A Dominating Day for Greg Day on Winnisquam.

Bubba Bassin club fished the the half way point of the Bubba Bassin Draw trail on Lake Winnisquam on June 16th. After the New Hampshire cut-off our members were happy to return to NH waters to fish another Bubba Bassin tournament. With lots of positive and productive reports coming from those pre-fishing Winnisquam we were expected another stellar day out of majority of the 62 anglers. Winnisquam was on fire with all the reports so there was much anticipation of a lot of catching and having fun for our anglers. The weather forecast was even promising and indeed it provided us with a beautiful day with 88 degree weather and mostly sunny with very mild winds on the big lake.

We even had a special guest fishing with us this day. Roger Proulx from New Hampshire Radio Network who is an avid fisherman on Winnisquam was invited to fish his very first tournament. Bubba Bassin welcomed him during the morning pre-tournament meeting and he felt very honored to be with us. He enjoyed the outing so much that Bubba Bassin's director Rob Frye and Roger discussed many ways of promoting Bubba Bassin and making it even more fun for our members for upcoming events. More details to come on the Bubba Bassin website but what was discussed was bringing the NH Radio Network to the next draw trail tournament on Winnipesaukee out of Ames Farm. NH Radio Network will be setting up an onsite sounds system during the weigh-in with a radio personality from NHRN. NHRN is a partnership of radio stations working together to assist and educate people of all ages in their quest to Discover NH and off year round programs that are promoted and broadcasted on 19 NH radio stations. This will be very exciting for the next Bubba Bassin Draw tournament and we hope to have a huge turn-out for this event. Roger will be bringing prizes to give away including NH trips to amusement parks, over night stays at NH resorts and much more. For every angler who weighs in a fish at the next tournament will get a chance to spin the big NHRN wheel to see if they will win one of these prizes. Again, this is very exciting and we hope you do not miss it. Thanks again to Roger Proulx and the New Hampshire Radio Network (www.nhradio.net).

Ok, back to our Winnisquam tournament and what a day this was for a lot of our anglers with lots of fish caught during the day. The biggest weight of the day came with a 5.88 lb largie kicker included in the two fish limit. Congrats to Greg Day who found a mixed bag with the lunker largemouth of the day and one sweet smallmouth to bring to the weigh-in that totaled 9.11 lbs!! Greg Day was sporting his new Triton boat that he bought this year from Owen's Marine. Greg managed to catch 6 fish during the day on a Carolina rigged spider grub in 5 to 6 feet of water. He did catch his limit by 9:30 including one of his keeper fish. The day continued and he managed to cull out for the other keeper fish that brought in that impressive weight. Congrats again to Greg Day on his new toy and for winning the event's top finisher spot. Greg will also receive a plaque at the end of the year during the Bubba Bassin Club awards banquet/cook-out slated for October 20th.

Not far behind first place was the weight of 8.86 lbs that included another kicker largie of 5.22. Congrats to Draw Tournament Director, Bob Hurst who caught his limit by 9:30 as well on the almighty Senko. Bob was using the larger Senko in 11 to 14 feet of weeds. Bob has a lot of patience letting this slow dropping bait fall and it paid off for him in the long run. Bob was anticipating first place but not to be out done by Mr. Day on this day had to settle for second. Still it was a nice bag and still deserves a big congratulations. Way to go Bobby..

Third place went to Matt Davis who had a stupendous day catching about 30+ fish. Matt fished Junebug senkos wacky rigged in 6 feet of water or less. He had his limit by 8:00 AM and continued on his tear to catch as many fish as he could. His hard earned work allowed him to take up the last pay-out spot of the day. Congrats to big Matty Davis on a job well done.

The First Losers Pool and the lunker smallie pool went to Dennis (the menace) Brophy, aka Mouth. Way to go Dennis for bringing in a 3.74 lb fat smallmouth that totalled his limit at 6.81 lbs, only 3/100ths of a pound above 5th place to take the First Loser's spot. Dennis walked away with $550 for both combined prizes, which is a huge pay-out for only a $25 entry fee which included the $5 FLP fee. Dennis originally set off for largemouth but were finding the fish were too small and then changed over to smallies. He caught them in 7 feet of water or less on a smoke colored tube that caught his big keepers of the day. Congrats again to Dennis Brophy on his big pay-out of a day.

We also want to congratulate the winners of our many give-aways at this event. Our free entry winner went to Roger Urbanski. Roger can use this free entry to any of the remaining 2007 Bubba Bassin Draw tournaments. Kevin Pederson won a TNT buzzbait lure cutsom made and donated by our very own Marc Hamel. Steve Graham (aka Pizzaman), won a nice Beans buddy blaidbait custom made and donated by Bob Lavierriere. Don Gagnon won a free bottle of Boat Saver donated by Rod Laferriere our local Boat Saver rep. Also donated on this day was a custom made Rod Rack made by one of our own Michael Spur. The winner of that prize went to Wayne English. The last prize to be given out was a pair of Canobie Lake passes donated by Roger Proulx of the New Hampshire Radio Network. The lucky winner of these passes went to Marc Hamel. Way to go guys on winning these Bubba extra prizes. Nothing like making it fun right to the very end.

As another reminder, our next Bubba Bassin draw event will bring us to an even bigger lake, Lake Winnipesaukee on June 30th out of Ames Farm. The club standings are pretty tight for the top 10. After the Winni event we will start adding the drops. First we will deduct 1 drop, then the next T we will deduct a 2nd drop in the standings and then going forward after that we will use the 3rd drop. So it will make it very interesting on how it will turn out at the end. Don't forget, New Hampshire Radio Network will be there, so make sure you join us for the fun on Winni. Also on another note, the NH Fish & Game will also be present to start their biological study of tagging tournament caught largemouth on Winnipesaukee. This is the first year and we will support Fish and Game and hope that this study finds some positive results.

Quit Wishin, Go Fishing!!!