Winning Details

lures/tackle: 7' heavy action rod with 50lb braid. Spro frog in tropical white color.

key of the day: "I missed my first couple fish when they blew up on my frog because I ripped the frog from the fish to fast. Once I remembered to wait a few seconds on the blow up I was able to hook the fish. I also had to get the fish out of the slop as fast as possible when I caught one. If I let the fish get down in the weeds under the slop I would loose them. I had all my fish by 8:30am."

technique: Flippin to shallow weedlines. The inside and outside edge of the weeds. Throwing a spinnerbait into the weeds

lures/tackle: Zoom Brushhog in white color with a 1/4oz pegged bullet weight. 3/4oz Spinnerbait in sexyshad color.

key of the day: "I went to the windiest area that I could find to target less pressured fish. It was so windy today that I figured that most guys were going to fish areas out of the wind and those areas were going to get a lot of fishing pressure. I basically wore my trolling motor battery out today in the wind."

technique: fishing the deeper edge of docks and posts and shallow against the walls and banks.

lures/tackle: A black and blue pig-n-jig. Power Hawg in pumpkin color. Senko in black and blue color.

key of the day: "Patience! I tried to let the lure soak as long as possible. It was hard to do though with the strong wind but I found the longer I could leave the lure in the water the better my chances were of getting a strike. I caught the lunker of the day in 6-8 inches of water under a tree on a senko."

technique: dropshot in 10-12 foot of water near the weededge. ripping a spinnerbait through the weeds.

key of the day: "Found a hump on a shoal with some weeds and fished the weed edge thouroughly. I would catch 2 or 3 fish and than they would dissapear for an hour or so and than they would come back and I would catch 2 or 3 more. When I ran out of 4" senkos I would take a 6" one and cut it down to 4 inches."

key of the day: "I wasted 5-6 hours looking for the smallmouth. I still did not have any fish around noon and I was driving around and saw a few docks in a bay and thought I would give them a try."

technique: drop shot on shoals in 15 feet of water. flipping under a tree near the bank.

key of the day: "It was a very slow bite and I tried to cover as much water as I could trying to find some fish. I also tried to find fishable water in areas that I thought other guys would not be fishing. I pretty much went up and down the whole lake."

key of the day: "The bite was really slow, so I had to fish really slow and fish the spot thoroughly. The bite did pick up as the day went on. I caught all my fish on one shoal."

technique: Spinnerbait around the weed edge off of the shoals. Throwing a chugbug up onto the shoal over the weeds.

key of the day: "Patience!!!!! Fish were far and few between. I did not catch a lot of fish but the ones that I did catch were quality fish."

technique: Top water in deep water (15-20 feet of water) looking for the smallies. Draggin a worm and throwing a spinnerbait.

lures/tackle: spook type bait, a 5/16 oz texas rigged worm in a black and blue color and a shad color spinnerbait

key of the day: "Not loosing any fish. I only got 5 bites today and I landed them all."

technique: Jimmy had 3 different spinnerbaits tied on all day and threw them all. He also used a texas rigged worm. He even threw a senko to the back wall of a dock.

lures/tackle: darker colored 3/8oz spinnerbaits made out of light wire. 7 1/2 inch Producto worm in black and blue color, texas rigged with a 5/16oz weight. And a black/blue senko.

key of the day: "This is the 1st time all season that I put a trailer hook on my spinnerbaits and 3 of my fish that I weighed in today were hooked on the trailer hook. I also think it was important that I was using a thin wire spinnerbait which created more vibration since the water was so stained."

technique: "I fished docks, threw a spinnerbait over weed flats and threw a jig-n-pig in trees."

lures/tackle: pearl blue senko. Strike King white spinnerbait. Black and blue rattleback jig with a zoom salty chunck trailer.

key of the day: "The biggest key for me was being patient throughout the day. I had to sift through a lot of small fish to get the keepers that I needed."

lures/tackle: Creature bait in junebug color around docks. Medium diving Fat Free Shad crankbait.

key of the day: "I worked an area as thoroughly as possible once I found a spot with fish on it to make sure I wasn't leaving any fish behind."

key of the day: "I tried to use a lure with a different profile than a senko. The lake gets a lot of fishing pressure and I am sure the fish see a senko a lot."

lures/tackle: Texas rigged two-tone colored senko, Yum Dinger in watermelon color with blue and purple flake.

key of the day: "I had to fish real slow today. I dead sticked the lure and waited. I fished each dock real slow. I also found the bite better when I worked the lure back to the boat with the wind/current. When I went against the wind/current I did not get a bite."

