Forum | ABA District 119 Coleto Creek

I fished this district, 119, in 2006. That was the first or second year of the district. There have been 3 tournament directors for this district. The first two did great. One ran it for a couple of years while the other only did it for one year – I think. I quit fishing ABA when they went to that stupid divisional/regional format and came back after they dropped it. But where I was going with this is district 119 has never drawn full fields on a regular basis. The big tournament fishermen don't want to burn up the fish on the meager ABA payouts, I'm guessing. The lakes 119 fish, while popular, aren't the most popular in the area. 119 fishes: Conroe, Livingston, Sumerville, Coleto Creek. But even District 51 has been strugglin' to get full fields and they fish: Choke Canyon and Falcon. Their 2 day is going to be on Amistad. Even District 53 which fishes Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend don't have full fields on a regular basis. They used to but not no'mo. Bass Champs may have something to do with that and their 20k to win Guarantee.

Yeah it does catch up sooner or later,generally later and for some reason they lost the paperwork.

Hope im wrong

There was a director that did do that year or so ago,then skipped,aba doesnt like to talk about that stuff.Problem is they know you fished it but dont have the results,and may never ever get them,or those earned points.

Hate to say iit id fish other districts as you may not get those aforementioned points.

They cant report what they do not have,best snerario get money back.

Then again maybe they will be reported finally or found.

But that SUCKS

Ive got a whole 50 pts in lol,but still have about 6 I can fish prior to the 2 day

Welllll…. Guess who didn't show up? The director. He had cancelled the tournament without notifiying anyone but a guy in our district saw it on the ABA site and called the director of dist. 51 who agreed to run the tournament! There's a lot of unhappy campers in 119 and 51 because results have not been posted since last year. The general consensus is – the money was never sent in. Though he said it had been returned as undeliverable… Yeah Right!

Anyway… Lotta wind…. but no rain.

Friday – Pre-fished pockets and coves and saw a ton of beds. Male bass guarding everyone of them told me the major spawn was over. Nobody caught a big fish on Friday. I resorted to a finess rig and probably went through 2 limits of 2-2.5# fish. Threw a frog quite a bit and caught one or two but again 2 – 2.5#s

Saturday – Wind was down early and I went to a cove that had a lot of beds in it. Didn't fish the beds but chunked a finess rig around reeds and isolated wood cover. At about 10:00 I had three fish in the boat. One on a frog the other two on the finess rig. But… everyone was catching those kinds of fish. 10#s wasn't going to win it or if it did it would be by ounces difference. Soooo…. Ran to a hump I had fished in other tournaments to try to locate bigger fish. In approximately 45 minutes I had culled the three fish I caught earlier and limited out. I quit fishing at 11:45 simply because I felt I could not improve on what I had in the livewells. At weigh-in I had a total of 25.10#s and a big fish that went 7.12#s. Both good enough for the win and big fish. Second place came in at 16+#s and third was 10#s something.

Sunday – Started back at the hump…. First 30-45 mins…. Nothing. Then I started catching them again but not near as big. By 7:45 had a limit and by around 8:30 had culled 3 times and then the bite stopped. Fished there another 2 hours without a bite. Moved to a bank near deep water and started chunking a Trap and caught 3 keeper fish but they wouldn't cull anything I'd already caught. Sooo…. went back to the hump… Nothing. Started moving off the hump in to increasiingly deeper water…. A few 10″ fish but that was it. The last 45 mins. I ran up the river to a huge grass bed that was topped over in about 14' of water and chunked a frog looking for one BIG fish. Had a small one roll on it but that was it… Weigh-in time…. Ended up weighing in 15+#s which was good enough for the win but this time missed big fish by about 3/4's of a pound. Second place was 9#s something. Only 11 anglers both days so only 1st and 2nd got paid.