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Basscasters Wednesday Evening Tournament – #11
Posted by Staff in Basscasters Wednesday Evening on August 30, 2010
Week #11– 528 Launch
| 1st | Blain Bartley, Jr./Blain Bartley,Sr. | 3 | 7.39 |
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| 2nd | Chuck Walker/ | 2 | 5.16 |
| 3rd | Jim Lambert/Steve Longwell | 2 | 4.44 |
| 4th | Jeff McMasters/Rich Gavula | 2 | 3.54 |
| 5th | Randy Rose/Jim Bohrer | 2 | 3.37 |
| 6th | Keith E. Brown/Dawn Schaffner | 2 | 3.3 |
| 7th | Larry Schmeider/Jim Mitchell | 1 | 3.29 |
| 8th | Justin Mazzanti/Jeff Hall | 1 | 2.07 |
| Lunker | Blain Bartley, Jr./Blain Bartley,Sr. | LM | 4.18 |
2010 Angler of the Year Standings
Biggest Bags and Biggest Lunkers of 2010
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Lake Arthur Tournaments
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on August 24, 2010
Recently I competed in multiple tournaments on Lake Arthur. First, dad and I fished the KBBC Event on August 14th. We were in the second flight so we fished from 7-3:30. Flight number and boat number didn’t matter much because we haven’t been able to put a pattern together and we haven’t been able to locate fish at Lake Arthur all year. Before the tournament started we decided to come out junk fishing.
We started the day by fishing a couple brush piles which yeilded zero fish. Then we tried powerfishing a weed line. Once again nothing. We decided to slow down and fish a couple of small sets of lilly pads. It was slightly better because dad managed to catch a dink. After that we decided to run to a stump and a beaver hut. Again we came up empty. So we decided to try to fish another weed line, and each of us caught a dink. Continuing to struggle around 9:00 I decided I wanted to flip a bush that has given me numerous keepers throughout the years. Before I got to the bush I caught a dink outside it swimming a jig. My next cast was a pitch into the bush. And like it has done many times it gave me a keeper. It was a start. Then after a couple minutes I remembered where another bush was I wanted to hit. First cast was another keeper. The jig bite was one and so was the flipping bite! Neither have been working all year for me. Dad lost a keeper smallie shortly after my second keeper. On that lake you just can’t afford to loose fish and we knew it, but we kept our spirits and ran to another tree. It was now 10:15 and I nailed another keeper. This time it was a decent 3.78lb largemouth. With 3 keepers in the well and nearly 5 hours to fish we felt really good about our chances for more fish. However, the rest of the day consisted of short strikes and plenty of dinks. At least until 2:45 when we caught another keeper largemouth on a jig. That day we ended up finishing in 10th place with 9.28lbs. Not bad for not being on any type of pattern until that day. Check out the Lake Arthur KBBC standings here.
After a good tournament with dad, I fished the Kyle Mcfeely Tournament with Jon the next weekend at Lake Arthur. It was a well run benefit tournament hosted by Jerry Hanna and CDS Sporting Goods. Jon and I felt good about our chances going into the tournament because now both of us were on fish and they were in the same end of the lake. That almost never happens for us. I will not go into too much detail because we only were able to catch 1 keeper and it was a baby at that. However, the tournament was a success in raising money and a job well done by the CDS crew. I look forward to fishing the event next year and supporting their cause. For tournament result and stats check out the CDS Sporting Goods webiste.
Deep Diving Crankbaits for Largemouth Bass
Posted by Staff in Tip of the Week on August 16, 2010
Here the Linders give some tips on how to catch largemouth bass on crankbaits.
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Post Spawn Transition Areas
Posted by skinard in Kinard's Fishing Blog on July 7, 2010
Summer is now here and the bass fishing, in Western PA, has heated up along with the hot temperatures. The Largemouth Bass have completed their spawing for the year and are now in a post spawn pattern. Post spawn largemouth will hold in the transition areas in post spawn until they enter their summer patterns. Bass fishing is all about opportunities and catching the fish at the right moment. Post spawn largemouth feed heavily to gain weight after the spawn. This is a fine opportunity to locate schools of bass on staging areas. A staging area can be anything from a point, hump, roadbed, wood, rubble, etc. The key factor to locating the school is finding where the bait is and also finding the areas closer to deeper water. If you can find these areas, all you have to do is look for the cover on the structure and that’s where you will find success. The baits that work this time of year depend on the forage and also the lake that you are fishing. Covering water with fast moving search baits will give you the clues you need to locate the fish. Although the post spawn can be breif, it is a great opportunity to hit your local waterway and test your skills to find the bass. Here’s a few videos I took from a great day on a small lake. Boated or lost around 40 bass all in the 3 to 4 lb range and a couple over 5+! Post spawn patterns and transition areas can equal big bass days for the opportunistic bass angler.
