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Location: Clintonville, WI | It’s baaaack. Welcome to 2015 MuskieFIRST MatchFishing!
Although a participant in MatchFishing for several years in the past, I'm new to the organizational aspect of it. I've been tasked with getting this thing started.
*** There is more to come in terms of the set up and a lot of it is predicated on particpation #s and how smoothly the sign up is going. There will be a MatchFishing forum set up for ease of process so be patient. In the meantime, get a team set up per the rules and get ready to fish!
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Teams will be assigned to one of four pools, North/South/East/West, depending on their general home location. Over the course of May - August each team is expected to fish a minimum of three “matches” against teams in their pool. Points are awarded depending on the outcome of the match: win, lose, or tie. At the end of the pool round, the team with the most points wins the pool and moves on to the playoff rounds starting in September and finishing with the MatchFishing Championship in October.
Participation is FREE, and there is a short list of requirements:
1. The group expects a commitment to participate in all respects – this was historically the biggest challenge and mostly why this went by the wayside.
2. You must have the ability to provide judges with digital pictures of your results
3. Respect the spirit of the event. The idea of MatchFishing is to incent getting out on the water with friends/family, to have fun and to have friendly competition.
4. Don’t cheat.
5. Don’t be “Richards” (the term my kids and I use in our house so as to not offend my wife’s sensibilities).
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Teams:
A team consists of one or two fishermen, fishing with each other from one boat at the same time. Teams may not have three people in the boat at any time during a match. If one of the team members is unavailable, a substitute may fill in, but one of the people fishing must be a team member.
Professional fishing guides are welcome to participate as competitors in MatchFishing with their own team, but teams may not hire a paid guide as a substitute team member.
In this set-up thread, please post a reply with the following: your team name / team location (i.e. OH, WI, WV, etc.) / names of team members / contact phone #s for each member / e-mail for each member / required two dates (minimum) for fishing availability.
Matches:
A match consists of two teams fishing against each other ON THE SAME DAY. Teams may fish different waters, but all fishing by both teams must take place between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm on the day of the scheduled match. For example…..A South team on vacation at LOTW can fish against another South team on vacation at Mille Lacs as long as it is on the same day.
***Three is the minimum number of matches everyone must fish because we will be counting each team’s best three matches in determining the Pool winners. Since we are anticipating enough teams for four pools of four teams each, you will be required to fish against all three teams and all three matches will count. If we get a lot of participation and pools have more than four teams, you may choose to fish against every team, but only your top three match results will be counted. For example, let’s say a Pool has seven teams (A/B/C/D/E/F/G). Team A in the Pool schedules its first three matches against B/C/D and wins all three with a 35” fish each match. They may elect to not fish against the other three teams and let it ride. Team B may have lost to Team A but elects to fish all five other teams and beats E/F/G with a 36” fish each match. Team B would beat Team A. This twist does provide for an element of strategy but is primarily there to incent fishing as much as possible.
Each team has until 12:00 pm (noon) the day after their match to submit photos and results. The date/time received on our cell phones and/or email will be the official record so make sure you send them as soon as you can after your match. Teams failing to report results by then will not be given points for any fish they may have caught that day. No exceptions. We will place results and images in the 2015 MatchFishing Reports Thread. That thread will be locked. No other reports will be allowed. DO NOT POST YOUR OWN RESULTS in another forum! Photos and results must be sent to:
Andrew Golden (Slamr)
[email protected]
(847) 989-9271
Mike Morse (BigMo)
[email protected]
(920) 213-0898
No rematches are allowed during the pool play rounds. Each match will be scored according to the results on the day of the match: win, lose, or tie.
Scheduling:
As long as you are fishing water on or after its seasonal opening date, Pool matches can begin at Midnight May 2, 2015 and must conclude by 11:59 pm August 31, 2015.
When each team signs up, they are required to provide two days during each of the months of June/July/August that they guarantee they will be available to fish a match. Teams will not be entered into MatchFishing until they provide these dates. If another team in their pool challenges them (by posting it online) to fish on one of the days they provided, the match will take place on that day unless both teams agree to change it.
