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SS minnow so how much money did you win with that 40 inch pike. splitting 50/50 ??
not a penny. went right back down the hole! money isn't worth having a bad reputation on the ice! i don't even know if it would have placed, but that crap goes down way to much. 1 guy enters and 10 people fish under that one entry. i don't fish for $, i fish for fun. and on the 29th im fishing for a new wheeler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just curious, other than sneaking in a fish caught earlier/elsewhere or entering another guys fish, how do people cheat? Use too many lines, illegal bait? Why can't you fish inside your shanty, what would they get away with? Have done a bunch of icefishing for walleyes but the walleye challenge will be the first icefishing tournament ever for me, again just wondering.
Or my personal favorite, if the fish are to be measured alive, go get the fish measured, come back, hand the fish off to your buddy so he can go get it measured, then you can tie for first and split the first/second prizes. I've not done this but have seen it done enough times that I got sick of contests and won't fish them any more.
A lot of tournaments use a shaped hole punch and clip the tail fin.J3W
If its a competition that you can have a frozen fish measured, you can catch it a head of time.
I've heard of those tricks on open water tournaments with dead fish, but isn't the walleye challenge a live fish only tournament? I guess the clowns could shove a sinker down the throat of a live one. It also says in the rules that they keep and release any fish weighed, so there likely are no re-weighs.
Yeah, SS, all those prizes is why we're going, not the money. We have no illusions of catching the biggest or most fish, it's our first trip to the lake. With all the lucky draw stuff it keeps a fun day of fishing interesting.
the biggest thing with the eye tourney is the cheaters that catch eyes one hour and hold them for another when they will win money. i have seen this done and personally know who they were but how do you prove it. i got 2nd place the first year and was beat out by this jacka**, but i kept my mouth shut b/c i didn't want to have a problems later in life. they had someone checking weights at the station and calling them back via cell phone and turning them in the next hour. needless to say they one 2 hrs in a row and if anyone has info from the tourney 2 years ago you will be able to know who he was. stevep.s. i think they should weight the fish and not publish them until the end. this may eliminate someone checking weights like this.
didn't get any the last 2 years to enter so with that change in mind maybe its better.
guess i tried to add a year in there. my bad. hopefully i can get a secret spot down before the challenge or i will have to hope for door prizes steve
Think I am going to head out tomorrow for a early morning run, probably like 6:00am-10:00am. The guys I fish with are heading up north for the day but I can't go because I have my niece's b-day party at 1:30pm. If anyone wants to fish the morning run together shoot me a PM.J3W
i'll be out there, not getting in the tourny though. probably stay saturday till sunday, i'm bringing my fire pit with me! last year my cousin caught a 40" pike and was not in the tourny and had someone fishing next to us offer to enter it in their name and split any winnings 50/50. you couldn't pay us enuf to associate our names with this group. these people are accused of being "cheaters" every year. i am sure they will have their name on the board this year also. way to much cheating goes on for me to give them my $20, even though there is the chance of me still catching a monster also.
Amen to that .I still get in on the hopes that I can win legally or just win a prize, and why does it seem that all the drunks win the wheelers and sleds ? LOL Oh and I hope no river walleyes show up, The cheaters are very tricky and will do anything to win $$ , takes all the fun out of it.Cant they tell the diff. somehow between river eyes and sac. lake eyes?
he also had a problem a couple years ago with someone entering a frozen fish even though the temps never went below 40 degrees that weekend. I hate to beat a dead horse but I believe that Lou later realized he made a mistake with this "frozen fish" thing and paid the guy his $600 after sitting down and having a conversation with him. The fish was not frozen like some people report. Some of the scales had froze according to the scale sample thatwas reportedly done. The people who only fished during the day claim the temp never got below freezing but if you fished during the night Friday night you would know that the temp. was well below freezing on the north end of the lake. The guy entered it Saturday late morning. I saw the fish Saturday morning before he entered it and I am not a biologist but no red flags went off in my head when I saw it. My opinion knowing the guy who entered it from fishing near him on several occasions is that it was a legal fish and a set of unfortunate circumstances. I think Lou was totally trying to do the right thing but may have made a mistake on this one.J3W