Lake Berryessa 'Fly Only' Tournament April 27,2024

[Ryan]

Here is the update as promised! The tournament turned out excellent! John H was very generous and helped by taking pictures in the morning. He got some truly amazing shots. I'm not familiar with how to post large full size shots on here, unless I can post full size the shots will not be given justice. So maybe John can showcase some of his beautiful work!? A few of your favorite shots John??

I am also still waiting on pics of the weigh ins and award ceremony from my friends professional camera. I will be sure to post those up soon to come!

All this being said it was all a big success I feel. Allot of people have told me they felt things went smoothly. Pretty chaotic day for myself so that was all good stuff to hear. But what a cool crowd of people we had! It must have been 60-70 people for the award ceremony.

The fishing was tough for some. Great for others. Real good for most. The winning bag was caught by Roger Bloom & Jon Nelson weighing in at 17.07lbs! Roger also won the Galvan Big Fish Award with a 4.16lb largemouth. Took just about 14lbs to make 5'th place! Seriously impressive stats for a fly tournament. 66% of participants acquired a 10lb bag. That's 18/27 boats!

It took 14lbs to get into the cash money. However it took 12.91lbs to win gear.

Fun stuff!! Much more to come soon!!

Most people were doing the float n fly. My black leech seemed to be the most popular fly. I know Corey and Andrew in 2'nd place were using the float n fly, but for the rest of the 14lb+ bags I have my suspicions they were doing something a bit different! Lol. I didn't even ask.

Got a whole list of things I can do to improve things drastically. But I've heard nothing but positive feedback so far!