Allright Fellow New Yorker's.......

[ww2farmer]

I am bored, and sick of waiting for ice to melt so I can get on the water. Any of you NYer's want to have a friendly bragging rights lunker contest for the 2013 season? Similar to what J.Francho's buddy Burnie ran last year on NYBass? John knows what I am talking about.

[Felix77]

How does it work?

[clayton86]

I'm in how's it work

[will83]

Im in!

[ww2farmer]

All right we got some interest. This is how it goes. Post your biggest bass caught in NY this season, one category for Largemouth, one for smallmouth. Post a picture of you, with the fish on the body of water in NY you caught it in. Give an accurate weight....that means a weight from a decent scale, no guessing "hey this looks like it's about 6bs" LOL. Don't need to go into deep details, just in case you have a secret bait, or sweet spot you want to protect, but the name of the lake will be mandatory as well as a brief report on the days fishing. This will be on the honor system. Enter as many fish as you like, so you can one up another guy, or yourself. But please post it within a day or two of catching it, so at the end there is not a rush of big fish reported at the end of the month/year. We'll start April 1st, end it November 30th. You can jump in and play anytime, or chose not to take part in it if you have not caught a good one that month. At the end of each month, a monthly winner in each category will be declared, we will draw the name of a random participant from each category who is not the winner of that month (but who did enter a fish that month), and that person will send a small prize of his choice (the guy who was drawn's choice, not the winner) valued at about $5..........IE a pack of hooks, or plastics, a crankbait, or any thing bass fishing related, etc..... Once you have been drawn to send a prize, your off the hook for having to send a prize the rest of the year (providing we have enough participants). You can win as many times as you can. At the end of the year, the biggest bass of the year,  (one in the sm, one in the lm category) will win a "grand prize" of bass fishing related tackle valued at about $10 each....I will be donating the grand prizes........since this is my idea.LOL The only hard and fast rules are, #1 the fish must be caught in a NY PUBLIC body of water, no hogs out of a private pond. #2 You must post the weight, taken on a scale, with a picture of you on the named NY body of water you caught it on. #3 You must be FROM NY..........sorry out of state visitors. SO that's that, get at and go catch a big one.

 

Ohh and since I am playing, I am also eligible to be in the drawings for sending the monthly prizes too...and here is how the drawing will work. Once the monthly winner is announced, I will pm all the "losers" and ask for a # between 1- and how ever many players we have enter fish that month, and just draw the numbers out of hat once every one responds with there chosen number.

[Felix77]

Count me in. Sounds like fun!

[clayton86]

Yup I'm in sounds fun. I'm gonna get my arse kicked if my fishing season goes like my hunting season did lol.

[rmcguirk]

Count me in.

[J Francho]

I'm in.

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[joetomlee]

I'm in! sounds fun.

[clayton86]

I just got a smallie 3lbs 3 ozs pics later I'm still on the water

[ww2farmer]

I just got a smallie 3lbs 3 ozs pics later I'm still on the water

Post them in this thread. Sounds like your going to be the early leader in the SM category. I was going to go to Conesus or Honeoye today, but the mega winds talked me out of it. Silver should be ice free by next weekend.

[clayton86]

Yeah them winds are killing me I upgraded to a 3.6 smallmouth ill get pictures up tonight or tomorrow morning. I'm headed to a stone quarry now should get some LM.

[Marty]

My friend was also planning to get out on the water but stayed on shore because of the winds. We had gusts in the mid 40s.

[clayton86]

Caught in Johnson's creek in Kuckville, NY on a white boohya spinner bait. 3lbs 6oz

[ww2farmer]

April leader in the SM category: clayton86 3lbs 6oz.

[J Francho]

April leader in the SM category: clayton86 3lbs 6oz.

 

I swear to god, that kid keeps texting me slobs while I'm working on my boat, I might do something drastic, lol.

 

Congrats Clayton - good to see you getting that kayak slimed up.

[clayton86]

I love that kayak I might tak it out again tonight to the spot I got the trout and smallies yesterday

[ww2farmer]

It's still going to be a week before I get out. I should have not started this till I was on the water. LMAO.

[J Francho]

You shouldn't have let Clayton in.  He has some good spots, that will only get better when gets in that kayak!

[clayton86]

My good spots I constantly get asked " are there really fish in there?" One spot iv named wal Mary pond is a old quarry right infront of Walmart in Albion no one ever fishes it but its loaded with bass iv caught a few 5s and a bunch of 3 and 4s out of there. The other spot is behind the post office in lyndonville it's about 1' deep for 99% the water you see and all along the school. How ever there is a channel that is maybe 4' wide and 4' deep that snakes threw the big flat and leads you into the woods where it is 12' and loaded with brush and logs along the banks. I don't think iv ever pulled a dink out of that spot even the crappie are huge and iv caught bullhead on swimbaits back there and that spot is right in the center of town I see maybe 3 or 4 other people fish it occasionally.

[ww2farmer]

It's still going to be a week before I get out. I should have not started this till I was on the water. LMAO.

Nope, I got out today. But I didn't bass fish. I went for crappie and bluegill. Good decision, they were biting.

[J Francho]

A little birdy told me someone stuck a monster.....

[clayton86]

Another "monster" as JF put it thanks for that kayak by the way lol.

4lbs 12oz on a spinner bait same spot as the first one right down to the same stump.

[J Francho]

5-1 is the kayak's best smallie.  6-8 is it's best largie.  Bar is set.