Sun Shines for the Bazinet boys on Trout Lake
On Sunday June 26th 38 teams were greeted by good old Mr. Sunshine as anglers awaited the 7am blast off on Trout Lake
for the 5th Qualifier sponsored by John’s Tackle Box. Trout Lake has always been a special spot for the anglers with its
clear water and friendly home owners and cottagers, not to mention the big Bass that live there.
Once again the anglers came from across Ontario to fish in the Tournament. and what most people don’t realize is that
these Tournaments brought around $40.000 into the City of North Bays economy, not to mention the free exposure the City
gets just from our Series being there. On top of all this, these will be the Lakes for the 2011 Bass Classic, and this
alone will bring at least double that in revenue for the City of North Bay.
Anglers love to fish and compete against other anglers and to fish new water, BUT what is finally becoming more obvious
to anglers is what I have been telling them for years, (THE MORE ANGLERS FISHING THE HARDER IT IS FOR ANY ONE TEAM TO WIN
EVERYTIME.)This is not rocket science, it’s a fact, if there are only 10 teams fishing, someone might have 100 spots,
but if there are 100 teams fishing that same team might only get to 1 or 2 of their spots before other anglers happen to
fish the rest just by accident or by finding them by themselves and (PHOOF) your fish are gone.
This Sunday it would be the team of Pat & Eric Bazinet that found the 5 fish that would give them the 1rst place win on
Trout Lake weighing in at 15.83lbs. There’s no question that Pat is always a threat on any Lake but now we have 2 brothers
that got paid $1,175 plus plaques,and another $375 for a Big Fish that weighed 4.20lbs. I might have to sharpen my hooks.
When you start traveling from Kitchener to fish in a northern Ontario Bass Series it can get pretty expensive and the
easiest way to cut costs is to do good. The team of Jamie Dewar & Devin vanDerstrtracten must have figured this out
because the team caught 12.90lbs of Bass giving them the 2cd place trophy’s and the $750 to help cut costs. Again it’s
another new team beating up on us old timers.
So far it has not been that bad for us, but now we got this new younger team who have also just started fishing the Series
from North Bay by the names of Scott Galusha & Kevin Strain, and they come to the scales with 11.20lbs to take the 3rd place
cash of $470 and the plaques. Now don’t think I ‘am not happy for all these winners this weekend but I think we might
have to put in a rule that us older gents out of the bush have to be allowed one win a year at least.
Rounding out your top 9 winners.
4th Greg Gilson & Brian O'Railly with 10.68lbs
5th Sam & Joel Lauzon with 9.94lbs
6th Mike Verge & Darryl Dumas with 9.38lbs
7th Andrew Poitras & Vic BeauDion with 9.28lbs
8th Howard & Mike Gifford with 9.24lbs
9th Ben Sabourin & Phil Moore with 9.14lbs
We would like to thank everyone who helped us out in the morning and at weigh-in , great job.
Next Tournament will be on Lake Temiskaming July 9th and Bay Lake in Latchford July 10th.
Have fun Stay Safe
Dave LaFontaine
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