2007 Club Draw Trail

Gary Croteau prevails over the windy conditions for the Winnipesaukee win.

Story by Rob Frye

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Bubba Bassin club had their draw trail event at Winnipesaukee for the second time in 2007 with the first one on June 30th and with the most recent on August 18th. This event was sponsored by Arma Coatings of New Hampshire who we want to thank for their support of Bubba Bassin. They donated gift certificates for a spray on bedline to the top 3 places as well as a few more for door prizes. Thanks again to Arma Coatings of New Hampshire who will also be sponsoring the upcoming Midweek and Team Bubba events scheduled also on Winni. On this day 61 anglers came out to play on a very windy day. The weather forecast was set for partly sunny skies with winds in the 10 to 20 mph range. Basically, that's how the day started but we saw 30+ mph gusts and constant 20+ winds. With the West/Northwest winds came the big waves and those venturing across the broads were set for a very rude awakening.

Mike Spurr reels in unbelievable 20 plus pound sack of smallies on Ossipee Night Tournament sponsored by Quinn's Trading Post
Story by Rob Frye
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Long distance drive for a long distance tournament for most of the Bubba Bassin Club members who fished the annual night tournament hosted this year on Ossipee Lake. Ossipee Lake is the furthest North tournament scheduled on the Bubba Bassin trails. A Very Special Thanks to Quinn's Trading Post from Wakefield, NH who is sponsoring all three of the Bubba Ossipee tournaments, one from each trail.

Lucky "3" for Rob Frye's win at the Bubba Bassin Draw on Winnipesaukee sponsored by Northeast Battery with the weigh-in presented by the New Hampshire Radio Network
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Bubba Bassin Club had their 6th 2007 draw trail tournament on Lake Winnipesaukee on June 30th launching out of Ames Farm. Special thanks to the NH Radio Network for their onsite setup during the weigh-in and the tournament's sponsor, Northeast Battery. It was the day after a cold front had moved through and the day's forecast was for mostly sunny, highs in the upper 70's and wind 5-10 mph. The wind certainly was higher with wind gusts over 30 and large rollers out on the broads. With the combination of the waves from the high wind and the heavy weekend boat traffic we ended up with a couple of broken boats by the end of the day. Still all 63 anglers came in by the 3:30 return time to weigh-in their catch. All anglers who weighed in fish would then stick around for prizes to be given away including a brand new Trojan Battery provided by Northeast Battery and their representative, Jack Roy.

A Dominating Day for Greg Day on Winnisquam.
Story by Rob Frye
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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.

Rob Frye goes all the way for a win on Pawtuckaway.
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Bubba Bassin Club members fished the third draw trail tournament of the 2007 season on Lake Pawtuckaway in Nottingham/Raymond, NH on May 12, 2007. The day's forecast was expected to reach 65 degrees with up to 10 mph out of the ENE and eventually changing to ESE. The clouds intermittently blocked the sun’s rays but the sun stayed out most of the day which played a key role in a lot of the angler’s patterns to find fish. The water temps ranged around 66 to 69 degrees through out the lake.

Congrats to Marc Hamel taking a BIP commanding WIN

Story by Rob Frye

Saturday's tournament started off as a wet and cold morning with the sunshine to break out in the early afternoon. Water temps were pretty stable around 48 to 50 degrees. Lots of stories of most of the bites coming off of jigs and silver buddies. The other early Spring bait such as jerk baits, crankbaits and spinnerbaits were not as productive.

Congrats to our Lucky Winners on Massy Draw

Bubba Bassin Club had their season opener on Lake Massabessic with 54 anglers coming out to play. The lake has been open for just over a week which kept the water temp low around 39 to 40 degrees thruout the whole lake. The weather also made things a little uncomfortable with winds blowing down the lake from the North/Northeast at 10 to 15 mph.
 
The bite was far from the best with only 6 anglers catching limits and a total of 24 fish brought into the weigh-in. Congrats to John Diacco for taking first place with 2 largemouth at 6.11 lbs with his biggest weighing in at 4.19 lbs. John used a wide variety of baits but his only two bites of the day came off of jerk baits in 5 feet of water.

Team Frye & Acox take their third Team Bubba Win, this time on Winnipesaukee.

Story by Rob Frye
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The Team Bubba Trail fished Lake Winnipesaukee for their 8th event of the 2007 Season on September 2nd. Forty One teams came out to compete for this event that was sponsored by Arma Coatings of New Hampshire. Bubba Bassin again wants to thank Arma Coatings of NH for all their support with this being the 3rd event they were donating certificates for spray-on bed liners to the top 3 teams.

Alan Denise and Scott Canelas fish with patience to overcome a Win on Ossipee.

