Jay C and the Shocker are hosting a Big Bass Battle May 25th at Skokie Lagoons from 7:00AM-12:00PM $10 entry per person, biggest bass takes all. Launch will be from the Tower Road boat ramp. Anyone is welcome whether you are walking, yakking, or boating. To sign up and see the details go to the link below, you will need to join Windy City Fishing to see post (it’s free to join)
http://www.windycityfishing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19745
Congrats to the team “Just the Tip!” for winning the tournament and catching big bass! Every team (except mine) caught lots of bass. Everyone had fun and we got off the lake just before the wind got bad. Here are the results:
Looking forward to Whalon next month!
Just the Tip!
Fluke Luck
Texans
Stickin Around
WCF
AM
EGOR
Backstep Anglers
We still have openings email us at info@bentrods.org if you want to fish this tourney.
On advice from Kane County Forest Preserve we have cancelled the tournament scheduled on Saturday 4/20 at Lake Patterson. We will be moving the Classic to October and having a regular tourney in September. More details coming soon.
MelvisBass & Buster
The launch at Patterson was closed today. We will be monitoring this situation and will update status of the tournament tomorrow evening. It will be posted here, on our FaceBook page and emailed to everyone that signed up for the tournament.
MelvisBass
Just the tip
Fluke Luck
CAST Crew
EGOR
Buzzbait Bonzai
Southside hitmen
Bruni
DRS
DustBuster
Texans
We currently have one team on the waiting list, so please contact us asap if you can’t make the tournament.
The second tournament of the year is on May 11th.
The tournament will be held at Lake Patterson in Aurora, due to the size of Patterson we are limiting this tournament to 10 teams.
The registration will open to everyone on 4/26/2013 if we haven’t reached 10 teams by then.
MelvisBass & Buster
The Tournament at Lake Patterson on 4/20 has ten teams booked. Please feel free to send an email to info@bentrods.org to be put on a waiting list if you didn’t get in. Thanks to all the members that signed up!
The waiting is list will be in the order of first contact, but Bent Rods members will be placed above non-members.
Thanks and good fishing!
The first tournament of the year is one month from today! (We hope the weather gets better).
The tournament will be held at Lake Patterson in Aurora, due to the size of Patterson we are limiting this tournament to 10 teams.
We also updated the rules slightly and changed the payout, you can see all this on the Rules page.
The registration will open to everyone on 4/5/2013 if we haven’t reached 10 teams by then.
MelvisBass & Buster
Buster & MelvisBass will be meeting at the Hooters in Fox Valley Mall on Thursday 2/28 at 7:30pm. Feel free to stop by and help us finalize the rules etc. (I will be wearing my black Abu Garcia long sleeve shirt sitting at the bar)
A few of you have requested that we go to a real weigh-in format, while Buster and I love that idea, it wouldn’t be doable on the two lakes we are fishing this year. Patterson is catch & release only and Whalon only allows one bass to be kept. If caught with fish for weigh-in the DNR could & would issue tickets. We will be looking at new lakes for 2014.
Because of the size of the lakes we are fishing we will be limiting the number of teams that can enter the tournament and members will have first crack at signup.
Membership is only $20 a year and helps defray the cost of running the tournaments.
All these details will be finalized at the meeting this Thursday. We will post all the updated info on our web and facebook page.
Hooters
4395 Fox Valley Center Dr
Aurora, IL