Wednesday, August 10, 2016



                                
The story of CanAm 2016

CanAm is a carp fishing competition very close to my hart ,with good or bad (when Canada lost ) memories , lots of funny guys ,good friends , memorable moments .This year was not different ,we set up home in Long Sault park way ,on the beautiful islands ,from the Pines swim to Dickinson .
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The weather was terrible with 33 C. on Friday ,30 C. on Saturday ,and 28 C. Sunday . Friday night we had a big storm with a bit of rain and gale winds ,but the big part of it stay on the USA side , the rest just sunny days and nights.
All the participants show up Friday morning at the designated swims ,we where 10 pairs of one American ,and one Canadian fishing together in a swim ,7 AM come and the competition start.
By 8 PM Friday USA was leading with 16 fish to 7 for Canada , was a very slow day , most of the fish come from Dickinson swims ,where a pair of USA anglers did a very good job and took a nice lead
We know that on this hot days ,night will help and bring in the fish ,so all vent on heavy baiting and preparing for it .
After the first 24 h. looks like the Canadians start working ,and things change , Canada was on the lead with 37 fish to 30 for USA .Most of the fish where small 12-15 pd-ers ,biggest 22 pd.
Saturday was the same hot and quiet day ,with sporadic fish , mostly on the deep swims on Dickinson and Mc.Donald's .
Evening coming closer ,every body come up , lots of baits hitting the swims ,big hopes for the night that will make the winners of 2016 CanAm. And yes , most of the swims produce nicer fish on this night.
Sunday morning come ,we have just a few hours to make it or loose it ,on the information that have ,was very , very close 2-3 fish for every team can make the winners . This was the first CanAm with teams fighting till the end .
By 11 AM .competition finish ,time to check the numbers ,and this are the results -
Canada win with 141 points vs 135 for USA
first place -Vali Pavaloaia -35 pt.
second place - Kristian Green -33 pt.
third place Cristhoper Ortiz -26 pt .
Big fish 25.08 pd. - Len Perdic
I can say that I am a lucky guy , most of the CanAm-s when winn it happened in the last night , or last hours of the competition ,the same for this one . The night give me a few fish ,2 over 20 pd, ,then all stop , no runs for same time, my fishing was close in at 20 m.
I took a desperate decision , put on a pop up CCMoore dairy supreme and cast it on the flow at 120 m . No more than 30 min. and have a run ,with a nice 14 pd-er . till 11 AM got two more , and that help me winning at individual ,and keep Canada on first place
The CCMoore pop ups take me out of misery a lot of times , big time at CanAm 2016 ,,thanks to Simon Stewart at Carp kit where we can find all the range of CCMoore baits.
Big thank you to all the participants ,see you next year in USA .

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