ARM/Walleye Searchers Lake Pepin Open!

ARM – Anglers as Role Models, along with Walleye Searchers of Minnesota are pleased to announce the 18th annual Lake Pepin Open. This new partnership between ARM and the Walleye Searchers of Minnesota Club will be the premiere Team Event on the Mississippi River/Lake Pepin in 2003.

The tournament is scheduled for April 26th and 27th and will be held out of Coleville Park in the City of Red Wing, Mn.

As in the past, this tournament will be a 2-day, team event. But new to the event this year will be a $200 entry fee with a 100 % payback to the top ten teams! That right, 100 % of the entry fee will be awarded back to the anglers!

In order to raise funds for ARM, we are asking for a $10 per angler donation to ARM. This donation is fully tax deductible and will help fund youth fishing programs ARM plans to organize in 2003.

The Lake Pepin Open is an RCL qualifying tournament.

$20,000 purse based on a full field of 100 teams:

1st place = $7,500

2nd place = $4,500

3rd place = $3,000

4th place = $2,000

5th place = $1,000

6th place = $600

7th place = $500

8th place = $400

9th place = $300

10th place = $200

Stay tuned for more details, including the big fish and option pots.

Rules and Entry forms are scheduled to be mailed out soon. For more information about this tournament or ARM, please contact me at [email protected] or you can print an entry form from the Walleye Searchers website.

Lake Pepin Open Entry Form

ARM – Chairman Tournament Committee, Jon Jordan.

Lake Pepin Open Tournament Director, Steve Plantz

I have a favor to ask of everyone here on FTR, these links to the flier & entree form print out very nicely & if everyone would print off a few and drop them off at your favorite bait & sporting goods stores you would be helping out a great cause, your help would be much appreciated, if you can not view the links for some reason send me your address here or in a PM and I will be more than happy to send you some hard copies.

You will need Acrobat Reader to view these files.

http://www.efishingnetwork.com/photos/2003_lpoflyer_front.pdf

http://www.efishingnetwork.com/photos/2003_lpoflyer_back.pdf

I’ll get the Gander in Minnetonka covered for you tonight, or tomorrow night at the latest. I’ll see if Roy’s will allow me to put some there and cabin fever in Victoria also.

Thanks John!

Thank you to all who have entered the 18th Annual Lake Pepin Open. We look forward to meeting you and wish you the best of luck. Confirmation letters are on the way.

A pre tournament rules meeting will be held at the Red Wind National Guard Armory on Friday, April 25th. The address is 885 E. 7th Street, Red Wing, Mn. (Located near the entrance to Coleville Park just off highway 61) The meeting starts at 6pm sharp.

We are continuing to accept entries.

Again, we look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions, please call Steve Plantz at 507-280-8736 or Jon Jordan 651-343-9318.

Just a quick update on the LPO, we now have 60 pre-registed teams. I get a few new entry’s each day in the mail. Some guys like to wait until the rules meeting to sign up, this year I can not promise that there will be spots open by then, so if you have been holding off on sending in your entry it might be a good idea to send it in now before it fills up! We look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions, please call Steve Plantz at 507-280-8736 or Jon Jordan 651-343-9318.

well Guys the Tourney is less than a week away, lets here who is fishing it from the board!!
I know Brett King and I will be there. Should be a great time and alot of fun. and with the 100% payback a great chance to make some money.
good luck to all

Well, at last count, we are up to 75 teams. So if you are sitting on the side-lines waiting, now is a good time to get your enty form in!

We will take entries through the rules meeting on Friday April 25th. (Please bring Cash if enter at the rules meeting, but we may fill soon) I’ll update the entries again in a couple of days.

Can’t beat the payout here. This was designed as a tournament for you, the fishermen/women.

We are planning a pork roast feed for the tounament fishermen/women after the Saturday weigh in, hope to see ya there!

Jon J.

TBO/MN and myself will be there. Will be spending the weekend at everts. Looking forward to my first tourney.

