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Location: Berlin | WILL TRAVEL! 10 day forecast is garbage, I ain't waiting any longer. Help a brother out!!! |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | I'm there with ya |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Drove over the Illinois river lady week and it was frozen. What ate conditions now? High water? Are you assuming warmer weather will Allis fishing? Isn't there a tournament there this weekend? |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Open water walleyes are a tricky item rich. For you guys who jig fish primarily, you will need to get out of your comfort zone. Picture in your head the basin of the lake and no rock. The structure is the schools of forage....... oh, you did not mean that kind of open water.........nevermind! |
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Location: Berlin | lol, Denny. I can't believe I am saying this but I am actually excited to start trolling! |
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Location: McFarland, WI | Sunshine, If you are talking the way you spell you are having a stroke. You need help or spell check. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Thunk abot berry |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Illinois River open at Ottawa (allanPark). JJ Bar tournament had 25 boats. Vecchia and team took 1st with a 10+ bag of saugers. Water at 35 to 36, still a little chilly I figure. Jiggers did well. Some larger females. IWT has two tournaments next week, one on sat and one on sun.
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Well...after two postponements we were finally able to host the J.J's-9th Annual Walleye & Sauger Event, Sunday on the Illinois River. Ice and flood waters have prevented us from getting this event in on the past two scheduled dates. But, Mother Nature finally cooperated with us and we had an excellent event.
Twenty five, three person teams decided to brave the cold and kick the cabin fever bug yesterday. Most of them with high hopes of finding the winning sack of sauger and just excited to finally get on open water. The river conditions are in great shape at his point in terms of clarity, ice and visibility is near 18"-20", which is great for this time of year. The only factor holding the bite back a bit is the extremely cold water temps. Sunday the temperature was between 35.5 and 36 degrees keeping the saugers from really putting on the feed bag. Saturday the temps were closer to 39 and the bite was much better, so we are just days away from the spring bite being on fire.
Despite the cold water temps and take-off air temps of 16 degrees there were still some really nice fish brought to the scales. A total of 75 sauger and 4 walleyes crossed the scales for a total weight of 128.28 pounds or an average of 1.62 per fish. Nine teams were able to bring a limit to the scales and only three teams blanked.
Congratulations to the winning team of Ryan Vecchia, Rick Parrott and Mike Tatera for weighing 5 sauger for 10.11 pounds good for $1,000. They also weighed the largest fish of the event a 3.9 sauger earning them an additional $250! The jigging trio focused their efforts all day downstream of the take-off site near the ADM grain elevator vertical jigging in 22-26 feet of water. The winners used a combination of plastics and live bait and said the plastics out performed the live bait threaded on 3/8 oz. Doc's Custom Jigs! Congratulations Guys!!!
2nd-Gary Merkel, John Smith and John Balla 5-9.28 $600
3rd-Ken Dage, Joe Miller and Steve Skupien 5-8.07 $400
4th-Tom Giachetto Jr., Giachetto Sr. and Gabby 5-7.97 $300 Hennepin Marine $100 Gift Card-Highest Lund Boats Team
5th-John Dalzot, Dave Kneebone and Chris DeArcos 5-7.96 $200
6th-Adam Sandor, Steve Sandor, Scott Trumpinski 5-7.82
7th-Dave Kelszyk, Dave Zurawski, Angatangelo 5-7.66
8th-Max Actis, Mike Stuckert and Szafranski 5-7.63
9th-Gary Dominy, Ricky Perez and Scott Doucette 4-6.93
10th-Corey Blair, Eric Maggio and Kevin Hanson 5-6.52
11th-Brian and Mark Mazur 3-5.81
12th-Erickson and Guerrero 3-5.43
13th-Stuepfert and Crippen 3-5.39
14th-Piacenti, Read and Dober 3-5.28 3rd Place Big Fish-2.66-$100
15th-Durdan, Knottek and Smith 4-5.16
16th-Sanger, Miner and DeBernardi 3-4.62
17th-Hall, Hall and Koeller 3-4.31
18th-Varman, Barr and Sigwalt 2-3.91 2nd Place Big Fish-2.74-$150
19th-Perez, Perez and Tregonning 3-3.89
20th-Anderson and Predergast 1-1.56
21st-Anzulas and Jones 1-1.55
22nd-Jones and Jones 1-1.37
23rd-Pagakis, Pagakis and Walsh
23rd-Cliffe and Baird
23rd-Clemmons, Hausler and Solecki
I would like to thank all of you those you who participated and a special thanks to J.J's Pub for hosting this event and providing all the food. We had a great day and it was certainly nice to see everyone again!!!!
Also a big thanks to all of our sponsors who make this possible: Hennepin Marine, Lund Boats, Mercury Marine, HardCore Brands, WorldWide Marine Insurance, WoodStock Line, Stabil Mount and Doc's Custom Jigs!!!
Next Event is March 22, 2014 in Ottawa Pool and March 23 in Spring Valley. Hope to see many of you there!
Thanks,
Adam Sandor
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