Saturday, August 15, 2009

Winding down the walleye tourneys

The Tuesday Nite Walleye Tourneys are coming to an end, with one regular-season tournament remaining on Aug. 25.

I wrote a column about the tournaments for Sunday's edition of The Free Press. It's also available online.

Without rehashing too much of what I wrote there, what you need to know is that Tuesday, Aug. 11, no one caught a walleye at Madison Lake.

That means two teams, locked in first place with 49 points, will be battling it out for team of the year. Stu Mckee and Roger Kramer, winners the last three years, are trying to hold of Dan Griep and Bill Holland.

The important thing to understand here is that all anglers receive five points just for fishing a tournament. If a team weighs a fish, they receive seven points, and placing nets you eight points for third, nine points for second and 10 points for first.

So basically, these two teams could come out in a tie after the Lake Tetonka tournament.

Now, the Tetonka tourney is the final regular-season tournament, but there is another tournament slated for anyone who fished in all the tournaments this year or placed in the top 10 in points.

That tournament is at a site to be determined. Basically, all of the anglers who fish the Tetonka tournament get to vote afterward for the lake they'd prefer to fish in the season-ending tournament. The lake with the most votes becomes the site of the winner-take all tournament.

Stay tuned, because it's sure to be a fantastic finish.