Ray Willick and Don MacDonald Win on Trout Lake with one big kicker fish.
Everytime we have a Tournament on Trout Lake, the weather is always great,the cottagers and home owners are great,
and you can be sure that somewhere in the Lake there is a big fish that is going to make one team as proud as
a peacock at weigh in time. This year it would be the Team of Ray Willick & Don MacDonald who would bring 14.64lbs to
the scales to take 1st place and with one of those fish being a 6.04lb Smallmouth they would have no problem
takeing the Big Fish award. Just think of this, because this is a live release Bass Series that same Bass next
year will be bigger and meaner, and I sure hope the swimers are safe.
 
I,am not sure how many times I have told new anglers that you are not just going to go out on the water in a Bass
Tournament and beat your fellow anglers who have years of experiance. You need to learn what to use, how to use it,
and most importantly have confidence in what you are useing. The father and son team of Monty & Eric Cummings have
been doing Tournaments for the last 4 years now and learning new tricks every year,plus getting more confident.
This weekend it all come togeather as the team came to the scales with 12.96lbs to take 2cd place on water that
they have never fished before, and beat some of the best Trout Lake anglers around.
 
Every year we are getting more and more husband & wife, father & daughter, mother and son and boy friend girl friend
teams coming out to fish the events. At first they fish for fun and day on the water, "BUT" then the competitive side
starts to come out,( I think its the ladies ) and they start fishing hard. Carole and Calven Neill have been fishing
our Series from the start, and pileing up top 3 finishes like cord wood. Once again the team would end up on the
leader board with 11.82lbs for 3rd place. Next year Carole told me they are going for Angler of the Year, and I
beleave they just might do it.
4th place would go to the father and daughter team of Eanest & Tracy Matton with 11.60lbs.
The team of Sean Strang and James Wallace would take 5th spot with 11.34 followed by Mike & Howard Gifford with
11.16lbs and rounding out the top 7th place pay back would go to Dave LaFontaine and Steve McLean.
It is one of our goals to teach the younger generation the importance of live release and to get them involved
in doing this. As you can see in the pictures kids love to live release so they can fish for them when they get bigger.
 
 
 
Have fun Stay Safe
Dave LaFontaine
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