Oswego – August 21-23, 2009

We were looking forward to this Scotty the most…not only is this my home port, but.kevin davis who mates on hat trick charters is legendary in this eastern end….this all came to a screeching halt when the transmission decided to quit during the week leading up to the tournament.  Kevin and tim rookie of Oswego took the task of finding a transmission and somehow putting it in the boat from 1pm-4am on big fish Friday.   After many sleepless nights and hours, we were somehow fishing on the lake by 6:30 am on Friday…….we had zero fish in the boat at noon and decided to make a move……that move would eventually win us the tournament…..a “secret” spot 24 miles away was our last ditch effort to find some fish….within an hour of setting down on our area…we had 9 kings in the box….with no boats in site and fish biting we knew we had our area for day1…….the Oswego tournament offers many amenities, such as food, dining, and lodging which is very convenient,  Bud and Shane Broadwell hosted this event at their econolodge and restaurant steamers which everyone enjoyed and are looking forward to this year……the ability to drive up and drop off our coolers from the boats was a great and seamless idea…….day 1….we proceeded with our plan to go back to our spot hoping that we would have the are to ourselves….to our surprise…we did…..fishing was slow to start but once it picked up it was spectacular…..once spin doctors and flies along with familiar bite whole bait worked well off of wire divers and coppers…..our copper setup which we have been playing around with and finally have confidence in consists of Shimano tekota 700 and 800 reels coupled with Rapala RSC 8.5 copper rods…..these reels have super smooth drag and the rods are strong yet flexible to withstand these big kings and have the big eyelets to allow the copper to pass thru without getting hung up….

We boated close to a dozen salmon on a day when fishing overall was very tough….1^st place by 8 points on day one is great but 1^st place on day 2 is even better…….obviously our plan was to go back to our spot bt we realized other boats would be there….little did we know that other boats meant the entire fleet minus 4 or 5 boats…..we setup and were pushed off our marks and when we did land fish we couldn’t turn back around….we then ran north of the pack to try and work an area…..fishing turned out to be tougher for us on day 2….we managed 6 bites and 3 fish up until about 12 noon….knowing that we needed to pick up at 1 to make it back in time…we were on our last 30 minutes when one of the coppers goes off with a big king…we land that fish making it 4 in our cooler and are hoping for the last and final fish to complete our 5…..with 10 mintues to go…our center copper fires with another large king on…capt Davis who also baoted the last fish in Whitby is the man when reeling in fish on copper…..needless to say, we land the fish and after high fiving and fist pumping we reel our lines in to make sure we make it back on time….1 second late and you are dq’d…..we cleard the pier heads and made our way to the line of baots to drop off our cooler……many boats had big catches…sea devil and thrillseeker to name a few..we knew it was going to be close after hearing how everyone did…..after seeing the 2^nd place team’s catch we knew we had a 1^st place finish….Being a 4 time event winner….. the Oswego win is the most memorable….having friends and family there to celebrate our win is something we will always remember.   The big win in Oswego put us now in a commanding lead in the KOTL heading into the final tournament in Port Dalhousie…..knowing that Shirley B and Thrillseeker were behind us did not ease our minds heading into the final tournament.