Story by Rob Frye
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On August 12th the Team Bubba Open trail brought us back to Ossipee Lake for our final Bubba Bassin event on this great body of water. The two previous tournaments from the Bubba Draw trail and the Bubba Midweek trail brought in some impressive weights with the winners averaging around a 4 pound average. Once again this Ossipee tournament was sponsored by Quinn's Trading Post from Union, NH. Special thanks to Bill and Chrissy Quinn for all their support.

Rob Frye and Bruce Acox take advantage of the evening bite for the Pawtuckaway Night Tourny
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The Team Bubba trail went to Pawtuckaway Lake in Nottingham, NH for their annual night tournament for the 2007 season on Saturday, July 21st. The Bubba night tournaments are scheduled to start at 7:00 PM with a 12 hour duration until the scheduled weigh-in time at 7:00 AM. Night tournaments can be very fun and productive with multiple time frames for a productive bite including the evening bite, the night-time bite and the early morning bite that you don't see during a conventional 7AM to 3 PM tournament. Mother Nature once again has given us a beautiful forecast for this night. The humidity was low and no chance of any precipitation. The temps were going to plummet to a much colder night than normal.

Last minute heroics take Goss and Campisi for the win on Stumpfield.

Story by Rob Frye
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Bubba Bassin Team Open Trail had their fifth event of the 2007 season on Stumpfield Lake in Hopkington, NH on July 1st. We had a stupendous turn-out for this event with 37 teams coming out to play in the water body that's known and named for its plethora of stumps and logs. The weather forecast was for mostly cloudy with cold Canadian winds blowing from the Northwest at 15 to 20 mph. After everyone had finally launched and parked their trucks and trailers in the somewhat tight quarters we took off just after 7 AM with David Tsao and Bob Hurst as our send-off boat.

Winnisquam Father's Day Win for Mike Spur and Deb Ash
Story by Rob Frye
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Another "day after" tournament for the Bubba Bassin Team trail for the 4th trail event of the year. Our annual Father's Day event took us to Lake Winnisquam on June 17th launching out of Martel's Bait and Tackle. We had a great turn-out with 38 teams trying Winnisquam again the day after the Bubba Bassin draw trail just fished it with an impressive winning weight of 9.11 lbs by Greg Day for his 2 fish limit. The forecast again informed us of another repeat day of beautiful weather with the temps in the mid 80's and becoming partly cloudy to all clouds with a temptation of a Thunderstorm brewing in from the west.

Team Peake & Jean blowout the rest of the field on Shirley.
Story by Rob Frye
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The third Team Bubba Open occurred on June 4th on Shirley Reservoir the day after the club trail held their event. On this day Mother Nature showed us how she could change the New England weather with the snap of her fingers. On Saturday during the club trail the weather was in the low 90's and hot and muggy, zapping the energy out of many of our anglers. On Sunday, the weather changed to breezy and colder temps around the high 50's. Would this affect the bite, one would assume so but of course, someone always finds those fish for the weigh-in.

Team Frye & Acox make their move on Massabessic.
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The day started off with temps in the mid 40's for a chilly start with cold winds blowing 10+ mph out of the NNE. The forecast was calling for a colder day with a high of 55 degrees, compared to the previous days of 60+ degrees. If you were positioned in the wind it felt much colder but if you were out of the wind and if the sun peaked thru the clouds it felt like it was in the high 70's. That's the way the day went, one moment you were shedding clothing and then a few minutes later you were throwing them back on.

Congrats to our Richardson/Smith Winners on Team Bubba Open on Winni

We were very happy to see all the teams that made it to our first 2007 Team Bubba tournament on Lake Winnipesaukee. Mother Nature made sure that the tournament committee had to second guess where they were going to have their first tournament. We prevailed on keeping it on Winni and had 32 anxious teams that were ready to play in the 44+ degree temp waters. On tournament day the forecast was expected to be sunny with air temps in the 70's. It was indeed a beautiful day to be out on the water and on Winni. The tournament started on time at 7:00 with a safety stipulation of an off-limits anything below southern neck of Moultonborough Bay. At the time of the tournament there was still ice blocking the neck heading towards 20 mile bay and the Graveyard.

 

2007 Bubba Midweek Open Trail

It's all about Timing for Rob Frye's win at the final 2007 Bubba Midweek on Winnipesaukee.

Story by Mike McNamara

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We had a cool start for our 36 players for our Halloween Midweek, the last official midweek of the 2007 season. (Yes I did say official, more to come later). It was a nice day, no wind, plenty of sun and just a wonderful day to be fishing. First to weigh in, who is known to be Mr. Sand Bagger, Rob Frye with 14.67 lbs of Winnipesaukee largemouth. [Full Story]

Alan Denise putting on a mid-week clinic with another win on Squam

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What a wonderful piece of water.  We had 62 players on such a wonderful day.  Everyone enjoyed the sunny day.  Morning start off was a little cooler, just ask our polar bear swimmers.  Greg Day was the first to take a dive, followed by Matt Davis joining in the fun (not intentionally).  Bobby (girl) Hurst oversleeps.  Must be getting old.  We all missed him.

