The Wally's Baits Tournament

Alright, enough from the fishing bio's and too my life in the fishing world. One of my favorite tournaments to fish in was the Wally's Baits Fishing Tournament. Me and my uncle Jeff entered this tournament as we thought as underdogs. Once we got the boat in the water, it seemed like weather was pretty fair, sunny, with a light wind and little swells. The tournament started at 6:00 am and ended at 13:00. We got out there and for 2 hours we couldn't catch a Walleye. I was like " whats going on here, no fish". Well at about 9:30, we finally got a "fish on". It was a really good sized fish. But we thought not enough to win, but we still kept it because, Walleye are a good fish to eat. At about 11:00am, the wind was out of control, but still sunny. The waves were crashing on the side of the boat and water started to enter the boat . When it was time to go in for the weigh-in, in total we caught six walleye. The ride back to shore was a nightmare. Since we were fishing on the American side of the Detroit River, we had to cross it while getting drenched by water crashing on the sides of the boat. Once we got back,we were soaked.We got back to the weigh-in, and in total,all the Walleye weighed 13lbs. In our minds it was good but not good enough. So once the awards were announced, I felt pretty confident i would make atleast top five. Well, I did, I got third place out of 100 anglers. I was really suprised. The fish were really hard to catch that day because of the dirty water and the jigs weren't going straight into the water but on a angle. Anyways, me and my Uncle Jeff enjoyed a fish and chips dinner to celebrate the third place win. (On the right side of my blog you can see me and my Uncle at the tournament holding some of the fish we caught)