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| it's 32 degrees out with "frozen mix" right now, and i'm heading north to the Pete.
forecast is for high of 45 degrees, 15-25mph NW winds, and 90% chance of rain.
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| I am so envious.
I'd rather be in my heated garage cubby-hole priming lures and have a nice afternoon nap.
But you guys and girls all have fun out there.
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| Heard there were 9 fish caught.
And I am pretty sure somebody doubled up.
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| Yep, 9 fish were caught by 6 teams.
1st - 37 and 42 I think
2nd - tripled
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| the weather was the lead story on Day One of the PMTT on Petenwell in central Wisconsin.
a "historical" low pressure system creating high speed northwest winds, plus a 30 degree temperature drop in 2 days greeted contestants at the ironically named "Spring Warm Up!"
teams were in high spirits at the start, in spite of very rough and miserable morning conditions with 20mph+ winds and temperatures barely into the upper 30s, the day gradually improved with lessening winds and a slight warmup reaching 47 degrees by the late afternoon.
the weather made for some rough going: some teams suffered battery, motor, or GPS problems overnight. one of the judges was dumped in the lake (51 degree water) by a rogue wave which swamped and shut down his motor - he's alright thankfully, and Tony Grant/Laura Morrison lost their trolling motor when the quick release mount was triggered by a wave while running across the main lake in the morning. one judge boat also witnessed a "big red Ranger" launch itself completely airborne off a deadhead stump, with the prop clearing it in the air. i'll bet that left a mark in the fiberglass: running on plane in backwater sloughs is a bad idea...
the big fish, at 43", was caught right off the bat to set the bar for the day. the remaining 8 fish caught were spread out through the day and with varying tactics, some casting, some trolling, some in shallow sloughs, some in the current, some in the lake. one thing was clear: the teams that produced were "on", with them all reporting other fish contacted and lost.
the Day 1 leading team worked a main-lake pattern of following the baitfish: walleyes and crappies, which they'd developed in over 20 years of fishing the Petenwell flowage for those "other" species. local fishermen were very well represented on the leaderboad, sometimes experience does count!
there was some pre-tourney concern that a big tourney would crowd the north end of the lake in the river and flowage areas. the good news was that boats were mostly spread out, and respectful. when i poked into Devil's Elbow late in the day, there were only 3 other boats in view.
at the dinner and standings meeting to end Day 1, PMTT Director Tim Widlacki presented the 12 Apostles' Musky Club with a check for $1000 to aid their stocking efforts on the Petenwell Flowage. this recognition and payback to a "created" muskie fishery capable of annually hosting big tourneys was gratefully accepted by the local muskie club. thanks PMTT!
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| time for a HOT shower and a DRY bed...whew! |
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Location: The desert | Great coverage lambeau......must be wicked out there.....Congrats to Todd on a fish and Jason as well!!! Nice work guys! Good luck tomorrow!
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | My fav to win is still Jason and Don!
Go get them guys!
Edited by muskynightmare 5/12/2006 11:38 PM
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| Never thought I'd say this but.... I miss it even though the weather sucks!
Tear em up Boys!
C'mon Morrison/Grant and Jlong!!!
Hey Reef Hawg finish strong!!!!
Let's see some fish!
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Location: Des Plaines, IL | Right on my brotha!
p.s. miss ya! |
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| PMTT Spring Warm Up ! |
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| weather was a bit nicer today...42 degrees at the start, 46 degrees at the end of the tourney.
less wind, less rain, even a glimpse of the sun!
i know of a couple fish caught, including another fish by one of the teams that was on the board yesterday.
lots of stories of missed opportunities...
awards ceremony starts at 3pm, with final results.
here's some pics from today, including a undersized (33") fish caught by Jason Schillinger that i was lucky enough to witness.
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| the Day 1 leaders scored again today...all three fish came within 1/4 mile of each other on a gold speckled bulldawg (standard) fishing the riprap down on the south end of the lake...will the extra fish be the insurance they need? |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | Excellent coverage Mike, congrats to Jason and Todd, great job guys!!! |
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| Final Results for the PMTT Petenwell...
113 teams (or so) in the field, only 8 teams scored, catching a total of 13 fish.
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| 2nd place team of Rusteberg and Bowman tripled on day one by fishing shallow water near the start point and out of the wind and rain, good enough to hold up for 2nd place.
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| 3rd place team of Schillinger and Kempen boated one fish each day, plus another fish on day two that was one inch too small to score. they used local knowledge that severe cold in the spring puts muskies back into "spawn mode" on Petenwell, small side-to-side jerkbaits were the ticket.
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| 4th place team of Nigro and Craine got the day one "big fish" running a Shallow Invader somewhere on the water.