technique: "I fished deeper weeds into the shallow water and I covered a lot of water today."

key of the day: "I covered a lot of water to find fish today. I did not have a fish at 12:00pm and I was starting to lose my mental focus. I pulled into a spot where I saw other people fishing throughout the day, so I knew that the spot had a lot of pressure but I got there at the right time because I finally caught a fish. My first fish gave me a little confidence and I was able to get my limit."

technique: "I mainly flipped tubes and jigs to the bank, trees, and wood in less than 2 feet of water."

key of the day: "I did a lot of searching for fish. I did not have any fish at 11:00am so flipping shallow water was my last ditch effort."

key of the day: "I switched colors a lot today until I finally found a color that they were hitting on. I normally do not fish pumpkin color but today it was the only color that worked. I looked for docks that had a little cleaner water and tried to find the weeds that were not covered in mossy/algae."

lures/tackle: Texas rigged Yum Dingers in lighter colors, Spinnnerbaits and chatterbaits

key of the day: "Trying to keep my focus and not get discouraged. There was a lot of time between bites. The tournament actually went better than my pre-fishing did."

technique: Jim started the morning off by throwing a spinnerbait inside the break wall where he picked up 4 decent fish. He than went out to the Round House to pick up his limit with a tube and to try to cull some of his smaller fish.

lures/tackle: Jimmy was throwing a spinner bait made by fellow club member Joe Kugel in the morning. Throughout the rest of the day he was dragging a Venom tube in watermelon color and a Bass Pro tube in green pumpkin color. And of course, Jim "Mr. Topwater" Thompson, was using a top water bait around 1:00pm to catch some fish inside the break wall.

key of the day: Jim made sure to give recognition to his partner Ian Cashdollar for letting him borrow his Green Pumpkin Bass Pro tube that Jim said caught the bigger fish. "Working with and sharing tackle with my partner put me in first place today. There are a lot of good fish inside the breakwall. I probably caught 10-12lbs of fish inside the wall today."

technique: Dan lived and died by the drop shot today. "I pretty much used the drop-shot the entire day in about 40 feet of water on off-shore reefs."

key of the day: "Being on the spot at the right time of day. I tried my spots through out the entire day, but they only produced for a short period of time. The fish would turn on and off and I was fortunate to be on the right spot at the right time. Between 9:00am-9:30am was the best time for me."

technique: Walt used 3 fishing techniques today. "I used a tube, I used a drop-shot, and I threw a crankbait."

lures/tackle: "My tube was in a gold pumpkin color, my crankbait was in a crawfish color that dove to 8 feet, and I was using 4" Gulp Goby Magic on the drop-shot.

key of the day: "The bite was very slow today and the fish were far and few between. The initial drop was when most of the bites happened. If I did not get a bite on the first drop I reeled in and tried again."

technique: The Kid power fished Honeoye in the morning with a crankbait during the cloud cover in 8-14 foot of water. When the sun came up he slowed his fishing style down and started throwing a creature bait jig in the weed pockets.

lures/tackle: Dan did most of his damage on the Honeoye fish with a fat free shad crankbait and a creature bait jig in green pumpkin color.

key of the day: The Kid can find the fish and today he found them on the transition line from the outer weed edge to deeper water.

Under cloud cover he made long casts with the crankbait and retrieved it quickly. Under the hot sun he slowed down with the creature bait jig.

technique: Bill picked up some heavy sinking worms on his way home from Florida and they sure paid off at Honeoye this morning. Bill said they were heavier than a normal worm/senko, and that helped him get the worm down faster in the wind. He had the worm rigged wacky style and was focusing on the 10-12 foot deep weed edge.

key of the day: The biggest key of the day for Bill was getting to fish with his son Paul on Fathers Day Weekend. Bill caught all his fish between 6:00am-7:30am. Not a bad morning of fishing.

technique: Scott spent most of the day fishing two patterns. He used the drop shot in 10-12 foot of water and when that wasn't working he started flipping docks.

lures/tackle: A 4" finesse worm worked for Scott while drop shotting. When he went to the docks he was throwing a flipping tube on a 7' Medium Heavy rod with 20lb test line.

key of the day: Being lucky is how Scott summed up his day on Honeoye! His trolling motor died half way through the day and in the windy conditions on Honeoye he used a drift sock to try to slow the boat down. Accuracy with his first cast was key because he didn't have time to work the dock thoroughly in the wind.