As always, it was another great weekend at Andong. Great food at the Saturday evening BBQ, great people and great times, and great beer of course. The weather turned out great great for the BBQ and those spending time at Andong, but for the fishing the weather could of been much better.
The weather on Saturday was great, cloudy skies and biting fish. Then at the end of the day the sun was shining. During Saturday night a big storm rolled through with heavy rain and thunder and lightening, which at one point blow all the lights out across the Andong bridge, scary stuff for those camping out in tents!! Sunday started off hot, humid and sunny from the word go and that difference for the day before made the fishing somewhat difficult.
Here’s some of my fish from Saturday;
And here’s a shot of my only fish caught on Sunday;
By the way, isn’t all fishing FUN? 
Whoa! Those are some nice, healthy fish, Steve. I need to catch a couple like that out of the river
Thanks Nomad,
The first 2 photos are of the same fish. She was 52cm long and had some strange markings along its left side. The tail was just starting to heal up from the recent spawn. She was quite skinny and 1.8kg, so I guess around 4lbs.
Skinny bass = hungry bass!
Nice Bass Steve! It goes to show us anglers how the weather changes everything for fishing. Good on Saturday and not so good on Sunday after the storm rolled through. I talked to a couple of people that were there and they said Saturday was a good day for them to.
Steve,
Nice fish. It seems the past few years at that tournament, the weather is good the day before and then Bam, the weather turns on the day when it counts. At least you got to enjoy the beer, food, soju and company. Who won and did any Americans place?
Tex,
The winning team was a Korean pair, but 2nd through 5th were Americans.
The full list is on the KSA site, but here is the top 10.
1. 김선필, 강태용 – 5 fish 8565g
2. 강시원, Robert Hubble – 5 fish 8155g
3. 이정구 (FTV, The Hit), Arthur Rodriguez – 5 fish 7515g
4. 박경태(Surecatch prostaff), Daniel Garcia – 5 fish 6840g
5. 김철수, Tony Turnbow – 5 fish 6785g
6. 양혁모, Randy Young – 5 fish 6680g
7. 김인, 차세규 – 5 fish 6645g
8. 이규선, Martin Garcia – 5 fish 6460g
9. 이재칠, 김규만 – 5 fish 6450g
10. 김봉래, Troy A. Gapko – 5 fish 6380g
I see two of my compadres (apprentices)
(Arthur Rodriguez and Martin Garcia) made the the top ten. They must have got lucky and got to fish wth guys that caught them all 
Wish I could have been there.
They did draw 2 good anglers, one was the Mr Lee from Oh Brothers/The Hit and the other angler was Park Gyung-Tae who is my Surecatch Korea Prostaff colleague and a great angler.
Steve,
I knew it would be no more than one day before my compadre (Tony Rodriguez) would send me an email bragging
He said he had the biggest bass at over 7 pounds but the pictures I saw don’t look like no 7 pound bass but maybe a 4 or 5 pound bass. What was the biggest bass? In the other international tournaments I had fished with him there before at Andong, Tony alwsys tried using these crazy topwater baits and other crap and never caught anything. He finally listened to me and used a Wacky rig, which is what he stated he caught the monster on. I guess he finally learned.
Tex,
I’m not sure what the weight of the biggest bass was, but I know it was caught by a Korean Pro.