Great turnout for the first annual Baffin Bay Rodeo out of
Bluff's Landing. Friday night event was the Captains meeting, Dinner and social. After registration the field will begin with 50 teams.
2009 Baffin Bay Rodeo Champions
- Nieman & O' Riley, Total Weight: 17.74 lbs
- Loomis & Akin, Total Weight: 17.20 lbs
- Simmons & Lloyd, Total Weight: 16.66
Saturday Morning begins with a 50 Boat shotgun start. Launching at dawn all of the Baffin Bay Anglers Making there way to their planned
fishing spot. Drawing their start number the night before Roger Viar starts everyone off in order. Windy conditions will make it a tough day.
Saturday afternoon everyone enjoyed watching the anglers come in with their catches, socializing, and raffel of prizes.
Check-out these catches for the day and leader board. There were some nice catches of the day and several teams in the hunt for 10K.
Sunday Morning, day 2 of the Baffin Bay Rodeo begins with a reduced field of about 25 or so boats all chasing the $10,000 prize! After the first day's results about half the field decided to forfeit due to continued windy conditions.
Sunday afternoon had a weigh-in time between 1:00pm & 3:00pm. Anglers stayed out as long as possible due to the slow fishing conditions.
Sunday Afternoon Catches:
Amazingly enough Roger Viar's team was able to save most of the trout nursing them in the lives wells. Only a few were lost out of everyone's catches. Anglers did a very nice job keeping them alive for the weight-in while traveling. Not an easy thing to do.
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Baffin Bay Rodeo.
Today seemed to be a good day to visit the Land Cut since 20 mile an hour winds were predicted and last night was a full moon. We decided to take my new Blazer Bay south to the Land Cut for its first big trip. She cut through the 2' to 3' swells on the way down and found softer waters at the Land Cut. Though the wind was still strong there was enough land cover to fish the area. Even after anchoring up the wind caused us to loose our position a few times. We managed to catch several under sized redfish and several drum in the area. I was able to catch a personal record 34" Black Drum and release it after a good fight. Pictured above is Josh, Me, and Tracy where we caught several Black Drum and a Red for the grill later. We used live shrimp from Bluffs Landing for a fun day on the water.
