High Water Last Time, Low Water This Time

Learning to adapt to dramatic water-level fluctuations is a must when you fish the North Landing River. For example, we had water completely over one of the catwalks at West Neck Marina when we launched boats on tourney day last Saturday. With the water more than a foot lower today than it was then, anglers weren't able to get anywhere close to a lot of the water they fished last weekend. Nevertheless, most of the 13 fishermen in eight boats found fish today.

Leading the pack today was this team, comprised of Mike Miller (left) and Chris Fretard, who brought a sack of five bass to the scales weighing a total of 13.05 lbs. The fish Chris is holding weighed in at 5.27 lbs., which was good enough to lay claim to big-fish honors for the day, too.

Second place today went to the team of Bob Glass and Randy Conkle. While Bob holds up a couple of their nicer fish...

Randy accepts the envelope containing the winnings for their five-fish limit that tipped the scales at 9.05 lbs. Their big fish weighed 2.04 lbs.







Here is how everyone else finished today:

     * The team of Tim Ackal and Matt Ennes, five fish, total weight 6.97 lbs., big fish 1.59 lbs.
     * Jim Wilder, five fish, total weight 6.36 lbs., big fish 2.16 lbs.

     * The team of Al Lemieux and Noah Alford, four fish, total weight 6.18 lbs., big fish 2.88 lbs. Seen here is Noah, holding up two of the nicer fish, including the 2.88 that he and his grandpa boated today.






     * Ken Testorff, four fish, total weight 4.83 lbs., big fish 1.66 lbs.

The team of Bill Zink and Walter McGraw didn't weigh any fish. The same was true of Gary Coderre.

Those 10 anglers who participated in the weigh-in accounted for a total of 28 bass weighing a grand total of 46.44 lbs, which translates into an average weight of 1.6 lbs. per fish.

Five more anglers qualified today to fish our season-ending two-day Classic on Oct. 12-13 by virtue of having fished four tourneys this season. Included are Al Lemieux, Gary Coderre, Chris Fretard, Mike Miller, and Bob Glass.

For planning purposes, our next tourney is scheduled for Saturday, May 4. Fishing hours will be safe light (or approximately 6 a.m.) to 2 p.m. Please note that these hours are different than what we've been fishing.