Me and MFO will be there. Cant wait!

Myself and crankybait will be there. PM me any good info on where the fish are hanging out. We are not picky on who helps us out.

Awsome turn-out Jon,good job and good luck.I’ll bark at you when I get back from SD.See ya.

There are still a few spots open, if you want to jump in you can register tonight at the rules meeting Looking forward to seeing everyone there, 6pm at the Red Wind National Guard Armory

Jon J. Here at Everts…..

A quick update only! Here are the top ten team/weights:

Conway/Matthews 22.00
Newman/Badzinski 19.70
Stevens/Vandermark 18.45
York/Hanson 17.40
Sherry/Turri 16.70
Shimota/Fautsch 15.50
McDermott/Finke 13.95
Tangen/Laubs 13.50
Rouso/Reeve 13.00
Krukow/Krokow 12.55

Big Fish today was a 9.65 brute caugh by team Newman/Badzinski.

J.

Thanks for the report.

is there going to be a list of the full results tonight????

It may take a day but keep your eye on the forum as I’m sure there will be some posts and some photo’s. Just for trivia though 312 pork sandwichs were served, along with a very large tub of cole slaw, lots of beans, potato chips and pop. It was sure a nice couple of days. Steve

Hey Steve!
You sure do make a mean pork sandwich..lol j.k

The spacing does not copy over well from my spreadsheet, but here are the standings. First number is day one weight, second number is day 2, then final.

Thanks to all who participated in the tourney!

