Anybody know the results of the walleye tournament on Leech Lake? We were fishing Leech on Saturday (not in the tourney) and it was a TOUGH day on the water. Hardly any wind and bright sunshine made for some difficult fishing and sunburned flesh!
We saw lots of boats were on deeper flats (20+’), but I didn’t see many nets come out. Surface water temps were much higher than on Winnie where we fished the day before. Just curious if the results were as poor as what we experienced.
Sounded like the tourney anglers had a much different experience.
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I think most people fish too deep in general. Would be curious to know where they found fish.
Sounded like the tourney anglers had a much different experience.
Do you know how many fish those weights were for? Those seem rather high.
Thats cause they were full of lead weights and fish fillets.
Do you know how many fish those weights were for? Those seem rather high.
I believe that is for 10 fish with 2 overs (per day?), and it was a CPR tourney on FishDonkey.
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Do you know how many fish those weights were for? Those seem rather high.I believe that is for 10 fish with 2 overs (per day?), and it was a CPR tourney on FishDonkey.
10 fish with over a 5Lb. average on Leech – That’s impressive. They have something really dialed in. I guess that’s why they fish tourneys.
10 fish with over a 5Lb. average on Leech – That’s impressive. They have something really dialed in. I guess that’s why they fish tourneys.
For sure. And I don’t mean to discredit anyone because I would be nowhere near the top of that list. However if weight conversions make a 28″ walleye 10 lbs, and if you can register 2 per day, that would be right around 40 lbs right there for anyone that caught 4 “overs” in the upper 20’s.
10 fish with over a 5Lb. average on Leech – That’s impressive. They have something really dialed in. I guess that’s why they fish tourneys.
There was an MTT event this past weekend on Mille Lacs and the winning team weighed over 38 pounds on Saturday…from only 5 fish.
I saw on another post that it was based on top 6 fish per day, all CPR. So winning group would have had a 4.25# average. Not bad for dead calm conditions on that lake. We were up there on Thursday and a tournament boat came by us and caught fish by spotting them on live-scope and flipping a bobber and leech to them. 10-13’ of water.
Well Chuck Hasse does fish the lake almost every day but still kudos on the W. We used him as a guide for a day last year. Nice guy and super knowledgeable about the lake and walleye fishing in general. He said he using the Livescope and slip bobber technique quite often
For sure. And I don’t mean to discredit anyone because I would be nowhere near the top of that list. However if weight conversions make a 28″ <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleye 10 lbs, and if you can register 2 per day, that would be right around 40 lbs right there for anyone that caught 4 “overs” in the upper 20’s.
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I doubt this time of year a 28 will way 10 lbs.
I doubt this time of year a 28 will way 10 lbs.
I am pretty sure that with the catch, photo, and immediate release format most tournaments are doing now its just a standardized conversion to weight based on the length in the photo. There’s no actual weighing being done.
I do agree though, being post spawn, they are generally not going to weigh much this time of year.
Standardized per tournament. Each league can differ however. But yes no fish were actually weighed.
Surprised they still allow livescope
^^^why?
Yeah the pretend weight thing is pretty dumb IMO and always has been.
Measuring inches, just add up how many inches in total and display that.
Soooooo exaggerated for JUNE fish weights. And where in MN do we have prespawn boat tournaments? No where obviously, which is why prespawn weight charts are dumb. Border water is only prespawn tournaments. Regardless of spawning status fish weights vary drastically. Like a Stdev of 3. Making the conversion complete bologna.
Surprised they still allow livescope
Yeah the pretend weight thing is pretty dumb IMO and always has been.
Measuring inches, just add up how many inches in total and display that.
Soooooo exaggerated for JUNE fish weights. And where in MN do we have prespawn boat tournaments? No where obviously, which is why prespawn weight charts are dumb. Border water is only prespawn tournaments. Regardless of spawning status fish weights vary drastically. Like a Stdev of 3. Making the conversion complete bologna.
What difference does it make on what the actuals are? Each team in the tournament is playing by the same rules and same conversion chart, so actual weight means nothing. As far as inches, they convert to a weight because if they strictly went off of inches a team with 2 walleyes of 15 inches would equal a 30 inch fish, and I don’t care what kind of conversion you use, there is no way 2 15 inch fish outweigh a 30, thus still rewarding the teams that are catching the bigger fish.
It’d be nice if they did top 5 in inches. It would be easier to compare results from say the MTT, AIM, Leech Lake Walleye Tournament, etc. Weights for the AIM are always higher than the MTT because they use a heavier length to weight conversion.
because if they strictly went off of inches a team with 2 walleyes of 15 inches would equal a 30 inch fish, and I don’t care what kind of conversion you use, there is no way 2 15 inch fish outweigh a 30, thus still rewarding the teams that are catching the bigger fish.
I appreciate that viewpoint!
Not familiar with the chart other than obvious inflated weights. Sounds like it is not a linear relationship therfore rewarding the 30″ over the 15. I’d be curious to breakdown the chart into an equation if you can provide.
I was wondering what the length to weight conversion was too. Maybe Ripjiggen has it. As RJ stated its obviously not universal from one circuit to the next.
My buddy fishes this rough format….for his, there is no “2 over” rule since it is all CPR. 6 fish can be 25-28 if you can catch them.
As someone mentioned above, I think almost every circuit/tournament has their own conversion chart, no idea where each of them come up with their weights. I will say that any of them that I’ve seen seem to be inflated from what the actual weights would likely be, but that is irrelevant for the most part since all entrants in the tournament are graded on the same scale.
A quick google search for AIM pro walleye conversion chart gave me this for the scale that they use. Again, I would say the weights are likely inflated, depending upon time of year and body of water.
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Thanks.
Here’s the data.
It’s a gradual increase.
Left Y axis is inches, blue line.
Right axis is lbs applied for that 1.4″.
Trendline added.
Averages here.
Anything under 20″ gets an average of .08 lbs per 1/4″
From 20-25″ average is 0.15 lbs
25-28 Averages is .22
28-33 is .30
Definitely rewarding length.
Bullhooey weights but as stated immaterial in competition.
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