Bass Fishing

Updates for the season!

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:21:00 +0000

Sorry guys a little behind on the blogs! Had trouble with the website for a while now but I hope its fixed! We have had a great season up to this point with multiple winners and some come from behind points leaders. So far this season James Bywater won the first on the Potomac with 9.11lbs and then the club challenge tournament was won by John Hansen with 8.09lbs. Then coming from 8th in the season standings to contend for the lead for Mr. BASS was Nelson Mejia winning at Dundee with a impressive bag of spawners for over 19lbs. followed by Tom Bavarro with a big bag of spawners in that tournament also. They were all over them that day! Most recently was the Conowingo Lake tournament being won by Arrie Byers after a almost 2 year drought with no wins. Great job Arrie on a great bag of fish weighing 16.03lbs. Conowingo was a great tournament for almost everyone in the club and alot of fish were caught. I think almost 150lbs of bass being caught! Great job guys! I posted some of the pics I had to our photo gallery and if any of yopu have tournament pics from this year please add to it (2011 Tournaments). As of now our top 3 in points is Nelson Mejia in first followed by Rodney Bailey in second and Tom Bavarro in third. There are only five points total separating these guys! Its going to be a great race and the top half of the field still has a shot at the Angler Of The Year title. Our next tournament is on the Choptank river and should be a tough tournament for most of us but its anyones tournament to win and just keep your head down and stay focused. Either way we will have fun. Lets keep up the good work and keep representing the club and making us proud!

Potomac 3-19-2011

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:04:00 +0000

Name	# Fish	Weight	Lunker	Points	Place

James	5	9.11	2.09	39	1^st
Alex	5	7.07		31	2nd
Rod	4	7.00		30	3^rd
Arrie	5	6.15		28	4^th
Nelson	4	6.01		27	5^th
Jack	2	3.15	2.1	24	T-6^th
Tom	4	4.08		24	T-6^th
Rick	3	4.05		23	8^th
Kevin	1	1.08		18	9^th
Jim	1	1.05		17	10^th
Dick	1	1.03		16	11^th
Roger	0	0		5	T-12^th
Ben	0	0		5	T-12^th
Kelly	DNF				T-13^th
John	DNF				T-13^th
Butch	DNF				T-13th

The Final Standings For The AOY Points!

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:09:00 +0000

Here are the final finishing points For the 2010 Angler Of The Year!

Finishing in first and winning his 3rd AOY title was Nelson Mejia! Great job Nelson!

1st Nelson Mejia 307 points

2nd Rodney Bailey 263 points

3rd Arrie Beyer 249 points

4th Alex Clark 219 points

5th James Bywaters 198 points

6th John Hansen 186 points

7th Dick Berich 170 points

8th Tom Bavaro 159 points

9th Roger Trageser 151 points

10th Kevin McGinnis 120 points

11th Rick Naver 97 points

12th Kelly Comer 96 points

13th Jason Ludlow 82 points

Great job guys and cant wait for next year! Also don't forget Jason gets to wear the HOOTERS shorts for one tournament next year for coming in last place!

Susquehanna October 23, 2010

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Here is the last tournament blog for 2010 season. We held this tournament on the Susquehanna river in Havre De Grace. We arrived to the ramp with the air temps in the mid 40's and water temps at 60. The morning started out pretty calm with very little wind. As the day went on the wind got up and we had gusts in the 30mph range. Our winner for this Tournament was John Hansen with a bag weighing a impressive 12.05oz. John reported starting his day with a run to the North East River. He reported catching a few keepers working crankbaits down rip rap banks before the bite quickly went away and causing him to make another run back up into the Susquehanna River to finish his day. He pulled up into the river and started throwing a bomber crankbait and quickly got a school of smallmouth to turn on to his crankbait. John said "at one time he and his partner Kenny Miller were catching them as fast as they could get them off the hook and cast back in". John's big fish was a 3.08lb smallmouth. Nice bass! He also said it was one of the best days of smallmouth fishing he's had on the river. Great job John! Finishing in second was Rodney Bailey with 5.05lbs. Rod reported that he also ran to the North East and decided to grind it out there and try to make the best of it. Rod caught his fish flipping a off shore rock pile. He was flipping a green pumpkin Zipperworm monkey bug in 6 to 14 feet of water. Coming in 3rd place was Kevin McGinnis with a 4.08lb largemouth which also took big bass honors for the day. Kevin caught his bass also on a Zipperworm Monkey bug in the black with blue. Kevin was flipping a off shore rock pile in about 6 feet of water. Great job again by all of the guys of Chesapeake Bass Anglers and another awesome day of fishing. I would also like to thank all of the guys who have stepped up and helped out in all of the things we have done this year with Maryland bass and other things. This has been a great year with alot of bass being caught and quite a few great fish stories being created.

All in all this has been a successful year for the guys of Chesapeake Bass Anglers and the guys have really stepped up to put our club back in the forefront of the bass fishing community. We had Nelson Mejia win a Bass weekend series win on the Potomac. Nelson made it to the regional championships only fishing 4 out of 5 of the events. This was Nelsons first year fishing the series. Also John Hansen won a MBF tournament on the Upper Bay and got a top 10 finish at Deep Creek lake. Another first time trail fishing experience for John also. Then we had Tom Bavarro winning multiple tournaments with his partner on the Anglers Choice trail and winning the AOY title. Tom made it to the regional championships and this was his first year fishing the Anglers Choice trail. Rodney Bailey gave them a run for their money down on the Potomac fishing the SQT winning big bass honors for the event and sitting in second place after the first day. I think 2011 is not going to be any less eventful and the guys are not about to let up. Good luck guys in the future and remember to pass on the love of the great outdoors to a child in your community.

Rodney Bailey

President

Susquehanna September 19, 2010

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:18:00 +0000

Another tournament in the books for the Chesapeake Bass Anglers. Sunday could not have been a better day to have a Bass tournament. The boys launched at 6:30 am to calm beautiful weather with water temps in the mid 70's. We had a new winner for this tournament. Kelly Comer got his first win of the year with a bag weighing in at 8.12lbs. Kelly also won Big Bass honors with a largemouth bass that weighed 4.12lbs. Kelly made a run to the North East river and spent his whole day working rip rap and a under water ditch. He reported catching his fish on a texas rigged green pumpkin crazy legged chigger craw and a Bomber flat A crankbait in firetiger. Kelly also reported losing a couple of "big fish" on the Bomber crankbait that did'nt affect the outcome for him. Finishing in 2nd place was Arrie Beyers with a bag that weighed 7.09lbs. Arrie ran up the Susquehanna River to catch his fish on a Rattle Trap. Finishing in 3rd place was Tom Bavarro with a weight of 3.12lbs. Tom also ran up the Susquehanna River and reported catching his fish on a topwater bait. We had another safe and successful tournament. Not everyone caught fish but all had a great time. It was a tough day for all on the water with the Bass still not in their fall pattern but also not in their summer pattern either. So the fish are scattered and hard to pattern. I think the bite is going to turn on within the next week or two. Again congratulations to Kelly for a well fished tournament and a great win in tough conditions.

Rodney Bailey

President