Buddies Tournament

Saturday was my "buddies tournament" at Sage Lake in Northern Michigan. The tournament is something I put together for the past 3 years for my friends/ local aquaintences who love to bass fish but are not tournament fisherman (nor possess a tournament rig). After all the planning I did, I was a little dissapointed with the 4 boat turnout, (3 days before the tourney I was expecting to have 6-7 boats, but guys backed out last minute) but we were all determined to have a fun day anyway even if there wasn't a big cash pot. I was thrilled to finally meet XcoM274 (Chuck) and his friend Mark, who took my invitation to participate and proceeded to win the tournament with a 4 bass stringer. These young guys put a pattern together and got it done. Congrats again Chuck! The other 3 boats that fished including myself had trouble finding fish that would measure 14". Many fish were caught but were 13-13 1/2". The big fish of the tournament was just shy of 3 pounds and was 17 1/4".

As for me and my dad, we  still have yet to place in the money in my own tournament, I guess I'll have to adopt the Detroit Lions' saying, "there's always next year"! Maybe my 4th year will be the charm. Of course to top the day off my digital camera was on the fritz and no one else brought one so I have no pictures to share.