Over 21.00 lbs. needed to take win at Quinte Fishing Series event!

   The first one day bass tournament of the 2010 season occurred at the George St. ramps on Sunday, July 18^th.   Another full field of 75 boats left George St. in two flights at 7:00 and 7:20 a.m. under clear skies and light winds.   With this event being a large and/or smallmouth bass tournament, a number of teams were planning to make the run to “the lake” in search of big smallies but the weather, mainly the wind, was suppose to increase as the day went on which could make for a tougher ride home in the afternoon.

   At the 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. check in times, the wind had indeed increased and early teams weighing in that had made long runs stated that it was a tough ride back to the tournament site.    Early leading weights were in the 17 lb. range but when all teams finished weighing in, the brothers Papiest, Ralph and Tom, took the title with a great weight of smallies of 21.20 lbs! These long time anglers, who love to fish smallmouth’s, took home a cheque for $3,600.00 plus two gift bags compliments of Mark’s Work Warehouse and a $50.00 gift certificate from Kelsey’s/Montana’s, Belleville.   They also received a 1500 yard spool of Power Pro fishing line compliments of Shimano Canada for using this product over the course of the day.  “We used mainly soft plastic baits and probably caught around 17-18 fish in total”, stated Ralph.  “Our family has a cottage in Wellington, so we got a look at the weather when we got up this morning and decided to make the run to “big water”, added Tom.

   With another consistent tournament weight, Darcy and Ben Asselstine claimed the second place spot with a great largemouth bag weighing in at 20.50 lbs.   These young but talented anglers took home $2,600.00 for their efforts and also showed the rest of the field that you can do very well fishing for largemouths!  Elginburg’s Bruce Tufts and Lee Sprague from Kingston took the third place position with 20.25 lbs. and received a cheque for $1,600.00 and in fourth place with 19.65 lbs. were last tournaments winners, Jay Martin and Brad Arnott.   These two anglers from Oshawa took home $1,000.00 for their efforts.

  Trenton’s Jamie Coe and Jamie Fudge, although finishing in the fifth spot, had a great day!  These local anglers weighed in 17.95 lbs. and received $700.00 for their fifth place finish but they also had “big fish” for the day – a largemouth of 5.25 lbs!  For that, they also took home $1,500.00 in cash, Big Fish plaque and two $75.00 gift certificates from Canadian Tire, Belleville.  Because these anglers were also fishing out of a smaller boat/motor, they also took home an additional $175.00 as the top team in the 115 H.P. and Under division.  They also took home a 1500 yard spool of Power Pro line compliments of Shimano Canada for using this product  during the day – all in all, not a bad day!!

   Belleville and Toronto’s Mat Seeley and Scott Palmer with 17.65 lbs. took home $500.00 for sixth place and local’s Danny Elliot and Ed Bunnett in seventh received $400.00 for their weight of 16.75 lbs.    Eighth place went to Toronto’s Colin Hunter and Jason Christie with 16.65 lbs. and they took home $250.00.  $175.00 each went to the final two teams with Campbellford’s Tom Brooke and partner Dan Crawford from Lakefield weighing in 16.60 lbs. and weighing in 16.45 lbs. were Brampton’s Paul Downer and Richard Campbell from Courtice.

   New for 2010, Shimano Canada has agreed to sponsor a prize, two G. Loomis rods, for the second largest fish caught at each event.    Weighing in a fish at 4.90 lbs, the Thompson’s, Scott and Bill from Kingston and Napanee took this prize along with a bag of fishing lures/baits compliments of the Belleville and District Fish and Game Club.

   Also new for 2010, Bay Marine on Hwy. 2 are offering a draw prize called, “Back at Ya at Bay”.    At each tournament this season, one team will receive their entry fee back and the winners on Sunday were the father/son team of Dean and Bart Thompson from the Napanee area.  Drop in to Bay Marine and talk to Casey and see their new line of Ranger Boats!

   The final draw for the day was also a new prize for the 2010 season.  Karol Marshman of Marshman Jewellers and the T.A.D. Group-Sports Marketing, Robert Coolahan are offering a three night, four day Caribbean Cruise to one lucky team(for four people)!   The Series will also provide an additional $500.00 to cover other expenses.  At each tournament this year, one team’s name will be drawn and at the Quinte Classic, the six teams names will be put in a hat and a winner will be drawn.   Getting their chance at this great prize from this event was team number 7, Mike Lukashal from Carrying Place and Cory Kinmond from Brighton.

