Monday, July 16, 2007

Wally and I took 2nd place in the Sheboygan Walleye Club toureny on Sunday, we won this tourney in 2005. This year I had no trolling bite, so I told Wally we were going to fish Stevens Reef all day, and it paid off for us. I was trying to stay in 6' to 8'FOW for our fish. The wind was blowing good in the morning, but by mid morning it died, then at 1:00pm the wind picked up and we finally caught more fish. We caught about 20 eyes and we caught them by jigging and slip bobbering, with leaches and crawlers. The biggest fish for us was 21.5" and we had a total weight of 9.78 lbs, the first place guys had 3 fish for 10.8 lbs, their big fish was 5.33 lbs. Our next tourney spot is in Marinette, WI on Aug 26, I am hoping we can catch fish there, because I have never been there before, so if you have any tips for me and Wally, they would be greatly appreciated. Hope to post more reports on my fishing escrusions. Thanks for reading my posts.
COOT

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Well I am back to work after having the month of June off.
June 2nd got to fish with my son Aaron and it was for the Van Dyne Lions Club walleye tourney, we placed 42nd out of 110 boats. We could'nt catch 6 fish, we only had 5 that day for 12.5 lbs. The next tourney was Walleye Weekend in Fond du Lac, The Mercury National Walleye, I fished with Dan O'Neil and same problem, only 6 fish, 14.5 lbs, so we ended up in 142 out of 300 boats. Fathers day weekend was the Otter Street Fishing Club Tourney and I fished with Randy Wegner, this was a fun weekend for us, Sat. we came in with 17.5 lbs, 5 fish and that put us in 9th place fot the first day, out of 316 boats. Sunday was fun also but no big fish for us, 16 lbs, 5 fish, so we ended up in 10th place for $1100, IT FELT GOOD TO CASH CHECK AND NOT A DONATION. Randy found the fish on Fri and he had approx 18 lbs, so I said thats where we will go on Sat. We were pulling my harnesses from 30' to 75' behind the boards with NO WEIGHTS and we were in only 13' of water. Gold was the dominate catching color for us.
Well my next tourney is July 15 for the Sheboygan Walleye Club, on Winnebago. This tourney is also for the Cabelas points standings for us and currently Wally and I are in 5th place out of 30 boats.
If you have any ?????????? about my lure system, please feel free to contact me by email or my cell phone (920-379-9255)
Thanks COOT