Like I mentioned, we finished our 70th tournament, and because now we were just going to be fishing and camping just for the fun of it, we decided to sell our tournament boat, and just go back to our Lund we used in the past. We kept the little neglected boat while we fished the big waters from Henderson Harbor New York, to Lake of the Woods Minnesota. We listed our Skeeter on several web pages and word of mouth. We had lots of interested anglers, but none of them willing to sign on the dotted line. We kept praying the right people would come along. We loved our boat, it had served us well in all kinds of weather and water conditions. Then the day came with the email asking about it, and the people weren't from ND, or Canada, or MN or the various other states, but they were from good old Michigan. Yipee. They came, they saw, and they conquered! Yup, the boat lives on with another couple, it sat in its garage with 2 tanks full of gas and just waiting to hit the water, and now it was like a colt the first day of spring; raring to go. Good bye Skeeter, we loved you, and so will Ed ands Amanda!

Finishing Well

Wow, where has the time gone? Last fall, which seemed like years ago we fished at BaysdeNoc and the reason we were there, we qualified for the National Team Challenge with Masters Walleye Circuit. It was the grandest experience ever. We were one of 300 boats that qualified for this event, and we finished up in the top third, at 88th place. Had we known we were doing that well maybe we would not have ran so far one of the days and it turned out the bite had stopped, so we went back to our tried and true place on little bay and that is where we spent the day in the weeds with the Salmo Hornet which skipped through the top of the weed bed and hooked up many many many walleye. Of course they had to be 15" long and many came up short. The weigh-in was at the fairgrounds and we were in line over an hour, and only had one fish that didn't make it. As our boat was pulled up on stage I knew I could never step over the side to get on stage so the announcer came to our boat. I had been having a terrible time with my knees, and knew soon the knees had to have some work done. A couple weeks later it was our State Championship with the Michigan Walleye Tour. By this time I really was in rough shape. Pre-fishing we got our limit each day, but tournament days came and yup same old story.........This was our 70th tournament. We looked back over the years of tournament fishing and knew it was time to end it. Bill was already past 70 and I would be 70 in a couple months so we thought 70 was the perfect number to finalize that chapter of our life.