MSSA fall tourny

[B-Faithful]

Failed to land a winner but had a good time anyhow..

Sat- PLO with Reeltor. We had 12 fish to mid 30" range
Sun- Solomons with Mark1234. We had 5 fish with this one going the biggest of the weekend.

[Spot77]

We didn't enter the tourney, but we fished yesterday and could see a lot of boats near the bridge when we looked that way with the binoculars.

Finally saw some Gannets hitting the water, albeit sporadically at best.

We managed 7 decent fish last night from 18 to 26 inches. Not bad for about 4 hours of fishing.

We had a few knock downs that we out of this world, but the fish didn't stay on. I fought one for about 3 minutes just to have him come unbuttoned about 10 feet from the boat. Damn!!

We stayed near our "usual spot" in 6 to 12 ft of water, and the water was nice and flat.

[Spot77]

So for those of you that participated in the MSSA tourney.....anyone have any good stories to share?


Lures that worked?

Spot any birds?

Drink too much and puke?

[Bend-Lure]

We had a blast this weekend as well. We fished out of solomons. Our biggest was only 15 pounds, but we had a great time. Water was smooth as glass all weekend .

[B-Faithful]

A lot of our caught fish were deep... Bait was exceptionally deep. I am talking 50' down. Also it helped to turn into the current over bait so that the lures faced into the current. (I am an east west troller to find bait then circle it.. would circle into the current)

[Spot77]

Looks like results, when finalized will be posted here: http://www.mssa.net/tournaments.html

All results are unofficial and subject to change until all anglers who have won $5,000 or more pass their polygraph tests.

[Bend-Lure]

We caught most of our fish by dropping the engines into neutral over the large pods of bait. Fish would hit the falling baits and get hooked up when I put the engines back in gear.