Number 8 of 10 in the FCS Points Series is in the books.

Conditions couldn't have been better for a tournament - overcast, intermittent light sprinkles, moderate temps, and a very slight breeze from North-Northwest, and occasionally right out of the West.  Water temps ranged in the low 60s.

Every boat caught a limit, and weights were all respectable.  Surprisingly few smallies were brought to the weigh in, but there were a a few really nice largemouth that were willing to go on a "boat ride."

The results:

3rd place: Perry D and John F. brought in five fish, all very consistent in size for 13 lbs. 10 oz.  Crank baits, Senkos, flick shake worms, and soft jerk baits did the damage.

2nd place and Lunker: Bill L. and Gary F. brought in a nice bag, anchored by a beautiful 6 lb. 3 oz. largemouth.  A little birdy told me Bill caught it on a jig.  Total weight was 15 lbs. 12 oz.

1st place: Brutus finally puts a notch in his belt for his first win, along with partner Felix.  Felix got so excited about a huge smallie, he spilled the beans about some homemade hand pour creature they were using.  "Those things smell bad, man!"  They caught Billy and Gary by just 2 oz., with a total weight of 15 lbs. 14 oz.

Very nice work by all.  No bag under 10 lbs.

Some pics:

Billy's beast.

Web and Jason with some nice fish.

Perry, holding my fish up, LOL.

Billy with one of the few smallies brought in, and the massive lunker.

It says "Champ" but should say "Cayuga."

We aren't going to hear the end of this win.  Congrats Brutus!

My day:

Things started off very slow in the morning.  Despite bass surface feeding all around us, no topwater bite to be had at all.  I decided to move to just sub surface with a pointer.  This ended with a 40" ~15 ish pound northern pike, one of my top three this year.  That bait went back in the bag, and I went to my tried and true craw baits.  It got murdered by panfish, and a few were donated to the toothy creatures.  This actually was our pattern: fish through the pike and pickerel, and catch a bass.  Seemed like we'd get a pike, and then a bass or two. 

I caught most of the pike in the first half of the day, and Perry handled the bass.  Finally at 11:42 AM, I caught my first keeper bass, on a flick-shake worm.  All the rest of my bass would come on this bait, and despite Perry's decent crankbait bit of the morning, his wacky senkos ruled the afternoon for him.

All in all, we caught somewhere around 30 bass, a dozen pickerel, and two nice northerns.  Not a bad day of fishing, and hey, we took 3rd in a tournament.  Ton of fun!

Good reports JF. That 6lb lunker was a beast.

Nice report and pics. Congrats

Nothing wrong with the third best..... ;D

Cayuga is a blast, fished a spawn tx there last year and have never seen so many 5+ smallies on best. Unfortunately it was difficult sight fishing because the conditions were just like what you had.  :

That lake is loaded with beasts.  This is the first year in a while that our club has made a decent showing.  Local tournaments, with local sticks have produced 22+ lb. bags.  If I could spend a week there, I'd like to see what I could come up with. 

That Tx was a 6 fish limit and it took just under 26 to win and 2-4 were in the 24-25 pound range. I think there were 5 or 6 smallies over 5 weighted in. It seems to fish better than Onondaga and Oneida from looking at other tx weights and just as well as Champlain. But where as the smallies seem to stunt up around 4.25 to 4.5 on Champ there are legit 5+ fish on Cayuga.