Fishers of Men National Tournament Trail

I have been hoping to find a partner for the 2010 Fishers of Men season and finally, I did! I will be fishing with Dave Kindleberger this summer at the 5 Pennsylvania events! The schedule for these are as follows:
Raystown 04-03-2010
Lake Erie 06-19-2010
Shenango 07-10-2010
Kinzua Dam 08-21-2010
Sayers Dam 09-11-2010

I am really looking forward to fishing these tournaments! Erie is going to be awesome... Hopefully we can win some money this summer and qualify to fish at the Regional event this year. Dave has competed in this for a few years now and has done very well! He is a really good shakeyhead and senko fisherman so if the bite is on, him and I should pound them this summer. I will be sure to keep everyone updated on how we do... it sure is gonna be a fun summer!

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish anyone who reads this a Merry Christmas!

Update 12/20/2009

So I haven't blogged much lately. Getting my doctorate degree in physical therapy has made my life pretty hectic, to say the least. This post is probably going to be decently long, but I plan to update on some end of the year stuff.

SO the tournament season ended at Curwensville Lake where i finished in 5th place again.. Pretty much every tourney i fished in this year i got a top 5 which i was very happy with considering it was my first full year of tournament fishing. I didnt practice for the Cville tourney and I weighed in 2 fish for 3.5lbs. I found them on a green pumkin/purple flake lizard and a sweet beaver on a shakey head jig. Ive never used a beaver on a shakey jig before but i think i may have found one of my favorite baits!

I ended up finishing in 8th place in my club.. If i would've fished in all of the tournaments like most other guys in the club, there is no doubt in my mind i would've been contending for the title. I was the highest finishing rookie this year so that was one of my goals that I accomplished.

Our tournament director for our club is stepping down and asked me if i would take over as our clubs tournament director. I am probably going to take this position because I want to be more involved in the club and will hopefully allow me to move up in the totem pole.

I have big plans for this summer. I am planning on fishing in all of my club's tournaments and my ultimate goal is to fish in the Fishers of Men tournament trail. I am hoping on fishing with someone right now but he usually fishes with his gf who just had a baby so if she cant fish with him, then i'm all set for next year!

This offseason is going to be a time of fighting off the bait monkey! With all of my spare time I am constantly on different forums reading about different rods, reels, baits, and techniques. I would like to have 2 more rigs for the coming year. My first rig is one i know i will have which is a Revo Premier (santa is bringing it) paired with a Powell Max 704c. This will be my new jig rod! I am so pumped because Powell rods are some of the best on the market. I would also like a new spinning outfit.. I am thinking a 6'6 MH spinning rod or shorter that i will use for skipping (docks, trees, etc.)

Since the lakes are now froze over, I have been cleaning up my gear and counting it to see what i need and dont need for next year. I counted all of my bags of soft plastics and i realize that I have way too much (you can never have too much though, right?) 150+ bags of plastics is a lot. haha. Here are some pics of my gear. Just goes to show you i've spent way too much money this year!




Check back later for my blog post about my trip to erie for steelhead!

Sayers Dam Tournament 10/4/09

Well after prefishing for this tourney a week beforehand, i felt very confident in what my game plan was going to be. While prefishing, i found bass on artificial structure while deadsticking a senko... come tournament time however, this was not a very strong pattern.

My buddy paul was fishing in the tourney for lunker and caught a small keeper right off the bat. I could not get bit all day! I went back and forth to my 2 hot spots all day without many bites. I snapped a fish off at a dock early in the day. I had to really work to get my keeper. after my 3rd trip back to some grass, i flipped a senko into some weeds and ended up landing a 1.5lb largemouth. Thank God i caught him.. I was so discouraged but i knew perseverance would pay off... mostly everyone else in the club had a hard time too. i ended up in 5th place in the tourney. The leader found some fish and caught 13lbs worth.. 2nd place had 1 bite all day and caught a 3.5lber... so in all a bad day turned into a good day at 11:30.. i got some valuable club points and hopefully secured my place as rookie of the year!

Some News and a Tourney coming up!

