Place: CONOWINGO RES. Darlington, MD (Glen Cove Marina)
Date: Sat. August 21, 2021
Time: 6:10am-2:10pm
Weather: Very warm and Humid. Early AM temp hovering around 75 Degrees with sun mixed in throughout most of the day as Hurricane as a afternoon Cold Front is due to arrive. Sporatic clouds as Hurricane Henri electric slides up the East Coast towards New York and Boston, MA.
Overall temps reached a decent but comfortable 86 Degrees. Overall a very pleasant days with occassional breeze.
Water Temps: 78.5 degrees rising to 83.5 in various segments of the Res.
Water Clarity: 1.5'~2.0'
Wind Gust: Pretty calm most of the morning....and then a slight 5-10 MPHs
Best Lure: Crankbaits, Mission Baby D-Bombs, shakey heads, and jigs
Depths fished: 2.0'~8.0''
Limit: 3 Bass
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What can one say? This place has them. The variety that is and the occasional "Fat Kitty Cats".
Welcome to round #14 of the SJHT 2021 season where 10 members came out to battle down on the CONOWINGO RES.
The bite was hot and heavy early on and still throughout the entire day. One had to venture to the dirtiest of waters to somewhat find them.....while shaking off or catching some mighty aggressive CatFish. Today's festivties was good fun. Just when you thought you had the place figured out, Conowingo Res. shows you another side of her. We were fortunate to have no Open Flood gates during our tournament, however as we wrapped things up.....around 2:30pm, we heard the "SIRENS" going off warning of the Gates opening to release water from the expectant rain from the Northern Towns along the Susky. Fast forward and we have the below results.
Please give a big congrats to overall 1st place winner and Lunker Winner, Rob *Ram1212* Masterson on eeking out the win by weighing in 3 Bass going 5.37lbs . Rob's Lunker went a decent 2.29lbs.2nd Place won by BN06 with 3 Bass going 5.25lbs. 3rd Place was won by Mike Del Monico with 3 Bass going 5.02lbs.Misc. was won by Brian *SubFish* McCulley with a enormous Channel Catfish going 8.57lbs.
CONOWINGO RES., TALE OF TAPE:
Rob's 1st Place and Lunker Bag:
BN06's 2nd Place bag and 5.37lb Catfish:
Mike Del Monico's 3rd Place winner:
Brian's Bag and Misc. Winner:
8.57lb Channel Cat
Side view of Kitty Cat
Other Anglers Bass:
Fu's 3 Bass Keeper Bag:
Dan's Keepers:
Bill Leach's Keeper:
Jiggen Den's Keepers:
Trappers Keeper:
Other Misc. Pics:
Summary: CONOWINGO RES. greeted us with an updated debris restraint system which prohibits the build up of wood and the like from the Glen Cove Marina Boat Launch area and minimized the floating debris while exiting that Cove. Thanks Sue and Butch for installing this system and not increasing your launch fees. This is duly noted. What was already a very nice arrangement continues to be. Kudos to your organization and offering hospitality.
Back to the summary...... Fishing the CONOWINGO Res. was really fun today. Not only did all 10 Members catch at least 1 Bass, but degree\and areas where they were found made one revise previous strategies and possibly Game plans during today's event. Bass was on wood but a bit outward from those locations. Water Clarity and some slightly moving water also played a role in hooking up today. The CONOWINGO Res. even with the slight increase in water levels didn't produce the Big girls but they fought like they had jumped bail. LOL.
All of the Bass caught appeared very healthy and solid. I had 2 keepers within the 1st hour and a half. of the Tournament while keeping active with some small panfish pickups. Anglers reported losing some nice size bass next to the boat. Some spitting the hooks while others just didn't have a good hook set.
In All, all 10 out of 10 SJHT Anglers caught at least 1 Bass. There were 24 Bass caught overall. 14 Smallmouths and 10 Largemouth Bass. CONOWINGO RES. Bass gave way to total of 36.15lbs caught overall. CONOWINGO RES. avg. weight was 1.51lbs.
An outstanding 7 Anglers caught there 3 Bass Limit.
Congrats to Rob Masterson, BN06, Mike Del Monico, and Brian on your performances.
