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Online Mike S

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Kingston, Ont: Canadian Open of Fishing
« on: July 24, 2010, 12:52:56 PM »
Interesting read on a very large tournament running until today.. grabbed from our news link
 
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2683246
 
 Wild day on the water     Posted By DOUG GRAHAM, THE WHIG-STANDARD   Posted 5 hours ago   
  [/t][/t]      The man who managed the rough conditions Lake Ontario threw at anglers on Day 2 of the Canadian Open of Fishing did it by going with his reliable walleye boat instead of the pro bass boats used by most of the fishermen.
Derek Strub of Elora moved from 21st place after Day 1 to the top of the leaderboard on Friday with a five-bass limit of 22.75 pounds.

           "I have a 22-foot walleye boat and it's really good in these conditions. It's a huge advantage," Strub said.

"I've been doing the Great Lake stuff for a long time so the big water doesn't really bother me.
"It's still tough to fish but the fish really do crank it up when it's rough like that."
However, for the majority of the 77 pros fishing, getting to those fish, in what the anglers described as eight-to 10-foot waves out in the shoal areas they were trying to reach some 30 to 40 kilometres out on Lake Ontario, was too dangerous.
Many of the anglers turned to secondary plans, going down the St. Lawrence or into the more sheltered water of the Bay of Quinte to fish largemouth.
"It was a little crazy out there. We had plan A and we ended up doing plan D," said Kingston's Bruce Tufts, a biologist at Queen's who made a slight move on the leaderboard to 44th place.
It will take a 20th place finish or higher to get into the money payoffs for the three-day championship. The top pro will receive $40,000.
Strub is nearly three pounds up on Todd Currie of Arkell, who has a 38-pound weight in the live-release championship. Rob Laframboise of Sault Ste. Marie jumped up to third place with a 19-pound limit Friday.
Only three anglers in the top 10 after Thursday's fishing managed to stay there heading into Saturday's final eight hours of fishing.
The biggest casualty Friday was first-day leader Mike Blair of Mount Hope. He failed to catch a fish, done in by boat trouble which brought him back to land twice.
Orangeville's Scott Palmer, second to Blair after Thursday's fishing, considered himself lucky to fall back to only ninth place after struggling to come in with 11.40 pounds.
"It's the first time ever I had to turn around. When I hit the upper gap (to head out into the main part of Lake Ontario) it was just too much. I feel great just to get five fish," Palmer said.
"It was ugly, the worst I've ever seen it. It was silly," said Peterborough's Chris Johnston, who is in 13th position.
Many of the veteran pros, such as Les Zachny of Toronto, resisted the urge to go to their prime spot because of the conditions.
"I tried to go out the gap to Main Duck (more than 50 km out), but it was safety first," he said. "I was not going to hurt my boat or myself."
The heaviest limits of the day behind Strub came from fishing legend Bob Izumi of Burlington, his brother Wayne Izumi and Doug Brownridge of Milton.
"We were fishing real deep today. We were out there bouncing around," Bob Izumi said. He had a smallmouth limit that weighed in at 21.65 pounds and moved him up to 11th place.
Wayne Izumi said he went to spots he fished more than 15 years go when he twice won the Canadian Open Classic in Kingston. He caught all largemouth with a weight of 20 pounds to move to 10th.
Izumi lost out for big fish of the day by .5 pounds when Brownridge weighed in a largemouth of 5.45 pounds. It was worth $1,000 for the big fish.
Strub not only took over the lead but picked up $2,500 from the daily Shimano top performance pay outs offered on the second and third day of fishing.
Strub said it was by no means an easy eight hours on the water.
"I was out on the big lake all day. It wasn't a lot of fun to be out there but there's some big fish out there," said Strub, adding that he and his amateur partner were fishing deep shoals in rolling raves.
"My partner was fishing from his knees. I was standing up but there was nothing to hold on to," Strub said.
He had a big fish of 5.20 pounds but took a .25-pound penalty because the first couldn't been returned alive. Strub also lost a couple of big fish he couldn't get to the net on Thursday.
"I got a feeling that is going to haunt me at the end of the week," said Strub, adding that Kingston is one of his favourite places to fish.
"I've won three or four tournaments here. It's big water, big smallmouth and that's my deal."
Strub was one of the very few anglers who admitted he wouldn't mind more of the same conditions Saturday.
"I don't care if it's rough or otherwise. I'm going to run and run and hopefully I get give good bites," Strub said.
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Offline hawg hunter

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Re: Kingston, Ont: Canadian Open of Fishing
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2010, 08:25:09 AM »
Derreck Strub ended up winning with 60.05 lbs.

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Re: Kingston, Ont: Canadian Open of Fishing
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2010, 09:08:42 AM »
thats a fair bit of fish , sounds like he werked hard for it tho ...were you fishing that too Hawg ???
 
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Offline hawg hunter

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Re: Kingston, Ont: Canadian Open of Fishing
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2010, 08:03:10 AM »
no i was too late ta enter,darn thing was darn near full last dec 12th and regestration opened on dec 1st,then a spot opened up july 20th/2010 but waiting list went first (i did not get on the list never wanted it ta be a last min expense lol).i hope ta be in on dec 1st this year,don't want ta miss it again.

 great event pros are $1000 ta enter and ams(non boaters)are $600 ta enter,but after ya include motels/food/gas for pre fishing(if you enter as a pro) your looking at 2 ta $3000(alot of pros fish a prefish a week or more at $150 ta 300 a day in gas cost)as for ams your looking at approx$400 for motel/$600 ta enter/up to $100 a day ta split on gas or atleast offer to pro=$300(3 day event) not includeing food and of course tackle if ya buy any new stuff,could be looking at $1500,but well worth the money if ya draw 3 good pros who know the area well.

each day you fish with a different pro,the learning side is payment enough....

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Offline oldphart

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Re: Kingston, Ont: Canadian Open of Fishing
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2010, 09:24:31 AM »
~~~Thanks for posting the report Mike, I'm sure we all would like to get into one of those Top Payout Tourney and phishen white water, now that can be phun.
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