Stormy Shenago Lake
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on June 8, 2010
Some friends, my dad and I spent the weekend camping and fishing at Shenago Lake. The campground was not crowded at all. Which was due to the forecast of rough weather that was going to hit that area. With the recent rains the water had risen, but not an excessive amount. My estimate was that the water was nearly 1 foot high when we arrived, and rose another foot while we where there. The water clearity varied greatly. On the main lake there was 4 feet of clearity, but in the feeder creeks you were lucky to see 6″ in the muddy water.
Friday evening we started fishing around 8:00 pm and fished until 9:30. We wanted to see if the striper were active, and if we could get a topwater bite. The night was pretty successful with the 3 of us catching over 10 bass. Most of which were on top water. None of the fish were big, but topwater is fun no matter what the size of the fish is. Tony, one of my best friends, even managed to hook up with a nice walleye on a spinnerbait.
Saturday Dad and I headed out on the water and fished from 7-12 in the morning. It was probably the single best morning I have ever had at Shenago. We managed to boat 26 bass and a catfish. We caught fish on buzzbaits, spooks, multiple crankbaits, tubes, beavers, and brush hogs. Colors were wide ranged, but the ones that seemed to work best were transparent/natural colors. The depth of water we caught fish varied greatly. We caught them flipping the shallows, topwater shallow, and deep and shallow cranking. It seemed like the fish were all over the board, but when you found 1 you found multiple fish. We headed in for lunch and ended up sitting out a pretty severe storm until 3. At that point we wanted to get on the water. The three of us started fishing again. I tied a crankbait on and never put it down for the next 2 hours. I caught 2 pike, catfish, multiple bass, and a couple crappie. Then the next severe storm came through so we called it a day.
We woke up Sunday to bad weather and high winds. That being said we thought it best not to head out on the water. For the amount of time we were able to fish we were pretty successful, which makes me anxious to get back out there.
Mr. Bass East TBF Potomac River
Posted by Bass Hounds in The Bass Hounds Blog on May 11, 2010
April 23rd and 24th mark the dates for the Mr. Bass East TBF tournament. Four members of The Bass Hounds team headed down for a few days of pre-fishing and then the two day tournament. Boaters Rich Wolota and Brad Bressler left on Monday night and arrived at Smallwood state park Tuesday morning to start fishing. Co-anglers Jeff Spencer and Derek Severns left Wednesday night and arrived Thursday in the am to fish a little and prepare for Fridays first day.
During the couple days of pre fishing, Rich had his spots and fish dialed in, a limit both days should have not been a problem. Rich was having excellent luck with a Poor Boys darter jig, with a Poor Boys KISS Craw trailer, both in green pumpkin. On the other hand Brad found fish, but not as many keepers as he had hoped for. The size limit at the Potomac is 15” and most of the fish Brad was on were 14 ¾ inches. Brad was catching a lot fish on Poor Boys Dixie Darter in black and also using green pumpkin. Even though the fishing was slow as far as keepers went, the fishing overall was very, very good, each angler reported catching anywhere from 30 to 50 fish a day.
On day one of the tournament Rich went straight to the spot that he had found this week and was very happy to find that he had this area all to himself. He was able to boat about 25 fish that first day but only two kept. Rich said, “I broke off two fish early in the day, both were really good fish, I also missed a couple bites, I am pretty disappointed, but we will see what tomorrow brings.” Brad started the day off with a keeper on his first cast, a largemouth weighing in at 3.81 lbs. A great start he thought, then he caught 3 short fish in his next 5 casts. Believe it or not Brad caught around 35 fish on day one but that first fish on his first cast was his only keeper. Co-anglers Jeff and Derek did well, Jeff finished the first day off with 2 keepers for 5.41 lbs and Derek had 4 keepers for 10.23 lbs. Both Jeff and Derek reported catching a lot of short fish, which seemed to be the way it was for most anglers.