If a team is a “no-show” on an agreed upon match date, the match still counts. The absent team will simply receive 0 points. Please be flexible and do everything you can to schedule matches and honor the commitments, or communicate with other teams for rescheduling. 90+ days should be more than enough to get Pool matches in. There were some issues in the past with anglers that had an odd schedule for work and/or life; for example, those that are able to fish a lot from Mondays-Thursdays. Everyone has to be flexible and put the effort into making the scheduling work. Again, 90+ days should be sufficient to make pool play work.
Items:
Once a match is scheduled, teams will be assigned an item of some sort. This item must be visible in a picture taken with any muskies they catch on the day of the match. We will try to make it unique and interesting. The judges will provide items via MuskieFirst, text, e-mail or cell call no sooner than one day before the match. Failure to include the item in the photograph disqualifies that fish from scoring points. No exceptions. Items will not be given out early under any circumstance.
Scoring:
Points for Qualifying Fish:
Minimum size of 35”
35” = 5 points
every 1” above that earns 1 point
any ½” is rounded up
Points for Pool Standings:
2 points for the team that wins the match
1 point for each team if there is a tie (equal points for all qualifying fish caught)
1 point for a losing team if they participate in a scheduled match (must be supported by each team with a photo with the item shown)
0 points for losing a match for non-participation in a scheduled match.
The team with the highest point total wins the pool.
Tie-breaker for winning the pool will be largest fish caught during pool play.
Playoff Rounds:
The winner of each pool will advance to the playoff round. Each team will be seeded according to their FISH POINT total from Pool play. #1 will fish head-to-head versus #4, #2 will fish head-to-head versus #3. The first Playoff Round (semi-final) clock will begin at Midnight on September 1, 2015. These two matches must be completed by 11:59 pm on September 30, 2015.
The winners of the Playoff Round will advance to the Championship. The Championship period is Midnight October 1, 2015 through 11:59 pm on October 31, 2015.
During the playoff round and championship, rematches will be allowed in the case of ties until one team wins. If neither team is able to win a match before the end of the time allowed, total Fish Points from all qualified matches will determine the winner.
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | I'm in with my father in-law.
state: Minnesota
Team Name: River Musky
Steve Bates - [email protected] (651) 399-5745
Dave Schinkoeth - [email protected]
guaranteed dates:
June - 13, 14
July - 23, 24
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Location: Waukee, IA | I'm in, but my girlfriend is my only partner so far, and she's flaky
Team name: Red Baron
State: Iowa
Travis Kuntz
515-451-3374
[email protected]
Dates: July 6-11 (LOTW vacation)
June 20-21
July 25-26
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| I'm in, Team name: Tretsven fishing team
State:Minnesota
Names: Nathan Tretsven. phone# 651-303-1905. Email: [email protected]
Dates: June 6-13, 28-30
July 1-3,
August 1,21
Lots of days, particularly Fridays and Saturdays, in each month that could possibly work as well
Also 1 question, do cellphone pictures count?
Looking forward to participating in this for the first time!
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha
State: Iowa
Team members:
Bill Flesch 515-720-6956 email: [email protected]
Lynn Hopp 319-240-9298 email: [email protected]
Dates:
June 14, 20
July 12, 19
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| I'm in! Looking for a partner, but will fish without one. I'm on Vermilion.
Team name: Musky Nuts
State: Minnesota
John Kamarauskas
815-474-8843
[email protected]
Dates: Any day during the season. Retired, no commitments.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Keep the entries coming........
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| Team: red ranger
State: Iowa
Dana Hubbard: 712-260-1616, [email protected] with me
Thomas Hubbard: 910-750-4421
Any days friday-sunday or some weekdays...im very flexible |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Team Worrall
Wisconsin
Steve Worrall 7156809265 [email protected]
Keith Worrall 7156809265 [email protected]
Any Monday or Tuesday from the third week of June until it's over.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I'm in. Partner is out of the country so I'll add him when I can confirm with him.