   “It’s great to see a full field of 75 boats again for this event and the two tournaments in August are also filling up too”, stated Pete Thompson, tournament director for the Series.  “It was also great to see a mix of both largemouth and smallmouth bass weights in the top ten money winners – a testament to the diversity of this great fishery in and around the Bay”.

  Anglers are reminded to get entries in early for the next two events and anglers must have entries postmarked at least one week prior to each tournament also.    

Name Name2 Total Placing Thomas Papiest Ralph Papiest 21.20 1 Darcy Asselstine Ben Asselstine 20.50 2 Bruce Tufts Lee Sprague 20.25 3 Jay Martin Brad Arnott 19.65 4 Jamie Coe Jamie Fudge 17.95 5 Mat Seeley Scott Palamer 17.65 6 Danny Elliot Ed Bunnett 16.75 7 Colin Hunter Jason Christie 16.65 8 Tom Brooke Dan Crawford 16.60 9 Paul Downer Richard Campbell 16.45 10 Murray Brydson Murray Henderson 16.4 11 Shane Wilson Cory Kinmond 16.35 12 Andy Asseltine Jason Sexsmith 15.75 13 Shelly Morris  Steve Nix 15.65 14 Rick Bain Mike Deveaux 15.65 14 Dean Thompson Bart Thompson 15.6 16 Erny Janzen Franklin Janzen 15.40 17 Brian Hadley Terry Langstaff 15.3 18 Terry Marks Randy Fraser 15.10 19 Art MacConnell Rob Couch 14.8 20 Larry Courtice Ryan Somerville 14.75 21 Jacques Patry Gary Coady 14.70 22 Peter McInroy Brian Tipping 14.65 23 Trevor Davies   Gary Marks 14.65 23 Pepe Parisien Jeff Hendry 14.45 25 Keith Sizer Howie Dowdle 14.4 26 Mike Lloyd Jim Watson 14.35 27 Randy Cronkwright Phil Defosse 14.25 28 Tom Davies Gary Moore 14.1 29 Randy Scero Al Vivan 14 30 Casey Ruttan Durl Wanamaker 14 30 Tim Birch Scott Boyer 13.9 32 Bob Green Josh Green 13.85 33 Robert Shephard Brian McLean 13.8 34 Derek Thibault Jason Luffman 13.75 35 Brian Greven Dan Maw 13.65 36 Sam Listro Carlo Anzivinio 13.65 36 Donnie McTaggart Don McTaggart 13.60 38 Bob Mackie Roy Newland 13.55 39 Rick Weagant Andrew Rushlow 13.55 39 Micheal Joron Rob Mitchell 13.4 41 Rick Bowen  Rob Bowen 13.2 42 James Martin Jason Horne 13.15 43 Nick Monger Marc Potvin 13 44 Rob Eves Don Maurice 12.85 45 Mike Lukashal Cory Kinmond 12.8 46 Jon Manners Craig Lanegger 12.7 47 Ron Ellery Troy Davis 12.6 48 Kevin Truelove James Jefferies 12.6 48 Manny Oliveira Michael MacDougall 12.55 50 Scott Thompson Bill Thompson 12.50 51 Peter Debruyn Beau Larmon 12.5 51 Jim Lacey T.J. Lacey 12.3 53 Adam Scott Don Bryce 12.3 53 Bill Tripp Brad Pound 12.15 55 Tom Adair Jeff Adair 12.05 56 John MacDonald John MacDonald Jr. 11.95 57 Ryan Shorey Jaob McMurter 11.65 58 Kevin Jaquithe James Davis 11.6 59 Chris Frazee MaryAnn Frazee 11.5 60 Grant Elliott Karl Keumayer 11.5 60 Jimmy Looi Pengkun Zhang 11.25 62 Mike Santozo Glenn Meek 10.4 63 Ben Clapp James Clapp 10.30 64 Oliver Grigull Spencer Grigull 9.80 65 Glen Thompson Joan Whalen 9.65 66 Carl Chesterton Sarah Searles 9.6 67 Paul Legacey Dan Legacey 8.15 68 Pat Wong  Wendy Wong 6.75 69 Wayne Barnes David Reid 6.65 70 Darren Lever Patty Lake 6.45 71 Daniel Storozuk Sean Storozuk 5.1 72 Ed White  Beth White 1.4 73 Bart Lucas Deb Armitage 0 74 Eric Thompson Jaret Davidson 0 74 7th-$400.00 8th-$250.00

1st -$3600.00 2nd-$2600.00 3rd-$1600.00 4th-$1000.00 5th, Big Fish &115hp Under $700.00+$1500.00+$175.00 6th-$500.00