Place: Lums Pond, Bear, DE
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2017
Time: 6:10am-2:10pm
Weather: Initially rain and spotty Thundering\lightening before tournament started. Overcast Skies with a seasonable 65 degree start. Later warming up to a Hot 85 Degrees with Sunny skies.
Water Temps: 69.3 Degrees. with Northeastern areas in the 72 Degree range.
Water Clarity: Less 1.5'
Wind Gust: 5-10mph.
Best Lure: 6th sense 1~3ft diving crankbait, smallie Beavers, & Traps
Depths fished: 3.0'~ 5.5''
Limit: 3
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As the song "Ring my bell....(Long pause).........Ring my Bell....my Bell ringer a ding ding" go!!!! That's how we felt as SJHT anglers ventured to the great state of Delaware.
Round 6 of our 2017 season allowed us to visit LUMS Pond located down in Bear, DE This place has always been special and dear to many anglers hearts as the Big Girls tend to show themselves whenever we visit.
Now that the NJ BASS season is officially closed to tournament style events\weigh ins, 21 of SJHT finest traveled down to LUMS Pond, Delaware to give there all and try to make up some ground on 2017 Points Leader Big Bass Man Sam.....who I might add was present for this particular event.
Without further adieu, please give a big shout out to Kyle *WallHanger* S. for taking 1st place with 3 Bass weighing 7.03lbs. 2nd Place was won by Jackson F. with 3 Bass going 5.89lbs. 3rd Place was Trapper with 3 Bass going 5.30lbs. Overall Lunker was won by Now you see me...Now you Don't Bill *The Hammer* L. going 2.94lbs.
Congrats to all and Way to fish till the end!!!
LUMS Pond TALE OF THE TAPE:
Kyle's 3 Bass Limit:
Jackson's 2nd Place Bag: Not Picture:
Trapper's 3rd Place Keeper:
Bill *The Hammer* L. Lunker catch:
Other Fellow anglers action:
Brian *SubFish* M. catch:
Nice size crappie.....
Sam *Big Bass Man* F. catch:
Matt's 2 Keepers:
Laynes' keeper:
Joe Rendell H. 2 Keepers:
and him trying to catch a limit at the end:
Everyone coming back in the end:
Rob's M. 2 Keepers:
BN06 2 Keepers:
Shot of Full parking lot at Weigh-In:
Summary: What can I say? Where were the Big Girls? Good question. In what can only be explained as mother nature staying in charge, the Post-Pawn conditions, Empty beds, Early lightening Storm, brief drizzle of rain, and full moon from over-night, I feel definitely played a role in the below normal bags of Bass caught this weekend. If one was to look at these Bass, they were definitely not the Mother Load that we're use to. Personally, I caught numerous sub 12" Bass but could not find anything larger than what's pictured below.
Pics from my day on the water on the boat:
14 out of 21 Anglers caught at least 1 Bass. This fisheries output nearly tripled our output from last weeks total where we caught 21 Bass today that yielded 40.54lbs in Total weight. That gave way to an avg. of 1.50lbs per Bass.
Congrats to all of the fish catchers and those that assisted with the Launching and loading up of boats\trailers.
Next up is back to the NorthEast River, MD out of Anchor Marine in little less than 2 weeks.
Tightlines,
BN06
Edited by BigNasty06 on 04/30/2017
BN06, President
2017 Official standings after LUMS Pond Tournament.
T's fished Name Points Lunker YTD Fish YTD Wgt
4 Sam F. (R) 41.79 5.54 7 20.79
6 Rob Masterson 36.14 5.24 7 15.14
3 Kyle S. 32.65 3.6 6 13.65
6 Brian M. 29.02 2.06 8 12.02
4 Joe Henderson 25.46 3.47 6 13.46
6 Dan Fitzpatrick 23.57 3.28 5 11.57
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5 Jackson Fu 19.02 2.16 4 7.02
3 Layne Ell 18.34 3.62 3 9.34
3 White Mike 17.88 3.38 3 8.88
5 Bill Leach 15.99 2.94 3 6.99
6 Big Nasty 14.79 1.68 4 4.79
4 Andy Trapper 13.3 2.16 3 5.3
3 Matt R. 11.74 1.26 4 4.74
4 Bill *Trooper* C. 11.01 3.45 2 5.01
4 Dave S. 10.24 3.19 2 4.24
4 Dennis Tolentino 10.1 3.32 2 4.1
3 John Barrett 8.63 0.88 3 2.63
5 Wayne *Moe* Sr. 6.79 0.79 1 0.79
3 Joe Reed 6.02 2.02 1 2.02
2 John P. 4.95 1.95 1 1.95
4 Carlos J. (R) 4 - - -
2 Gary K. 2 - - -
2 Taylor S. (R) 2 - - -
2 Mark R. (R) 2 - - -
1 Al Coppolino 1 - - -
Edited by BigNasty06 on 04/30/2017
BN06, President
Congrats Kyle for first place and some decent fish. Congrats Jackson on 2nd place and Trapper for taking 3rd. Way to go guys. I myself had a 2 shorts and I mean short one of my bass was a big as my 5" worm I just could not find the bass Don't know what I was doing wrong.
Congrats Kyle on another win! Also congrats to Jackson getting back in the money and Trap for 3rd place finish. As promised, here is the a video of my lost fish. Unfortunately, you can not see the water, but the struggle is clear.
Congrats Kyle on the win and Jackson and Trap on the runners-up. Can't believe it was that tough a day out there. They gotta start eating sometime. See ya in a week or so