2014 LOTSA Club Tournament's July 18th and 19th and Club Picnic July 19th 4PM

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It's tournament time!  It's that time of the year again where LOTSA friends and family members come together to celebrate the amazing fishery we have.  LOTSA's main goal is to promote the fishery, share fishing tips and secrets to all so everyone catches some fish and have some FUN!  Curt Meddaugh Memorial Tournament Friday July 18th and LOTSA King Salmon Tournament July 19th.  Club picnic will be held on Saturday July 19th rain or shine @ 4pm. 

 

New this year - all fish will be donated to the Food Bank of Western NY.  That being said - we will be looking for some folks to help with cleaning the fish following both tournaments.  Please contact Kyle Hovak if you are interested, [email protected] or call 716-345-5942

 

The Curt Meddaugh Memorial Tournament will take place Friday July 18th and is a 100% FREE tournament - All LOTSA members are welcome to participate!  Heaviest Salmon WINS!!  Only one entry per team.  LOTSA is offering up $600 in cash to payout to the winners!  **Everyone on your boat must be a LOTSA member.**  Deadline to register is Sunday July 13th.  Rules and registration - click here 2014 CURT MEDDAUGH MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT RULES

 

   

2014 CURT MEDDAUGH MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT RULES

Curt Meddaugh Memorial Tournament Rules 2014   This is meant to be a fun Tournament.

     

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1st Place - $300

2nd Place - $200

3rd Place - $100

 

Saturday July 19th we will hold the LOTSA King Salmon Tournament!  This is a 3 fish tournament this year!  Hopefully your pre-fishing from Friday and information you have received from fellow club members has you on the fish!  Again, this event is to celebrate the fishery and drive camaraderie amongst fellow LOTSA members.  There is a $50 entry fee per team - unlimited number of entries.  Payout will be as follows 1st place - 40%  2nd place - 30%  3rd place - 20%  4th place - 10%  If more than 29 entries we will add additional payouts.  Must register by Sunday July 13th.  Rules and registration - click here 2014 LOTSA KING SALMON TOURNAMENT RULES

 

   

2014 LOTSA KING SALMON TOURNAMENT RULES

LOTSA King Salmon Tournament Rules 2014   This is meant to be a fun Tournament.

     

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Immediately following the Saturday Tournament we will have the club picnic @ 4pm.  You do not need to enter either tournament to take part in the picnic!  This is funded by LOTSA as a thank you for your dedication and support of the club!  We will have this event catered by J&L Barbecue out of North Tonawanda.  We're letting all club members be able to take part in the great fishing tournaments and enjoy a stress free weekend.  We hope to see you and your family there!  You must pre-register for the event by clicking this link 2014 LOTSA PICNIC REGISTRATION FORM

 

   

2014 LOTSA PICNIC REGISTRATION FORM

2014 LOTSA Tournament Picnic

     

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Calcutta - July 19th

We will also be holding a Calcutta (big fish takes all) on Saturday.  This will be a side bet amongst teams to add another level of fun to the tournament weekend.  Cost is $10 per team with the heaviest fish taking home 100% of the funds.  Cash only to enter and anyone who is interested must register by July 13th.  You can register in person at the July 10th meeting or log on to the LOTSA members only website and add your name on the General Info forum.  If you register online cash will be accepted on the day of the event. 

 

The LOTSA Tournament Committee is looking forward to this event weekend and hope to see you all there!  Let's make this the largest turn out for these events yet!  Good luck to all!

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Still time to sign up!  Our next meeting is July 10th and you can register in person if you would like.  As noted below we will also have a guest speaker.

 

On Thursday July 10th at 7pm the Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Association (LOTSA) will be sponsoring a Seminar by Roy Hryckowian on Lake Erie Walleye Techniques. Roy is the owner of NICK'S SPORTING GOODS in Buffalo and a very accomplished Walleye fisherman. Roy has been fishing Lake Erie Walleyes since the early 1970’s. He has many top ten finishes in walleye contests such as the Southtowns and Ameri-Can and won the CAN AM tournament. Roy will be explaining the techniques he uses to be consistently successful catching Walleye in Lake Erie. The Lake Erie Walleye fishery has been “on fire†again this year right off of the Buffalo / Hamburg shore line. Roy will be sharing his knowledge and answering questions throughout the Seminar.

 

 LOTSA is a group of mainly weekend recreational fishermen who are dedicated to the enhancement of the Lake Ontario Sport-Fishery including the pen rearing project at Olcott. Each meeting also features a sharing of information on the current fishing conditions. So come join us and become more successful at fishing Lake Ontario!

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Today is the last day to register.

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Due to a typo on the registration date in the rules we are extending the registration deadline through today. Please hurry and register if you haven't!

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It's hard to believe the club tournaments and picnic is already over!  It looks like we picked the perfect couple of days with the weather and the arrival of some king salmon!!

It seemed like the majority of the fleet targeted fish in the 400+ FT range.  For us and a few other boats Michigan Stingers NBK's pulled in a mixed bag of both Kings and Steelhead.  Flasher fly bite also took it's share of fish.  We ran riggers from 40-80ft down and had some decent luck.  Dipsy did well from 150-250 with 180 on a 3 setting producing the larger fish.  Captain Volume spin doctor with purple dots worked well with an Atommik green hammer fly.  

The Curt Memorial King Salmon Tournament proved to be a fun event for everyone with some great fish hitting the scales.  Several fish in the upper teens and low 20'lb range hit the scale! All I can say is it's about time they showed up!  Matt Dunn and the Slammin Salmon team continued their solid run in 2014 with another win - 23.62lb King!  2nd place was the Mean Machine team led by Kyle Hovak with a 21.02lb King and rounding out the top 3 was Kelly's Kings - led by Chris Bak with a solid 20.91lb King!  Great job everyone!

With a day under everyone's belt and a little chit chat amongst teams I think everyone was headed out to 400+ FOW or to their own secret spot!  East wind kicked up and made for some difficult conditions, but the fish were hungry as shown by some of the boxes!  Alan Sauerland and Team Instigator put the smack down on the field with a great box of fish!  3 fish weighing in at 71.31lbs won by almost 9lbs!  2nd place Frank Schmidhamer and team Reel Scream also put up a great box with 62.90lbs!  3rd place was the Hotline team led by David Peterson who's son Hunter stole the show with an amazing 28lb 15oz King - Hunter is currently 2nd in the LOC and 1st for the youth award!  This kid looks like he is going to be trouble on the tournament scene for years to come!  Rounding out the top 4 was team Mean Machine.  

Following the Curt Tourney and Saturday King Salmon tourney we hit the cleaning station and gave the Food Bank of Western NY a little more than they bargained for!  We were able to fill their coolers and provide some families in the Newfane area with a great meal!  Thank you again for everyone who donated.  I spoke with the folks who took the fish and they will definitely be better prepared for next year.  They didn't know how good of fisherman everyone in the club was and was amazed with the amount of fish!

The Tournament Committee and I would like to thank everyone who participated in the events and the picnic!  We had a lot of fun and hope you did too!  We definitely have some take aways for next years event, but are quite confident it can only get better from here!  Thank you to everyone who helped out as well!  We really appreciated the support! More pics of the event will be loaded later in the week - I wanted to get something posted!  

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