NBAA 2009 Classic

[MadWags]

Well the weather was tough on Wednesday. I would have to describe it as monsoon type conditions. The prevailing constant east wind on monday and tuesday made practice tough as well. Jason and I found some decent fish on monaday and thought we had a pattern that would hold up. On Wednesday, which was the only day we were qualified to fish, the bigger fish were now where to be found. We scrambled and made the best of it in the conditions and put together a small limit. A limit none the less. I guess many boats started pulling off the water at noon because of the weather. We pulled off an hour early feeling that enough was enough. Don't know where we ended up or what the weights were because we packed and headed home so we could be in time to watch the Red Wings. The last two years of NBAA Championships have been wet to say the least. I here they will have better weather Thursday and Friday.

[Ranger5Smallie]

Buddy is fishing today and when I talked to him last night he wasn't excited about going.  Good luck to all of you guys the rest of the week.

[TCook]

I just read that the Nelson boys won the NBAA classic at Houghton lake along with a new Z6 Nitro. Not to mention they just won the opener on Hardy for the second year in a row. Those guys are for real!

[oldjigger]

Nelson's won it but the boat was a certificate for an alunium 19 ft tracker with a 115 merc.  They had 15.6 apr for weight.  We were 4th with 13.47

Dick Courser

I heard weights were down thurs 14 lbs to win don't know who

[gr@ssmonkey]

  great job oldjigger were them smallie's or largmouth,what did it pay for 4th

[soccerbassman4]

I fished on thursday for the white division. My partner and I prefished monday and tuesday and part of weds. We attempted to go for the smallmouth knowing thats what it would take to win. We finally found a  spot weds afternoon and no one was on it. The next morning we took off in the second flight and showed up to 4 boats parked on our exact gps coordinate. all we could manage to catch were pike and walleye. after 2 hrs we decided to try a new area and nothing we went back to the first spot around 1 and caught 1 nice smallie 2.86. From the sounds of weigh in fishing was alot tougher thursday than it had been on weds and the final weights showed 14lbs to win and big fish was only around 3.8 hopefully for the guys fishing today the better weather will help out. Just from curiosity what were people catching most of the smallies on? we managed a few bites on xraps and jigs in practice but bites were few and far inbetween

[oldjigger]

We had 4th the first day with13.47 all smallies. we caught 14 or 15 keepers 2 shorts and we each caught a fish.  most of our fish we caught on hula grubs and 1/8 oz head.

Dick

[MadWags]

Good job old man...... I mean jigger

[squid]

In the area I was at most were caught on tubes and lipless cranks.  All smallies.

[SODY]

I have been following alot of the guys out there and man alot of guys are on fire, heard from my former mentor and great friend Len Harris and found out they came in third place with 14lbs. Len and Jack Hayes are two of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet. Way to go all.