So there has been some good things goin on as of late... I joined the Slippery Rock bass fishing team and have been helping get some sponsors.. I contacted 2 companies that were more than willing to help our club out! California Tackle and Venom Lures! I've never used California Tackle's line of baits before but I am sure they work. They have some potent scent they use on their baits called RoadKill (its a really strong garlic based scent developed by Dennis, the owner of California Tackle.)

Also, Venom Lures are the manufactures of an amazing line of Tubes, creature baits, and jigs! I have been using their products for a couple years now and am very satisfied with their lures!

Also, Scott Laukhuff added me to his prostaff at the CentreSportsman Tv Show.. I write some blogs for them and will be testing out some baits for him that he is currently developing! I am really excited to help Scott out as he is a great guy! and an awesome Outdoorsman!

I have a tourney coming up on Sunday at Foster Sayers Dam in Howard, PA.... I went out and practiced for it last saturday. I found a pattern that should still produce this weekend. It is calling for the same kind of weather. If that is the case then the fish need to look out! I will post a blog about the tourney and how it went on Sunday. I need a strong finish at this one to put me on top the standings for Rookie of the Year in the club! and possibly a top 5 in points!!

It's time for me to hit the sack! i have to get up at 5:30am for the 1st day of Pennsylvania Archery Season!

Catch ya later!
Check out these links and tell them Jimmy Moslak sent you!
The Centre Sportsman TV Show
Venom Lures
California Tackle

Check out my College Fishing Report I wrote for the Centre Sportsman!

Hey all.. I talked to the Centre Sportsman who is a good friend of mine and he asked me to write a college fishing report for him on his website! Scott is an avid outdoorsman who has his own television show called the CentreSportsman.. his show is very cool and very informative! check out my post and his website out at http://www.centresportsman.com

Catch ya later!

Raystown Lake Tournament 9/13/09

I had a tournament on Raystown Lake in Huntingdon,PA on Sunday for my first ever tournament on Raystown. I used my knowledge gained from my first ever trip to Raystown (see my previous post) in order to catch a few fish. The fish weren't biting like they were a couple weeks ago when i was there but that didnt stop me from pushing and fishing hard to get a fish in the livewell. I worked a no wake zone for the first part of the morning near snyders run but to no avail... so I told my buddy Tyler that we were gonna make a run for the area right before Seven Points Marina. I told him not to let me stop until we got there.

When we got there, there was a team already fishing on the shallow point in the weeds but that was ok.. all my fish before came just down from there. So we were workin that area throwing a wacky rigged GreenPumkin Senko. after a little bit i had a real nice hit and i could see the fish take off with it.. I was pitching into about 12 feet of water that was about 10 feet infront of the boat. Well i swung and rolled the first fish. probably 30 feet down from there i swung and missed another nice one... so i hurried up and put the rod down and threw in a Watermelon Red Senko texas rigged with a 1/8 oz tungsten weight on it.. that thing no sooner hit bottom and WAM! that fish took off with it.. i set the hook and my net man netted it smooth as silk.. here is a picture of it

That ended up being the only keeper i caught all the day but i learned if you miss a fish, to not give up on it because i didnt give up and ended up with a 2.22lb Largemouth and 6th place in the club tourney...
Catch ya later

Slippery Rock Creek, September 2, 2009

I am taking a little break from studying and figured I would give a little update about the fishing in Slippery Rock Creek.... It's awesome!!

I drove around and found a bridge that crossed over Slippery Rock Creek in Slippery Rock, PA... so i decided to park there on Sunday and give it a try.. i talked to a couple guys who were there and said they mainly fish for trout but there are bass in the river. I assumed that they were all dinky smallmouths in the river but i love catching bass so i knew i may have found a hotspot... i begain by throwing some crankbaits at the fish but couldnt get any bites... as soon as i switched to a topwater... the fish havent stopped smackin it! Ive been using a Matzuo popper and holy man the fish here love it...

on sunday i caught one smallmouth and missed 3 others. Yesterday i fished for a little less than an hour and caught 5 smallmouth and 2 small largemouth! i couldnt believe there were largemouth in this creek! my biggest as of yesterday was probably 2 fish that may have been 12 inches but fun to catch none the less..

today was a different story.. after class i decided to hit up the creek (5pm)... not long after i got there i continued throwing that little popper and bamm!!! something annihilated it! it was the biggest fish ive caught in a river in my life! granted ive always been more of a lake fisherman and rarely fish the rivers but i may have just became addicted! i didnt have a scale or a tape ruler but this bass was every bit of 18inches... im still pumped about it!