Team: 92 Bucky
WI
Mike Morse
[email protected]
(920) 213-0898
May 3, May 25
June 6, June 7
July 12 - 17
August 1, August 9 |
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Location: Appleton Wi | Im in
Team: Tail Chasers
WI
Brock Young: 920-450-9424 [email protected]
Cole Stratton: 920-915-6815 [email protected]
May 3, any Sunday in may, June 6, June 7, June 27, any weekend in July, August 1, August 2,
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Location: Sauk City WI | I'm in
team Mitchell
James Mitchell 6082194901 [email protected] contact me
Austin Mitchell
wisconsin
may 16th and 24th
June 7th
July 19th
August 2nd 3rd 5th 6th
We can be pretty flexible with dates other than the end of June into the first two weeks of July
Edited by jmitch 4/19/2015 7:29 PM
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Count us in
Team: Fargo Yacht Club
Minnesota
Tyler Wenner 612-220-9998 [email protected]
Ryan Hoefs 651-788-3885 [email protected]
June 6th,
July 11th, 25th
Aug 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
Pretty much open to any Saturday that's not a holiday weekend.
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| Team name: Jones
State: Iowa
Colin Jones and Doug Jones
515 402 0800/515 450 3552
[email protected]/[email protected]
Dates: whole week of the muskie first summer outing
We fish 1 day every weekend and we are flexable
June 20/21
July 25/26
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Teams that signed up in this thread, please check your e-mail. You are the 12 teams competing in 2015. The rules and general information have been updated in a document I attached to the message.
The 12 teams entered happen to be split 4 each from WI / IA / MN. So, I changed the pool set up. We will be having a battle of the states for bragging rights!
Until a Forum is set up for MatchFishing, please post the matches you have set up in this thread.
Regulation where you are/will be permitting, matches may start this Saturday May 2 @ Midnight. Have at it.............and have fun!
Mike Morse / BigMo
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Red Ranger vs Team Red Baron. June 6 Saturday
Team Gurkha vs Team Red Baron. June 7 Sunday
Team Jones vs Team Red Baron. June 21 Sunday
As for fishing two in a row, I'm a masochist and sleep is for the weak Haha. Let's have fun gentleman! Edit: And ladies
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha accepts the June 7 challenge! |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha has challenged Team Red Ranger to a July 12th match. |
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| Let's try these dates, I know a couple of them are a ways off but here goes nothing:
June 6th Tretsven team vs Fargo yacht club
July 1st Tretsven team vs musky nuts
August 1st Tretsven team vs river musky |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Team Fargo yacht club accepts the june 6th challenge!!!! |
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| Musky nuts is accepting Team Tretsven's challenge on July 1st. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Dang...looks like I have to accept. If possible though, would you do August 2nd (that Sunday)? We'll be traveling that Saturday and only fishing the evening. I know I screwed up when I posted that day worked...just thought about it now, though.
Edited by muskyroller 4/30/2015 5:06 PM
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| Team Musky Nuts vs. Team Fargo Yacht Club on July 11th, or July 25th.
Edited by bucknuts 4/30/2015 8:04 PM
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| Sure that Sunday August 2nd should work fine!
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Sweet... River musky accepts the August 2nd match (thank you! I appreciate the flexibility).
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | bucknuts, I'm a teacher and have lots of flexibility July and August. If your flexible we can fish midweek at some point this summer. Set it up with specifics as we get closer to those months and we can bounce a few midweek days off each other, if you're okay with that?
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Team Fargo Yacht Club accepts Team Musky Nuts Challenge on July 11th. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Team Fargo Yacht Club Challenges Team River Musky on Aug 1st. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Guess I have to accept. Won't be able to fish until late (if at all) as that's the travel day. I goofed when I put the 1st. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | We can figure something out. We could fish the 2nd unless any other Saturday works |
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| Sounds good, muskyroller!
I'd rather fish during the week.
Let me know whats good for you.
Thanks,
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha is challenging Team Jones to an August 15th match. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | There are two matches coming up this weekend. For those teams, watch your PM inbox here for your items within 24 hours ahead of your match.