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| 5th place team of Forcier and Meyer tagged a respectable 40"er on day one by using their local guiding knowledge and throwing bucktails to shallow-holding fish. on day two they swung for the fences fishing deeper water on the main lake, knowing they needed a big fish to move up, but no luck.
Todd Forcier also hosts the Petenwell Musky Challenge tourney next weekend, now in it's 10th year.
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| 7th place team of Tengwall and Guddal hit paydirt by sticking to their plan. they found fish while pre-fishing earlier in the week and they fished the same 200 yards of shallow water throughout the entire tournament. focusing on an area with a bit of current and a clear water inlet put them in the money.
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| 8th place team of Spangle and Peterson kept throwing bucktails in the shallows until something finally bit. |
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Location: The desert | Great job lambeau on the coverage.....congrats to Todd and Jason!!!
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| Thank you Mr. Lambeau. Job well done to the teams. |
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Location: Watertown, MN | Lambeau, Great time had, despite the terrible weathers, Friday was the historic lowest barometric pressure in May, Snow, and 20-30 mph winds, can't wait to get on the water. After starting off friday with GPS module failure(So Much for GPS trail to the River), should have known the day would only get worse, as we proceede to loose 3 fish in a 1 hour period on friday. Great Job Jason, Todd, and the rest of the Pete boys, had a blast fishing it and hope your stocking program keeps the lake going.
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Location: Duluth, MN - Superior, WI | Congrats Mike and Eric!!!!!! Good job!! Mark another one up for the TY-JACK.
-Corey
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Excellent job Lambeau, way to go Jason and Todd and everyone else from the board. You guys rock!! (Sweet Metallica shirt Jason!)
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Location: Liberty, IN (OKI Tri-State) | Lambeau,
The pleasure was all ours Sir! You and ALL OF THE FOLKS at MuskiesFIRST rock!! Your ability to bring almost real-time coverage to the Tournament scene is, well in a word .... Fan-freaking-tastic!!!
Thanks for being a part of not only the PMTT's effort to highlight responsible Musky angling as a valuable, vital, renewable natural resource that we all need to work together in protecting, promoting and preserving ... but for being a very proactive force on the cutting edge of making sure we, as an entire Community, are better able to move forward in an informed and positive direction.
My hats off to the whole 'MF Crew" ... with a very special thanks from all of us here at the PMTT. We are honored to have you as a prominent partner in our Media Coverage Team. Great job!
Bob "the Fin-Addict" Osborne
Media Director - PMTT
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| Hats off to you Lambeau that is just a fantastic job. Congrats to everyone who placed,especially Rustenberg,Stella,and Rob who are great people,and fisherman.0723 |
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| Great coverage, Lambeau! This is without a doubt, the best coverage ever for a muskie tourney! This was right up there with the outstanding Walleye Interactive Leaderboard. What's next, OutdoorFirst? On the water live streaming video?
Congrats to our own Reef Hawg on a great tourney. Too bad on that short one, but it was awesome Lambeau was there to get it on film! |
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| I am curious, what are the checks down the line for this thing? $14,000 for the winners and what for the next 5 places?
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Location: north central wisconsin | Great coverage Mike, though I wish it would have been a bigger fish that you had gotten riled up ahead of us, rather than the shorty...LOL. Uncanny how the media coverage guys can always be around the fish when they are caught in tourneys. Nice rig too, Mike. I am sure it would have been more fun heading north accross Pete in that than it was in mine. Luckily we were able to make up several lost places lost to faster boats at takeoff when we got up into the 'hairy' section of the flowage.
A quick correction though, as it was the Consilidated Musky Club Inc. that received the donation from the PMTT and not the 12 Apostles. We thank the PMTT for the $1,000.00 to put towards our stocking fund. It sure helps cement their acceptance into a community when they make a commitment to help protect/sustain the fishery they hold their event on. Another fellow that we sat next to at dinner(and I will put his name here later as it escapes me right now) from the twin cities gave us $500.00 to the same cause. I nearly fell off the dock when he came over and announced that to us. That is another 150 fingerlings planted this fall, that we would not have been able to purchase. Thanks!!!!
Congrats to the winning team for sticking to a game plan that is now the craziest move I have ever seen. It was tough enough staying alive down where they were, I couldn't have imagined trying to fish it. Pretty angry background in the picture of that fish they caught the first day! Wonder if they had some Gordon Lightfoot in the 'box'....
Hopefully the fellas that took the skeg, and a portion of the gell coat(or more) off their 621 when cruising up through/over the rock pile we were fishing are ok. Never like to see extensive damage to a rig like that...