Raystown Lake 8/24-8/25/09

Hey all.
I figured I would give you a little post about my trip to Raystown Lake on August 24 and 25. I have never fished this lake before and i wanted to get a nice little camping trip in before i started grad school at Slippery Rock. So, my buddy Tyler and I decided to plan this trip.
We arrived at Raystown around 9am on monday morning. by the time we git the tent set up and the boat in the water it was around 10:30. we fished til about 6pm that night and had a blast! What an awesome lake! Tyler was fishing for panfish most of the day and he caught about 30 fish each day. The quality of the fish wasnt very good. all of the panfish he caught were dinks but still had a really good time in doing so.

I was fishing for bass all day. I started out targeting coves and wood as there is alot of both at raystown. The bass didnt seem to be sticking to the wood like i thought they would be in 79 degree water. It took me til about 2 oclock to really put a pattern on and find the bass. I started targeting bass in ~10-20ft if water in the grass. I would just pitch my 5" Watermelon Red Senko into it and bam! the bass started cooperating with me. I put about 5 or 6 fish in the boat in the matter of minutes! granted, the bass werent very big but were very fun to catch and get some great pictures of!

On day 2, we made a run up passed beer barrel bay and began targeting grass again. This time i didnt catch any fish in the grass and found they were in steep drop-offs. I caught 3 bass on a watermelon Wooly Hawgtail and a keeper greenie on a crankbait on a rocky point.

SO in all it was a very fun relaxing trip. i caught about 15 bass in 2 days in an unfamiliar fishery. so i was pleased with how i did. I would love to go back in the fall or early spring when the bass are hogged up. I caught a decent sized smallmouth too so that was another goal that i accomplished for the trip.

enjoy the pics! Catch ya later

4th Place at my club tourney at the Allegheny River at Templeton

another tournament where i was so close to winning some money.

My buddy, TP Piotrowski, and I got up at 3am to drive to Templeton for our first trip ever to the Allegheny River. We got to see right away how beautiful of a river the Allegheny is. It took about 2.5 hours for me to catch my first (and only) keeper of the day. I caught a just barley legal smallmouth right off of a concrete dock on a brush hog. Usually I use watermelon red brush hogs but i was out so i had to settle with a new color i just bought.. watermelon magic. i weighed it and stuck Bag-em Bass tag in its mouth and threw him in the livewell. we went upriver just passed the bridge and the ower plant and began fishing some more.

I ended up catching one on a Mini-dr Lucky Craft crankbait in a blue and chartruese color. it was only about 6 or 8 inces. i felt the initial bump but after that i didnt even think i had one on. it was a tiny little guy.

After chatting briefly with a guy who owns a cottage along the river he suggested going into mahoning creek where the water was clear (instead of fishing in the chocolate milk that we were fishing in all day. )

A bridge runs over top of mahoning creek and tp and i started there. my first cast onto a one of the bridge pillars resulted in me hooking up with an almost legal smallie. it was 11.5 inches. i thought for sure it was as big as my first fish. we had a couple more bites the rest of the day but no more fish.

It was a really nice place to fish. i would definatly go back again. the water clarity was really muddy. if i go back it will have to be when the river is cleared up. we worked the docks pretty hard al day but only got 1 fish off of them.

i missed out on the money by .1 lbs. i was so close to finally winnin some money.. but hey there is always next time.

I am about to head outside right now to load up some wood, pack up the tents, prep my boat, and head to Raystown Lake tomorrow into tuesday to camp and fish! wish me luck!!!!!

