Tacoma Lakes 8/28

[Eric-Maine]

Club tournament on a pond that I had never fished. Our format is unique in that it is a blind draw team 6 fish limit with the boater allowed to cull from his 3 and the co to cull from his 3. This encourages a true sharing of the fish and opportunities as the boater and the co have to work together so each maximizes their respective 3 fish limits for a combined team total.
We launched at the Leeds ramp with ample parking for the 10 boat field with room for more recreation boats.
My partner for the day D hadn't been on the lake before either. D is a senior in high school and has started a bass fishing club there. Awesome kid we had a good day fishing. Temps wer in the mid 60s down from 93 the 5 or so days previous water was 79 very light wind,  overcast. I dropped the tm at the ramp and alternated between a super spook and a frog as conditions presented. D threw a Googan version of a whopper plopper. Got a few blowups on the frog but they had committment issues.  D put got on the board with a senko in the shallow pads. About a mile in I caught 3 quickly on a point 7' with cabbage on the super spook. Now the focus was on D catching 2 more. We finally started the Yamaha and went looking. There were hazard bouys across the way that looked promising. I kept the boat along the break rock and cabbage. D scored again. I was throwing a arky jig out, hail marys I call them, at no particular targets. Turns out there was rock out there too. 3 fish or so on the jig. Ds senko wasn't scoring so I gave him my rod to use. He caught 4 or 5  more on the jig before we went in. I switched to a drop shot with a ribster.....that caught them too. All the fish were about the same size 13"-16" . We weighed 10.25 not enough to win but a fun day, a limit and maybe a new jig convert. I gave him a handful to try on his next trip.

It would be a fun lake to skip jigs under docks and pontoons.......lots of targets. Also a great lake for a kayak fishermen, lot of protected areas lot of froggin water. Could easily paddle and fish the whole lake in a day.

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[Mike Cork]

We started a club like this years ago and it did well. We then started a team club but you had to give up the good to get your check. Club fishing should be about learning and sharing. 

Thanks for the great report.

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