Night Tournament Results from Friday

[steverowbotham]

Friday night the Barrie Bassmasters had our first and hopefully annual Night Tournament on Lake Couchiching.

 

We fished from 8pm to 2am

 

Having never fished at night before with the exception of twice for walleye about 6 years ago, I had no idea what to expect and didnt bother to pre-fish for a small fun tournament. It was a random draw tournament and I got drawn with my dad which was cool.

 

I decided to spend my hour and a half of light fishing for a big largemouth bite in the heavy cover. That didnt pan out for us. So we went to fish a bunch of feeding flats that I like in the late afternoon and early evenings.

 

We managed 6 bites all night and landed 5 of them. We got 2 fish on jitterbugs and 3 on straight black senkos. We weighed 13 pounds and placed 2nd. 1st place had just over 16lbs and they said they caught all of them in a 20 minute span in one location the size of their boat on black tubes.

 

I had a lot of fun and I really hope to do it again, heck maybe I'll head out tonight!

 

Edited July 26, 2010 by steverowbotham

[Toddyc20]

Good lookin bag of fish you've got there. Congrats

[BillsTheBassMan]

Sounds like a good idea and a good time Steve. Thanks for the report - some nice fish there.

[asdve23rveavwa]

Nice showing, and, pretty cool that you got to fish it with your "old man"! Good choice on the Jitterbug

[motion]

Great stuff Steve. Was more amazing is that you showed up (on time!) for the Jr. tournament on Sunday morning on just a couple of hours sleep! Thanks again for helping them out by volunteering your time.

 

Cheers!

[alphaalpha]

Thanks for the report. Nice finish for having not really ever fished at night.

[OhioFisherman]

2nd? cool, bass at night can be a blast! Just my feeling on it? on some lakes with a lot of boat traffic I think they move off of some areas when the boat traffic starts and don`t really get comfortable feeding on those spots until after the boat traffic has died down.

[Leecher]

Congrats to the both of you on your 2nd place finish Steve

Jitterbug is one of my favorites for top water..... I also like using a hoola Popper in black when it's pitch dark.

Leechman

[splashhopper]

Thanks for the report. Nice finish for having not really ever fished at night.

 

ditto

[gonduckin]

I never really thought about it, but if you know the body of water good it could be a blast.