Day two brought new hope of better results than the day before. Brad started his day off by running to a new area in hopes of some bigger bites. He did find them; Brad used his Poor Boys 4” tube in watermelon color to find these fish. He ended the day with 3 keepers for 11.89 lbs. Rich on the other hand went back to the spot that he fished the day before and today he did not lose or miss any fish. Rich did indeed catch his limit and his five fish weighed in at 13.57. Rich threw the same Poor Boys jig and trailer that he used the day before. The co-anglers on the team did not fair as well, Jeff had two more keepers on day two for 6.11 lbs. and Derek had only one fish for 2.22 lbs. Derek mentioned that he caught around 30 fish on day two, but only the one kept.
All said and done the trip did not produce the results the team had hoped for but everyone had a great time…Rich Wolota finished 15th and Brad Bressler finished 22nd in the anglers division…while Derek Severns finished 17th and Jeff Spencer finished 21st on the co-anglers side. The team looks to improve on these finishes next month at the Western 6 Man Team event on Lake Erie June 26th and 27th. The team would like to thank all of there sponsors, Valvoline Oil, Strauss Automotive, Nervous Waters, Ardent Reels, Poor Boys Baits, Metal Menders, Fish Pittsburgh.com and Nowak Commercial Refinishes.
Presque Isle and Pymatuning Lake
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 3, 2010
Saturday my dad, Dave, and myself went up to Presque Isle Bay because we heard that the smallmouth bass had started to move into the bay. For anyone who hasn’t been to the bay in the spring you have to make the trip. We started by fishing for largemouth straight across from the launch. It didn’t take long and Dave caught one on a tube and I hooked up with a swimbait. I was determined to use the swimbait because I knew the chatterbait would catch a bunch of fish. I managed to catch 3 largemouth on the swimbait through the day. that isn’t impressive, but it is a little confidence builder to keep trying them. throughout the day we caught smallmouth on jerkbaits, tubes, and drop shot worms. We spent most of the day fishing for them. I believe we caught over 20 between the 3 of us and we caught over 25 largemouth. We caught largemouth on brush hogs, swimbaits, chatterbaits, tubes, beavers, and jerkbaits. The water temperature was 58 – 60 degrees. The fish were not spawning, and the males were not making beds yet. I believe in 2 weeks there will be an explosion of fish getting on the beds.
Sunday even though there were bad weather predictions I decided to head to Pymatuning Lake to fish a club tournament. The club I belong to (West Penn Bass Hunters) was launching from Jamestown Marina. With strong winds predicted to come out of the South we were protected from the wind to some degree. I pulled up to my first tree and caught a nice 2.5lb fish. I started throwing rattletraps to my next tree and caught a nice 15 inch largemouth out of a small weed bed. I started work the tree and nothing. I decided to just keeper moving down the shore throwing the rattletrap because I have had some success for smallmouth bass there. It didn’t take long and I had caught 5 more keepers, and lost 2 on the rattletrap. Even though they were keepers I released them all because I feel that stressing 12-14″ bass is unnecessary at that lake. You aren’t going to win with one of them in the well anyways. Jumping spot to spot landed me catching another nice 2.86lb largemouth on a chatterbait. My gut told me to run north, but with building wind and aready high waves I decided to stay in the south. I caught some fish flipping, but decided to try a variety of different tatics with no success. During the last hour I decided to run around the lake and flip every tree I could find. It turned out to be the right move. I culled five bass in the last hour. I won the tournament with 3 fish that weighed 7.45lbs. I also won lunker with the 2.86lb fish. Not a very impressive day, but it was fun none the less.
April Bass Fishing in Western PA
Posted by skinard in Kinard's Fishing Blog on April 26, 2010
After a long cold winter we are all anxious to get back out on the water. Here in Western PA it can take a while for the water to warm up though. After the ice is off it usually takes 6 weeks or so until the water comes up to a temperature that is more suitable for bass catching. It’s now the last week of April and the action is heating up on our local lakes. We are fast approaching the best time of the year to be on the water. With water temps approaching 60 degrees or more the bass are preparing to spawn. Pre-spawn bass will group up on staging areas close to where they plan to spawn. These staging areas may be deeper or shallow area but are near deeper water where they can pull back to when the water de-stabilizes. Staging area to focus on include creek channels, roadbeds, and drop off’s. Finding these areas and then determining the cover they are holding on is key (stumps, logs, brush, weeds, etc). I’ve caught a few decent bass so far this year while practicing for local tournaments… but no real giants yet. This fact should change in the coming weeks with the predictability level of big bass movements for the spawn. My suggestion for May is “get out and fish”! No matter what body of water you are on or what species you fish for, May has something for everyone and is the best time of year to hook into a true trophy freshwater gamefish.
