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.

Saginaw Bay update

We just finished our third tournamnet of the season on Saginaw Bay. We camped at Linwood Beach Marina Campground and didn't have to drive very far with the gas prices as they are. It is bad enough to run our Yamaha 300HP and fill it up every other day. Gas has been over $4.00 for the last few months. However we did get out every day for 2 weeks. We went from 103 degrees to bug hatch, to waves over the bow. The only place that produced walleye each day was by the #11-12 spark plug. The biggest we got was only 3 pounds, and that just wasn't the weight we wanted. We fished Thomas Reef, Calahan Reef, Pinconning Bar, Three Sister Humps, The Fingers, The Slot, The Bean.............you name it, we were there. But we never could get a spot to produce 2 days in a row. Weather was a huge factor sure, but it wasn't worth running around from place to place on tournament day when the waves were against us, so we stuck it out in the one place that produced. We took in over 30 fish, and kept culling them to keep the biggest ones. The Bay is going to be a good producer of Walleye in the next few years considering what we caught. All I can say is "I AM GLAD IT IS OVER!"

Saginaw Bay here we come.

Getting the fifth wheel packed, and ready to leave next week for Linwood Beach Campground and pre fish on Saginaw Bay for our third tournament with Michigan Walleye Tour. We fished there last week and picked up a few but very small. Hmm now the big question is where will we start? What presentation will we use?

tournament line up

Lake St. Clair.........history!

Rain, rain, and more rain is all I remember about the 2 weeks we spent at Algonac State Park and fishing the channels and Lake St. Clair. Yes we caught fish, but never could get a program going from one day to another. All the fish were hit and miss. If we ever got 2 we were very fortunate. So therefore we finished up in 15th place, and that tournament is now history....2 weeks we gear up for Saginaw Bay and hit the waves!

Getting Ready For Second Tournament with Michigan Walleye Tour

There wasn't much to post from our first tournament on Detroit River. It was terrible rain all week and we tied with many others..with a zero. But now the skunk is out of the box. We are fishing on the St. Clair River and I will be posting pictures soon. Finally the rain quit today and we even had some sunshine. Had some electronic problems and came in early, but did get 2 nice 3 pounders.