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Message Subject: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Chris Munchow

Posted 6/21/2012 8:43 AM (#566652)
Subject: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 129
Location: North Metro - Twin Cities

Mike's tourny info is available on the website, www.mikesbait.com Same format as previous years.

Mike's Bait On 8 Presents our 4th Annual Team Catch & Release Muskie Tournament to be held on Forest Lake Saturday July 28th, 2012.

This is a team tournament format. Judge boats will be located on 1st, 2nd & 3rd lakes. Upon capture of a legal muskie of 40-inches or larger, successful anglers will use provided cell numbers to contact judge boats for measurement and digital photos. Total inches will decide award placement with big fish deciding all ties. In the event that 1st through 5th places are not filled, remaining prizes will be raffled off to competitors at awards ceromony. MUST BE PRESENT to claim raffle prizes.

Muskie Renegade

Posted 7/3/2012 9:14 PM (#569069 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: RE: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 11
Location: Forest Lake MN

Shout Out To All Muskie Anglers, This Tournament is a great event, the owner of Mikes Bait Rich Robinson puts a lot of time and effort to make sure it is a great Tournament, low cost, great looking plagues that anyone of us would be proud to have on the wall, awards dinner banquet with door prizes, this event is a must if you like to put your skills up against some of the best muskie anglers in the Metro or State. I have Fished this tournament every year and will continue to do so. Looking forward to putting my skills up against yours. CJW The OMC.

sworrall

Posted 7/7/2012 9:59 PM (#569651 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 32944
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin

esoxaddict77
Might be a good idea to obey the rules of this board and email the event organizer directly. That's not a suggestion.

dmack

Posted 7/25/2012 2:06 PM (#573920 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: RE: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 28
Location: Sauk Centre MN

How many Teams have signed up so far?

MuskyKarma

Posted 7/26/2012 1:28 AM (#574090 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: RE: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 162
Location: Metro, MN

would they consider cancelling this tournament due to water temps in the mid 80's???

gus_webb

Posted 7/26/2012 1:45 PM (#574183 - in reply to #574090)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 225
Location: Nordeast Minneapolis

When I was out looking at the lake last Sunday, the water was 78 degrees in about 3'-4' at 7am. By the time I left around noon, it was hovering around 80.5 on the surface. Not sure where it will be on Saturday, but I would expect it to be close to that, if not lower (given the rain this past week).

Obfuscate Musky

Posted 7/28/2012 9:59 AM (#574568 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 654
Location: MPLS, MN

Heard water temps are under 80, mid 70's in some places right now as the tourny goes. I think 38 teams. Too bad I couldn't make it this year.

MuskieFever

Posted 7/29/2012 7:17 PM (#574768 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 572
Location: Maplewood, MN

Any results?

dmack

Posted 7/31/2012 10:06 AM (#575011 - in reply to #574768)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 28
Location: Sauk Centre MN

I'm doing this from memory so I might not be 100% accurate and I'm in no way an official or tourney rep.

3 Legal fish caught all day (40"+)
1st place 49.5"
2nd place 41.5"
3rd place 40.5"

I think that's accurate. 38 boats total. Beautiful day, water temps between 76 and 80. The winner was caught at 7:10 am with most teams saying that most of the action came prior to 10am.

Slow Rollin

Posted 7/31/2012 7:43 PM (#575146 - in reply to #575011)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 619

Does anyone know if this years results were better or worse than the past year results. Or similar to past years? Thanks

gus_webb

Posted 8/5/2012 8:34 PM (#576178 - in reply to #566652)
Subject: Re: Mike's Bait 4th Annual Tournament Forest Lake 7/28/12

Posts: 225
Location: Nordeast Minneapolis

dmack and I were fortunate enough to find the winning fish... Not sure how this year's results compare with previous years, but here are a couple of photos Chris Munchow emailed me of the results. HUGE thanks to Mike's Bait on 8 for hosting a great tournament... I suspect a good chunk of it will end up back at Mike's.

Water temps were mid 70's pretty much all day. Our action came in the first hour and a half, and the last hour and a half... all in about 4' of water. No shortage of pontoons or jetski's, but everyone we encountered kept a respectable distance. The tournament was my second time fishing Forest Lake (had to get in a practice fish after Dan entered us) and Dan's first, but I suspect we'll be around a lot more!

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