KALPIN WINS NATE'S WEIGHED 20.21 LBS. INCLUDING A 6.20 LBS. KICKER SMALLMOUTH - CHAUMONT BAY - Rochester Bassmasters
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www.rochesterbassmasters.com AUGUST 2020
KALPIN WINS
NATE’S WEIGHED 20.21 LBS.
INCLUDING A 6.20 LBS.
KICKER SMALLMOUTH.
PHOTOS BY: JAKE ZARMESKI
ANGLER OF THE YEAR SERIES AT
CHAUMONT BAY
JUNE 27, 2020
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CHAUMONT BAY
PUBLIC BOAT LAUNCH ROUTE 12E, THREE MILE BAY, NY
ANGLER OF THE YEAR SERIES - AU G U ST J U N E 2 7, 2 0 2 0
after seeing them on the graph. I did not
think I had enough to take the win, but
sometimes I get lucky and pull it off, not
complaining!
Huge thanks to my non-boater Mark
Saile for taking my sometimes-abusive
direction on netting my fish, I can’t be held
accountable for things I word vomit when
there’s 5 pounders and 6 pounders on the
line (good pun). You did an awesome job
and appreciated the help and company on
the three days we had on the boat together!”
Dave Livingston took 2nd place with
17.40 lbs.
Dave said, “Wow, good thing we started
practicing the Sunday before. I covered
most of the lake areas including Henderson
Bay, Stoney Island and the Gallou Islands,
and the lake was definitely off and in post-
spawn shutdown. Since the weather forecast
ORLANDO ROMAN didn’t look ideal, we (me and my partner ADAM FURANO
4th Place - 15.78 lbs. Bob McEneaney) decided to concentrate 5th Place - 15.65 lbs.
our practices to the bay. Even then the areas
were different from previous years. The
N ate Kalpin won the 2020 Allstate®
Angler of the Years Series at Chaumont
Bay Day 1 with 20.21 lbs.
good news is that we found many new areas
and did it all without blowing an engine or
Sean Simms as a non-boater for this day
and having him along made for a great day
going aground! on the water.”
Nate said, “What a great place to start
the season. Chaumont Bay always has the Tournament day weather was better
than expected, but still a little rough. It Taking 5th in his first club tournament
potential to really show out. This year we with 15.65 lbs. as Adam Furano.
caught it in a post spawn funk, where the took a combination of largemouth and
smallmouth spots to get a decent limit, but I Adam said, “This was my first tournament
bite seemed to be tough in the bay and the with the club and my first real tournament
lake. I was only able to practice on 1 day, had no thoughts that a weight of 17.40 lbs.
in general. I had the pleasure to fish with
where I actually didn’t catch a single fish. I would even be close to the top ten. So I went
Steve Levine who was great and took every
found an area that I saw them swimming, back to the hotel without even bothering to
have a picture taken or watch the results. I opportunity to help guide me on the small
and where my non boater caught a few things that matter like culling, keeping
decent largemouth. We started there come though Steve was kidding when he called
hooks sharp, and checking knots and line
tournament day, and I filled a quick limit of and said I ended up in second place. I guess
after each fish. Thanks Steve!
small Largemouth with a chatterbait. Felt it shows how tough the fishing really was for
We spent the day between a few spots in
good to wash the skunk off from the prior everyone.
the bay in the roughly 10-20 ft range and
day. We decided it was unlikely we would Many thanks to my partner Bob
McEneaney, who kept me in relatively good although I tried some moving baits, slow on
milk that spot for 5 or 10 big Largemouth so the bottom seemed to be what they were
I began to hit areas I fished in the past that spirits despite the fact that I was in a lot of
going for in those areas. Long casts and
we were unable to get to during practice. We pain during most of the practice and during
the tournament. Getting old is only good covering water were the plan and helped
made the move mid-morning and landed me meet my goal in just getting my limit my
on a spot that had a nice drop-off to deep for fine wines and senior discounts, and it’s
never easy keeping up with all the talented first time out.
water and access to rock and grass. I started Thanks again to my boater for spending
catching Smallmouth fairly quickly, and fishermen in our club. Hats off to everyone
that fished this very tough tournament.” the time finding fish. Thanks again to
slowly culled each Largemouth in the well. Steve Levine, Dave Livingston, Rod
My first two fish were cookie cutter 2.00 Rod Brown finished in 3rd Place with
Brown, and Bob McEneaney for the
pounders, but the 3rd fish ended up being 17.14 lbs.
hospitality. Thank you also to Dom and
a new personal best of a 6.20 lb. giant. I Rod said, “Day 1 caught 12 keepers the
vast majority on a NED rig with a drop shot Marie Cerasuolo for the amazing food!”
followed that lunker up with another two
5-pound fish but couldn’t pull together that being my secondary lure.
Mark Harold caught 14.51 lbs. for 6th
mega bag everyone always hope’s for. I only All my fish came in the 12’-15’ depth
range. The morning was best with my bite Place.
continued to catch the same size 2 pounders Mark caught all his fish out in the lake by
afterward. tapering as the day advanced. I fished about
marking the fish on his graph in 20 feet of
I caught a lot of fish and they all came 4 or 5 spots all with good rock. Vegetation
water.
from the same spot. It was the typical “video was a nonstarter for this event for me. I had
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Fish Fish
Place Angler Weighed Caught Weight Lunker
1 Nate Kalpin 5 5 20.21 6.20
2 David Livingston 5 5 17.40
3 Rod Brown 5 5 17.14
4 Orlando Roman 5 5 15.78
5 Adam Furano 5 5 15.65 4.15
6 Mark Harold 5 5 14.51
7 Matt Ferrante 5 5 14.24
MARK HAROLD 8 Sean Sims 5 5 14.09
6th Place -14.51 lbs. 9 Dan Patane 5 5 13.51
10 Kyle Sweers 5 4 13.43
Matt Ferrante rounded out the Top
Seven with14.24 lbs. 11 Tom Haley 5 4 13.03 5.18
Matt said, “I used spinner bait in weeds
catching largemouth. Then drop shot points 12 Bill Wittman 4 4 12.60
and shoals for smallmouth caught a lot of 13 Tom Saile 5 5 12.58
fish just not big ones. Day two went into the
lake for half the day fishing shallow with a 14 Tyler Austin 5 5 12.41 5.92
spy bait catching about six all about 2 lbs. 15 Tj Valle 5 5 11.58
fished shoals in the bay in the afternoon
with a drop shot caught some small ones 16 Steve Levine 5 5 11.32
and a couple 4.00 lbs. smallmouth.”
17 Jim Walters 5 5 10.76
18 Dom Cerasoulo 5 5 10.56
19 Jake Zaremski 4 4 10.42
20 Tige Noni 5 5 10.03
21 Jim Bianchi 4 4 9.47
22 Greg Mitrousis 3 3 7.90 4.85
23 Matt James 4 4 7.90
24 Jon Skirment 2 2 7.57
25 Eric Hughes 3 3 6.63
26 Mark Saile 3 3 6.60
27 Wes Vyverberg 3 3 5.77
28 Rich Calabrese 2 2 5.62
29 Ben Levy 1 1 5.47
30 Terry Gartz 1 1 5.30
31 Merritt Diamond 2 2 4.85
MATT FERRANTE
32 Doug Walker 2 2 4.53
7th Place - 14.24 lbs.
33 Liane Livote
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