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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Day Two of the Rhinelander Toyota Hodag Muskie Challenge dawned with more of a fall feeling and a brisk take-off temperature of 36 degrees. After a Day 1 fish total record for the RTHMC, fishing didn't seem to slow too much with Team Mark Gillich and Justin Gaiche popping a 39.50 in the first half hour on Boom Lake.
A little later in the morning Day 1 leaders Mike Marquardt and Shane Spencer stuck their third fish of the tournament with a 42.50 to seal the deal on first place and a check for $20,000. Marquardt and Spencer finished the tournament with three fish measuring 42.50, 42.50, and a 41.50.
Holding down third place after Day 1, locals Bill Donner and Jeff Piazza managed a quick double between 12 o'clock and 12:30 yesterday, they were able to capitalize on Day 2 with a mid thirty inch fish to lock up second place and a check for $5,000.
The largest muskie went to Josh Wood of Mosinee, he will be receiving a free replica from Fittante Taxidermy of his 45 1/2.
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Day 2 morning interview and awards ceremony:
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/watch.asp?id=1142
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/watch.asp?id=1141 |
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| do you have the full final standings?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Top ten from Press Release:
1) Spencer and Marquardt, $20,000.00
2) Donner and Piazza, $5000.00
3) Eisele and Dombeck, $1,500.00
3) TIE) Bell and Chariton, $$1500.00
5) Wood and Baars, $600.00
6) Meyer and Forcier, $450.00
6) TIE) Jonesi and Adler, $450.00
8) Rutzen and Hostreiter, $400.00
9) Hirman and Hirman, $400.00
10) Groskopf and Winkler, $275.00
$100.00 for largest Northern Pike,
Petrusky and Merrill
52 muskies registered by 170 teams.
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Location: Rhinelander. | Congrats to all the successfull anglers, job well done guys.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | fantastic ... congratulations mike and shane ... billy and jeff ... couldn't happen to a better crew!
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| Congrats Mike and Shane......was great meeting you two, BSing, and having some beers on Saturday afternoon. Looks like we should have bought you those shots. ha We look forward to seeing you two next year or out on the water sometime before. Great job!!! |
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| way to go billy and jeff...
awesome job boys.........
dannyboy |
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Location: Appleton | Congrats to all the people that caught fish during this event. Is there any breakdown as to which lakes caught most of the fish? Sounds like the northwoods was pretty productive. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pelican was tough wiith only a couple fish, and the rest of the lake groups had the numbers distributed pretty evenly. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Team Rhino - 9/22/2008 8:10 AM
Is there any breakdown as to which lakes caught most of the fish?
As Sworrall stated, all lake groups except Pelican produced pretty even numbers of fish. There was not a standout lake this year, but more or less the entire lake selections. |
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Location: N.FIB | how many fish were caught on sun,pelican had zero,just wondering how the other lakes combined did.east winds on sunday shut down pelican,raised one nice fish about 10 mins before the tourny ended,saw alot on sat,had one hit a big glider,not sure if it was a big fish but the lure came back tangled with the leader after the hit.no fish caught for us,very frustrating after sat with all the follows and none hooked,but at least I got a new hat. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | There were 13 fish caught Sunday. |
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| Way to go Team MBI, Bill+Jeff. |
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| Thanks Sled appreciate it! |
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| Closer, thanks for all your support! Hope you and
Jeff take the title home in the WMT this weekend! Congrats to all the other anglers was a great weekend! |
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Location: Rhinelander, WI | Great job everyone, it awesome to have people in “The Family” do so great in this tourney. Current or former Rhinelander Musky league members in 7 of the top 10 teams,
I also want to give a MAJOR shout out to Oneida Esox(John Stellflue), I think after just one year helping as a judge boat on Pelican last year, he did a great job in the head role organizing this tourney with an entirely new staff and minimal help from the people that ran it the last 20 years. Trial by fire for him, but as an angler I didn’t notice anything different other than the few rules changes that made it more angler friendly. Great job, really looking forward to 2009. It’s going to be our year Jason!!!!!!
Nail A Pig!
Mike
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Location: minocqua, wi. | it's funny ... i was on the water for just a couple hours on friday and ran into mike and jason then i stopped at tournament headquarters to say hello to john and the first thing i did was to look at the boards and see where everyone was fishing ... i paid special attention to the league guys and was surprised to see jonesi/adler not on moens, then i saw jeff and bill and remembered how they dominated on julia his year, i looked for danny meyer who always does well ... then finally i remember being surprised to see marquardt and spencer up there because i knew shane had been having some pretty severe back problems ... before i left i called mike and left a voicemail at his house saying i saw him on the river board and hoped that he would win the tournament (mike did me a huge favor holding his boat so i could buy it this summer) ... congratulations to all the local musky fishermen from the area ... there are some good fishermen around these parts!!!
Edited by jonnysled 9/23/2008 9:18 AM
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| I second Mr. Roberts, John and everyone did an awesome job. This was Jeff and my first Hodag challenge and will definitely be back. I thought everyone did a really super job! Was really impressed with how everytihng went. Thanks to all the support from friends and family. All I can say is FIGURE 8 every time all the time! |
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Location: Rhinelander, WI | Right on with the Figure 8 comment Bill, both Saturday fish for Mike and Shane came on the 8.
Nail A Pig!
Mike |
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| thats how i got my 36"! |
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| Thanks for the compliments guys. It was a lot of work, but very rewarding. I hope to see everyone back in 09. We are going to continue to enhance the event. We've already got some new exciting additions that we are working on.
