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| The Muskie Country Tournament Circuit™ (MCTC™) will be hosting two qualifying tournaments on the final weekend of July with an Eagle River Chain event on Saturday, July 27th followed by a Sand/Dam Lake Chain tourney on Sunday, July 28th. Both of the events will mark the 201st and 202nd tournament that the World Muskie Tournament Series™ (WMT Series™) has hosted since its inaugural season in 2001. During the thirteen seasons of the WMT Series™ the Eagle River Chain and the Sand/Dam Lake Chain has played an important role for the tournament competitors and for the tournament series as both locations have hosted the season ending Invitational Championship™ and have been high producer of registered muskies when they have been qualifying events.
The 2013 tournament season has been as unpredictable as the weather and the muskie fishing. However, with reports of both bodies of water starting to “turn on”, the Muskie Country™ Eagle River and Sand/Dam tournaments can and will be one of the best chances for teams looking to put “fish on the board” for those very important points to qualify for muskie fishing's most prestigious tournament, the WMT Series™ Invitational Championship™ to be held on the last weekend of September on the world class muskie fishery of the Namakagon Chain in Clam Lake, Wisconsin. Last year the Invitational Championship™ was held on the Eagle River Chain and set a record high for the most muskie registered for the Championship at 43 fish and the highest cash pay-out for a muskie Championship with $50,000.00 going to the first place finishers and a purse of over $74,000.00. This year could see the cash pay-out record fall for the fourth straight year at $80,000.00 for first place with a purse of $140,000.00.
The tournaments will start at 6:00am and finish up at 3:00pm. The cost to compete in a Muskie Country™ tournament is $330 per team for each event. Both the Eagle River Chain and the Sand/Dam Lake Chain tournaments are scheduled to pay down five places with a first place prize equaling $10,000.00 at each event with a full field of participants. Both the Eagle River Chain and Sand/Dam Lake Chain still have open spots and there is still time to send in your entries to get an earlier starting position. We will also be accepting entries for either event the Friday before the tournaments, July 26th, at Hiawatha Hide Away (on the shores of Duck Lake) on HWY 45 in Eagle River from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. There will also be an opportunity to enter into the Sand/Dam Lake Chain event on Saturday, July 27th at Pitlik's Sand Beach Resort from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
All WMT Series™ events are open to the public and we hope you will join in on the fun and excitement. For additional information, log on to our web sites at www.WMTSeries.com or www.ProfessionalMuskieAnglerCircuit.com for more details or email us at [email protected] or call 715-277-4411.
Sponsor Partners of the 2013 WMT Series™ are; Tooth Tamer Rods, Fittante Taxidermy, Tackle Industries Super D, T's Tackle, Dream Catcher Bucktails, Yakima Baits, www.MudPuppyLures.com , Optimum Baits, River Run Tackle, Trophy Hunter Accessories-Glittertail, Musky Mayhem Tackle, Figure 8 Lures, Lil' Hustler Tackle, Tyrant, Man Cave Bait Co., and Nauti Lures, LLC. | |
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MUSKIE COUNTRY™ EAGLE RIVER & SAND/DAM LAKE EVENTS OPEN