1000 Islands

1000 Islands 7/23/11 -- 1000 Islands
French Creek Marina, Clayton, NY


This tournament started out a little different then my previous ones, mainly because my troubles happened off the water and not on the water.

Off the water trouble one - I received a speeding ticket from a NY State Trooper while I was traveling on RT 81 through the County of Cortland NY.

Off the water trouble two - While registering for the tournament online I was informed that it would be in my best interest to purchase a Canadian fishing license along with my New York fishing license, due to the possibility that my boater may fish in Canadian waters. Now below that information was the name of a tackle shop that would go over to Canada and purchase a fishing license for you. Now let’s fast forward the moment when I arrived to the tackle shop.

I walked into the store and I was greeted, which at that point I said, I would like to purchase a New York and a Canadian fishing license. And the employees answer to that was, I can give you a New York license but I cant give you a Canadian license because we only go over to Canada twice a week and we have already been over there twice and my boss is not going to go over again. So at that point I was pretty much screwed, or was I?

Before I left my house that morning I had thrown my birth certificate and my social security card in my car, just in case I would need it for some unforeseen reason. Good thing I did because that was going to be my ticket to get into Canada and back into the United States, but there was still one problem. The Border Patrol may not let me back into the United States without a passport. So, I weighed my options, weighed them some more, and then a little more, and then I drove into Canada. Luckily for me the store that sold the licenses in Canada was right across the border and since I had a very valid story I was allowed back into the US. Now that I had both licenses it was time to head over to my pre-tournament meeting which I was currently missing. When I arrived to the meeting my tournament director was calling out the pairings for the tournament. He called mine and partner’s name and the first thing out my partner’s mouth when we got together was, “You didn’t buy a Canadian fishing license did you, because I am not fishing Canadian waters”.


The next day I caught 2 fish weighing a total of 2 pound 9 ounces.


THANKS FOR READING,
CHRIS

Fishing sponsorship

Hey Guys,

I have been trying to get a fishing sponsorship for awhile now and I have been coming up empty handed, so I figured I would post something.

If anybody has any experience on getting a sponsorship or can possibly offer a sponsorship I would love to hear from you. As you can see from my blog I live to fish and if a sponsorship were to come my way I would do all I could to promote and sell the sponsoring product. Once again any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
CHRIS

Party Boat

I went fishing on the Sea tiger 11 today.No keepers. Anybody do any fishing this weekend?

CABELA'S

Lake Cayuga

Lake Cayuga
Cayuga Lake State Park, Seneca Falls, NY:

Lake Cayuga is where my next tournament took place. Unlike my tournament before this one I was fortunate enough to keep all my line on my pole.

My day started off with a decent boat ride out to a weed bed in the middle of the lake, where my boater had pre fished for a few days before the tournament. After we arrived to our spot and got ourselves situated we started to fish. Fishing that morning would be a little slow until about the three hour mark, which is when I hooked into about a three pound large mouth. Catching a fish that size first thing in the morning is nice, it allows you to relax a little bit, and most importantly it breaks the ice. Now that I had caught a fish, I was confident that the fish were there, but I was not confident on the amount of fish that were there. The reason I say this is because I had the only bass in the live well after about three hours of fishing, and all we kept catching was pickerel. So, after a few more hours went by which during that time my boater had landed a decent size small mouth we moved to another spot. Moving to another spot was not in my boaters plans, considering the days leading up to the tournament he had done very well in our present spot. But we moved anyway and unfortunately our new spot was no better than our old spot, so we moved back to our previous spot. Although, this time instead of going back to the same location we went about fifty feet to the east of that location. Bingo! After about a half hour in our new spot I had caught over a 2 pound small mouth and my boater landed two more keepers.

That would be all I caught that day. My total weight was 5 lbs 2 ounces.


I did learn a valuable lesson that day though. Which was, just because the fish are not in the same spot that you left them in a few days prior does not mean they are not close by.

Thanks.