5th Place at the Open Buddy Tourney at Sayers Dam

So after a half a day of calling people and trying to get a coangler for the buddy tournament at Sayers, my college roommate, Paul Coble, said he would go with me. Boy did we ever have a good time. There were 12 boats entered in the tournament and we blasted off 12th. Everyone else in the tourney decided to go up the lake but Paul and I decided to go to an area right by Hunters Run that has always produced a fish for me. And guess what.... it did again! about twenty minutes into the tournament i landed a solid 2 lb largemouth on a watermelon red baby brush hog... it swallowed the hook a little bit and was bleeding so i threw it in the livewell and added a cap full of 'Please Release Me'. That stuff does the trick as the bleeding stopped and the fish was fine the rest of the tourney.

Around 7 i landed my second keeper of the evening around some artificial structure. Again i used a baby brush hog and had my 2nd 2 pound largemouth of the day. right before dark i landed another one that i thought was going to be legal but i measured it and it ended up being 1/16th of an inch short. So in all we weighed to fish for exactly 4.00lbs and finished 5th in the tourney. we were so close to being in the money but we had a good time fishing together and learned aot about night fishing.

my next tournament is on August 22nd on the Allegheney River at the Templeton Launch. Ive never been there and know nothing about it so it could be a tough time but should be fun regardless!

Upcoming Tournament

Hey all..

A little update here... Ive been stinking it up lately and its time for a change of some sort. At my tournament last weekend at Sayers my pap and I failed to land a single fish. I had one on halfway to the boat but that was about it! thats the first time ive ever fished that lake and didnt catch a fish.

Hopefully my luck will change this weekend at Sayers... Im fishing an open buddy tournament from 4pm-11pm.. ive never fished that lake at night so it should be exciting!

Catch ya later

Big Update..... 7/29/2009

Hey guys.. again its been a while since i have posted on here.. I have been really busy as of late with work and fishing. I have some time on my hands so i will try and fill everybody in on some things..

The tournament at 1000 Islands was a blast. We got there on friday around 3 and got to watch the pros weigh in for day 2. There were some gigantic bags coming in with big bronzebacks caught on lake ontario. Unfortunately, in our tournament canada waters were off limits.

On tournament day we launched and hit the green marker buoy that i was told held alot of fish. We had a few bites on it but couldnt land anything... we then moved and fished some shoals and islands... i ended up catching a smallie that was 1/16 inch shy of being legal.. a few minutes later i hooked up with a 1.08lb smallie on a Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed craw.

After no more bites we moved and fished some docks.. on my first cast to a dock...BAM i hooked up with a gigantic bass... I am not exaggerating.. this bass was 5lbs at least.. biggest bass of my life.... unfortunately this bass dove under the boat and spit the speed craw out... i was bummed.

My partner ended up catching a couple short fish as well and we ended up 31st in the tourney... it was a really rough day with very high winds and choppy water... some schools brang in some pretty good bags. if we couldve prefished it i believe we wouldve done alot better. it was fun though and i would jump for the opportunity to go back and give it another go around.... a big thanks to Joe Trinko for escorting us around in his awesome triton boat!


So the next weekend.. last friday (July 24th) I fished a PSU club tourney at the Potomac River. We launched out of Smallwood State Park at daybreak.. I was on a boat with a really awesome guy. His name is Tom. He took me to some really good places and we caught alot of fish. My goal for the day was to catch a limit and tom helped me do that. he showed me how to fish with some things i have never really done before. there was a crazy amount of weeds there and we fished mostly weed lines and pockets. We were throwin wacky rigged senkos, netbait paca craws, and zoom fish doctors. At the end of the day I had 5 largemouths weighing 6.65lbs. It was a really fun day and i cant wait to fish the potomac river again... maybe a BFL tournament or something.

My experience with the guys from down at the potomac was just phenomenal. These guys were all veterans and current members of the US Navy. They all work together and love to fish and help us out. Rick, the leader of the club is a former PSU alum and his guys really treat us well. Before the tourney even started they hooked us up with a goody bag from Bass Pro Shops. We had horney toads, brush hogs, spinnerbaits, hooks, rattle traps and senkos in the bag. It was awesome.

