Willard Wiper Contest 2004

[wiperhunter2]

We had 8 teams show up today even though it was raining as we launched our boats. Most of us were out of there at 9am and started fishing shortly there after. Wiperslayer and I went to the spot we had caught fish the day before and even though we marked a lot of fish we had no takers. Water temp was 59* in the S/W corner and as the day went on the air temp warmed up and so did the water temp. We left after a hour and a half of no fish and went right outside the south marina, trolling toward the feed lot, we trolled past the power poles then went north until we were almost to the trees and still not fish. We were about to leave when we caught our fish fish, it took us four hours. Even though we lost that first fish at the boat we managed to boat 4 total with the Producer being the hot lure. We saw AFDan in the same area catching a few fish so we thought we were doing good until we went in for the check in at 3pm. After everyone had their boat in we set up a table and started checking fish. After seeing three fish that were over 20 inches I thought, "We must have been in the wrong spot". Then BLM pulled out this whopper of a wiper that over 23 inches, so that was the winning fish of the contest. BLM has some pictures of the first(him), second(MGB) and third (Fishinfool)place winners, so I'm sure he will post them later. Here are some pictures of a few of the winners and some of the prizes they won. BFT, Predator, MGB, Curtisfish and I donated the prizes. Thanks everyone that came out for the contest, it was a fun day on the water and it was good to meet some new members and see all you guys again. I told BLM the final rule of the annual Willard wiper contest after he won and that is, the winner must set up the contest for the following year. I hope everyone had as muck fun as I did today, see you guys on the water. WH2
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