Kayak Bass Fishing TN Season Finale

[Reel Tune]

Kayak Bass Fishing TN had their season finale tournament at Williamsport Lakes Saturday November 16th. 26 anglers gathered to test their skills fishing for hybrid and largemouth bass. Registration went smoothly, and everyone was released to fish before 0700, but not allowed to start until 0700. Anglers were allowed to fish Shellcracker, Bluecat, or Goldeneye and could move around as they pleased. Everyone split up evenly, and no bodies of water were over crowded.

The weather was perfect, overcast the entire day with a little rain between 0930 and 1000, as expected the winds picked up around the same time, and everyone that fish’s from a paddle craft knows that can make things difficult. Temperatures were a little lower than expected, but they were still great with temps in the mid to low 60’s the entire day.

Everyone was checked in by the required time of 2pm, judging and awards ran effortlessly. 29 fish were turned in from the allotted 2 fish per angler of the 26 angler field. Only one hybrid bass was turned in and it was 22.25” and with the multiplier it equaled 17.8”. The event paid out 4 places 1st $130, 2nd $78, 3rd $39, 4th $13. 4th place at a total of 34.25” was Shay McCord, 3rd place with 34.25” was Scott Fujimura, 2nd place with 35.5” was John McClenney, 1st place with 36” was Sarah Meier, and she was also the big fish winner with a personal best 20.25” largemouth. The winner of the $25 Bass Pro Card donated by TK Walker on behalf of FishingTN was the person with the smallest fish turned in and that was Logan Landry with a 9” largemouth.

All judging, and awards were done by 2:45pm, and several of us went to Buffalo Wild Wings in Spring Hill and had a great time.

I want to thank everyone for allowing this to happen. We have a great group of anglers and people here in Middle Tennessee that allows this to happen. As long as I’m having fun, kayak fisherman and women in Tennessee will have a tournament to fish in or place to come and hang out.

This was the first Kayak Bass FishingTN event that a woman has won, and I don’t think it will be the last. We have two women fishing in our events, and I can see more in the future, along with younger anglers we had two attend. Its great seeing women and age challenged individuals compete, and I hope to see more of it.

[Travis C.]

Sounds like a great time was had by all.

Congrats to Sarah for the win and congrats to you on a successful first year.

Looking forward to next year.

[jad2t]

You must be so proud of your wife Jeremy. Did she buy everyone's food at Buffalo Wildwings since she just won all that cash? haha Now if I can only get my wife into kayak fishing we can add a 3rd to the group. I've been trying for years! I had a blast and I can't stress enough to those who haven't been out with us yet how good of a group of people this is. Very friendly, very humble, and a blast to fish with.

Just curious, how is the tiebreaker done between Scott and Shay? And what did Sarah catch that big one on?

I still say we should do one more before it gets really cold and then we can all get prepared for the 2014 events.

[blink]

I had a great time, and was able to catch my first ever kayak tournament fish. I fished Shellcracker, and caught my only fish on a squarebill crank. The fish hit it and missed it on the first cast, but i threw it back in the same spot and he hit it again and i was able to land it.

I fished slow all morning. Jigs, shaky heads, wacky worms, and didnt catch anything.

[jad2t]

That lake is tough. I couldn't find any big bass to safe my life at this event, biggest being 13". Last tourney I didn't get a hit for 7 hours and then an 18.25" followed by a 15.25". You just never know what's going to happen on that lake. I think next time I venture out there whether for a tournament or just to fish it on my own, I'm going to try bluecat and maybe goldeneye. Shellcracker gets pressured the most since it's the first lake you come to. Those larger bass in there have seen so many lures they probably know the make and model of each one when they see it.

Interesting that yours came on a crankbait. Both my larger ones for the last tourney came on a crankbait and the two "larger" haha ones I caught this one were on crankbaits. Cranks seem to work well in there as I talked to many others who all caught their fish on crankbaits. Craig was trolling them and catching fish.

[Reel Tune]

Good fish Blink. Slow was the ticket, if you thought you were fishing slow you were fishing to fast. Sarah threw the crank for a while but it was rising to fast so she went to super slow mode where each retreive would take over 1 minute. Baits also had to be down sized, which is odd for those lakes. Thanks for coming, and hope to see you next year.

[Heiny57]

Cool event.

[eaglestrike09]

Wow way to go Sarah!! I wish I could have been there, but I work nights.
Jeremy you have done so much since I met you at the first gathering,
here and at Tka, You sure are a fireball!!! Keep up the great work!!!

[tacklemake]

Way to go Sarah thats showing them who can catch the big bass............woody

[Alphahawk]

Congrats to your wife for out fishing all you guys and congrats to you for putting on a successful tournament...good stuff!




Regards