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I'm just wondering if anybody has a link to the results for the Bbb open tournament on lake lowell if not does anyone know what the winning weight was???
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I haven't seen anything on the BBB results yet but did get a few emails yesterday from Fish and Game. Guess they tagged some fish from the tournament then they had a report of someone keeping bass on Sunday. Sounded like they caught said person and they had 5 fish, at least some of them were fish they had tagged the day before.

A quick boat ride and still hungry the next day.
Did f&g mention the purpose of the tags?
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the bag you told me you had caught probably wouldve won it. i think i heard winning weight was 18 or 19. big fish was 5.11 and he ended up only getting 10th.
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If I was allowed to go catch my fish a few days before everyone else I would do ok
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not much in the emails on it but I seem to remember a quick comment about helping them research issues with the bass population. From what I have heard the main issue the bass population faces out there is the carp population...

I have lived on and fished Lake Lowell for 56 years. I believe the Idaho F&G Dept has done a great job with the bass fishing. My memory is old, but I see very little change in the carp population. Channel cats have been introduced and have replaced bullheads. Perch seem to be making a good comeback, but crappie still seem a bit scarce - especially the big ones we used to catch. 50 years ago most fishermen on lake Lowell were fishing for bullheads, not bass.
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53 boats
18.8 lbs win
5.11 bf
Lots of 15 & 14 lb weights
Water low so you had to yank them out of the mat
One 4 lb smallie (I know of)
F&G reported over a dozen 5 lb lmb released during the recent carp netting. Nothing bigger, double digit is rumor.
I was to poor to play.
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I was out there that day shooting carp.... Ton of guys out there fishing...
Matt
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Thanks guys!
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Results are posted on BBB's webpage: http://www.boisebassbusters.com/

Thanks for posting the results. I am always curious to see those.

I can't believe how close things were. I have only fished Lowell a couple times, but it appears to be full of bass in the 3lb range.

If this tournament was fished a month later how much would the bags change?
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I think somewhat similar, maybe a little bigger bag to win it if you have fish on beds. Weights might go down a bit later in the summer.

Disclaimer - I only fish out there 2-3's a year so by no means am I an expert authority on Lowell.

The fish get farther into the crap as things warm up. I gets pretty tough in the summer. Someone always finds 15 lbs.
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I had not heard about the commercial carp fishing on Lowell so I looked and found this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwYWNw9abv4
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Cool Video. I've been hearing about that recently. Hopefully removing carp will help the gamefish populations in the Lake. Lake Lowell is a very diverse fishery and It's only 20 minutes from home!!!
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They should do the same thing with all the cat fish in Brownlee.
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and all the perch in C.J. ... [cool]
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