night fishing/eye contest

[Chrisper4694]

Participated in the KDC eye contest. started fishing 5am saturday morning and our first 10 casts produced 5 brids...ok a good start but the wrong species haha. proceeded to pick away at a few eyes, but nothing great.

The bite changed as the sun got high so we weighed in (fish stayed great in the live well and were able to be released) and got some bait and fished deep. pulled in 3 eyes from deep including a little bit of a better fish.

My buddy needed take a break to go to his friend's memorial service. We headed back out around 4pm and planned to spend the night pounding eyes...but it was not meant to be. The wind tossed us around a bit but we were able to get into some more brids and a few smaller eyes early in the night including a nice sized brid.

The cold front moved in around 10-11pm and the bait activity turned off like a switch! we tried and tried but with only one small eye from 10pm till 3am we were pretty much spent and called it. One of our eyes was just good enough for 6th place oh well better than last contest.

[River Renegade]

Good report & solid hybrid striped bass. Nicely done!

[icebadger]

nice job, i saw you bring a nice walleye in around 11:00am at dows.that wind played hell on us after the rain stopped.its good to see you guys toughed it out and brought some fish to the scale good work

[Chrisper4694]

OH was that you with the beard? That was our last good eye. Go figure caught middle of the day.

[bunker dunker]

caught one walleye around 5;30am saturday and that was it for me.fished 7pm
till 1:30am sunday with just 2 rock bass to show for it.took a 2 hour nap and was fishing again from 4am till 7am sunday morning with out a touch.that cold front stopped the bait from moving and pretty much shut the bite down for me.
Chris congrats on your eye,did you place in the contest??

[NJSquatch]

where is the pic of your 6th place eye?

[Chrisper4694]

i think my buddy has a pic of it on his phone that i took real quick, i don't even have a picture of it on my camera. i actually didn't get a picture with any walleye i caught during the contest...i was waiting for the 10 lbs winning fish!

[NorthJerzyG]

Nice stripes!! Not sure what the pot was, but seems like a decent consolation prize!!

[Chrisper4694]

44 entries, pretty low. consolation prizes are $20 gift cards to dow's haha

[bunker dunker]

chris they try to keed the monies in the top three spots.1st place had a good pay check.