Chapman's Sports Center Walleye Tournament

[Don-MI]

Chapman's Sports Center is pleased to present its 10th annual WALLEYE TOURNAMENT

Where: Holloway Reservoir
Date: May 18th, 2008
Time: 7 am to 3 pm
Launch Location: Walleye Pike Boat Launch
Guaranteed $2000 First Place
60 Boat Limit
85% Pay Back
Entry Fee: $120. per 2-person team

Entry forms can be picked at Chapmans Sport Center, Fishing Tackle Grab Bag, Hick's Tackle and Archery. Contact Rod or Dale Chapman at 810-653-0490. 5605 Davison Rd. Lapeer, MI. 48446

[chamookman]

Thanks Don, C-man.

[Don-MI]

:fish:Just to let everyone know the tournament is over half full. They have about 38 entries so far.

Don

[fishinmachine2]

Thanks Don! I'll send my money in with Lance!! I cant let him beat me 2 yrs in a row....LOL!!!:lol:

Scott

[fishinmachine2]

Went and signed up Friday, if you havent signed up yet you better do it only a few spots left!!

Scott

[Don-MI]

Just to let everyone know. This tournament is full. But, Rod is taking a couple of alternate team entrys if you are still interested. There are usually a few teams that cancel each year.

Don

[perchinatorx]

what are some of the winning weights last year?

[fishinmachine2]

I think 16 or 16 lbs won it last year. I ended up in 10th place and had just over 10lbs!! We had one hell of a cold rainy morning then about the time the tournament ended the sun came out and it was beautiful!...LOL!!

Scott

[perchinatorx]

wow . me and my cousin got a late sign up and was on the alternate list and never got called up .but fished the day befor and day after and put up over 20lbs each day probably could have placed oh well.

[JWheeler]

PX,

Sounds like you would be foolish not to fish this tournaments with that kind of weight on those 2 days.

[tdawgcj7]

This will be my first walleye tournament.

Does it get pretty crazy trying to troll with 60+ boats on such a small area?
Is there a captains meeting before hand to explain the rules?

Justin

[chamookman]

I believe the Captain meeting is a t 6:00 am. C-man

[fishinmachine2]

wow . me and my cousin got a late sign up and was on the alternate list and never got called up .but fished the day befor and day after and put up over 20lbs each day probably could have placed oh well.

So did you sign up this yr?? I had about 14lbs last yr the day before but that cold front that came through on Sunday shut em down some!



This will be my first walleye tournament.

Does it get pretty crazy trying to troll with 60+ boats on such a small area?
Is there a captains meeting before hand to explain the rules?

Justin

Not really, they usually get spread out pretty good! Yes there is a captains meeting at 6:00 am! Good Luck!!

Scott

[tdawgcj7]

The event was a lot of fun! We got our fish, but just not the weight. I am assuming the heavier baskets came up river as we fished closer to the damn.

Do you know if the final results are posted some where?

[fishinmachine2]

My son and I ended up about in the middle of the pack!! Trolled on Friday for about 3 hrs and landed 15 fish with 11 of them being keepers but nothing that big maybe 19 inches. On Sat. we were gonna strickly jig cause most of the time thats how the bigger fish are caught. Well the first fish on Sat was an 8.8lb HAWG!! OUCH!! (The kiss of death)!! I told my son he caught that thing a day to early!!:rant: Anyways we had some other nice fish as well on Sat. so that was our game plane for Sunday!! Well it didnt pan out for us, we just couldnt get that big bite!! Oh well it was alot of fun other then the wind, cold and rain...LOL!!:lol: A great tournament again and Chapmans does a great job running it!! Thanks Dale and Dale and Rod for all the hard work!! See ya next year!!

Scott

[duxdog]

I use to fish it every year. I haven't in a few. I went out at 3:OO on Sunday to see the weigh in. I couldn't get in to watch without paying to get into the boat launch????? Maybe Chapman's could talk to the parks about letting in spectators to see the weiigh-in. It would have been nice to talk to some of the guys. Glad you guys had fun though.

[TJHUNTER]

was there a lot of fish taken? what won it? just wondering :)

[tdawgcj7]

Yes there were a lot of fish. The winning team had 15+ pounds but got a few points - for 2 dead fish. Many teams weighed in 5 fish, but had a hard time getting the weight. I suspect the winning teams went up river and were catching some of the spawned out females. We weighed in 5 17" fish.

[fishinmachine2]

was there a lot of fish taken? what won it? just wondering :)


There were alot more taken on Friday and Saturday!!....LOL!!!! Its a helluv a fishery!!

Scott