Heres the outcome from tues. Better late than never! 
12 boats tuesday.
1st place – Tim Domaille & Jerry Eckholt – 11 plus
2nd place – Chuck Cambell & Tim Chapman – 9 plus
3rd place – Matt Pretzer – 8 plus
BB – N? Nelson – 3.11 LM
Good job guys 
It was a tough night for most, even one guy left early. 
The water is extremely clear right now on the bottom end of the lake.
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The water is extremely clear right now on the bottom end of the lake.
I was on the Scumbro this weekend and I heard “the water is really clear” multiple times. Coming from Northern MN, I guess I have to take that comment in context to the area. However every time I hear it, I just laugh. At my “cabin” in Northern MN, the water clarity is over 12′. I’ve even seen it go well beyond 12′ under certain conditions.
Defining “really clear” water by 2-3′ water clarity is funny as heck!
Ruger….
You’d be doing yourself a favor to keep in mind that “clear water” on the mighty Zum is a relative term. lol Actually the Zum has been able to stay fairly clear on the dam-end for a couple of years now. Around the first of August or whenever the big heat hits and algae blooms start up you’ll have another “relative term” to call the water. Everything is relative to something in this corner of the state.
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The water is extremely clear right now on the bottom end of the lake.
I was on the Scumbro this weekend and I heard “the water is really clear” multiple times. Coming from Northern MN, I guess I have to take that comment in context to the area. However every time I hear it, I just laugh. At my “cabin” in Northern MN, the water clarity is over 12′. I’ve even seen it go well beyond 12′ under certain conditions.Defining “really clear” water by 2-3′ water clarity is funny as heck!
I was down there last tues night and the water clarity was 8-10 feet easy. As you head towards the Fish it gets worse all the way to probably a few inches of clarity.
I should have been more clear with my clarity.
I think 10ft plus is pretty clear anywere.
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I was down there last tues night and the water clarity was 8-10 feet easy. As you head towards the Fish it gets worse all the way to probably a few inches of clarity.
10′ of clarity on the Zumbro? I’m not so sure I’d believe that. We were up in the shallows in 2′ and I couldn’t see the carp on the bottom. Until they moved.
Out of the bay in the deeper water I’d say the best clarity I saw before I lost sight of my jig could be stretched to 4′. However that’s the deepest I’d say the clarity was.
6/2/09 – 19 Boats Tonight
7.14 – Eric Ronningen
6.00 – Tim D.
5.15 – BB 2.04 Chris & Jeff
5.07 – Gravenhoff
5.04 – Markim & Bailey
5.02 – Matt
5.02 – Jerry
5.00 – Chuck
4.14 – BB 3.08 – Brandon
4.14 – Kuntson & Travis
4.07 – BB 3.01 – Loren
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I was down there last tues night and the water clarity was 8-10 feet easy. As you head towards the Fish it gets worse all the way to probably a few inches of clarity.
10′ of clarity on the Zumbro? I’m not so sure I’d believe that. We were up in the shallows in 2′ and I couldn’t see the carp on the bottom. Until they moved.Out of the bay in the deeper water I’d say the best clarity I saw before I lost sight of my jig could be stretched to 4′. However that’s the deepest I’d say the clarity was.
Well whatever. 
Last tuesday evening the clarity from the dam towards ponderosa was 10-12 feet. (Period)
The other extreme was from Fishermans Inn towards Sandy point, 3-8″ tops for clarity, this was the same evening.
Now….Tonight 6/2/09 the clarity by the dam was a couple feet tops. So in your defense, if you were not out there last tuesday night or in the same areas I specified, than I understand your confusion.
I went to brush piles I have fished for years last tuesday night and barely fished them, I just looked at them and all the fish and structure down in 10-12 FOW in awe.
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6/2/09 – 19 Boats Tonight
7.14 – Eric Ronningen
6.00 – Tim D.
5.15 – BB 2.04 Chris & Jeff
5.07 – Gravenhoff
5.04 – Markim & Bailey
5.02 – Matt
5.02 – Jerry
5.00 – Chuck
4.14 – BB 3.08 – Brandon
4.14 – Kuntson & Travis
4.07 – BB 3.01 – Loren
What a turn out and what tough fishing. Branden, I should have weighed my smallie. Just bring the money to my house. 
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6/2/09 – 19 Boats Tonight
7.14 – Eric Ronningen
6.00 – Tim D.
