THE CONDITIONS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THE TOURNAMENT. WITH A APROCHING FRONT. THE WATER TEMP. UP FOUR DEGREES FROM THE DAY BEFORE. OVERCAST SKIES AND A RIVER FULL OF WALLEYES. THE ACTION COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER. MORE THEN SEVERAL CONTESTANTS OR TEAMS HAD TOLD ME "IT WAS THE BEST FISHING THEY HAD EVER EXPERIENCED ON THE RIVER". SOME HIT IT GOOD IN THE MORNING AND OTHER WERE ON THE BITE ALL DAY. THERE WERE 72 TWO ANGLER TEAMS THIS YEAR SETTING A ENTRY RECORD FOR THE NINETEEN YEAR HISTORY OF THIS TOURNAMENT. LAST YEAR WE HAD 57 TEAMS ENTERED. THIS YEARS PAY-OUT WAS $ 3600.00. AND BIG JACK PAYED OUT WAS $ 420.00. THE NEW SCALE AND THE REMOTE FOUR INCH HIGH DIGITIAL READ-OUT WAS A BIG HIT AT THE WEIGH-IN. YOU COULD READ IT AT THE BACK OF THE CROWD. AND AS USUAL THERE WERE PENLTY OF DOOR PRIZES INCLUDING A ST. CRIOX SPINNING ROD, TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATES FROM MAUMEE TACKLE AND DOZENS OF NICE FISHING DO-DADS. LURES AND ETC.
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
1st PLACE: 20.44 lbs $1800.00 ZACK GEORGE / DAN CARPER
2nd 19.64 lbs $ 800.00 ANDREW POMMERANZ / JOSEPH SUDOMIR
3rd 19.18 lbs $ 500.00 MITCH COUSINO / NICHOLAS DANER
4th 19.13 lbs $ 360.00 RANDY HAYES / STEVE PATRICK
5th 19.00 lbs $ 140.00 MICKEY VANCE / AL LANGMEYER
6th 18.75 lbs TRAVIS SHOUP / MARSHALL PIFER BIG JACK JACKPOT $ 420.00 5.91 lbs
7th 18.53 lbs LARRY DESCHAMPS / TOM DESCHAMPS
8th 18.51 lbs JIM ANKENBRANDT / JOHN TALLMAN
9th 18.37 lbs BRETT QUEEN / JUSTIN STAGER
10th 18.15 lbs GEORGE GEBERS JR. / SHANE JAMES
11th 17.92 lbs ADAM ANDERSON / MARK HYETT
12th 17.73 lbs CHAD KUJAWA / JOHN ERD
TIE FOR 13th 17.67 lbs JEFF WOODHOUSE / NATHEN BELL NAIKHAM BOUAPHAKEO / KEVIN SAYARATH
15th 17.48 lbs MIKE WHITESIDE / MARK LYONS
16th 17.43 lbs BRIAN OSENBAUGH / DWAYNE HUBER
17th 17.40 lbs PAUL GRISEZ / JEFF WULF
18th 17.13 lbs RANDY GUELI / ALEX GIGAX
19th 17.08 lbs BOB MENLDENHALL / JIM SPEYER
20th 16.62 lbs NATHAN PAUL / DAN CASSAVAR
21th 16.56 lbs VILAY SAYARATH / ERIC SAYARATH
22nd 16.53 lbs JOE YOURKIEWICZ / TOM YOURKIEWICZ
TIE FOR 23rd 16.29 lbs REESE ROBINSON / TAURINO FLORES III AL PAUL / MARK SHACKELFORD 
25th 16.25 lbs MATT BENNETT / DAN VOEGELI
26th 16.16 lbs LOU HUNYOR / KEVIN HUNYOR
27th 16.14 lbs ROCKY ULREZ / CLARK ALLEN
28th 16.07 lbs SEAN GUYETT / TONY SIELSCHOTT
29th 16.01 lbs BILL ABAIR / STEVE SWARTZ
30th 15.95 lbs BRANDON MARSHALL / JOSE TRAVEZ
31st 15.79 lbs KEVIN KRAJICEK / ANDREW ROSE
32nd 15.59 lbs BRANDON HANE / DEREK HANE
THREE WAY TIE FOR 33rd 15.55 ERIC FESSENDON / TONY HOFFAM TONY NGUYEN / LARRY BLACKBURN BEN BALDWIN / JUSTIN DAY
36th 15.52 lbs BRAD WEBS / STEVE WEBS
37th 15.40 lbs MARVIN ISLEY / TED BOJLAN
38th 15.26 lbs JASON LANGLOIS / MATT LANGLOIS
39th 15.10 lbs PATRICK BALLING / JUSTIN JARRELL
40th 15.01 lbs CRAIG SUTPHIN / DONALD GAHL
TIE FOR 41st 14.91 ALEX WALKER / JOSH HALTERMAN JEREMY HALL / DAVID ANTKOWIAK
43rd 14.89 lbs DAVE KALLEY / BOB JOGIELSKI
44th 14.80 lbs THOMAS LAURIE / MATTHEW SHAVER
45th 14.57 lbs MICAH LUNDY / MARK LYONS
46th 14.54 lbs ED FAULKNER / DAVE GREEN
47th 14.21 lbs JARED WAREJKO / ROB ROUSSEAU
48th 14.06 lbs MARK McLUMBER / BETH McLUMBER
49th 13.83 lbs JEREMY JENKINS / MICHEL FERRIMAN
50th 13.72 lbs GRACE MARTINSEN / DAN DESCHAMPS
51st 13.64 lbs TODD BROWN / KYLE OSTRANDER
52nd 13.60 lbs CECIL HOGAN / MALON FLOURNOY
53rd 13.56 lbs MARK DZIENGELEWSKI JR. / JAKE WILLIAMS
54th 13.48 lbs JOHN EGLY / DAN DRIES
55th 12.60 lbs CHUCK FRITTS / JAY ZAJAC
56th 11.42 lbs TONY SEELY / KEVIN YOUNGBLOOD
57th 10.80 lbs TIM HANSEN / ALEX JUREK
58th 10.38 lbs BRIAN YATCHAK / MIKE KRUBSACK
59th 8.92 lbs DUSTIN CLARK / ADAM WILLIAMS
60th 8.83 lbs MIKE KING / TOM HARMON
61st 7.27 lbs DAVID ANDERSON / DON ANDERSON
62nd 1.22 lbs GARY BENDELE / MARK LYONS
THE REST OF THE TEAMS DID NOT WEIGH-IN