This weekend (august 1st) I have a club tournament at Sayers Dam. I cannot wait. I am going to prefish it hopefully friday but if not ill hit up my hot spots. Ill let ya know how I do.

Catch ya later

Update.. 7/11/ 2009 Kinzua Dam

Hey all... a little update here on how things have been going...

During the past few weeks i've done pretty decent... I got 2nd place at the lunker tourney the other night at curwensville lake with a 2.12lb largemouth...

yesterday i fished in a tournament for the first time at Kinzua Dam in Kane, PA.. i did pretty decent there too. i ended up in 5th place at that one all while fishing out of the back of a guys boat.. i ended up with 3 fish in the livewell at the end of the day....

It was a really slow morning for me after waking up at 2:15am to head up to Kinzua... The bite was slow in the morning... about an hour into the tourney the guy i was with hooked a 1.6lb smallie.. i had a nice one on not too long after that on a football jig with a rage craw trailer.. the smallie jumped twice and spit it out about ten feet from the boat... after that i didnt have a bite for a couple hours until 10am i switched from throwin senkos and lizards to dragging a shakey worm across the shallow rocks very very slow. that ended up with 4 smallmouth bass ( 3 legal ones) and 20 inch tiger musky in a 2 hour span. We had to fight to keep the bigger bass i caught alive... it mustve knicked its gill on something while i was reeling it in because it was swimmin sideways in the livewell for 2 hours..

it was pretty cool because i had 2 bass in the boat until my very last cast where i landed a little 12inch smallie right before we headed for the weigh ins!

so in all it was a pretty decent day... It was tough fishing and i ended up in 5th place with only 2.68lbs in 3 fish.... the winner caught 4 fish weighing 5.1 lbs....

Big tourney this weekend at 1000islands NY........ wish me luck!! you can watch the weigh ins live at http//www.collegefishing.com

George B. Stevensons Dam- May 24,2008

So my Dad and I have been planning on taking my boat out for the last week or so and we decided to load it up and take it out to Sinnamahonig to Stevensons Dam.. We had a very exciting day out on the lake. Dad and I caught more quality bass today than ever before!

We got out there around 8:30Am and loaded the boat into the water. Stevensons Dam is trolling motor only so we made sure both batteries were completely charged because we were planning on being there for a while.

The first place we tried was directly across from the Launch area right where it gets really shallow where the buoys are because of the Eagles nest. Right off the bat we caught a double. Dad and I both hooked up with little runts. We figured since our first cast both resulted in fish that it was going to be a good day.

I caught one more small one in that area and we decided to work the left side the whole way down to the dam. Dad caught 2 nice fish along the bank but the bite shut down for a few hours. around noonish the big bite finally picked up! I ended up catching around ten fish that were easily keepers and ended up catching 2 bass that were pushing the 4 lb mark (~20-21 inches.)
From about noon until we got off the water we caught alot of QUALITY fish! the bite didnt slow during that time. Dad was using an ugly stick and had some trouble feeling the bites in the wind but i was using my Berkely Pro Series and my Amp rods and had no trouble feeling the bites in the wind.

The fish were very shallow and we saw over a hundred big fish while trolling towards the dam. The bite turned on and they were smackin! I'm definately going back out sometime this week to hopefully catch some more pigs. All the bass we caught were largemouths except for 1 which was a decent smallie that I hooked. I didnt get a picture of it because it was bleeding and had to immediately throw it back in....

Catch ya later! Enjoy the Pictures!






Jimmy Mo

Foster J. Sayers Dam- Howard, PA May 5, 2009

So I took the boat out yesterday. Todd and I got up early and headed out to Howard around 6am. We stopped at Rich's Bait Shop and got some ice and a couple packs of rubber lizards.. We were finally able to launch at the Howard Launch instead of the winter launch which was good because the winter launch sucks. The lake was still a little low but it only needs to rise about 4 or 5 feet more.
After firing up the 40hp Merc we drove over to the right side of the lake and fished the bank directly across from the winter launch around the railroad tracks. I had a few bites there and ended up landing a 13 inch small mouth. After a little while we drove over to the other side of the lake and fished the artificial structure. I had another few small bites but couldn't set the hook on anything.
We then drove up to the old road bed where old route 220 runs into the lake. On his first cast with his perch imitation jerk bait, Todd pulled out a 14.5 inch largemouth that was really pigged up. On his next cast he caught a nice crappie on the same jerkbait. We trolled over and fished the brush right next to the road bed and I ended up hooking up with 4 more largemouths with this being my biggest one... 16.5 inches.

