Chatfield
August 27, 2005
I started out on Saturday throwing a craw color crankbait.
With no luck I
switched to a tube and fished the rip rap starting in 9 to 12 feet of water.
The fish were stacked in that deeper water, but I could not get bit. I
slowed down and went a little shallower, 3 to 6 feet. That is when I
started catching fish. If you can find little differences in the contour
you will usually find a few fish stacked on it. The action for me was not
fast and furious, but the fish I did catch were 12"+ fish. I did fish top
water with no success, except a 21" walleye. The tube that I fished was a
2.5" Crooked Creek, green pumpkin copper fleck tube, on a 1/16 oz. head.
The key was fishing as slow as I could, and finding the little contour
changes along the shore.
Matt Massey
| Denver Bassmasters Tournament Results | ||||
| Tournament # 5 Chatfield 8/27/2005 | ||||
| RANK | NUM. | CATCH | TOTAL | |
| FISH | PTS. | PTS. | ||
| Massey, Matt | 1 | 5 | 142.2 | 50 |
| Bjorklund, Bob | 2 | 5 | 118 | 49 |
| Welch, Curtis | 3 | 4 | 85.9 | 48 |
| Waddy, James | 4 | 3 | 68.8 | 47 |
| Johnson, Scott | 5 | 2 | 65.4 | 46 |
| Coburn, Troy | 6 | 3 | 49.6 | 45 |
| Coulson, Doug | 7 | 2 | 48.7 | 44 |
| Martin, Bob | 8 | 2 | 37.8 | 43 |
| Farkas, Alex | 9 | 2 | 34 | 42 |
| Speas, Don | 10 | 1 | 28.7 | 41 |
| Winkler, Jason | 11 | 1 | 21.1 | 40 |
| Morgan, Shane | 12 | 1 | 19.8 | 39 |
| Stevens, Mike | 13 | 1 | 18.7 | 38 |
| Armijo, Bryan | 14 | 1 | 17.6 | 37 |
| Jones, Damon | 14 | 1 | 17.6 | 37 |
| Grace, Tom | 16 | 1 | 15.5 | 35 |
| Koller, Josh | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Albrecht, Matt | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Floyd, Jim | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stowers, Curt | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Daniel, Anthony | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Bramblett, Randy | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Jones, Jeff | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Betowitz, Chris | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maline, Mark | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Turner, Herb | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Welch, Casey | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Bewley, Steve | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Totals: 28 | 35 | 789.4 | ||
| Big Fish: Smallmouth Bass 16-3/8" Johnson, Scott | ||||