The 2024 Erie, PA Sport Fishing Association “Fall Trout Challenge”
One Day Competition
Sunday October 20, 2024
Captains meeting Location: None
Weigh-ins: Sloppy Duck Restaurant beginning at 2:30 pm.
1) Fee: $250 (Option to double down)
2) Membership: 2 Team members must belong to the EPSFA and be in good standing at the time of the competition.
3) Entry deadline: October 18th, 2024
4) Trolling only tournament
5) Points system is 10 points per fish, 1 point per pound
6) Maximum of 6 legal fish, steelhead, brown trout, or salmon (no lake trout)
7) Open communication tournament
Fall trout challenge rules and regulations coming soon.
Questions? E-mail our tournament director, Aleasha Nemet.
This is a 90% pay back tournament. 1st Place will receive a large award check and more.
Congratulations to Captain Joe Nemet and Team Nemesis who beat the competition with 6 trout weighing a total of 38.45 pounds!
2nd Place: TEAM BITE FORCE
10/20/23: With the forecasted big blow on Saturday and Sunday we decided to burn some gas and fish Elk creek just to get a few reps in for the team, knowing this area would be unfishable come Sunday. We fished 8 to 16 fow placing spoons and plugs in the top 6'. This trip helped the team get a feel for the program, fighting fish, lure color, and lure type. Getting the bugs out 🐛 we roped 14/26 including a brown trout. We need help on that landing rate!
10/21/23: this was an abbreviated day, fishing the shelter of the bay and east avenue area due to high winds and waves outside. We made a few more tweaks to the game day program based the 6 bites we got (boated 2). With the high winds we made the change to use Team Dreamweaver ninja boards for our 1/3 core (10 feet) spoon stealthcore rigs. At this point we have a good idea on where to start and what to use. Bites in the FTC are usually hard to come by in the bay, so #flawlessexecution will be important to win 🏆.
10/22/23: Game day, we had a mixture of small shallow plugs on the big board and on the other side our ninja boards and FishUSA stealthcore spoon rigs. With the big winds, water color is important... we tried to keep our lures in the clearer green water as much as we could. It was primarily a spoon bite for us so eventually our plugs got replaced as we dialed in our program. Small bright colored spoons seem to be the ticket today in that dingy green water. We outperform my bay expectations today boating 9 out of 11 steelhead bites plus a bonus smallmouth bass. We won big fish honors at 7.8# and our 6 fish 🐟 box earned us a 1st place finish 💪!
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