Now the work starts for next year!
John Stellflue
Tournament Director
Rhinelander Toyota Hodag Muskie Challenge |
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| This was Jason's and my first Hodag Challenge also and we too will be back next year, and the year after, and the year after...... Not only did John and his staff run a great tournament but we got to meet some great people also. Thanks to all involved! |
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| Thank you thank you John for all your hard work!! It was not an easy task to take on but you did a great job.
Thank you also to all for the congrats to Shane and Mike. Jonnysled, Mike did get your message and was very appreciative of you thinking of them. You are right, Shane's back is bad, but it is from all the hard work I make him do before he can go out fishing.....just kidding of course!!
But WOW what a weekend that we will never forget!!!
Congrats to everyone!
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I would like to concur with the praises to Oneida Esox and his staff for a job well done. There were few if any "hicups" that mattered, and we have been at all the previous Hodags.
I especially liked the two rule changes allowing the rules meetings to be on Friday night rather than Saturday morning, and the pinching of the muskie tales for uniformity of measuring the fish.
I have one suggestion for next year's Hodag. Being now that the rules meeting is Friday night, why not start fishing on Saturday morning at 7:00 AM like Sunday morning? If needed the tournament could close at 5:00 PM Saturday night if not 6:00 PM.
It isn't as if anyone is going to be sleeping in!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 9/24/2008 10:55 AM
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| Hey Steve, lots of requests for a 7 am start time and I don't see any reason why we can't accomodate that. I will bring the request to the next meeting.
Thanks for your support.
John |
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| Hi John, I may be wrong on this but I thought the DNR had something to do with the amount of fishing hours allowed in one day for tourneys? I know the Boom Lake tourney had to take a hour break at noon because I thought you were only allowed to fish ten hours?? This may have changed by now though but if still true, you would have to come in at 5:00 if started at 7:00.
Just thought you might want to check this out.
Have a good day. |
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| If I could vote I'd vote for the start time to stay at 8a.m. On our lake more fish were caught and it seemed like more were moving later on in the day once the water warmed up. |
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| Hi John, I think the tourney was run great but one other thing I would like to see are trophies, at least for the top three places. Its a great honor and achievment to place or win in this tournament and you should recieve something to remember it by. Personally I'm glad there were no trophies this year because the three teams I love to give the most crap to kicked my butt. Great job Shane, Mike, Billy, Jeff, Eric, and Nehls. They used to give away jackets to the winners. |
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| Kierky, if we started at 7 we would have to be off the water at 5, that is true.
DANNOM, trophies were talked about, but we just didn't have enough time to get them ordered. We will have them next year. Mike and Shane did indeed get jackets. They are being embroidered as we speak. The jackets were there and in the excitement of all of it I simply forgot to have Mike and Shane put them on! |
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | There is no doubt, this is an excellent tournament. I know the organizers were open minded and took in suggestions with care and I think that is great. It was very well organized and I have to say, this was a curtious group of anglers. Fishing the river things are tight and as I slowed down to idle past boats, they waved us on to save us time. This was the case with several boats even at close range. That was awesome, I've rarely seen manners on the water like that. I can't wait to come back and fish amongst a great group of guys. A very enjoyable experience indeed. If you like fishing tournaments or are thinking about getting into one, definately consider the Hodag. |
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| This was my first Hodag, and my partners fourth, we are definately coming back. We fished Moens and I am wondering if TJ got any pictures from the registration station on Fourth Lake? We caught the 40" and didn't have a camera (doesn't that always happen?) but they took some pics with theirs. |
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Location: N.FIB | has the hodag and the pauls pro am always been on the same weekend,I just talked to a buddy of mine who got into the pro am and he said they didn`t fill up the tourney,only like 115 boats for the pro am.Maybe it would be a good idear not to have them on the same weekend so maybe both tourneys will fill up next year.sounds like the hodag is better,more for first place,and less money to enter,he also said they had to drop first from 15,000 to like 11,000. |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | Another Hodag in the books, as usual it was a great time, hell; I was just happy to be out on the water for a few days!!! Congrats to Mike and Shane on taking home the big check!! Congrats also to Billy and Jeff, way to stick em guys!! We had a trolling motor issue on sat. and it was just not our day. This is the fourth different lake family I have fished and have had success on all, thanks for keeping this tourny in great shape John and crew. See ya next year!! |
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| CASTING55, the Hodag used to be the weekend before the Paul's Pro Am but we chose to move our tournament back due to the Fall Ride in Tomahawk. The Fall Ride has gotten so big that there are no hotel rooms available for our anglers so we moved it back a weekend to accomodate.
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Location: N.FIB | that thing is pretty big,had trouble getting a hotel room last year when I was working up that way |
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| I may have not heard the entire announcement, I heard that the dates were picked and if we signed up for the tournament before the end of the year there was a discount on the entry fee but never heard the dates announced for next years tournament. This was my first year in the tournament and had alot of fun, and will definately be back next year. |
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| Yes there is an early bird discount. If you send in your money before Jan 1st 09, you will receive a $50 discount. The dates for next years event are Sept. 18, 19 and 20.
We struggled with when to have next years event. It was either going to be the same weekend as the fall ride or likely the same weekend as duck hunting. For the safety of our fisherman, we chose to have it the same weekend as fall ride. This was not my call.
If you are planning on fishing and need a hotel room, book a room ASAP! |
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