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TRITON BOATS GIVEAWAY
By: Ron Wilson
October 14, 2010.... I recently worked
the Triton Boat
Owner Tournament at Clear
Lake. At the end of the
tournament after the winners were announced, 6 lucky boat owners were
drawn from a box filled with boat owner names. Each boat owner would
then have the option to pick a compartment they wanted to stand on in
the boat. In those 6 compartments was an envelope that contained a prize
that they had won from Lowrance Depth finders, life vest,
trolling motor,
fishing rods and
one compartment with a $60,000 Triton Boat as a prize.
The anglers were given an offer of $5,000
each if all 6 stepped off the boat by Jeff Priester, owner of Nixon's
Marine in Walla Walla, Washington, no one took it,
One boater was then eliminated when he
won a depth finder. Jeff handed Kent Brown, Triton Rep and Ultimate Bass
Radio Host, 5 more envelopes containing checks for $6,500 each this
went on until there was just 2 anglers on the boat.
An offer of $19,000 was offered and they
took it. Now the funniest part of it was that the guy who had been
trying to get all the anglers to take the money every time it was
offered was standing on the winning compartment and he had just bought a
new Triton Bass Boat and was wanting fishing money.
When he found out what he had passed up
he fell to the boat on his knees and bowed his head on the carpet. The
money was good but he could of sold the boat for a whole lot more.
I had traveled to Clear Lake with Norval
Pimentel earlier in the week to fish and relax in a mini type working
vacation.
The first day the wind was blowing so
hard we had to hide behind an Island to fish. Not what we wanted but
wetting a hook was better than nothing.
I could not believe all the schools of
little black bass
in the 3 to 6 inch range in the southern part of the lake. There were
schools of a hundred or so all over the place at every stop and they
were eating lots of the millions of tiny baitfish that are there also.
Fishing was tough and catching keeper
bass was hard, one fish here and one fish there but no pattern where you
could go sack them up.
It rained that night and the next day the
wind changed so we drove up to the north end of the lake to launch out
of the wind. It was the same thing there, keeper bass scattered and
millions of bait fish and small black bass there also. Next year there
should be so many 12 inch bass in the lake that you can take light
equipment and have a ball catching them.
On the final mini vacation day everyone
got together on how the tournament would be ran. Adam Adkinsson, vice
president of Marketing and Karen Hartung operations manager for Delta
Marine Sales and Service in Stockton led the meeting. We had a couple
new people there so what was a slam dunk for us Nor-Cal bunch was all
new to them so we had to walk them through how the weigh in would work.
I sure didn't like to lose a half days
fishing but it was something that had to be done so everything would go
smoothly for the 119 boats that would be fishing the event.
A little after noon Norval and I finally
got my 12 year old grandson on the water. After a thrilling boat ride
across the lake to the
rocky point area near
Lakeport we were
finally fishing. More small bass and millions of bait fish there also.
My grandson Johnathan reeled in a small
keeper black bass on a Senko. A while later he was dragging a small
green pumpkin brush hawg on a 1/16th ounce dart head when his rod bent
double. I thought it was another
channel catfish on
his line but when it passed the front of the boat as Johnathan fought
him back to the middle of the boat with Norval's expert control of the
trolling motor, Norval said no its green. The fish gave Johnathan a
great fight on the 8 pound test line. No monster but close to 5 pounds
and my grandsons biggest bass yet.
I was a happy camper, then as it was time
we headed back to Konocti to be there if needed when the anglers checked
in and the mandatory 5:30
p.m. meeting.
I talked with several of the anglers and
they used a variety of baits and methods to catch there fish.
Rattletraps, DV500 tossed and yo-yoed back to the boat on the
 bottom,
dead sticking a Senko, Zara spooks early and even worms and jigs took a
few. The bite was tough and 40 plus anglers the first day never boated a
fish. I think it was even more that blanked the second day.
TRITON OWNERS TOURNAMENT
CLEAR LAKE - LAKEPORT, CA
OCTOBER 9&10, 2010
1 Daryl Snodgrass & Mike Stahlman 46.72 lbs. $4,205.00
2 Doug Jones & Jeff Bitlear 42.40 lbs. $3,125.00
3 Mark Gomez & Jerry
Johnson 42.22 lbs. $2,315.00
4 Bill O'Shinn & RC Stephens 41.56 lbs. $1,225.00
5 Michael Tobey & Richard Dobyns 41.36 lbs.$1,085.00 |
