Sunday Nov 14th local Korean bass tournament

[Bassinkorea]

There is a local bass tournament league down South here and they have 5 fish limit tournament down here every month. I just found out about this league a few weeks ago, so I decided to join up and start fishing these tournaments. I fished in their last tournament of the year on Sunday Nov 14th.

It was held on a small river in the South East GyeongNam province which is a part of the big NakDong River (the biggest river in the south). The weather forecast was good with partly cloudy skies, some wind and temperatures in the 50's. The banks of this river are mostly lined with overhanging trees, and although I have never fished this river before, I thought this would be a great place to flip and pitch jigs. The water temps started out at 50 degrees and went up to 56 at midday.

This tournament was a 5 bass limit with a minimum size of 25cm / 10 inches. I caught my first keeper (about 11 inches) within 30 minutes on one of my home made spinnerbaits. I thought it was going to be a good day.

My next fish came about 1 hour later and was another small keeper and I got it on a SureCatch 1/4oz Flex Jig and black skirt and black craw trailer. This fish was very lightly hooked and it fell off the jig in (luckily) inside my boat! I wasn't so lucky with the next fish (which was a decent size) which hit my Flex Jig but threw the jig right at the rim of my landing net (rant, rant, rant..)

That was the last bite I had on the Flex Jig, then the wind really started blowing so I started alternating between a spinnerbait and a hard jerkbait. I caught these 2 dinks on these 2 lures.





Weigh in time was at 14:00pm and at 13:00pm I still only had 2 bass in the livewell, luckily the wind (which was getting stronger all the time) was blowing in the direction of the weigh in area, so I fished back with the wind throwing the SureCatch Jerbait and I caught a nice 40+cm bass on a shallow flat and a 30cm bass on a small hump in the middle of the river. With the 4 bass in the livewell and time running out I headed back to weigh in.

Needless to say I didn't win any prizes, but I had fun and caught some bass, which a lot of other didn't.

This years weather continues to play a big part in the fishing this year!

Here's my 4 bass that I weighed in.



And here's what the winning fish looked like.

[Donald Garner]

Steve,

Thanks for sharing the tourney's catch and weigh in pictures with us.
Those bass (yours and winners) sure have some nice color to them.

Is there a lot of cover / grass in the river there.

[Bassinkorea]

Thanks Donald.
I do believe this river does have some grass during the summer months, but there was much present when I fished on Sunday.

[Mike Noble]

Thanks for the report BK.  Glad you weighed some fish, hopefully the sign of good things to come in this circuit.

[Bassinkorea]

I hope so Mike. All tourneys are over for the rest of this year, but the first tourney of this circuit will be in February. It'll be cold, but I'll be there 

[Donald Garner]

Steve

A bass tourney in FEB in Korea?  Will the water be iced out by then?

[Bassinkorea]

Steve

A bass tourney in FEB in Korea?  Will the water be iced out by then?

Donald,
During normal winters, the water doesn't ice over for long this far South. We can get a thin covering, but the daytime sun usually clears it.
However, last winter was extra cold and we had a thicker ice covering for several weeks.

[DelMarAlan]

No wonder they won , they had two people fishing ! nice job .