We then drove upstream to the area by upper greens run and had a couple bites but nothing landed. In all it was a decent day.

Date fished: Cinco de Mayo, 2009
Time fished: 7:15am-1pm
Successful Bait used: Kinami Flash and Jerkbait
Water Temp: 57-59 degrees.
Air Temp: 56 degrees
Weather conditions: overcast and fairly calm. maybe a 5mph wind at times.
Fish caught were between 830 and 11am


Catch ya later!

Curwensville Lake, May 3rd, 2009

Alright so after a long morning of trout fishing, Jeremy and I decided to take his boat out to Curwensville Lake for a spin to get the cobwebs out and to catch some pre spawning bass!
We arrived at the lake around 3pm or so. First thing we did was go directly across to the breast of the dam and fished some of the riprap. I was throwin a jerk bait while Jeremy was throwin a crank bait. He ended up hookin a 14inch Largemouth after only a couple casts. We then trolled the whole way around the right side of the lake and back to the docking area.
In the meantime though, we did some serious lip ripping! We found the bite like we usually do at Curwensville Lake and we stuck to it the whole time. We were throwin 4in Flashes and boy were we catching them. I was fishing from the back of his boat and I hooked up with 3 nice largemouth. The biggest catch of the day was this beast. ~18in and ~2.5-3lbs.













We hit all of the structure and steep dropoffs that we could. Jeremy ended up catching 7 or 8 nice ones from the front of the boat with this being his biggest one. (15 inch, 2lb largemouth.)













In all we had a pretty productive day on the lake.. We caught roughly a dozen fish in about 5 hours. the bite was good from abour 4 until 630 then it really slowed down. The fish weren't hitting topwaters yet, but they couldnt resist the purple flash! It was windy at times but for the most part all of the fish we caught were when it was fairly calm. There weren't many boats on the lake either.... The girl at PJ Bresslers Bait Shop said that the bite was pretty good for perch and panfish... we asked her about the bass bite and she said that she hasn't heard of many people bass fishing there yet this year....

Hope that report helps.. If anyone has any questions after reading this email me at jtm5058@psu.edu

Catch ya later!

Brookville Lake, IN, 4/26/09 5th Place in the Big Ten

welll..... I'm back to school and finally caught up on my sleep from my busy weekend in Brookville Lake, Indiana. To make a long story short, it sucked. There were 25 mph winds all weekend which made the fishing hard. The jerkbait bite was not on and neither was a crankbait.

We prefished all day Saturday. The boat I was on, with robby and derrick, we probably caught about 10 pounds worth of fish all day.. which was pretty decent for the weather. We had a couple nice ones on and Robby hooked 2 2.5-3lbers on a jerkbait at the breast of the dam in the rifraf...

So the tourney was on Sunday and my boater, Steve Neal, had a Bullet with a 225hp Optimax on the back... holy buckets that thing was fast!!!

Anyways... we fished to the right of the last marina to start off. I caught a small largemouth right off the bat in the brush using a purple football head jig and a junebug beaver trailer. Jeremy also hooked up with a decent one but it spit it out. we ended up going back down through again and I landed another 12 inch largie using a zoom baby brushhog in watermellon red color.

We moved across and fished an island and i hooked my first striper ever! it was only about 10 or 11 inches long but it was cool regardless.

We ended up moving around alot but to no avail. I ended up catching 5 or 6 small largemouths on the day and Jeremy hooked up with 3 or 4. So him and I ended up not weighing in any fish. Another penn state boat didnt weigh wish either.

