1st Annual Josh Murdock Open

A friend of mine organized a little Bass tournament on White Lake in Arnprior this weekend. It was a one day event from 7am - 4pm, with three different time slots you could weigh fish. For every time slot there was a 1st (100$ Gift card at Sail), 2nd (35$ Gift Card at Sail) & 3rd prize (15$ Gift Card at Tim's). The Big Bass of the day prize was 350$. Not knowing the lake I started the first 3 hours close to the weight-in and pounded weed beds. Half hour in caught a 11 ounce bass, that I later weighed in to take the lead with 25 minutes to go to the first weigh-in. Obviously didn't stay in the lead to long when a few boats showed up to weigh theirs fish.



For the afternoon a baseball teammate of mine invited me to fish in their boat. We adventured abit further on the lake hitting up the shore line where there was drop off and docks. I caught a little bigger fish this time on a jig tipped with a 5 inch Shadalious. That was it, till we had to go back to weight in for the second time slot. Once in I took a look at the leaderboard and decided to keep my fish for the third time slot and try to win that one as two fish were bigger then mine in the second time slot.

2 lbs 2 oz

Late afternoon we tried our luck with Texas rig's in some weedy areas. My buddy Phil caught a little guy on a lizard. we both weighed our fish for the last time slot but no luck. I ended up leaving with the ''DINK'' prize, witch was the smallest fish weighed. I won 5$ at Tim's and a bottle of Wiser's. I had a blast and will be back next year to try my luck.