Virginia Tech Invitational

[RobbyZ5001]

Well this past weekend Penn State's fishing team attended the Virginia Tech invitational. The tournament was held on Scott's (fivebasslimit) home lake (Smith Mountain Lake). This lake is absolutely beautiful! This lake has everything deep clear water, points, rip rap, and bluffs. I traveled with my partner to the lake which took about six and a half hours. We got to our hotel crashed there Thursday night and went fishing at first light. Friday was a nasty rainy day very harsh conditions. Water temp was anywhere from 46-50 degrees. We managed to get bit once we were fishing main and secondary points. Saturday which was day one of the tournament we decided to concentrate on one main creek channel which turned out to be a decent idea. Saturday my partner caught 10 fish on jerkbaits, and 3 were good keepers. I got 5 fish and no keepers on jerkbait and trick sticks. We weighed in Day 1 with 6.75 lbs which put us in 5th place. First place was a local community college team CVCC with 19 lbs of fish and second place was NC State with 14.75. Day two was a very cold day. Everyone had problems with their equipment including frozen steering cables, fuel lines, and light problems. Day two we decided to stick to the game plan with that one creek channel hitting main and secondary points. My partner caught 5 fish 3 keepers. I caught 10 fish 1 keeper. I couldn't get the quality bite. We had 4 fish in the boat at 11 AM and couldn't finish out our limit. We weighed in our 4 fish for 8.05lbs with a total 2 day weight of 14.8 lbs. First place was NC State, second place was CVCC, third was Radford. The final day had multiple 5 pounders weighed. Later Sunday night Captain Phil Witmer took me and my buddy out striper fishing. Capt. Phil hooked up with 2 stripers around 5 pounds. My buddy and I both had strikes but missed them. Overall this trip was amazing between the marina and all the people there it was a great time. Virginia Tech put together an awesome tournament! Below are some pictures and the site with weigh in info.

http://www.bassfishingteamatvt.com/

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Sounds like a great time!!!!

As a PSU alum, keep representing so well!!!!!

[5bass]

Good report Robby. I wish I could apologize for the terrible weather while you were here but obviously I can't.....too bad you couldnt be here in another couple weeks. Once the water hits low-mid 50's consistently, it's going to be ON!

Come on back down during the summer and we'll flip some docks and deep crank some structure.

[Bassnbrett101]

Makes me wish i did go to penn state :'(.  It's alot of work trying to start a club here

[RobbyZ5001]

Scott thanks for the offer. I WILL be getting in touch with you!

[Tin]

I told you, just calm down and everything would be fine. Great job for your 3rd tourney ever dude. And you did what you wanted.

Let's see what we can figure out for the next tourney and get you on some good ones.

I wish we had this program up here. >

[bmadd]

Thats awesome man. I really wanted to make it up there but we had a club tournament already scheduled and couldn't really move it around. How many schools in all participated?

[RobbyZ5001]

bmadd yeh I wish you would have made it. There were 10 colleges that made it.

[slomoe]

great pictures, looks like a good time

[ba7ss3in]

That's great, I wish they would have came up with that back in 87' to 91'

[DDH]

we shoulda done better robby... but thats fishing! Maybe you'll switch over to the bait that is working, a lil sooner next tournament... haha

fyi... i was robby's boater.. for those wondering..