Woo Hoo!  Lake Erie!

Team format, best five fish per boat.

Wind was calm, temps were warm, skies were hazy.  Looked like a good day for fishing, and most everyone reported catching limits early, and upgrading often.  Many smallmouth, along with some nice largemouth were brought to the scales.  The launch was a little weird, but the parking shuttle was cool.  Pulling out was a madhouse - made Sodus look like little league, LOL.

Results:

Dan S. and Gary F. had a nice 3 lb. 11 oz. largemouth that edged out "New Guy" Felix's smallmouth by one ounce for the lunker award.

Perry D. and Ron W. brought in a mixed bag good enough to make third.

Nguyen H. and John F. had five smallies that held up for second place.

Bill L. and his son Shawn weighed in a nice bag of brown fish for a solid win.  Shawn reported that all the fish were caught in one little cove in the harbor.  Sounds like quite a spot!

Pics:

1st place, Bill and son, Shawn.

2nd place, Nguyen and John (behind camera).

3rd Place, Ron and Perry (not shown, too ugly).

Lunker, Dan and Gary (not pictured).

Felix' smallie could'a been a contender!

Shawn, stealing, errr...accepting the prize money.

Final Results.

Now, on to the "my day" report.  Nguyen and I had no idea what to do, where to go, nothing, nada.  So, we made our way to the river mouth, where we were met by tons of smallies crashing bait on the surface.  We're like, "Ohhhhhh yeah, its on!"  After a couple minutes, I ask Nguyen if he needs some help with the trolling motor, cause we're moving pretty fast.  He looks up, and yeah, we're basically in a barrel, headed for the falls, LOL.  No way to fish that spot without the big motor running.  Oh well.

We finally find some off shore structure after about a half hour of searching, and Nguyen bangs a nice smallie on a vibration bait, our biggest of the day.  After that, it was five hours of watching others drift this same spot, rods bent every few minutes, and us with nothing.  We did a little exploring in the middle of that stretch, but decided to stick out that one structure spot, since we knew there were fish.  Our determination payed off in the last hour or so, and we were able to get a limit of fish, and even an upgrade. 

I think we had eight or nine bites, not counting the drum and the rocky, and outside that first fish, they all came on drop shot Gulp! minnows.  I think this was Nguyen's first time fishing drop shot and drifting deep water, and really took to it.

On the way back to the weigh in, we figured we had about 12 lbs, not enough to show, but at least it was a limit.  As it turns out, we were the only boat to leave the harbor, despite the calm seas, and we had enough to take second.  Very surprised, and very weird, to say the least.  I'll take the refund on the fees, though, LOL.

Next up - Chautauqua 2-day 7/10 - 7/11!!!!!!

Nice work Francho! Excellent reporting too....

Thanks man.  I'll be putting a report up for every tournament from this year.

Congrats to you and your partner J, way ta fish it up! 8-)