Sorry for the late report, its been a crazy couple weeks.

Chautauqua has been tough on the club in years past, and this year was no exception. Despite the favorable weather, we arrived Friday morning to discover that the weadeater has been running overtime in the south end. Weeds were starting to recover in the north.

Friday's practice told me that anyone on a good smallie pattern might win this thing. The results from day one confirmed this, with Nguyen bringing in a nice bag off smallmouth, including a 5-2 chunk smallie.

Day two is where the rubber hits the pavement, and many guys' patterns dissolved in the rain. Two teams in contention scrambled to catch fish in the last few minutes, Nguyen edging out Web by a pound. One of the dinks in Nguyen's bag looked to be about a pound, LOL.

In the end, Perry and George cranked up two consistent days working outside weed edges to win.

Terry and Felix came in with a relatively huge 15 lb.+ bag, crawling out of the depths from day one, and into the money for second. Rumor has it Terry threw spinnerbaits in 80 feet of water.

Nguyen's smallie pattern did not hold up, although he he managed to catch three fish in the last 20 minutes.

FCS had its first DQ since its *** more than 20 years ago. President Jim "Brutus" Donley (Some of you Suffolk guys know him) thought he'd roll in a half hour late to the weigh in, LOL. He was actually pretty much on time, but being the good guy he is, he and Perry decided to set an example with the DQ. Too bad, since they decent bags both days.

Team Brutus was really working hard for the plug award this trip, rumor has it, they were seen by the bell tower, chasing runaway cull tag for about an hour, LMAO. Apparently, one of the rats flew the coop!

My weekend was not so good. I found decent smallmouth at the edge of sheer ledges, in 12-18 FOW. Despite this, we spent most of first day and second days in shallow, skipping docks, and working skittish bedding bass in the weed flats. About the only excitement in our boat was a 30" musky attached to Dan's jig.

Here are some highlights:

Apparently, the fish on the far right is the one that tried to steal Brutus' cull tag!

Nguyen, with the 5-2 SMB that took Lunker

George and Perry "The TD that Could Not Smile" with some nice LMB.

Terry with two of the fish from his incredible comeback.

Lunker and 3rd, Nguyen

2nd place, Terry

George and Perry, the Win. This was George's 1st tournament ever. I think he had fun.

Not sure about the math there, LOL.

Next up, ONEIDA! I'm licking my chops.

those are some nice smallies

Oh yeah.  Dirty little secret about that lake.

Dittos on the smallies!  How big is that water?

here's a map

Its a little over 13,000 acres.  Most associate the lake with musky and largemouth.  Its featured this in In-Fisherman destinations page, though for perch.  There are big smallies in there, LOL.

Looks like some pretty appetizing points. 8-)

Sure does.  Yet we fished weed flats  :