For those that have not participated before, the items will be easily transported and manageable in the boat. That doesn't mean they won't be silly or maybe even embarrassing......just that they will be easy to handle.
Examples of items in the past include a minnow bucket (which resulted in the iconic MatchFishing photo of Steve Jonesi wearing a styrofoam minnow bucket on his head in the fish photo), a softball, a plunger and a stuffed animal. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Ok, my concern is that I'm fishing back to back matches (sleep when I'm dead) and can't go 2 hours back home from the lake to retrieve items. Can they be relatively common so I don't need to run to a store and buy something obscure?
Side note, if you can embarrass me, you are a champ. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | The first matches of the year are this weekend in the MN and IA regions.
Team Tretsven vs Fargo Yacht Club (MN) and Team Red Ranger vs Team Red Baron (IA) are on for 6/6/15. For the 6/6/15 matches, you may choose from the following items:
-- a flower stuck somewhere on your person. In your hat, glasses, pocket, behind your ear......whatever works.
-- a ladies necklace worn in the picture
-- a 40 oz can of beer
These items will also be sent via PM.
Any fish photos and info from 6/6/15 must be sent to me by noon on 6/7/15. Email or text are fine.
***Item options for the 6/7/15 match will be posted here tomorrow and in the teams' PM. If you will not have access to internet, call my cell and I'll give the items to you verbally.
Edited by BigMo 6/5/2015 9:19 AM
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Team Red Baron vs. Team Gurkha, in the IA region, is on tomorrow 6/7/15.
Your item choices are:
-- a pink item of clothing
-- a banana
-- any magazine cover with a muskie picture on it |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Great idea about giving 3 differrent options for the picture. I'll be in canada for one of my matches and I know this is going to help make it easier and ease my mind. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Skunked! I moved every fish in the lake but couldn't get a hook set |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Looks like I received some photos over the weekend and one skunk post here.
I'll hopefully be able to work on results over the next day or two. Stay tuned. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha got zippo today.
Edited by wkeegobbler 6/7/2015 10:58 PM
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Location: Waukee, IA | Same. Couple of rough days for me, but it was the first time out this year so I'm happy with seeing a few fish. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Teams Musky Nuts and River Musky are set to fish a match Thursday, July 23rd. Works for both teams. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | MN teams were in a tight match on 6/6/15......Tretsven's 44.5" fish edges past Fargo Yacht Club's 42" fish. There are no points for item inclusion creativity in the photos but I'll give kudos for both teams in this match!
(Team Tretsven 44.5in fish 6-6-15 match - resized.jpg)
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Location: Alex or Alek? | ksjadfkajsdasdgfasdfgb
We had the necklace on the fish but it slipped of just before the picture:(
nice fish tretsven. Glad someone else had some luck on opener. We had 2 other fish up that day but the boat spooked them each time. Darn storms kept us off the lake the majority of the afternoon!
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Team Red Ranger vs. Team Red Baron on 6/6/15 and Team Red Baron vs. Team Gurkha on 6/7/15 both ended up with no fish caught by any team.
Team Gurkha did send a photo of the team with one of the item choices, good for 1 point.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I would encourage all teams to go back and read the rules again. Make sure you all know the rules about how/when the proof items are given and when/where to post photos with fish and/or items.
There are lots of matches in July, but quite a few matches still need to be scheduled. I should be current with my match tracking through the 7/23/15 match between Musky Nuts and River Musky. Please continue to work with the other teams to schedule your matches and post them here. |
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| Thanks mojo! My brother lost a giant 53+ 5 minutes before
Edited by tretsven6 6/10/2015 9:14 AM
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Location: Central IA | Team Jones is fishing against team Red Baron tomorrow and we don't have are photo objects yet? |
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| Team jones vs team red baron June 21st
Team jones vs team Gurka august 15
Team jones vs red ranger august 23 |
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Location: Waukee, IA | I got skunked (again) anyway. Looks like the Iowa crowd had a rough year |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | team River Musky and Fargo Yacht Club are set to fish Saturday, August 1. Works for both teams. thanks |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Works for us. Good luck |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | July 1 match between Musky Nuts and Team Tretsven in the Minnesota division.......your item choices are:
-- a twinkie (i.e. Hostess, Little Debbie)
-- any piece of junkmail
-- a paper airplane |
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| Team Musky Nuts got skunked.