 Bubba Good Deed:   I also want to take the time here to thank Brian Lafrancois for giving up his weigh in to tow an old buck clear across Squam to his dock.  Brian contacted Rod Laferriere and said “taking one for the team”.  Thank you for your compassion. 

Rod Laferriere brings the smack-down on Winnipesaukee

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Thank you to our tournament sponsor – Arma Coatings. The first 6 places received gift certificates along with our First Loser. So in all 7 spots. Wonderful. Thank you again.

Another wonderful day on Winni. We had a great turnout again today, 69 players on the water. What a sight. Great job to all those playing today. Rob, we missed you today, but hope that you are having a great vacation.

Rick Wentworth Claims the Bubba Midweek win on Winnipesaukee

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Well, another nice day on Winni and it looks like the answer to last’s tournaments question – Does anybody work anymore? is not many. We had a great turnout for our 3rd Midweek tournament which also was our second and final sanctioned tournament for the Nitro boat giveaway. Our First place winner Rich Wentworth is going to the Nitro boat giveaway tournament in October along with Peter Weeks, the highest placing Nitro / Tracker owner. Good luck to all of you. Had a little bit of confusing time at the end of the day figuring out the highest placing nitro / tracker boater thinking it was Mike McNary, but when the results were all in and tabulated, it was Peter Weeks, just beating him by 11.10 to 10.90. Sorry Mike, Congrats to Peter.

Alan Denise wins 1^st place at Ossipee and $3000 with his New 2008 Skeeter ZX225

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The day started rather wet with major down pours early in the day starting around registration time. Our tournament director Mike McNamara was doing his best during the pre-tournament meeting with the give-aways and the send-off but was having a hard time with the rain pouring down on us. By early noon the rain had subsided and the rest of the day left us with the most beautiful sunlight shining.  That gave us plenty of time to dry off and when we came in it was another great day on Ossipee. Thanks to Quinn’s Trading Post who sponsored this event as they have at the previous night tournament and the following Team Bubba open.

Mark Peabody Wins on Winnipesaukee with a Big One
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What a wonderful day to play hooky and for our 2nd midweek tournament of the year. We never did see any of the rain. Not only was this our second midweek, which brought out 47 players, it was also the first of two Bubba midweek’s that are sanctioned as qualifying events for the 591 Nitro giveaway tournament in October courtesy of Marine USA. Our two Bubba’s, Mark Peabody, our first place champion and Alan Denise, the top placing Nitro/Tracker owner are on their way to the October tournament. Keep watching for our next two winners, which will be decided at our next Midweek tournament on July 25th. Good luck to all.

Joe Lucarelli Takes the First 2007 Midweek Win
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The first midweek of the 2007 season was greeted by an absolutely breathtaking sunrise. See a great photo that was taken on the Bubba Photos Page.  We were gifted with a warm but pleasant day out on Newfound Lake as 33 dedicated midweek fishermen fished their first midweek this year. Great fishing, great stories and even ones about that fish that got away could be heard as the day wound down. 

To begin this years winning circle, Joe Lucarelli took first place bringing home his second Midweek win.  Congratulations Joe.  Joe proclaims his winning pattern was the use of the watermelon Senko.  His big fish weight of 3.84 was caught in 15 feet of water using the watermelon Senko.  Backing that up with another nice fish 3.67 was also caught with a watermelon Senko in 15 feet of water. 

Betty & Alan Denise defend Sweetheart Tournament Crown.
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Another beautiful day with plenty of sun and warm-to-hot temps was blessed to us on the second annual Sweetheart Tournament on Lake Massabessic for July 14, 2007. We had 38 Sweetheart teams join us that comprised of Husband/Wife, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Friend/Friend and Adult/Child teams. It was an exciting day with much excitement and camaraderie with all the players. Even the wives who were very unfamiliar with this type of event showed much excitement and enthusiasm. We want to thank Jack Roy and Northeast Battery for all their support for Bubba Bassin and donating the event's Grand Prize. They donated a Trojan battery to be given away during the weigh-in along with other prizes donated by our Bubba Bassin supporters and sponsors.

Pawtuckaway Cub Scouts Tournament Sponsored by Quantum.

Congrats to all Cub Scouts and siblings of Pack 33 out of Hampstead, NH and Pack 167 from Nottingham, NH.

Bubba Bassin held their annual youth event on Pawtuckaway Lake in Nottingham, NH on August 11th. The event was top notch fun with Zebco Rod and Reel combos for each of the Cub Scouts and their siblings who enjoyed the day of fishing. [More details]