The Ohio Walleye Federation held its second central basin circuit qualifier sponsored by Vic’s Sports Center out of Geneva, OH on July 13^th.   Tournament format allowed for up to 4 person teams with a 6 rod limit per boat.  Lake Erie is known for big waves and big fish and it did not disappoint.  48 teams participated in the event with 18 teams brining 5 fish bags to the scale topping 40lbs.  The team of Brett Berkey, Joe Bird and Todd Johnson took top honors and the $3000 1^st place prize with an impressive 43.04lb bag narrowly beating out the second place team of Beran, Beran, Barto and Fayteik by less than .2lbs.  Less than 2lbs separated the top 10 teams with over 41lbs needed to cash a check.  Most of the teams in the top 10 fished 10-20 miles North East of Geneva in 70-73ft of water.  Worm harnesses fished on in-line weights and dipsy divers seemed to be the most popular presentation targeting 35 – 45 ft down.  Berkey, Johnson and Bird also won the top placing Vic’s Customer bonus and the Ranger Cup bonus.  The team of Leigh, Leigh,  Leigh and Leigh won the highest placing family team bonus sponsored by Vic’s sports center.  The team of Lynch, Schiavoni and Russo claimed big fish with a 10.52lb monster.

All teams who participated in either of the first two CBC qualifiers are eligible to fish the OWF championship out of Ashtabula, OH on August 10^th and 11^th.  More details and complete results can be found at www.FishOWF.com

The Harlan Anglers Walleye Club held the Rodney Marshall 2^nd annual memorial tournament on May 19, 2013 at the Elwood Resevoir in Nebraska. Fifteen Teams fished the tournament and the winners of the tournament were Shane and Chase Wohlgemoth with a total of 14.8lbs of fish checked in, Shane and Chase were also registered for the Nationals spot if awarded to the Club by the TWF. Each team could check in five fish and there were six teams that had five fish weighed in.  The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in conjunction with Cabela’s gives  away ½ Price Youth Lifetime Fishing Permits to those interested in promoting Youth Fishing. The Harlan Anglers Walleye Club qualified for three of these permits with one being given away at each of the Harlan Anglers Walleye Tournaments. The Harlan Anglers Walleye club has the kids sign up for a free raffle drawing and the Club pays for the other ½ of the permit so the winner receives a  Free Lifetime Youth Fishing Permit. The Club   would also like to  extend a “Thank You” to all the area businesses for their generous donations for the tournament. These donations allowed HAWC to give out to date two free Youth Lifetime Fishing permits to date .

2013 (Elwood)  Harlan Anglers WALLEYE TOURNAMENT