Jun 29

Shumanis – Bartholomew Win District 7 Cayuga Lake

Jun 26

District 2 – Sayers Lake, State Park, 6/29/24

Location – Sayers Lake
Launch Site – State Park, Hunter’s Run East Launch
Date – Saturday, June 29th
Time – 5:30 am – 2:00 pm, (if we can launch earlier we will try)
Registration – 4:45 am – 5:30 am

Payout: (based on 6 Anglers and 5 Co-Anglers)
Anglers
1st place – $250
2nd place – $170

Co-Anglers
1st place – $105
2nd place – $70

Do not launch your boat until you have checked in, completed the boat check and met up with your rider.
This will be a 5 fish tournament, 12″ minimum.
No culling of dead fish. Dead fish MUST be taken with you.
Lunker Fee is $10 per day. Lunker must be a live fish.
All PA Boating and Fishing rules and regulation must be adhered to at all times.
All PA Bass tournament rules apply.
It is suggested that the cost of the gas/oil used during the day be shared between the boater and the rider.
The area right at the launch will be off limits. Any areas posted no boats or no fishing means you cannot cast into those areas either.

Note about weigh-in. Please tie up to the dock if there is room, pull up on the shoreline, or wait out on the water. If you want to pull your boat out, you can trailer it but fish care should be considered. The co-angler should come up to the trailer to get in the bag line. Please remember to use social distancing. Get both bags (CANNOT use your own). When you get your bag, you can get your fish and bring them back for weigh in. When you come up to the scale with your fish, turn in your boat number, give me your name, verify weight and get your yellow copy of the weigh in slip. Return fish to water at the end of the docks, do not dump them on the ramp and return bags to the end of the line where you got them.

Last boat will call out numbers and each boat will launch every 10 seconds.

The tournament committee (District Officers present) will make the decision to hold a fog delay if necessary for safety. If so, the committee will make decisions regarding take off time, extending fishing hours, etc.

SAFETY – Life jackets MUST be worn when the outboard motor is running. This includes coming in to beach the boat, taking the boat on and off the trailer. If you are on the boat, the outboard is running, life jacket MUST be on for all aboard. Failure to do so can result in disqualification in the tournament.

**Any culling system utilized must reduce fish handling stress and injury (e.g., clips and color coding). Devices that use or require punching / piercing a hole in the fish’s mouth are NOT permitted. Fish should not be lifted from a livewell by culling tubes, ropes, etc., in an attempt to reduce stress.

Boat # Angler Co-Angler
1 Michael Richmond Kevin Hamilton
2 Levi McCarty Michael Prentiss
3 Robert Parmer Dan Edwards
4 Mike Ott Daniel Foresman
5 Keith Houseknecht
6 Dylan Edwards Brett Dalrymple

 

Anglers (* denotes guaranteed)
1. Robert Parmer – Washberry
2 Michael Ott – Susquehanna Valley
3. Keith Houseknecht – North Branch Bassmasters
4. Levi McCarty – North Branch Bassmasters* (verbal)
5. Michael Richmond – North Branch Bassmasters (verbal)
6. Dylan Edwards – Susquehanna Valley* (verbal)

Co-Anglers (* denotes guaranteed)
1. Brett Dalrymple – Washberry
2. Daniel Foresman – North Branch Bassmasters*
3. Dan Edwards – Susquehanna Valley* (verbal)
4. Kevin Hamilton – Washberry (verbal)
5. Mike Prentiss – Washberry (verbal)
6.

Please contact me if you would like to fish. If you contacted me and I missed your name, please call me. Thanks.
Brett
Updated: 6/28/24

Jun 23

2024 PA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

YOU MISSED IT !!!

First off we would like to thank our host Union Springs Village Council for their hospitality and excellent launch facility. This was a record weekend on Cayuga Lake launching out of Union Springs, NY where the single day weight record would be broken by Mark Bower on day 1 with 25.40lbs and it would take 20lbs just to be in the top 10 on the angler side. Not to be out done, the coanglers would bring the smack down with a near 20lb bag to lead their division. The big fish also came out to play with 1 five pounder after another getting erased until Justin Holewinski put a 6,32 on the scale to take it for the angler side. Chris Longo would take day 1 honors with a 5.09 for the coanglers.

Day 2 and not only did the heat continue with temps well into the 90s, so did the big bags which kept coming. 10 more 20lb plus bags would be brought in along with along with countless 18 and 19lb bags. But were any of the day 1 leaders and contenders able to do it again. 2nd place Keith Houseknect would be the first of the top 5 day 1 anglers to come in with only 17,39 and fall to 6th. Fifth place Bob Brody would come in with another 20lb bag and keep his spot. With word that the other 3 angler in the top 5 had caught them again we waited…..first to arrive was day 1 leader Mark Bower who said he was struggling early; then said he got the bites he needed but Mike has a giant and it is going to be close. Mark weighed in 24,09 to give him a total of 49.49lbs!!!! a new 2 day total weight record. A little while later, Shumanis made his way to the tanks. First up was his big fish that did not disappoint; a 8.09 largemouth and biggest fish of the tournament. However his 24.63 bag would leave him two and half pound short of the gold ring. Where is Bryan…..reports were that he had a big bag….needing just under 30lbs to take the lead, Mark still wasn’t breathing that easy. When Brian arrived, he wouldn’t have 30 but he did have 25.53. Not enough for the win but enough to take over the single day weight record.  What an amazing 2 days. There would be one more story to tell. You go out and have a great day. You come in with 20.54 and find out you are 5 pounds out of the lead and not even in a check spot. So, what do you do. You go out and get more. That is what Mitch Heaton did and he upgraded to a 22.32 limit vaulting him into 4th place. Let that sink in; 42.36 for 4th place. It took 40lbs just to get a check and 46 to make the top 3.

