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We
had 16 boats with 25 members and guests fishing Riffe Lake where the
water temperatures were right around 70 degrees, the lake at full pool
and air temperatures right around 80 degrees. As usual the wind
blew starting in the late morning. The catch was good with seven
limits on Saturday and five on Sunday with quite a few good fish brought
to the scales. There were 90 fish brought to the scales with a 3.6
average per angler for 6.6 pounds on Saturday and 71 fish ( with 3 fewer
anglers ) brought to the scales with a 3.2 fish per angler for 6.5
pounds on Sunday. So the fishing was about the equal for both
days. All in all it was one of the best Riffe Lake club
tournaments.
Rounding out the top five was Ken Ganancial with 16.23 pounds.
Kenny said, "Both days we
started on Kosmos flat , fishing in 10ft of water with
deeper water adjacent to it (20 feet). We moved around a lot
trying to hide from the winds as it made fishing the 10 foot flat near
impossible . At the end of each day we spent the last hour fishing
a r in 10-13 feet of water by the Mossey Rock launch and were able to
catch 1 or 2 each day there. All our fish were caught on a sniper bolt
or a tube with a football head jig inside." |
In
first place with 24.82 pounds was Chris Ferry. Chris said,
"As with most of the Riffe
lake tournaments in past
everyone knows the Kosmos
end of the lake is going to
be the place to be. I fished
with Travis Archer Auburn
Sports and Marine Jr.
Pro-staff member. With no
chance to prefish we went
over a game plan and past
results. We came to the
conclusion that the fish
were going to be post spawn
and with a few calls found
that the lake was very full
for this time of year, which
made for an exciting boat
ride with all the floating
wood. We started Saturday
near the new boat ramp with
no results then proceeded to
run to the Kosmos flat.
Travis proceeded to catch
two 3 lb fish on back to
back casts to start out the
morning then his third fish
all on a Berkley power
minnow. Finally figured out
what exactly the fish were
holding on an I proceeded to
catch 3 fish on a dropshot
with a sniper bolt. The wind
by 10:30 blew us off the
flat ,we went back to our
starting area and Travis
caught his 4th fish. I made
a decision to run back to
the dam which I knew had not
produced many fish in the
past. I was lucky enough to
catch 2 more fish that day.
Sunday we made the decision
to fish the flat all day no
matter how hard the wind was
going to blow. The day
started out just like the
day before Travis catching 3
fish on a dropshot. We
finally settled in and kept
working our area back and
forth waiting for it to
reload. I ended up catching
8 fish total and Travis
caught 4 we lost only 2 fish
the whole weekend. Our fish
on Saturday came from 12-15'
on Sunday 6-12'. I am glad
to say that everyone was
very respectful in letting
me have my water after
seeing where I was fishing
all day Saturday. Thanks
guys!"
In
third place with 20.46 pounds was Shawn McDaniel. Shawn said,"
Saturday we caught some of
our fish on a ledge in 17 to
20 feet. W e also found some
fish on gradual sloping
banks with rock in the same depths. Sunday we did the
same thing but the ledge was
lacking fish so we stuck to
our second area for the rest
of the day and were both
able to catch a limit and
cull a couple times. The fish
usually bit on a slack
line. They didn't want the
bait moving at all which was
hard to do in the 2 to 3 ft
rollers. The bigger fish were
caught dragging tubes and
football heads. A dropshot
also worked well."
Finishing
in fourth with 18.51 pounds was Travis Archer. See
Chris Ferry.
