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| On the first weekend in June, the WORLD MUSKIE TOURNAMENT SERIES™ (WMT Series™) will host two one-day qualifying tournaments in Price County. The first event will be held on June 2 nd on the Pike Round Lake Chain and Squirrel Lake with teams choosing one of the bodies of water but both will be going head to head for the competition. The next one-day event on the schedule is the following Sunday, June 3 rd where teams will have the choice to fish the Phillips Chain or Butternut Lake for the tournament. The Pike- Round Chain/Squirrel Lake tourney and the Phillips Chain/Butternut Lake event are the sixth and seventh events on a schedule of fourteen qualifying (one-day) tournaments for the inaugural season of the Muskie Country Tournament Circuit™ (MCTC™). The top fifty finishing teams during the 2012 MCTC™ will qualify for muskie fishing’s biggest prize at the WMT Series™ Championship™ where a first place prize could net a team $100,000.00 and $160,000.00 cash purse if minimum participation is met. The historic 2012 WMT Series™ Championship™ will be hosted on the nearby Eagle River Chain on October 6th and 7th.
All four bodies of water (Butternut Lake, Phillips Chain, Pike-Round Chain, and Squirrel Lake) are very popular bodies of water throughout the years for the WMT Series™, but in order to offer a purse $19,000.00 (when the field of competitors reaches seventy five teams) we had to combine two bodies of water per event as to avoid over-crowding on any one lake. The results of combining two popular lake groups for each one-day event will allow for a better experience for all of our competitors, resulting in more muskies available to be captured which is vitally important for the anglers looking to gain more points to qualify for the Championship. The cost to compete in an MCTC™ event is $370 per two angler team for each event. Both the Price County MCTC™ one-day qualifying muskie tournaments still have some open spots remaining.
If you are interested in fishing the Pike-Round/Squirrel Lake and or Phillips Chain/Butternut tournament(s), you can register for the tournaments on line, or at the pre-tournament Friday night registration, June 1 st at the Moose Jaw Resort on the west shores of Round Lake, or by road off of Shady Knoll Drive from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The awards for the Pike Round/Squirrel Lake event will be held at the Moose Jaw Resort and at Northern Pines Resort for the Phillips Chain/Butternut Lake tournament, with both starting at 5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday at the conclusion of each qualifier. |