Now for the coanglers. Day 2 would start with the 17 pounds just inside the cut line and 2 19lb bags leading the way. Kade Wesner, the day one leader, would return on day 2 with another solid limit just short of 20lbs giving him  a total of 39.15! Now he would have to wait. Scott Hileman who was only 0.27 behind him could only find just under 16lbs today so he was safe for now. Then came Jason Cavanaugh with a Big Bag and a Big Fish. He would start with a 7.21 giant and finish with 23.24 pounds just missing knocking Kade out by 0.80. With a sigh of relief, he anxiously awaited another Jason to come to the scales. Jason Ortiz that is who went out only 0.66lbs behind him. Jason said I don’t have a 7 pounder but I have good ones. And that he did – 20.43 and he takes 1st place by 0.05lbs as Kade walks away clutching the sides of his head in disbelief. 39.20 and Jason Ortiz is the 2024 coangler Champion……and the other part of the story, you are a coangler with over 30lbs and don’t make the top 5.

Here are the numbers

    DAY 1 DAY 2 TOT   DAY 1 DAY 2 TOT
1 MARK BOWER 25.4 24.09 49.49 JASON ORTIZ 18.77 20.43 39.20
2 MICHAEL SHUMANIS 22.28 24.63 46.91 KADE WESNER 19.43 19.72 39.15
3 BRIAN BYLOTAS 20.73 25.53 46.26 JASON CAVANAUGH 15.11 23.24 38.35
4 MITCH HEATON 20.04 22.32 42.36 SCOTT HILEMAN 19.16 15.94 35.10
5 BOB BRODY 20.49 19.81 40.30 SAM NOEL 17.1 14.3 31.40
6 Keith Houseknecht 22.81 17.39 40.20 BEN MEISINGER 16.87 13.73 30.60
7 JUSTIN LACOMIS 18.14 21.97 40.11 GABRIEL JOHNSON 12.67 17.04 29.71
8 TONY DORMAN 20.19 19.64 39.83 DAVID PALKO 15.13 11.67 26.80
9 MIKE TRAVIS 19.89 19.53 39.42 CHRIS LONGO 14.14 12.12 26.26
10 KEVIN GERGEL 20.33 18.7 39.03 TYLER ZIEGLER 15.36 10.19 25.55
11 ROBERT DAVIDSON JR 16.13 22.16 38.29 BRETT DALRYMPLE 11.66 13.79 25.45
12 ANTHONY CICERO III 17.99 19.94 37.93 GLENN KEY 16.27 8.82 25.09
13 VINCE ALTIERI 17.78 19.38 37.16 DAVID AVVISATO 12.69 11.51 24.20
14 Michael Richmond 16.73 19.64 36.37 BRIAN PADEN 10.01 13.08 23.09
15 MICHAEL TAYLOR 20.08 15.13 35.21 BILL LIDWELL 10.84 11.43 22.27
16 DON DICK 20.18 14.52 34.70 RAY JAMESON 5.78 14.34 20.12
17 George Bowers 16.3 18.13 34.43 TOM PISANO 5.17 13.69 18.86
18 Justin Holewinski 18.38 15.35 33.73 David M Mizenko 2.21 14.43 16.64
19 ROBERT DAVIDSON SR 16.07 15.81 31.88 DANIEL PAINE 0 0 0.00
20 STEVE KOCH 17.93 13.75 31.68        
21 ZACH BORGER 17.23 14.35 31.58        
22 MICHAEL EGNAC 16.68 14.87 31.55        
23 MIKE SABBI 17.99 13.44 31.43        
24 TROY ADAMOSKY 19.55 11.06 30.61        
25 Hunter Bruner 16.65 13.85 30.50        
26 REUBEN BARTHOLEMEW 16.18 14.26 30.44        
27 Jeff Manross 15.78 13.72 29.50        
28 EDWIN FISHER 16.24 13.04 29.28        
29 William Morey 14.55 14.49 29.04        
30 RICHARD WITUSHYNSKY 12.32 15.9 28.22        
31 TIMOTHY ZIMMERMAN 14.16 13.94 28.10        
32 DERRICK LOZER 15.48 11.96 27.44        
33 HARLEY MILLS 17.8 7.87 25.67        
34 TOM HAFNER 10.64 13.56 24.20        
35 ERIC MARSH 12.27 11.81 24.08        
36 RON GABLE 19.5 0 19.50        
    640.89 585.54     238.37 259.47  
  Justin Holewinski 6.32     CHRIS LONGO 5.09    
   MIKE SHUMANIS 8.05     JASON CAVANAUGH 7.21    
                 
  AVG WEIGHT FISH 3.54            
  TOTAL WEIGHT 1739            

Jun 09

PA BASS District 7 June 23, 2024 Cayuga Lake Tournament

 

Please mail applications & checks to myself no later than Monday June 17, 2024.
Tournament hours are from 6 AM to 2 PM launching out of the Union Springs Launch.
Optional Lunker fee of $10 will be collected at the boat check in in the morning.

The 2024 PA BASS Federation schedule is as follows:

June 23, 2024          Cayuga Lake   Union Springs Launch
July 14, 2024           Cayuga Lake    Union Springs Launch
August 17, 2024   Oneida Lake     South Shores Launch

Please mail applications to:

David Avvisato
297 Cadwalder Road
Honesdale PA 18431

Thanks
Dave