Black Lake Lunker Hunters

Black Lake Lunker Hunters

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Sept 15th - 17th Dash for Cash weekend

Dash for Cash Weigh-in.  Only 8.09 lbs in the sack. 28th place.

 Boats at the launch before take-off.
 Crusing in to the launch.
 Carol, Ben & Tim at the Dash.
 Lunker Board. (hour 7 was 5.09 team 40)

Dash for Cash - Big Bass - Lunker Hunt weekend.

Arrived late Friday night.  It rained real hard almost the whole ride to the cottage.

Saturday 15th -  Practice day.  A cold fron moved in overnight.  43 degrees to start.  Wind 5 - 10 mph.  Fished 7:10 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.  Caught 10 bass.  Only 1 keeper.  Warmed up to 65 degrees, but the wind was chilly.

Sunday 16th - Tournament day.  Alarm clock went off at 4:00 a.m.  Starry sky, calm, no wind. 49 degrees.  Headed to the launch at 5:30 a.m.  Take off was at 6:25 a.m.  We caught 13 fish for the day.  Denise caught most of them.  Our 3 biggest were 3 lb 2 oz, 2 lb 7 oz and 2 lb 5 oz.  Total weight 7 lbs 14 oz.  Official tournament scale weight was 8.09 lbs.  We didn't have enough weight to finish in the top 20.  21st place weighed 8.52 lbs.  We were a tad short this year finishing in 28th place.  The winner of the tournament had 15.51 lbs.  They had 3 lunkers of the hour and lunker of the day.  Crushing the rest of the field.  Lunker of the day was 5.82 lbs.

Monday 17th -  No fishing.

Well, we had a blast fishing the tournament even though we didn't win any money.  Weather was perfect again.  Sunny all day, no wind until the afternoon.  High temp was around 70 degrees.  Looking forward to next year already.  Till next time folks...      Fish On!

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