Fun weekend even though we needed to dig out the tipups to effectively fish. Wow, lots of Rangers. I'd say close to 80 out of 112 easily. My partner pointed that out and mentioned... "It is official, we have the $hittiest boat in the tournament." |
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Location: Wausau | Jason,
With sponsors like Metalica and Pabst Blue Ribbon you at least have great music and tasty warming fluid after them cold days of fishing, even if you don't have the best boat on the water. Crongratulations on the great 3rd place finish and to all of the others who placed and caught fish on the meanest lady in Nekoosa. |
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| Congrats to those who caught fish and to everyone that survived!!
That is really good news that that kind of money has been kicked in to stocking projects for Petenwell. Hopefully this event raised awareness as to the potential that some of the water here in Wisconsin does hold! Maybe someday in my lifetime we will once again have big fish in the badger state!!
I laughed at Reef Hawg's comment that Don made...I can hear him saying that in only a way he can. Good job guys on your finish and showing that it doesn't take a 40k boat to find fish!!
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| Congrats to those who caught fish and to everyone that survived!!
That is really good news that that kind of money has been kicked in to stocking projects for Petenwell. Hopefully this event raised awareness as to the potential that some of the water here in Wisconsin does hold! Maybe someday in my lifetime we will once again have big fish in the badger state!!
I laughed at Reef Hawg's comment that Don made...I can hear him saying that in only a way he can. Good job guys on your finish and showing that it doesn't take a 40k boat to find fish!!
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I believe it was Jerome Morris from the twin cities chapter that made the donation, he is one heck of a guy, he was nice enough to have a cold one for me on sat after we got off the water. Thanks for the Donation Jerome, and I hope the Eagle will reward you for your support.
Jason, as Treats would say you would swear the give Rangers away, I have never seen a boat catch fish, but have seen alot of good sticks catch fish. Thanks Pete folks, we had great time and hope the fishery continues to improve.
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Location: north central wisconsin | It was Jerome Morris, and thank you for pointing that out. If you are out there Jerome, THANKS again!!! You are welcome in my boat anytime, not that you'd want to fish out of it, or come back to this slime hole again.... |
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Location: oswego, il | Jason congrats on 3rd place. Great job. How was riding around the pete in that boat? |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Will charge admission for that ride if I have to do it again. Sme things loosened up on the way accross the first morning...... like my partners kidneys.. I'm better served in 4-5'ers, but they are stumps, not waves. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Wow, what a tough bite. You guy's that put fish in the boat this weekend have given me a real case of HUMILITY !
Some realy good sticks out there in pretty crapy conditions. 35hrs. on this lake and only a 6lb. bass cought on a weagle!!
I'll be back to prove to myself that I can catch a stubborn Pettenwell 40+ inch fish. My hat's off to the great people in the Wis. Rapids area. Don and Jason , it's a pleasure to donate to you'r club, keep letting others know you'r need to stock you'r INTERESTING lake with this fish we all love to hunt.
Trolling dark colored bulldawgs in DARK colored water in 3 and 4 ft. rollers..... Whats up with that!!! Great job guys, Later
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Location: Liberty, IN (OKI Tri-State) | I have to agree Jerome, those folks in, and around the Wisconsin Rapids area were the kind of folks you just plain love to visit with. What a great area! And I would also be quick to return to the 'Pete' for another shot at her big Musky. You sure can't hold the sysytem or town responsible for an historic low pressure reading for May and the absolutely freaky Wx conditions we had to face. One of the best PMTT's I have ever attended in my 6 years ... if you don't count the fishing part  ! Very well hosted, felt welcomed the entire time, loved the way they wanted to work together with us ... except that parking fiasco Sunday; but other than that... VERY GOOD STUFF!!
Thanks to you personaly sir for the extra donation to these outstanding folks for use in future stockings of muskellunge into these 'very interesting' waters. Don Kempen, Jason Schillinger, Todd Forcier and a whole host of others have been doing what it takes to put fish here, keep fish here, protect the fish here and insure a 'world class' future here for those same fish ... for more than 20 years now. The story sort of reminds a bit of 'Tonka and a few other Metro area waters ... not to mention the entire State of Minnesota Jerome and your donation to help enhance this neighboring States waters shows more by action than any words could ever convey!
Thanks again Jerome from all of us in the North American Musky Community, Muskies, Inc. and the PMTT ... you are a great ambassador for us all. My hat is off to you! If we are at the same venue later this season, or anytime for that matter, would you please stop by and let me make your acquaintance, it would be my pleasure to meet you.
Thanks again as well to the Wisconsin Rapids Area C&VB, Hotel Mead, The Lure Bar & Grill in Barnum Bay and a special thanks for the hot coffee, donuts and hot lunch Tom, you guys sure made a lot of new friends  Mike ... a.k.a lambeau, your coverage and everything that you folks are doing over here at MuskiesFIRST is best ... honestly. What a great job of getting it out there first ... fast ... factually. I am looking forward to visiting with you again soon.
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