The good news: We all made it through safely and had a lot of fun.
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-- The bad news: While we caught some fish, none were Snakeheads.
The details:
It was an auspicious beginning as all the "food" on the menu at the Mattawoman Restaurant was made by the Frito-Lay company. Everything else came in a bottle. They were cheap bottles, though! After tracking down more suitable sustenance, in the form of crab cakes, fried oysters, fries and mac & cheese, we made our way to Smallwood Park for the start of the tournament. Following the pre-tournament conference, fishing began at 6:30 on Saturday. With three of us in the boat and the other 2 in stealth mode via canoe, we hit the water. Fishier-looking water would be hard to find. We saw (and rowed through) more spatterdock and lily pads than you could believe. Some of the lily pads were as large as 18 inches.
Despite Dan's outstanding use of blue LED rope lights on his kayak, we decided that kayaks on the water at night was probably not the wisest idea, so they stowed the 'yaks for the overnight and three of us took to the boat. The other two had drawn the short straws and had to sleep - pity. Come first light, we reconvened and took up Saturday's configuration of 3 in the boat and 2 in kayaks.
We fished hard - top water, sub surface, noisy flies, baitfish patterns, you name it - Dan was even throwing a wine cork at them! And while we found several largemouth and one hungry catfish, we only had two confirmed sightings of Snakeheads taking interest in our offerings. Unfortunately, neither of those fish decided to eat.
Overall, we all had a lot of fun and learned a thing or two. I think the main thing that we learned is that you don't want to be fishing from your kayak in a cove when a boat full of bow hunters comes charging in!
The full results will be posted to the website soon, but I believe the winning team shot 14 fish for 106 lbs. I think the winning road and reel team landed 7 fish, but I could be wrong on that. In total, over 1,000 pounds of Snakeheads were weighed in.
Looking forward to next year's tournament already.
--Scott
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Bob Smith <planesmith@aol.com> wrote:
So? Did anybody catch any fly rod snakeheads? Did everyone come through safely? Was it a good time?
Cheers, Bob Smith
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