| Hoffman and Chapman Win The 12th Annual Keyhole Walleye Spring Classic. |
Keyhole Walleye Spring Classic May 10th & 11th 2008.
Despite waking up to cold blowing snow conditions on Saturday morning day 1, 30 boats took to the water for the 12th annual Keyhole Walleye Spring Classic three-in-one tournament. It was a very tough day of fishing with only 10 walleye caught measuring over 15 inches. After the first day of competition, Team #1 Hubbard and Hubbard led the field with 16.00 pounds. Team #30 Hoffman and Chapman were right on their heels with 12.86 pounds and Team# 14 Torres and Torres rounded off the top three with 4.88 pounds. The Big Fish of the day was caught by Hoffman and Chapman with a nice 29.50 inch walleye that came in at 10.22 pounds.
On day 2 the weather was a bit nicer but the wind still blew 20 to 30mph out of the south, which made for another day of tough fishing conditions. Once again out of 30 teams only thirteen fish were caught that measured over 15 inches. The leaders for day 2 were Team #14 Torres and Torres with 13.90 pounds. Team #24 Riggle and Owens came in second place with 12.68 pounds and Team #30 Hoffman and Chapman came in 3rd place with 9.94 pounds. The Big Fish for day 2 was caught by Torres and Torres. There fish was 29.75 inches in length and weighed in at 10.52 pounds.
After two days of fishing with all of the weights combined from day 1 and day 2, Team #30 Hoffman and Chapman win the 12th Annual Keyhole Walleye Spring Classic with a combined weight of 22.80 pounds. Second place went to Team #14 Torres and Torres with 18.78 pounds and Team #1 Hubbard and Hubbard round off the top three in 3rd Place with 16.00 pounds.
You can see the rest of the tournament results on our tournament page and click on spring 2008 link. There are also more pictures on our photo page.
The Northeast Wyoming Walleye association is sending six teams to this years year’s National Team Championship to be held in Mobridge, South Dakota on June 13th and 14th, 2008. The following teams qualified from fishing in the spring and fall club tournaments:
Brian and Mason Mensing
Darin Rudland and Gene Dittus
Frosty Williams and Rick Swim
Frank Heagney and Charlie Towers
Dusty and Dick Evenson
Ryan and Dean Dittus
Please mark your calendars for the Fall Tournament to be held on September 20, 2008. Entry fee for the Fall Tournament is $175.00. This tournament is a three-person tournament and the club encourages one member to be under the age of 18. This tournament is also a Cabelas qualifying tournament.
The NEWWA would also like to thank Walt Paddock for donating ½ of a corn fed Angus beef to be raffled off by the club. Second Prize is going to be a really nice custom fishing rod. The tickets are available now from club members. Raffle tickets are going to be $5.00 each or five tickets for $20.00. The drawing is going to be held September 20th at the NEWWA fall tournament. The beef will be processed to your liking and delivered in late December.
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