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2008

 Great Lake Tournaments

Aug. 2  - TLS

We made our early trip to the Bluff's Tightline Shootout on Lake Ontario.  Fishing was very tough for the 3 days we were there.  Prefishing Thursday we managed to land 16 Kings, but most of they were 8-12 pounders.  Friday we went 1 for 7 on Kings.  Saturday was the one day shootout and we went 10 for 13.  We had a  24, 24, 18, 11, 11, 9 good for 99.20 pounds.  We ended up finishing 9th out of the 50 boat field.  We won $200 and a ~$600 Kodak prize package.

Crew - Captain Dave Rymar, Mike Rymar, Jim Frazer, and Brian Meredith

May 31 - June 1st - GHOC

Thursday we found a pod of fish up towards Muskegon and had 15 or so strikes on the little time that we fished our marks.  Friday we got a late start and set up south of Grand Haven; we only pulled around 7 bites before the wind and waves blew us off the water. 

Saturday we decided to make the run up to Muskegon again and fish our marks.  We boated 2 steelhead in the first 2 hours.  Not the kind of action we were hoping for.  We thought about running south, but decided not to.  We had radar, but felt we should be safe.  Around 10am we switched up to a Laker Program.  We would pop 9 lakers, but 5 of them would end up being under the 20" minimum (3 of them were at 19.5").  We ended the day with 8 fish, good for 30.3 pounds.  Being that the limit was 12 fish, and each fish being worth 10 points we found ourselves back 40-50 points behind the leaders.

Sunday we decided to work the south water and we picked and poked at the kings all day long.  We boxed out and were back in the harbor about an hour early.  Our 12 kings would weigh 76.05 pounds.  This would be the top amateur catch on Sunday, 3rd best catch overall for the day.  Even with the strong second day push, we could not make up the points and ended up placing 17th place in the Amateur Division, despite having the 4th highest weight total.

Crew - Captain Dave Rymar, Mike Rymar, Jim Frazer, and Brian Meredith

May 3rd - Anglers & Archers

41 boats entered the $100 event. They weighed us quite early and we post 60.2 lbs. It held up for about 25 coolers and then Early Dawn posts a 60.6 lbs. A few more coolers go thru and then Anticipation posts a 65.0 lbs. And then the second to last cooler Ivanhoe posts a 67 pound cooler. So we end up in 4th in the event that pays top 3. Not bad for just having two guys on the boat.

But our steelhead at 6.6 lbs wins top fish honors and gives us $50. Then my dad says that our coho was 3.6 lbs, and the dry/erase white board shows a 3.2 lbs coho as top. He asks them to go thru the weigh-in slips to double check and sure enough, we did have a 3.6 lbs Coho that would take top honors as well with another $50. So we won our entry back, got some free pizza, 10 nice fish, and were only out the gas.

Crew - Captain Mike Rymar, and Dave Rymar

Apr 26 - Salmon Stakes

Wow was the weather man off a bit. It was calling for 1-3 and 2-4 footers, but the offshore wind kept it to a very fishable 2ft chop.

We set lines at 6 right in front of the harbor and made a troll up to cherry creek and then back to the harbor.

We were 5 for 6 on silver bites. We landed 3 (8 pound) kings, 2 coho.  I think we released 4 lakers too.

Bombers took the kings back 125ft on inline boards.

Crew - Captain Dave Rymar, Mike Rymar, and Larry Rymar

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