Lake Boon(e) Fishing Report

MAFF Tournament Finale 2010 - Lake Boon(e)

Our day started off pretty shaky, with both of us having the morning blues due to the cold weather. We managed to stick it out through the desire to just head home and get some more sleep, fortunately. After standing around at the store for a while, everyone finally got on the water and we got going.

The cold weather made for a slow start to the day, as we opened up right at the start point. A nibble or two, but nothing going on. We fished our way out towards the first larger basin without much action. We did see someone else pull two fish out in a hurry, and could only hope that they were on our team.

We rolled up on a big dock in one of the channels, and Mark is rolling up on the other side of it. He pulls a keeper out, I pull our first fish which ends up a whisker under 12. That would be my theme for the day. We leave the dock to Mark (sorry Mark, probably should have passed it by completely. My bad.) and move on into the main lake portion to fish some more docks as the sun starts peaking out now and then.

We're laughing hard about our troubles with properly skipping stuff when suddenly Sam gets the first fish of the day. Soft bite, didn't even know it was there. In the boat it goes, it's a solid pound and change keeper. Feeling good about being on the board, we keep moving along. I get another short soon after, and we decide to make a move since the area is pretty crowded.

We make a run down to the next channel and pick out some nice looking docks with lots of cover. In the next couple hours we fished the crap out of the docks on that side. I got another 3 or 4 shorts, Sam pulls out a short as well. As we make our way down the Lake, we spend extra time on some of the docks to give the fish a chance to wake up and smell the plastics. Sam hooks up with a fish that thumped his lure and starts wrestling with it. He seems pretty calm, but I notice his rod being doubled over and his effort to keep the fish under control so I grab the net and get ready. We get her in the boat, and it's a beauty of a fish, at 4lb 4oz. This ended up being the lunker for the day. Sam has been chasing the 4 pounder mark all season, and he finally gets it to close out the MAFF season. High fives are in order before we move on!

We're both stoked at this point, and keep pounding the docks to grab a limit. We both miss decent fish and get some more shorts, but the docks are drying up. At this point, most of the ones we hit got fished already and haven't reloaded it seems. But we make our way back to the dock where we got the first short, since it looked like it would be big enough for multiples. Sure enough, I skip a senko up under a pontoon boat and connect with my first and our third keeper of the day. We lose another fish at that dock, a borderline keeper that would have been nice at this point.

We now have 90 minutes left and are two short of a limit, so we head in to check out the shallows again in hopes that the warmer weather has triggered the bite. Sam pulls another keeper off some fallen brush while we head for a spot that I've caught fish on almost every time out. I have a fish swing and miss at my senko as I am bringing it in, just another miss in a long day of being the driver =) Fortunately, Sam manages to pull our 5th and last keeper off the spot with 30 minutes to spare.

We fish out the last minutes, feeling pretty good about our bag from what we've overheard. Our guess is a high 8, maybe low 9 bag. We watch the weigh-in, and a 9lb4oz bag looks good enough to top ours. Mark then pulls out a pig that looks about even with our biggest, and we don't hear the weight on it. When we finally weigh in, we come out with a 9lb10oz bag and the lunker, and we are both stoked and a little shocked. A fantastic way to end the season, and a nice feeling after having struggled in my first few tournaments as a new boater.

There aren't enough thanks to be said to Johnny and Smoke for arranging and running these tournaments, and to all the people that make up the MAFF circuit =) It's a great bunch of people to be fishing with, and we look forward to more of the same next year!

• Added By: michaelk on 10/05/10 10:02 AM
• Also There: samf
• Location: Lake Boon(e)
• Report Date: 9/3/2010
• # of Hotspots: 2
• # of Photos: 1
• # of Fish Caught: 5
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