Place: Cooper River Park, NJ
Time: 5:30AM-12:30pm
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2013
Weather: Cool and comfy 68 Degree morning start. with nice sunrise. It gave way to clear blue bird skies and a hot 87 Degree by mid-day. By 10am, the sun was baking everything on the water and things got a bit uncomfortable with the temps and sun beating down on the anglers.
Water Temps: 75.5 Degrees at initial start. Warming up to 81 degrees on the main body of the water.
Water Clarity: somewhat clear in area across from boat ramp. Very Pea Stained going pass Cuthbert Blvd. with Visability less than less than 1.0'
Wind Gust: 5-10mph... Could have use a bit more.
Best Lure: Drop shot, SK Rattletraps, Finesse Worms
Depths fished: 2.0'~4.5'
Bass Limit: 3
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WHATCHA GONNA DO....WHEN THE HULKSTER RUNS WILD ON YOU BRUTHA?
with the water color and the apparent Pillow factory on strike with all of these feathers....
these are some of the conditions that met those who tried to be like Ike....
Cooper River Park brought out all of the SJHT heavy hitters and some for the 1st time.
Meet the SJHT Avatar aka Jeff *FishFul Thinking*
I'm not gonna lie....Cooper River stumped me and my partner for most of the day. We pretty much through everything outside the kitchen sink, but not till the last 15mins~20mins of the Tournament did we catch and land 4 quick keeper bass. Pretty cool eh Jiggen Den.
Alright back to today's festivities. With this years 2013 Club Tag Team Belts on the line and 2 time Champs Kyle and Kerry making an appearance, SJHT had 22 members come out to do battle at the Coop.
even the sailboats came out for the party....
Sorry to digress.... Lol!
Once again SJHT had another fantastic club turnout.
There were a total of 32 bass caught weighing a total of 50.09lbs . 5 members caught there limit of 3 Bass. 16 out of 22 anglers caught at least 1 bass. This gave way to avg. weight of 1.57lbs. Lunker Fish was noted and won by Jimbo with a weight of 3.26lbs.
Let's give a big congrats to baseball commish for his sons league and not too often seen Jimbo for taking 1st place with 3 Bass going 6.22lbs and Lunker Bass going 3.26lbs . 2nd Place was won by The Silent Assassin Action Jackson F. with 3 Bass going 6.02lbs. 3rd Place was won by Brian *BassHopper* S. with 3 Bass weighing 5.23lbs.
Congrats Men on this individual accomphlishment!!!
Jimbo's 1st place and Lunker
Jackson *Silent Assassin* F. 2nd Place and 2013 Co-Tag Team Cooper River Champ:
Brian *BassHopper* S. 3rd Place:
Cooper River Park Tale of the Tape:
Other notable members and there catches:
Dennis *Jiggen Den* T.
Kerry *Big856K* S. bass:
White Mike's Keeper Bass
Brian *SubFish* M. 3 Keepers:
Rob *Ram1212* M. 2 Keepers:
Members around for the weigh-in:
Sunday was not only a tough day fishing day for most, but the combine high air temps and sun beating down made some anglers a little crispy. Anglers reported many dinks caught. Not sure how many times the winners culled or even if they had the opportunity.
Since the work on the Rt. 130 overpass and the lower than normal water levels, anglers found themselves fishing outside there normal shoreline areas. That's not to say that no bass were caught shallow. Finding the right water seem to be the ticket at Cooper.
Thanks again to all of the SJHT members for coming out today. Congrats again to this years 2013 SJHT Tag Team Champs. Jackson F. and Dan F.!!! Your names, date, and Lake name will be engraved on this years belts.
Next week is Stone Tavern. Way to compete and congrats to the check cashiers!!!
Tightlines,
BN06
Edited by BigNasty06 on 08/11/2013
BN06, President
Congrats Jimbo, dont you have baseball games you need to be at? Congrats to Brian also and Rob and Brian M for making it close. Belts arent just for holding pants up.
Congrats to all the winners and limit holders. I't was an interesting day out there for sure. Big Al, is quite a funny guy to say the least. Jackson and Dan good job on grabbing the belts