Fished 12 hours, and had 8 follows.
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| I caught 2 and lost 4 others, they went crazy at around 3:00pm-5:00pm |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Tretsven vs. Musky Nuts - 7/1/15 Match Results
Tretsven stays hot with two fish.......36" and 46.5".
Musky Nuts, well, stays hot with enthusiasm........0 fish.
Lots of matches coming up. Stay tuned in this thread and PM's for your match items the DAY BEFORE your matches.
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| Those are BEAUTIFUL muskies!!!!!
Congrats on your win!!!
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| Thanks bucknuts! It was a fun day for sure, but they quit biting at 6:00. Nothing the rest of the night |
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Location: Appleton Wi | I don't know if it was posted yet but team tail chasers will be facing 92 bucky this Sunday July 12 |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | The next match, in the Minnesota division, is Fargo Yacht Club versus Musky Nuts tomorrow 7/11/15.
Your item options are:
-- a sandwich
-- Maxim magazine.......if this is what you go with, I'd really appreciate it if it was the fairly recent issue with Taylor Swift on the cover.
-- a bottle/container of motor oil
Brock, for our match on Sunday 7/12/15, Slamr will be posting the items tomorrow.
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Location: Waukee, IA | Team Gurkha is fishing against team red ranger TOMORROW THE 12TH.....items????? |
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| Team red ranger is already on the water and don't know the item to have in the picture today |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I'm on the wtaer all week and had no matches otherr than my own on the record. Improvise......use a local paper or other proof item that I can work with. I'll see if slamr can help and also if there are more matches this week. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I see a couple teams were able to make do on items.......I hope it worked out for all. .Thank you!
You guys are awesome. I appreciate you embracing the item part of match fishing.
I have VERY sporadic WiFi all week. I'll revisit match schedules when I get back home. If you have a mstch this week yet, post it here and I'll try get it. If not, please use a local newspaper from the dsy you are fishing.
Brock, I got skunked yesterday in our match.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I see a couple teams were able to make do on items.......I hope it worked out for all. .Thank you!
You guys are awesome. I appreciate you embracing the item part of match fishing.
I have VERY sporadic WiFi all week. I'll revisit match schedules when I get back home. If you have a mstch this week yet, post it here and I'll try get it. If not, please use a local newspaper from the dsy you are fishing.
Brock, I got skunked yesterday in our match.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I see a couple teams were able to make do on items.......I hope it worked out for all. .Thank you!
You guys are awesome. I appreciate you embracing the item part of match fishing.
I have VERY sporadic WiFi all week. I'll revisit match schedules when I get back home. If you have a mstch this week yet, post it here and I'll try get it. If not, please use a local newspaper from the dsy you are fishing.
Brock, I got skunked yesterday in our match.
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Location: Sauk City WI | Are we still on for tomorrow BigMo? |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I was off the grid 7/11 - 7/18 but think I confirmed we were on for today before I left.
I'm done for the day and was skunked. |
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Location: Sauk City WI | We fished as if we were on. I sent you an email earlier today |
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| What are the results on the matches, on July 11th, and 12th? |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | looking forward to our match on Thursday, Bucknuts! |
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| Me too, muskyroller!
Looks like the weather is going to cooperate.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I'm going to try have results done for 7/11, 7/12 and 7/19 matches up on or before Thursday this week.
Work has been nuts. A lot of M&A activity going on that needs serious attention but I'm going to try sneak away tonight or tomrorow night to get at MatchFishing. That way I can get the next item options out for Thursday too.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | -- Blow a bubble gum bubble in the photo
-- wear ski goggles in the photo
-- have a foam swimming noodle in the photo |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | River Musky fished a match against bucknuts.