Another boat of ours ended up getting 2 small keepers for the weigh in so at least we didnt go home empty handed. Illinois found the right pattern and their whole team weighed in fish! I have no clue what they were using but it was working..
the results were:
Champion: Illinois 16.46 lbs; 2nd: Iowa 5.74 lbs; 3rd: Minnesota 5.68 lbs; 4th: Purdue 4.11 lbs; 5th: Penn State 3.27 lbs; 6th: Ohio State 2.80 lbs; 7th: Indiana 2.61 lbs; 8th: Michigan State 2.11 lbs; 9th: Michigan 0.00 lbs; DNC: Wisconsin, Northwestern. (collegiatebass.org.)

So all in all it was a really awesome experience... it was the first ( and probably the last) time i will ever fish in indiana but the people there treated us well and it was a cool lake to fish with a heckava lot of potential! we just hit it on a bad weekend. I bet you the spawn starts next week if the weather stays like this. without the wind it would've been a lot different of a tournamet. I love to fish the bottom flipping and jiggin but it was impossible to do when it was windy. (all of our fish were cuaght in the morning when there was no wind, or in the afternoon when we found a pocket that was out of the wind.)

I ended up hooking up with a 2.5-3lber under a log in one of the creeks but it spit me out halfway to the boat. Derrick also had on a 4 lber in the same situation.. it rapped him up under a log and didnt get a good hookset on it. if we would've hooked up with those fish Penn State would've probably placed second. but hey.. 5th place isnt bad considering the situation.

I'm heading out this weekend top Sayers so I'll post a report when i get back.

Catch ya later.

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS April 25, 2009

Hey all,
We had our meeting last night and found out that we will be fishing in the Big Ten Championships next weekend at Brookville Lake in Indiana.

It should be a really good time and Hopefully we at PSU bring home our first big ten championship in bass fishing!!

I (Jim Moslak), Jeremy Lake, Derrick Hughes, Jason Haney, Robby Zellers, and Tim Selway will be rep'n PSU Bass Fishing.

Tight Lines!

My First Sponsor

hey all i figured i would just give you a little update. I contacted the apparel maker Bassaholics asking them about a potential sponsorship since i wont be with penn state forever. the presidentof the company emailed me back and said he would be glad to sponsor me when i am done and even asked me if i had any bait shops or fishing stores to refernce him to sell their products! Im pumped. itll be sweet to don the bassaholics gear at upcoming tourneys this summer!

tight lines

FLW College Fishing update 3/29/2008

Hey all!

We just had a Penn State Bass Fishing meeting on March 26th and talked about the upcoming tournaments. Our club will be fishing in the FLW college bass series starting this summer. Only 1 team per school can fish if 40 different schools sign up but the odds of that happening in the Northern Division arent very good. The first tourney in scheduled for June in the Potomac River. My partner Jeremy Lake and I are on the waiting list to get into that tournament. However, we are the number 1 team going to fish at 1000 Islands in New York. That tournament is scheduled for Sunday July 18th!

What is cool about these tourneys is that we get to fish with a pro who didnt make the final cut in the FLW Stren Series Tournament being held the day prior to our sunday tourney. We get to ride in their boat and they drive us around. We control the trolling motor and pick where we want to fish.

I am really looking forward to this because it gives Jeremy and I some big time exposure and with a win or even a top 5 finish in these tournaments we win money for our club and our school! Hopefully these tourneys could help me find a sponsorship as well!

Well I just figured I would fill everyone in about one of the many tourneys i will be fishing this summer

Tight Lines!

Foster J. Sayers Dam- Howard, PA March 28, 2009

Woo! Today was the first day in 2009 that I was able to finally take my Procraft out on the lake! I woke up at 6am and got the boat ready and hooked up to the GMC Sierra. My buddy, Todd Dobo, arrived at my house and we were on our way.

We got to the lake, Foster J. Sayers Dam in Howard, PA, and quickly unloaded my boat into the water. I must say that both Todd and I did some serious tackle upgrading over the winter season while ice occupied most of the lakes in the area. I was pumped to use my new Abu Garcia Revo STX on my Berkley pro series rod.

After talking to the lady at Jim's Bait Shop and getting the scoop on how the fish were biting, we were suprised that not many people have been bass fishing on Sayers yet this year... Her fish report was that the perch and crappies were biting pretty good. We laughed and joked that it was a good thing we brought our crappie rigs just in case.

