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
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
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
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
Monday, May 25, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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!
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!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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!
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!
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