We (river musky) caught one 40" fish, had another fish hit, another follow, and a nice 45-47" hit a pacemaker close to dusk...had it stuck for a second and then quickly off.
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Location: Sauk City WI | Team Mitchell and team tail chasers are fishing this sunday August 2nd |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I'll have items posted on Friday for 8/1 and Saturday for 8/2.
Almost caught up with photos and results.
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Team Fargo Yacht club will be fishing against river muskies on the 1st. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Results update.....tentative (depending on what you guys might see fit to correct):
on 7/11/15 Fargo Yacht Club and Musky Nuts both blank on fish for a 1-1 tie
on 7/12/15 92 Bucky and Tail Chasers both blank on fish for a 1-1 tie
on 7/12/15 Red Ranger gets a 41 incher and Gurkha blanks for a Red Ranger 12-1 win
on 7/19/15 Team Mitchell gets a 35 incher and 92 Bucky blanks for a Team Mitchell 6-1 win
on 7/23/15 River Musky gets a 40 incher and Musky Nuts blanks for a River Musky 11-1 win
Here is what I have for each teams' points through 7/30/15:
WISCONSIN
Team Mitchell 6
92 Bucky 2
Tail Chasers 1
Team Worrall 0
MINNESOTA
Tretsven 39
Fargo Yacht Club 14
River Musky 11
Musky Nuts 3
IOWA
Red Ranger 13
Red Baron 3
Gurkha 2
Jones 0
Here is what I have for the upcoming match schedule:
River Musky vs fargo Yacht Club 08/01/15
River Musky vs Team Tretsven 08/02/15
Team Jones vs Team Gurkha 08/15/15
Team Jones vs Team Red Ranger 08/23/15
Please check your records and let me know if there are any discrepancies. Several matches scheduled between 8/1 and 8/23 but lots more needed to get scheduled. Please get a hold of your fellow regional teams and have fun fishing. THANKS!!
(Red Ranger 7-12-15 Match Fish 41 inches RESIZED.jpg)
(Team Mitchell 35in fish 7-19-15.jpg)
(Team River Muskie 40in fish 7-23-15.jpg)
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Red Ranger 7-12-15 Match Fish 41 inches RESIZED.jpg (23KB - 358 downloads)
Team Mitchell 35in fish 7-19-15.jpg (71KB - 362 downloads)
Team River Muskie 40in fish 7-23-15.jpg (99KB - 383 downloads)
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Looking forward to our two matches Saturday and Sunday! Good luck to all. |
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| We should have 1 match participation point, need another send on the pick?
Team jones |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | River Musky & Fargo Yacht Club 8/1 match item choices:
-- Stick your tongue out in the photo (channell your best Gene Simmons)
-- show your fishing license in the photo
-- have beef jerky in your mouth or in the photo
Looks like I had almost everything correct for the match results. Jones will send me a follow-up and I'll correct the one thing I left off for them.
I'll post match item choices for the 8/2 match tomorrow.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | 8/2 River Musky vs Tretsven item choices.......one of the following:
1) Have your glasses on upside down in the photo
2) have sunscreen showing on your nose
3) wear your hat with the brim to the left or right side of your head. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Keeping all participants up to date......I'm at grad school for on campus work the next two weeks.
My priority is to get items posted the day before any matches between today and 8/15. Please check posts here or PM's for your items.
The lesser priority is updating results. I do have all the results from the 8/1 and 8/2 matches. I also have to work on the corrections from the matches up to 8/1. I'll try to find some time to work on that but no guarantees during the next two weeks.
LOTS of fish being caught! More than I can recall in many years of the past. Keep up the good fishing and enthusiasm. It makes this fun.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | If you text me (847/989-9271), I will provide item. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I presume that for their match today Team Gurkha vs Team Jones got their item choices from Slamr yesterday as directed prior?
I'm done with classes on campus this year so I can get back on track with match fishing the rest of the way.
