​On July 18 the club held their 3rd points tournament of the year on Saratoga Lake. While the forecast for rain thankfully kept the boat traffic down, the huge rainstorm that came in for the last 2 hours was not pleasant. While everyone caught a limit, the larger fish did not favor the baits offered by the members. Sometimes wisdom and tournament experience can prevail and this is what happened when George Locke won his 47th Albany Area Bassmasters Points tournament. George weighed in 14.93 lbs including the tournament lunker of 4.16 lbs. Finishing second with a 3.58lb lunker and 13.03 lbs was another longtime member Tony Curcurito. Joe Curcurito finished third with 12.27 lbs. Fourteen members fished, total weight of 147.61 lbs for 70 fish. 

Top 5 in the points standings are now:
Joe Curcurito     292
Frank Maher      274
Gene Lavigne    270
Paul Pflieger      264
Jim Underhill      260    

​On Saturday July 4, the club held their second points tournament of 2026 on Lake Champlain at Ticonderoga. Unlike the day before which featured sunny skies and high temperatures, tournament day was much cooler with clouds. 
While fishing was not as good as expected, someone always rises to a higher level and finds a great bag of fish. Joey Curcurito weighed in with 18.31 lbs including a 5.52 lb Largemouth tournament lunker.  Finishing second with 16.33 lbs was Gene Lavigne, followed by Frank Maher with 15.56 lbs. All fish weighed in were largemouth, no smallmouth were brought to the scale. 

On October 4, the club traveled to Lake Bomoseen in Vermont for our final points tournament of the year. Unfortunately, our dreams of big fish were not realized and fishing was very difficult. A clear sunny 75 degree day with 68 degree water in October was not what we were expecting when this event was planned. Brady Moy brought the heaviest bag to the scale with three fish weighing a total of 7 lbs. 6 oz. Second place was Al Maher with 2 fish weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz with the tournament lunker of 4 lbs. 6 oz. Third place was Rick Putnam with the day's only 5 fish limit of 5lbs. 13oz. Al Maher's catch was enough to keep him first place in the standings to earn him the 2025 Angler of The Year title. Joe Curcurito finished 2nd in the yearly standings while Paul Pflieger finished third. 

Day 1 of our Ticonderoga tournament showed that the fishing was not up to our usual expectations, but Al Maher led us with 14 lbs 4 oz, followed by Paul Pflieger with 13 lbs 2 oz. Of the ten anglers, only  half caught 5 fish limits, not typical for this lake. The lunker on day 1 was a 3lb 9 oz largemouth caught by Joe Curcurito. Day 2 was a day with solid rain most of the day, but fishing was much improved over day 1. Once again, Maher excelled again with 18lbs 4 ounces, with Nick Sarchioto catching 17lbs 7 oz.  Al won the tournament with a total weight of 32lbs 8oz, Paul Pflieger 2nd with 26lbs 3oz, and Robert Deyoe 3rd with 23lbs 9 oz. Lunker of the tournament was Joe Curcurito with a 5-2 largemouth. Second lunker was a tie between Al Maher and Eric Madden with 4-7.     ​

On July 12 the club held their 2nd points tournament of 2025 on Saratoga Lake. At launch the skies were threatening and right after launch a fierce storm pelted us with rain until almost 10 AM. While everyone caught many fish that day and everyone weighed in a limit, the very small bag weights show that this fishery continues to decline to a shadow of its former self. There are numerous theories on the cause of this, but the predominant is the continuing application of herbicides to the lake. When the weigh-in was over, it was no surprise that the winner was Al Maher who has been a very consistent angler on this lake and an angler that succeeds when the fishing requires a very slow and determined approach. Al's limit of 12lbs 6oz with a 3lb 9 oz lunker secured his win over George Locke who finished second with 11lbs 3 ounces. Bill Piggott finished 3rd with 11lbs even. 
Dave Black surprised everyone with a tournament lunker of 5lbs 2 oz which is leading for lunker of the year. Al's win leaves him in first place in club standings after 2 tournaments. 

​On June 15 we opened our points season on Lake George, using the State Ramp out of Mossy Point. Fishing was excellent and even the weather cooperated. Joey Curcurito led the field with 13 lbs 5 ounces and his boat partner Brian Gregory repeated his past performance with a 4 lb 8 ounce largemouth tournament lunker. Finishing second with 13 lbs was Paul Pflieger and Jim Underhill took 3rd place with 12 lbs 6 ounces. Everyone caught fish and there were 10 limits caught. 

Congratulations to the winner, Joe Curcurito who secured his win with a 4 fish bag of 9.62 lbs. Second place went to Al Maher with 7.83 lbs. The lunker of the day was a 3.75 lb smallmouth caught by Tony Curcurito, and Mike Leskowski weighed in second lunker at 3.09lbs.. 
Fishing conditions were very tough with no five fish limits caught and 3 of 14 anglers weighed no fish, including some old salts who have been fishing the river for over 20 Years. . With 14 anglers, only 25 fish were weighed in!
The club did a great job of getting boats in and out, especially at the end of the day when the ramp was very busy with other users. Let's hope that your 2025 Tournament Committee remembers this when they plan a 2025 schedule!  
The race for angler of the year has tightened up with Briar Murtlow leading Rick Putnam by only 6 points! The  showdown on Lake Bomoseen on October 19 should be very interesting.