Wednesday, September 2, 2009

McKee, Kramer take team of year

Going through your e-mail after a vacation can be quite a chore, especially when you've been gone as long as I've been gone.

But I did receive a nice little e-mail from Stu McKee with an update on the final regular-season Tuesday Nite Walleye Tourney at Lake Tetonka. I'll rehash a little of what Mckee said below, and after I track down Tim Hobbs, I'll get you a more detailed finish to the walleye tourney finale.

"Roger and I got First Place with Big Fish and Team of the year," Mckee wrote. "We had 3 walleyes — 4.9, 4.5 and 2.9."

Mckee said second place had 4 pounds, 4 ounces and two other boats each weighed a fish. Unofficially, I have the team of McKee and Kramer besting the team of Dan Griep and Bill Holland by five points for the title. That could change, but I'm pretty confident the final numbers will come out at 59-54.

Here's what McKee said about their strategy:
"We fished in 4 to 6 feet of water all night, bait was #7 Ratten(sic) Raps. We fished 30 and 50 lbs test line made by Fins. You need the heavy line because we are always hook in the heavy weeds. No weeds no fish."


Pretty good information from one of the area's experts. A reader once told me that he's never seen McKee fish with anything other than Rattlin' Raps — now he and Kramer have won their fourth-straight Team of the Year award.

Makes me think I should restock my selection of Raps in my tackle box. Oh wait, I've got plenty of those!