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Team Jones vs Red Ranger tomorrow 8/23......your item options are:
An inflated balloon
any action figure such as a GI Joe or WWE wrestler....even a Barbie Doll will work
any piece of paper with "MuskieFIRST is the BEST" written on it |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Playoffs? Who's in, who's out? |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Ok, gang.......I'm caught up based on all the revised results and last matches you all fit in your schedules!! There was some good fishin' going on this summer. Way to go everyone. Alas, not everyone moves on. Here are the pool results:
WI
Team Mitchell - 15 total points
92 Bucky - 2 total points
Tail Chasers - 2 total points
Team Worrall - 0 points
IA
Red Ranger - 48 points
Red Baron - 3 points
Team Gurkha - 3 points
Team Jones - 3 points
MN
River Musky - 73 points
Team Tretsven - 40 points
Fargo Yacht Club - 15 points
Musky Nuts - 14 points
So, the semi-final playoff matches are as follows:
#1 Seed River Musky vs #4 Seed (wild card) Team Tretsven
#2 Seed Red Ranger vs #3 Seed Team Mitchell
You have until 11:59 pm on 9/30/15 to get your playoff matches done. Same drill in that you will communicate with each other to get the match dates set and post them here. I will send you your item choices for photo verification the day before your match.
**** Remember......during the semi-final round, in the case of ties, you must fish a rematch(s) until one team wins. If neither team is able to win a match before the end of the time allowed, total points from all pool play matches will determine the winner.
Good luck and thanks so far for your enthusiastic participation! |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | River Musky vs. Team Tretsven on...
September 20th. |
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| Confirmed for the 20th! |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Congrats on everyone that made the playoffs! Good luck to you |
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| Just wanted to say thank you to bigmo for your time running this for us, and Muskie first for the opportunity.
Hope this happens again next season and I can keep the hooks in the fish!
THANKS AGAIN |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Thanks for the compliments. It wasn't always as tight on my side of things as I would have liked but I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway. I also applaud you all because the patience and enthusiasm of the teams was as important as anything else.
At this point, I would envision doing this again next season. We will take this year's revival of MatchFishing, make improvements and have fun with it.
The key will be to get more participants so please spread the word. This year happened to work out where we had the pools set up by State. But, I don't have any preconceived ideas of how the pools get set up so let's start with getting more anglers involved and go from there.
Now let's work on getting this year closed out with a bang......one semi-final is set with one more pending!! |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Semi-Final matches are set......both on Sept. 20! That will be a big day of fishing this weekend.
Your item choices for photos will be posted in this thread and sent to you via text on Saturday the 19th.
Team River Musky (1 seed) vs. Team Tretsven (4 seed)
Team Red Ranger (2 seed) vs. Team Mitchell (3 seed)
Have fun. Good luck!
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | that "4 seed" is catching some fish lately...biggies too! Good luck to all! |
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| Hopefully I didn't burn them all, planning on making a special trip up north just for Sunday!
Good luck everyone! |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | OK all.....big day tomorrow!
Tretsven vs River Muskie
Team Mitchell vs Red Ranger
BOTH matches, item choices for photo verification are:
Wear an athletic head band
wear goofy sunglasses
display a women's lifestyle magazine (Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Redbook, etc)
Good luck, be safe, have fun.
Edited by BigMo 9/19/2015 9:39 AM
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Location: Clintonville, WI | We have a semi-final winner and we have a tie...........
With a 37", River Musky edges past Tretsven who blanked.
Congrats to Tretsven for some good fishing in the matches and to River Musky for advancing to the final.
Team Mitchell - 0 vs Red Ranger - 0
Team Mitchell and Red Ranger need to fish another match ASAP. Get in touch each other to see what works and let me know.
(Bates Fish Photo 9-20-15.jpg)
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| Congrats on the fish Steve! My dad lost 2 fish that would have been legal, and had about 5-6 follows that were really hot but wouldn't commit |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Thanks Nate - I was really worried that wasn't going to be enough...especially the way you've been putting them in the boat all year. That one missed a Hang 10 three different casts, but ate a small 5" firetiger playmaker. Only saw 2 or 3 more fish all day...both smaller than that one, so I don't think they would've been legal for the match.
