the smallie's must think it's fall. The one smallmouth I caught was coughing out 3" minnows and crabs.

Best of all we ended the day just minutes before the hurricane hit Rome. Next stop is the Club Team Championship.

All kidding aside, we would like to welcome all of our new members for 2008, Brad Ostrander, Fred Chilluffu, Nikki Lowe, Rich Tehan, Jacon Bouck, Bill Baldwin, and Doug Stuper!

 

 

 

 

Non-boater Dick Wilcox leads Oneida Lake Tournament

Oneida Lake didn't give up her bass to easily during the July 27th contest. The weekend hosted numerous other tournaments including 2 days of Angler's Choice and ABA tournaments. Even with all the fishing pressure some anglers were persistent and brought in full bags.

Winning the Oneida Lake tournament was non-boater Dick Wilcox with 10.68 after a one dead fish penalty. Second place was won by second year member John Bouck with 4 fish weighing in at 9.36, proving again you don't need the biggest boat to catch fish. Third was won by Al Salisbury, a charter member, bass tournament veteran, who is having a great year.

We had 23 anglers in this tournament which pays out to 4 places, winning 4th place was newcomer Dia Vastola, wife of Mike Gee with 4 fish weighing in at 7.36 lbs.

Conditions Sunday were calm in the a.m., which didn't help, then a little wind late in the morning, which triggered fish to start biting. As Mark Batur said, "if we only had another hour to fish this would have been a different contest!".

Mike Gee Wins Otisco!

Our first tournament of the 2008 season was held Sunday June 29th on Otisco. Other than a few sprinkles first thing in the morning the day was beautiful.

Mike Gee bagged a limit of five for a total weight of 10.74 lbs. While not a record weigh by any means it was much better than last years tournament.

Al Salisbury Placed second with a five fish limit weighing in at 10.62 lbs. Al caught his entire catch using tubes.

Pulling up in third was Mike Sudol, fishing in a make-shift "bass boat" (see photo). While handicapped only by comfort and horsepower, Mike still was able to pull out a third with five fish weighing 9.15 lbs. 

Newcomer Brad Ostrander impressed the veterans by placing fourth on his first time out with a limit weighing 8.62 lbs. Fifth place went to John Williams with four fish weighing 6.77 lbs.

A pretty good start to the 2008 season. Even though the weights were not what we would like to see, the new points system to determine AOY will give equal value to first place at great as well as poor weight tournaments.

 

 

"Kermit" takes the big bass at Lake Champlain

Mike Sudol, Lake Champlain 2007  Lunker Largemouth 4.88 lbs.

What a great tournament on Lake Champlain. Great weather, lake was in great condition, even though there were two large scale tournaments this weekend we were able to slide in and do our thing.

Mike Sudol took 1st place with a 15.51 lb bag of largemouths, anchored with a solid 4.88 lb lunker. Mike flipped downed trees for his limit, however culled larger bass using a Spro Jr. Frog on top of matted vegetation and slop.

Rookie Mark Batur is on the move again with a nice 2nd place finish weighing in at 13.92 lbs. At this pace our rookie might be called Angler of the Year!

Mike Gee took third with a respectable 9.77 lb bag, just edging out his pretty non-boater Dia, although she did collect Mike's check in his absence!

Next Tournament is Onondaga on Sept 9th. Get your pairings reported to Mike ASAP. Onondaga is always a great tournament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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