Northern NY Bassmasters II on St Lawrence River Today

[Burnie Haney]

Today we held our last event of the season our Early Bird for 2010.

We launched out of Waddington at 7 a.m. with weigh-in at 3 p.m. Weather Channel called for rain shower most of the day, but oddly enough they were wrong. We had a couple of sprinkles through out the day with very light winds and the sun popped out a few times for 30-45 minutes at a whack. All-in-all it was a very nice fall day to fish the river. Nineteen anglers fished the tournament.

In the areas I fished I found water temps 58 - 61 degrees. All of my fish came out of water between 14 - 5 feet deep. I caught three fish and my big fish a 3.46 lb. SMB on a Pointer 128 (Black & Gold) and I also used the LVR-D 7 (Mad Craw) and I mixed in a Carolina rigged 7" (green pumpkin) power worm to cull a couple of times. The best thing about the 128 Pointer is its drawing power, If a fish followed it to the boat but didn't hit, I'd simply let the fish go back down to the bottom and then I'd cast the C-Rig power worm and catch them.

Not sure what the other guys caught their fish on, but the top three weights were pretty close all in 15 lb. range and the big bass was a solid 4.57 lb. LMB

1st Place John Flint, 15.84 lbs.


2nd Place Fred Morrill, 15.80 lbs.


3rd Place Burnie Haney, 15.12 lbs.


Lunker Chuck Roach, 4.57 lbs.


Joey Kiah


Chris Flint


Thanks for reading

[nbajack70]

burn baby burn,,,,Nice finish and beautiful fish

[Paladin]

Beautiful fish! Nice finish too!

[Lunkerboss]

Nice going Burnie. Very close finish.

[Iceman]

Joey looks pretty happy... great report...
you guys go to some good places... best in the state I'd have to say...
Burney, can you give a quick rundown on the wadd area... hotels, ramps, food fishing etc... thanks...

[Burnie Haney]

Dave

http://www.ogdensburg.org/dining.html


Waddington is just 12-15 miles NE of Ogdensburg and the accomodations are great in Ogdensburg.

If I do any overnight trips to either Waddington or Ogdensburg I always stay in Ogdensburg at the Stone Fence. It's a very bassboat freindly place with charger plugs-ins, laundry room and easy access just off Rt 37.

Hope this helps some
Burnie

[Lunkerboss]

Dave

http://www.ogdensburg.org/dining.html


Waddington is just 12-15 miles NE of Ogdensburg and the accomodations are great in Ogdensburg.

If I do any overnight trips to either Waddington or Ogdensburg I always stay in Ogdensburg at the Stone Fence. It's a very bassboat freindly place with charger plugs-ins, laundry room and easy access just off Rt 37.

Hope this helps some
Burnie

The Stone fence is a very nice place, but they have a tendency to run out of food. That`s annoying. The Gran View is the BEST Place to eat. Similar food to the Clipper by Clayton. Lots of homey little places in the Burg proper.

[bassinbrian]

Nice bunch of smallies for everybody.

[Jdox]

Great report Burnie and a nice catch

[Bassbum]

Nice report and Congrats on the finish Burnie.....

[stlawbassmaster]

Iceman
when do you plan on coming up this way. If you have an open seat maybe I could go out with you. I live in Ogdensburg and would be more than happy to go out for a day with you if its on the weekend.
Corey

[Iceman]

I'll be in clayton after sunday for a few days... have maps of that end of the river and will get up there someday... just didn't work out this fall... I'll be sticking around the clayton part of the river and Obrians at night...