2019 Lake Norman Hybrid Stripe Bass Tournament results.

Well the 2019 Lake Norman Hybrid Striped Bass Tournament by Gander Outdoors of Mooresville, Creek Bank Tanks, RediRig Tackle, Water Bugz Planner Boards was a success with 25 boats and some 58 anglers. Although I didn’t catch a limit to bring to the scales only boated 2, I really enjoyed seeing the interest in this Hybrid Only Tournament format. The winner was decided by .3 of a pound. CDC’s Pete took First Place! so maybe he will post later with his Tournament details, don’t want to steal his Thunder. Several other CDC guys were in the Tournament and we appreciated their participation as well. Plans are in the works for another one in the Spring so if you missed this one maybe you get make the next one.
I would like to give a shout out to my son’s Trevor, Taylor, Taylors wife Candice, their Mom Beth , Grand Ma Sue, Cousin Seth for putting this on while I fished.
Thanks to Madmax for jumping on the boat at the last minute to fish with me.
Terry is a great guy he knows where the Hybrids are it just wasn’t our day.
We’ll get them next time!

1st Place 14.3 $1000.00 Pete Malec
2nd Place 14.0 $500.00 Coy Hamilton - Mark Hedrick
3rd Place 13.7 $250.00 Kenneth Tucker- Jim Merritt

I love to catch them, but not when I am spider rigging!

Congratulations to all !:cheers2

Ill just say for the most part I was at the right place at the right time!
Had a great prefish the day before and left the bigger fish chewing that afternoon with only 1 boat in sight [emoji6]. Caught and released 40+ and had about 17.5lbs with my biggest 4.
Showed up there in the morning with lines in at 7am with no company. At 720 I had 4 fish on at once. 2 20inchers, a 19 incher and a 17incher. Man i thought it would have been on all morning. WRONG. Not a bite thereafter for the next 2 hrs. At least the pressure was off, but needed 1 more good one to upgrade.
Made a defensive move knowing some people may be on the lookout for me and fished elsewhere only catching smaller fish.
After 2 hrs of that, I moved back to the original spot and lit them up for about an hour before company finally arrived. During that time i got rid of that 17 incher for a 21 incher which made the difference.

All fish caught on artificial striper sniper tackle sassy shad, and of course many on my Alabama rigs. Usually it doesnt matter, but Chartreuse was hands down the hot color the last 2 days.

Thanks to all those mentioned above for putting on the event! And a special thanks to Trevor for doing all the leg work!

Cannot wait for the next one. Maybe ill fish it by myself again!

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You da Man Pete!

Congrats Pete


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Congratulations Pete. Great job!!!

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Good Job Pete!! Congrats

Nice work pete. Congratulations.

Nice work Pete.

Nice job Pete!

Thx all!

Nice Job Pete, Congrats.

Congratulations Pete!!!

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Pete can you give me some tips on Norman. I never fished that lake. How deep to fish and boat landings and what am I looking for for structure as far as strippers and hybrid


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Hey Grady,

The answer to this is very vague. Dont want to sound funny, but this time of year we have caught them anywhere from 8ft of water to 80ft of water. Lots of variables I can write a book about but it all changes day to day.

Things i look at is bait, wind, water clarity, and the 2 most important things is water temp, AND my tight network of friends fishing the lake regularly.
I am a firm believer that water temp is key on Norman. I love fishing water that is 47-50 degrees. something about that mark that the fish just really turn on.

In the last 3 weeks, we have caught fish in State park, Rocky creek, stumpy creek, Mt creek, littles creek, and several mainlake locations. Its not just 1 area. some days they feed in one creek better than the other. ect ect.

A lot of guys say find the birds, find the fish. This is very true. HOWEVER this winter, the gulls have been fat and lazy. i havent seen birds working but a handful of times this season. ive had better days finding my own school of fish feeding in scattered bait balls.

I do things different then 90% of the people and troll artificial striper sniper shad on leadcore/downriggers. A-rigs on some of the lines. Its not the ONLY way to catch them, but its the way I have found most effective and for me, cost efficient over the years. I say cost efficient because i do not need to spend $6+ per dozen on baits.

If you plan on fishing Norman a lot in the coming years, one of the best investments you can make is hiring a guide. It will eliminate a lot of the guesswork and be more productive with each outing.

Pete

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Pete can you give me some tips on Norman. I never fished that lake. How deep to fish and boat landings and what am I looking for for structure as far as strippers and hybrid


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Pete thanks for the info. We are going to try finding some fish this week. Just that info says a lot. We are going to put in at 150 landing and fish around there we will be looking for some crappie also. Just getting on the water


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