Good Job Rich!!!!! That is two good years in a row!!!! CONGRATS MAN...

Thanks guys!

awesome stuff Rich!!

Im happy for you and i wish you the best of luck!!

nice work hella.
any details?

A few details for you. Day 1 was a big change in weather compared to the 4 practice days. We saw highs around 90 in almost every practice day with stiff southern winds. On Wed, the cold front blew in, but the sun remained. On Thur (day 1), we had a cloudy, cool day, which left most wondering what the fish would do. It turned out to be a pretty good day fishing wise for most.

Roughly 11 1/2 was leading the tourney on Day 1 (Brian Brown). I believe 12th place (the cut we were all shooting for) was right at 10 lbs. I was sitting in 9th with 10.57 for what is worth (which is NOTHING at this point).

Day 2 brought FOG, FOG and more FOG. A little over a 3 hour fog delay greeted us. The first flight finally left at a little past 10AM with not quite 5 hours to fish. Those in the later flights were blessed with a little bit more time to fish, however for many, the extra time still wasn't the blessing to find the fish. The results do not show a day by day split, but I don't believe there were too many 4 fish limits brought to the scales. Those that were able to find the fish on Friday held there spots in the top 12, or made nice jumps to get there. Kudo's to those guys for taming what turned out to be a tough beast on Day 2.

Congrats to the top 12 and best of luck next year at St Clair!

Awesome rich, The conditions really sound nasty.

Thats awesome Rich! Congrats and good luck at Regionals!

Fluker summed things up pretty solid, I have the full details on my Bassin Blog. The no cull detail made it extra tough as well, I threw back a limit of keeper smallies on Friday trying to get solid 2lb fish

Hey Rich,

Nice to see you're having success at the tourney's! Good luck down the line. It's a blast (but it sounds like you know that already).

I see your Dad didn't get to see your map??? Good to see Kenny's still at it too. He taught me ALOT! Two Regionals with him (Winneconne and Praire DuChein).

I just had to check this out, knowing the State Tourney was about now. Many excellent memories.

I spose you're wondering who the heck is this clown??? I haven't seen you since probably your first year in Gopher, near the year or two I was in. Spent most of my time in Vikings.

Good luck in your quests!

Tracy

Congrats to ALL the top 12!

Hey Tracy, long time!!! Thanks, you still fishing?
Yep, this will be my 4th divisionals, now I just need to find out what Nationals is linke

Yeah, still fishing. Just not tournaments anymore. I still have my Ranger but spend most of my time in the Lund instead up in Ely.

Multispecies now, ya know.

Say HI to your Dad, Brian and Kenny when ya see em!

Best of luck to all of you.

Rich- Where is the state tournament nexts year??

CB, next year it will be on Pokegama. I think Rich's club might be the host club as well.

Is gopher hosting the next state tourney? If so rich i'd be very happy to help out!

Thanks Fluker....I need to get into a club