A Promise Made, a Promise Kept

When I talked to my friend Rob (right) this past Thursday, as he was taking his boat out of West Neck, he promised to give me a report on how his fishing went during today's tournament on the Chickahominy River.

It was his monthly club tournament with the Confederate Bassmasters--delayed by one day because club officials had decided they didn't want to share the Chick with all the fishermen from two open tournaments scheduled to be held there yesterday.

Any way you slice it, that would have been a lot of boats and fishermen likely vying for some of the same honey holes, not to mention the extra time that would have been involved with launching and recovering boats. As it turned out, there still was considerable boat traffic to contend with during today's contest, but it likely would have been a lot worse if Confederate officials hadn't made the last-minute date change.

Holding down the backseat of Rob's boat today was his buddy, Mitch (left), who was fishing as a guest. His four bass that you see in the two pictures here weighed slightly better than 10 lbs.

Rob also caught four keeper bass. They tipped the scales at a bit more than 8 lbs. As he explained, three of those fish were long in coming. They weren't caught until the last hour of competition--in repeated casts to the same little area of muddy water.

Unfortunately, neither one of their total weights was good enough to win the tournament. According to Rob, it took 11-plus pounds to capture the top spot.

When asked what worked for him and Mitch today, Rob said the primary bait for both of them was Senkos. However, I understand there was a little frog action early on, too.

Chickahominy is one of the favorite bodies of water for these two avid anglers. Today's contest marked their second tourney on the Chick in recent weeks. They fished a Region 7 tourney there on Saturday, Aug. 2.