Matt McCumber and Jerry Driessen tripled to take top honors in the 2007 Rhinelander Hodag Muskie Challenge. They entered a 35.5", a 43.5'", and a 40.75" fish during the two day event to take the top honors and a check for $20,000.00.
Second Place went to Seth Rehfeldt and Joel Janssen with a 47.75" and a 37.25" fish for $5000.00.
Third went to Randy Peyer and Ryan Pope with a 37.75" and a 43.5" muskie for $2000.00.
Fourth went to Jim Lancaster and Bruce Homfeldt with a 38.5" and a 40" fish, good for $1000.00.
Fifth went to Bill Jensen and Matt DeLatt with a 36" muskie and a 42" muskie to cash a $600.00 check.
Sixth went to Todd Forcier and Dan Meyerwith a 41.75" muskie and a 34" muskie to cash a check for $500.00.
Seventh: Kevin Black-Phil Graham
Eighth: Bob Zahn-Steve Zahn
Ninth: Troy Radke-Brian Radke
Tenth: Kevin Gavin-Dan Lundburg
The Hodag Muskie Challenge is one of the largest events of it's type in the US with a maximum field of 200 boats.
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Posted 9/23/2007 5:31 PM (#276161 - in reply to #276159) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 32955
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Thet Hodag is on several lake groups. Pelican, Lake George, Thompson, Moen Chain, Boom, and Crescent are the ones I remember. Plastics were getting bit, as were Weagles, hair, and other standards out there.
Posted 9/23/2007 6:10 PM (#276167 - in reply to #276146) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 686
Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin
This is a great tournament even if you catch no fishes as was the case this year:( The bite on the Moens was tough this year for us although I did get to see the fifth place and seventh place teams boat 3 out of their 4 fish. The fish on Moens were moving on mainly hair and I did see a 40 caught on a swimbait, very odd non existent topwater bite. Congrats to all and see you next year at da Hodag!!
Posted 9/23/2007 6:37 PM (#276172 - in reply to #276146) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 1916
Location: Greenfield, WI
I believe that the top three places all came off Crescent Lake. 12 or 13 fish were caught on Crescent.
Yesterday morning, Darrell Mack netted my 38.75" on a giant Doghouse Buck Spinnerbait, and later in the day we watched the second place team's 47.75" caught right in front of us!
With 40 minutes to go today, I get a strike on a monster Phantom Deep Diver and hope that it will be atleast 34"......It was a real nice bass! With 5 minutes to go, Darrel gets a strike, gives it a "cross its eyes hook set". We were already thinking "podium time"!......It was a stinking northern!......Should have been...could have been....
Congratulations to all the winners. It was a great time as always!
Posted 9/23/2007 8:50 PM (#276189 - in reply to #276146) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 256
Location: Janesville
The fish we caught to take frist place were caught where we found green thick weeds. We were ripping the rubber Dubber through them. I wished we could of stayed fishing on Saturday .We were done with our 2 fish by noon . I think if we could of stayed out fishing we would of caught more Muskies. It was a great weekend. It is a well run tourny . Jerry and I will be back again next year.
Posted 9/24/2007 8:55 AM (#276230 - in reply to #276189) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 714
Location: Rhinelander, WI
Going completely off the top of my head, I will try and get the actually numbers from the Chamber.
Got some numbers from the chamber so modified below:
46 fish caught total. 35 on Saturday and 11 on Sunday.
21 fish came from Crescent, Oneida Hancock. Average size 39.57, don’t know number of boats 30 to 40 guess.
5 fish came from Boom Lake. Average size 36.75, 55 boats total
5 fish came from Julia, George and Tompson. Average size 36.85, Don’t know number of boats 30 to 40 guess.
3 fish came from Pelican. Average size 40, 21 boats total.
12 fish from the Mones Chain. Average size, 37.44, don’t know number of boats 30 to 40 guess.
Most of the fish from the Crescent group came from Crescent, (12 fish) that lake group had 6 of the top 10 places. Almost everyone we talked to who caught fish said they came out of shallow healthy weeds, or near those healthy weed edges.
I had a great time and am looking forward to next year.
Posted 9/24/2007 2:13 PM (#276275 - in reply to #276146) Subject: Re: McCumber and Driessen Win Hodag Muskie Challenge
Posts: 64
Location: addison, il
hello. i was on cresant. lots of fish where caught but it was still hard work out there. none of the normal hot colors or patterns where even close to being worth a darn. i saw more fish and heard from others that saw the same thing the fish where just cruiseing around sorta nomadiclly wierd not the norm for this lake reminded me of north twin. this year was a lot of luck right time right place. all the fish i saw where 40" and up oooo hodag blues well theres only 364 days till the missery begins once moore. gee i cant wait. ok dad i posted as i was ordred to do.
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