Some days it's better to be lucky than good. I/we were super lucky. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Any discussions had between Team Mitchell and Red Ranger about their rematch to determine the second MatchFishing finalist?
October is here tomorrow and the finals need to be completed in October. We need to have enough time to fish re-do's if necessary. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | If it helps either team for the final...You guys should fish a match this weekend (I'm "familying" it up the 3rd and 4th). I am available to fish a match the 10th or 11th OR (preferably) the 24th or 25th.
I hope it works for Mitchell and Ranger to fish this weekend |
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| Team red ranger can fish anytime this weekend if Mitchell wants to |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | How about one more try/weekend for semi final?
Then, I'd love to fish the final the weekend of the 24/25. |
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Location: Sauk City WI | muskyroller - 10/5/2015 10:37 AM
How about one more try/weekend for semi final?
Then, I'd love to fish the final the weekend of the 24/25. Were not going to be able to fish this weekend then were both out of town for awhile after that. You and Red Ranger should just try and set up a finals match. Team Mitchell is out for the year |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | River Musky vs. Red Ranger October 25th??? Hope it works. That is about my only "for sure" day in October. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Team Mitchell has to concede the semi-final match to Red Ranger....a good sportsmanship move from Team Mitchell. May it pay off and then some on the water for you.
River Musky and Red Ranger, check your text messages. River Musky can fish 10/25. Let me know what's up.
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| The 25th works for red ranger |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | 24th and 25th, two day event for the "ship!" Hopefully we can get one or a couple in the net with two days and this won't cause a re-match. Let me know if it's still a "go" for this idea?
Thanks Red Ranger and Big Mo,
Steve |
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| I thought we talked about the 24th and 25th, but then i got the text and the message here only talking about the 25th. We kinda planned a sturgeon fishing trip to baudette friday and satureday, then stop by a lake around bemidji to fish our match Sunday and fish alittle monday before we head home. Would it be a huge deal if you fish sat and sun and we fish sun and mon? |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I'll leave the 2 day versus 1 day thing up to the two teams. You just need to let me know what you decide so I can get the items communicated to you properly.
In any case, the intent of MatchFishing was to make it a same day competition. I'd like to keep that spirit in tact.
Regardless, there needs to be some thought given to a rematch possibility(s) if there is a tie (no matter one day or two).
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Well, crap. I'm tied into fishing Saturday all day and maybe a little Sunday morning. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Red Ranger and River Musky talked it over. We are both going to be fishing on Saturday, Oct. 24th. So, we'll need our item that friday. Hopefully one of us will get one in the net to avoid a rematch.
Thanks, Big Mo!
Steve |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | OK then......the 2015 final is ON!
I will post your item choices here and via texts on Friday. Good luck!
*** let's hope there is a winner on Saturday. If not, there's a Halloween fishing opportunity or I'd be ok with going into Nov. if needed for a rematch. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | We have a CHAMPION for 2015! Minnesota can claim the crown.
River Musky prevailed over Red Ranger this past weekend. Red Ranger had a tough go of it, so while it only took one fish for River Musky to win, they put it out of reach with four......37" / 35" / 35.5" / 41".
Stay tuned here for some end of season MatchFishing closure. I'll hopefully be able to wrap this up in the next couple weeks.
** If you enjoyed the season, please talk to other anglers about MatchFishing for 2016. I was a participant for several seasons about 8-10 years ago but this was my first go at being the point person. So, it will get better. If we have enough participants next season (hopefully more than this year) I expect to be doing this again. We'll tweak things a bit, make some improvements and have some friendly competition.
(Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 35 incher.JPG)
(Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 35.5 incher.JPG)
(Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 37 incher.JPG)
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Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 35 incher.JPG (71KB - 397 downloads)
Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 35.5 incher.JPG (66KB - 370 downloads)
Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 37 incher.JPG (46KB - 397 downloads)
Final Match 10-24-15 - River Musky 41 incher.JPG (65KB - 382 downloads)
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| Congrats Steve! Way to bring the championship to Minnesota! |
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