Soo Fishing Dates Discussion

Let's use the blog to discuss the dates of the Soo event - just click the "Comments" link below the post rather than starting a new post.

I believe the weekend of August 29/30 is pretty much set in stone. The issue was having the tournament on Saturday vs. Sunday.

For those of you who haven't experiences our Soo trips, I'd encourage you to do so. In addition to some outstanding scenery and a truly unique fishery, there is a lot of fun with club members. People stay in motels, the campground at the launch or many stay in Kinross at the Countrywood Cabins. Usually many come up to fish Friday and Saturday before the event and there is a large outdoor fry-a-thon dinner on Saturday night with walleye, venison, turkey, etc hitting the fryers (more food than we all can eat...and good too!).

From a tournament/fishing perspective, it usually is the case of a few teams nailing it with numbers of large (5lbs+) fish, a few teams catching lots of small fish (14"-19"), a few teams catching a few fish and the rest of the teams struggling a bit. You can run bottom bouncers, troll cranks or harnesses, drift or troll rigs, pitch or vertical jig, etc - the fishery let's you experiment with many techniques.

Back to the date thing....the new idea of having the "tournament" on Saturday was to be able to talk about the successes or failures of fishing that night at the cookout (or fryout). It could be something of a learning/sharing session where everyone could see and learn what worked and then go out on Sunday and try for themselves if they desired.

A drawback would be that there would be one less day to find fish prefishing for many of the teams. The idea of sharing the information is somewhat stolen from Lance Valentine's Trophy Hunt trips if anyone has experienced them.

Anyway - this was long - thanks for reading, now what are your thoughts. Also please state whether you are planning to fish the Soo trip or not.

Thanks,
Bob

The Bay is HOT!

For those who have not been out in a few weeks, the bay is hot - not only the surface temp, but the fishing action as well.

Thanks to the tournament on the bay - it showed that at least 4 or 5 of the teams fished fairly close to the harbor in less than 18fow and did well. If you talked to some of the folks who fished (at tleast the ones who were willing to share a bit of info) you could certainly learn something about walleye location. Thanks go out to those who share information - that is what our club is about - helping others to be better anglers.

Obviously it was not a "secret" for very long as the area between Grass Is and the breakwall has been pounded over the past 2 weeks. The other evening I counted 28 boat/trailers in the lot and I think 22 of them were in the Grass Is-Breakwall area!

A mixed bag of sorts has been caught with the walleyes hanging in with catfish and sheephead. Not sure how long the fish are going to hang around there, but getting out while the getting is good has made sense for many.

Best of luck for those who venture out - the next TBWC tournament is on Sunday, July 12th. This is the weekend prior to the Brown Trout Festival.

Bob

correction,there is only one captain on the PBR

Some how the team captain on the PBR was listed as Mark Byce, the real captain is Brian Matchett who came in 4th in night eyes 2009.

And the wind blew AGAIN!!!!!

I don't have a good discription of what that was like . I am however looking forward to a calm day of fishing on thunder bay. Again congratulations to the winners of night eyes 2009. The honor of fishing on the PBR made it all worth it, I THINK!!! lol