It turned out that we wouldn't need them as the bass were hiting just fine. After motoring across the lake we set up on a rocky point where we figured the fish would be pretty shallow this time of year and the big females would be pretty agressive.

NOTE: Earlier in the week I consulted Scott Laukhuff, if you don't know him, you should! He is a Berkley Pro Staffer and is an advisor for us on the Penn State Bass FIshing team. Did I mention he has his own television show? Check him out at centresportsman.com ! Scott gave me some useful information as he is a resident of Howard and does some frequent fishing on the lake. He told me that he has been out on the lake a few times this year and has had some luck. He recommended using a wiggle wart crank bait in the shallow stuff while cranking as slow as possible.

After only about 10 casts I hooked into my first fish of the day. I was using a bright colored crank bait that dives to a maximum depth of about 1 foot. It was a decent first largemouth bass of the year at about 14 inches long. It was my first catch on my new REVO STX and surely not the last! about ten minutes later I hooked into my second bass of the day. It was a 13 inch largemouth and the second bass a pulled off of that point.

After fishing the heck out of that point we trolled up the the lake throwin our crank baits. Todd ended up switching his color as he was throwing a brown colored crayfish crank. He ended up switching to a bright green rebel crankbait. Boy was that a good decision because after a few casts he hooked into freakin toad! after fighting the fish for a little bit he finally landed his personal best fish, a 18 inch 3.5lb smallie. After pumpin some water into the live well and stickin that big ol pig in there he hooked another big bass on his next cast! It ended up being about a 15 inch largemouth. Pretty nice for the first coupe fish of the year Todd!

We trolled up a little bit further and i ended up hooking a pig. It was a big female smallmouth that was 18 inches and 3lbs. By now it was around 9 oclock and it started getting really windy and overcast. we didnt catch another fish the rest of the time and by noon we were off the water.

In all it was a really good first day of the year. I got to use my new REVO STX and got to blow some dust off of the Procraft. Dobo is definatly hooked too and im sure we will be spending alot time this summer out on the lake.



TIGHT LINES!

Useful Information
Location: Foster J. Sayers Dam Howard, PA
Date: March 28th 2009
Air/ Water Temp: 51`air/49` water
Weather: early morning was calm and partly sunny, 9:30 am-noon was windy and overcast. Fish were hooked between 8 and 9:15am.
Total number of Bass caught: 5 ( 3 Largemouth, 2 big Smallies)
Successful arsenal used: Storm Wiggle Wart and Rebel cranks. Both cranks were predominantly chartuese and dive from 0-2ft.
Weapons Used: I used a REVO STX on a Berkley Pro Series rod and a Abu Garcia Cardinal on an Ugly Stick. Todd used a Stratus reel on a Shakespeare spinning rod
all rods and reels were equipped with Suffix monofilament.
Depth of water fished: anywere between 1 and 4 feet of water. Most bass were caught along the banks, 2 of mine were caught halfway to the boat.

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Hey I'm a little new to this blogging thing.. I am going to try and keep this as updated as possible to help me out and to help others out as well.. I am an avid hunter and fisherman and i try to spend all of my free time in the woods or out on my boat.

I guess i can start with a little bit about myself.... I am 21 years old and a senior at Penn State. I am finishing up in my degree in Kinesiology- Movement Science. Upon graduation (May 16, 2009. I will be attending Slippery Rock University to get my Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. I start in Fall 2009 and will be a DPT by summer 2012.

I have been fishing since I could walk and have been hunting with my Dad, Jim, Since I was 10 years old. I have killed my share of Buck and Doe in my hunting career. I have been lucky enough to get at least 1 deer every year that I have hunted, and i believe this is a great accomplishment for hunting in Central Pennsylvania (WMU's 2E and 4D.) I have shot 2 wallhangers in my life and my dad has shot 4 (i will post pictures of these soon.)

I love to BASS fish, but i have trout fished for much much longer. I am a member of the Penn State Bass Fishing Team and am going to compete in multiple tournaments this summer.