A photo of Peter Olechiw's catch

Caught By

Peter Olechiw
9/18/2016 7:37:50 PM

My personal best for lake hopatcong and my first year fishing the lake. Caught this during my very first tournament as well as a 14 inch 10 oz yellow perch. Took home 3rd place in the King of the lake tourney. Only 15 entrants though. So happy to land this fish I didn't take a picture till my friend came out later.

Catch Details

Largemouth Bass
Lake Hopatcong

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Jig black and silver 3/8oz
1 ft. 6 in. in.
2 lb. 7 oz.
5 ft.
Everyone

Catch Conditions

Cloudy
82°F
SW at 6mph

Comments
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    1. Christopher Pereira 0
      haha no surprise
    2. Peter Olechiw 0
      Oh and not ONE channel caught was caught for it haha
    3. Peter Olechiw 0
      Yea it's definitely a nice format that's what drew me in was the ability to not have to target a specific species. I'm hoping they can save it. Maybe ...more do one earlier in the year as it seems with school starting and sports pre seasons for many people that kept them out of it. Well see what happens.
    4. Christopher Pereira 0
      Eh that sucks, it's a really cool format. Actually one of my favorite. Takes a lot of the luck factor out unlike the '1 big fish wins' contests. Just ...more couldn't do it this year.
    5. Peter Olechiw 0
      Yea that was the chatter at Dows. Seems this may even have been last year of that tournament rumored it may be replaced with another striper contest. I'm going ...more to spend some time next few weeks trying for walleye and striper but as I mentioned I'm just really learning lake fishing for the first time this year. If I get a walleye it'll be my first haha. Either way for 20 bucks I'll enter the tourney just for fun
    6. Christopher Pereira 0
      nice job, we didn't do that contest...seems to get less participants each year. see you at the walleye contest next month though!
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