Looking for Riders to Walleye fish on the St. Joe River.

[Steve Arend]

I have a walleye tournament coming up this Saturday on the St. Joe River and I need to prefish it this week but my fishing partner is out of town till Friday so I'm looking for 1 or 2 guys who would like to head out and help me find a few on Tuesday the 13th or Thursday the 15th. I will be fishing both days after work starting around 4:00pm and finishing just after dark. You won't need any gear, I have all the gear you'll need.

If you would like to go either day or both days just let me know.

Steve

[Spanky]

How about a report on the tourney Steve.

[GLF]

How about a report on the tourney Steve.

Yeahhh.....what Spanky said :D

[Steve Arend]

Well there is not much to report!

We end up catching a 2 man limit, the only problem was that they were all under size. We did manage (1) 3lb walleye trolling tots and I lost a "fish-of-a-life" time. I hooked into a 14+lb walleye drifting crawlers. At first I thought I was snagged up till it started to fight back then I thought it was one of those 15 lb flatheads because I could not get the thing up off the bottom. When I finally got it to the surface and both Chris and I looked at it and seen that it was infact a walleye, Chris turned to me and said "We're going to need a bigger net.":eek: Well it then decided that it wanted to go back to the bottom and broke the line.:mad: After that I lost all the wind in my sails and could not get back into fishing (and by this time the heat was getting to me) so we tried a few more spots and by the end of the tournament time we still only had the one fish so we let it go back into the river loaded the boat up and went home.

The big fish for the day was a 10lb 4oz

First went to the same team with big fish: 2 fish total of 12lbs 8oz.
Second place: 4 fish total of 10lbs 12oz.
Third place: I have not heard yet.