5.15 – BB 2.04 Chris & Jeff
5.07 – Gravenhoff
5.04 – Markim & Bailey
5.02 – Matt
5.02 – Jerry
5.00 – Chuck
4.14 – BB 3.08 – Brandon
4.14 – Kuntson & Travis
4.07 – BB 3.01 – Loren
What a turn out and what tough fishing. Branden, I should have weighed my smallie. Just bring the money to my house.
Thats not gonna happen………Momma’s got that in her purse already 
6/9/09 tournament.
24 boats tonight. As far as I know it was a record turn out. Tough bite yet again.
1st and BB was Matt Pretzer. 12-0 and 6-1 largie
2nd Kepp and Kepp with 10-0??
3rd Fill in the blank,
4th Me and Jim Kostroski
5th Rick Nelson and partner (Trevor Hockert?)
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6-1….. Now that’s getting up there. I saw one that I thought would go just over 5 about a month ago while crappie fishing. 6 is a nice largie for the Zum.
The bag we used last night probably was over a pound but still a nice fish by any means.
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Why are the weights down so much this year?? I suppose with the increased number of boats fishing the tournaments now, we are killing tons of fish and the quality bass are nearing extinction.
Cause all the boat wake from the ski club bounces them off rocks and kills them. 
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Why are the weights down so much this year?? I suppose with the increased number of boats fishing the tournaments now, we are killing tons of fish and the quality bass are nearing extinction.
Cause all the boat wake from the ski club bounces them off rocks and kills them.
Love it!!! Thanks, I needed that one today.
And here I thought it was all the jet skis sucking the scales off them making them vulnerable to disease.
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Why are the weights down so much this year?? I suppose with the increased number of boats fishing the tournaments now, we are killing tons of fish and the quality bass are nearing extinction.
Cause all the boat wake from the ski club bounces them off rocks and kills them.ct
Oh jeez here we go!!! I thought it was all the crappie fisherman gut hook’m
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Why are the weights down so much this year?? I suppose with the increased number of boats fishing the tournaments now, we are killing tons of fish and the quality bass are nearing extinction.
Cause all the boat wake from the ski club bounces them off rocks and kills them.ct
Oh jeez here we go!!!
Now, now….you need to polish this statement up a bit. Maybe you could correct yourself to say that instead of the “crappie fishermen” it reads the “LIVE BAIT fishermen” ?
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Why are the weights down so much this year?? I suppose with the increased number of boats fishing the tournaments now, we are killing tons of fish and the quality bass are nearing extinction.
Cause all the boat wake from the ski club bounces them off rocks and kills them.ct
Oh jeez here we go!!!
Now, now….you need to polish this statement up a bit. Maybe you could correct yourself to say that instead of the “crappie fishermen” it reads the “LIVE BAIT fishermen” ?
Oh thats right, I forgot there is still a few guys fishing crappies/gill’s with plastic’s. (ct and mike)
I’ve seen more fish with line hanging out of them then ever before!!
Ya, that sucks. I see it occasionally myself. I was tossing spinners at Foster one morning last summer and saw one of those pig bass laying along a log in two or three feet of water and it had a 3″ twister tail and jig stuck in its back along the dorsal fin. Wanna speculate how the jig got there given all the nice alnglers we see anymore?
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And all along I thought it was cause Eric caught them all.
I only catch and release 5 per week. You need to look to Brad and many others that spend there nights and weekends out there.
Any results?
Domaille & Gravenhoff 10-05
Ronningen & Jimmer 9-13?
Fritsch & Nelson 9-
BB was 5-06
Memory is foggy. Could be off a bit
Your always foggy! 
What do you expect when you get a couple celebrities fishing together. 
BTW Eron, I think you’ve been on the Zum as many times as I have this year. 
I cant catch fish anyway, right, who cares how much I’m out there——– M R
6/23/09 – 14 Boats
1. Ken & Tom – 11.08 – BB – 6.04
2. Mike & Josh – 11.08 – BB – 5.03
3. Tim – 10.05 – BB 5.01
4. Brandon – 10.00 – BB 4.09
5. Eric – 7.09
6. Mark Porter – 6.08
7. Courtney & Mike – 6.04
6/30/09 – 14 Boats
1. Tim D. & Jerry – 11.03/BB 3.12
2. Skeeter – 8.15/BB 3.00
3. Rick & Ben – 8.10/BB 5.15
4. Eric R. – 7.02
5. Courtney & Jesse – 6.11
6. Tim Chapman – 5.05
7. Matt Pretzer – 5.04
8. Ken & Tom – 4.09
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