April Weekend at Lake Arthur
Posted by Jon Parker in Parker's Fishing Blog on April 12, 2010
I fished both days this weekend at Lake Arthur. On Saturday my Dad and I put in at the 528 launch around 10 am and started fishing up in Shannon’s bay. We got a few largemouth on chatterbaits and spinnerbaits as well as had a few musky that were following our lures to the boat. Next, we ran up to the old 422 finger and fished in the bays across from the launch with no luck. Then we ran back to fish some laydowns in muddy creek with nothing to show for it. We only caught one keeper all day on Saturday so my hopes for doing well in my club tournament on Sunday were not very high.
Sunday we put in at bear run at 7 am and I ran straight to Shannon’s bay where we had caught a few fish the day before. On my first cast I had a musky come up to the boat and bite off my chatterbait. Then I picked up my spinnerbait, made a few more casts and had another musky hooked up that straightened out my trailer hook. Still not having caught a bass, I grabbed my Red Eye Shad and within a few cast it was gone. Something ate it off. I’m guessing a musky. I was getting a little pissed at this point, so I moved in close to an isolated weed patch and started pitching a beaver. After about a dozen flips in a little musky or pike flash on it and bit it off. That was enough of that so I picked up and ran down to old 422. I made a few cast with my chatterbait and caught a small largemouth. A few cast later, I hooked what looked to be a really good largemouth that came straight at me shaking her head but it came unbuttoned. After loosing that fish, I stuck around for awhile but didn’t get anything else. For next few hours I ran around trying all kinds of different spots: weeds, laydowns, piles, ect. No fish. Finally, I ran into muddy creek around one o’clock and started pitching a craw into some shallow brush that I have caught fish off of in the past. I got hit on my first pitch but missed the fish. I made a few pitches getting hit each time but missing the fish. After about 15 pitches, I hooked up with a solid 3.69lb largemouth. I put her in the boat and made a few more pitches and got a 3.5 lb largemouth. I finished out the day fishing laydowns and managed to get my 3rd keeper, a 15″ largemouth. My total weight with a three fish limit was 9.01 lbs. All my keepers came in about three feet of water off wood on a green pumpkin craw.
K.B.B.C – Lake Arthur #1 2010 Top 20
Results from the Lake Arthur Tournament on April 3, 2010
| Place | TeamID | Names | Net Lunker | Net Wt | #Fish |
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| 1 | 176 | Tipler / Fox / | 4.98 | 17.08 | 6 |
| 2 | 122 | Kopelic / Wade | 4.02 | 16.42 | 6 |
| 3 | 111 | Moran / Lambert / | 3.56 | 12.95 | 6 |
| 4 | 205 | Hall / Caddy / | 5.34 | 12.53 | 3 |
| 5 | 186 | Brown / Brown / | 3.19 | 10.68 | 4 |
| 6 | 123 | Knis / Eck / | 4.31 | 9.59 | 4 |
| 7 | 112 | Keene / Zurzolo / | 2.48 | 8.95 | 5 |
| 8 | 204 | Parkhill / Filipiak | 5.11 | 8.71 | 3 |
| 9 | 145 | Bruno / Kristoff / | 2.71 | 8.08 | 4 |
| 10 | 257 | Fordyce / DiVito / | 3.58 | 6.91 | 3 |
| 11 | 151 | Konitsky / Konitsky / | 3.33 | 6.86 | 3 |
| 12 | 101 | Galida / Barkley / | 2.12 | 6.77 | 4 |
| 13 | 208 | Richardson / Reich / | 3.02 | 5.82 | 3 |
| 14 | 226 | Doerflinger / Kinard / | 2.23 | 5.8 | 3 |
| 15 | 246 | Whelan / Allen / | 3.75 | 5.62 | 2 |
| 16 | 135 | Getsy / Shutty / | 1.78 | 5.31 | 3 |
| 17 | 244 | Snyder / Snyder / | 2.38 | 4.86 | 2 |
| 18 | 133 | Wagner / Wagner / | 2.6 | 4.69 | 2 |
| 19 | 557 | Harbaugh / Stiegler / | 2.97 | 4.65 | 2 |
| 20 | 141 | Towne / Selvoski / Belinda | 2.74 | 4.61 | 2 |
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Visit the Keystone Bass Buddy Circuit website at www.kbass.com to see the full list of results as well as pictures from this event.
If you are interest in fishing a K.B.B.C. event you can download an application from there website.
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