Place Team Name Day 1 Weight Day 2 Weight Total

1 Sherry/Turri 16.70 22.85 39.55

2 Newman/Badzinski 19.70 19.10 38.80

3 Eichorn/Felber 9.45 25.40 34.85

4 Haake/Prokosch 8.55 25.40 33.95

5 Stevens/Vandemark 18.45 13.30 31.75

6 York/Hanson 17.40 14.05 31.45

7 Shimota/Fautsch 15.50 12.90 28.40

8 Conway/Matthews 22.00 4.35 26.35

9 Feuerhelm/Kieffer 6.00 19.10 25.10

10 McDermott/Finke 13.95 9.85 23.80

11 Rengo/Leitz 11.60 12.10 23.70

12 Fern/Hanson 11.90 10.15 22.05

13 Siewert/Demarais 11.05 10.60 21.65

14 Gnotke/Olsen 12.35 9.10 21.45

15 Tangen/Laubs 13.50 7.30 20.80

16 Banks/Banks 11.60 8.50 20.10

17 Direcks/Siewert 12.25 7.35 19.60

18 Cadwell/King 5.15 14.20 19.35

19 Geese/Robeck 8.25 11.10 19.35

20 Krukow/Krukow 12.55 6.65 19.20

21 Kennebeck/Gosse 4.75 14.15 18.90

22 Smith/Stettler 8.45 10.25 18.70

23 Rousu/Reeve 13.00 4.90 17.90

24 Grimm/Hayft 7.25 9.70 16.95

25 Andivst/Luhmann 11.30 5.35 16.65

26 Grovunson/Bellmer 8.75 7.05 15.80

27 Clarey/Cordie 11.65 4.10 15.75

28 Sylvester/Grabau 3.65 11.40 15.05

29 Schommer/Schommer 10.05 4.50 14.55

30 Niday/Niday 3.90 10.30 14.20

31 Kinneman/Holt 4.40 9.00 13.40

32 Holms/Rauch 4.10 7.90 12.00

33 Clark/Schneeburger 4.00 7.45 11.45

34 Dick/Dick 4.20 6.80 11.00

35 Harvey/Feuerhelm 3.50 6.90 10.40

36 Walerak/McCarthy 3.35 6.80 10.15

37 Clark/Eide 2.20 7.90 10.10

38 Sletten/Sellers 9.45 0.00 9.45

39 Webster/Webster 2.30 7.00 9.30

40 Block/Adams 5.50 3.75 9.25

41 Jahnke/Juliot 8.85 0.00 8.85

42 Kaluig/O’tool 8.35 0.00 8.35

43 Miller/Metzger 5.35 2.80 8.15

44 Holst/Stewart 0.00 7.25 7.25

45 Ferguson/Loverjoy 2.55 4.45 7.00

46 Smetanna/Dammann 0.00 6.35 6.35

47 Tuckner/Carl 6.05 0.00 6.05

48 Lane/Lane 3.65 2.10 5.75

49 Christensen/McAle 5.65 0.00 5.65

50 Lerum/Lerum 5.25 0.00 5.25

51 Stuart/McManus 2.30 2.80 5.10

52 Donker/McMorrow 2.95 2.05 5.00

53 Flynn/Daily 2.25 2.70 4.95

54 Crites/Emkow 3.60 1.15 4.75

55 Kinneman/Iberg 4.25 0.00 4.25

56 Brown/Mclagan 3.95 0.00 3.95

57 Pfluger/Wooden 0.00 3.05 3.05

58 Donahoe/Johnson 2.70 0.00 2.70

59 Rich/Robinson 2.45 0.00 2.45

60 Fluekiger/Fluekiger 1.80 0.00 1.80

61 Loer/Loer 1.65 0.00 1.65

62 DeWerse/Hedtke 1.55 0.00 1.55

63 Feldewerd/Feldewerd 0.00 1.40 1.40

64 Beying/Beying 1.10 0.00 1.10

65 Fields/Fields 0.00 0.00 0.00

66 Auchstetter/Vick 0.00 0.00 0.00

67 Anderson/Sellers 0.00 0.00 0.00

68 Chick/Kaczorowski 0.00 0.00 0.00

69 Westman/Smith 0.00 0.00 0.00

70 Vickers/Thielen 0.00 0.00 0.00

71 Smith/Pederson 0.00 0.00 0.00

72 Johnson/Erhart 0.00 0.00 0.00

73 Peterson/Peterson 0.00 0.00 0.00

74 Goetschel/Goetschel 0.00 0.00 0.00

75 Laudenbach/Jansen 0.00 0.00 0.00

76 Koplin/Reister 0.00 0.00 0.00

77 Riess/Kay 0.00 0.00 0.00

Man-what happened w/ #44???

You know how it goes some days, sometimes ya win, sometimes ya show!
Looks like you guy’s had a great weekend to fish.
Congrats to all who competed!!!

I believe they went Hog Hunting on day one….The strategy did not work.

Day 2, no pressure and just went fishing!

That’s fishing.

J.

way to go Mr. Sherry . you’re my new idol

Forgot to add the payouts….. We paid down 10 places as follows:

1 $5,500
2 $3,500
3 $2,200
4 $1,400
5 $800
6 $600
7 $500
8 $400
9 $300
10 $200

What happened is right! Ah well. We had a great pre-fishing… 28″ fish… 29″ fish… blah, blah, blah. Sunday was goofin’ off fishing with a buddy.

We’ll get ’em next time.

Great tournament Jon & crew! I had a blast. And to Steve Greene… I spent much of Sunday afternoon daydreaming about, wishing for and mumbling under my breath about one of your sandwhiches. Super nummy. Awesome job.

Great Job to all the workers at the Lake Pepin Open!
I know we had a great time!

Who from the board was to the top, and i guess for the middle and bottom as well, doesn’t matter if you were 1st 30th, 60th or last.

Sounds like a great tourney guys. I am sorry that I had to missed the event this year.
Tourney fishing……say no more. All who has ever fished tourneys knows that anything can happen on any day out there regardless of how much you had a bite dialed.

Good job guys!

Jon,
Every one get their share of crankbaits at the sign up?

I had a blast!!! Sat we were done at 10am. Had to work a lot harder on Sun though. Not too bad for Adam (Gimpy), cashing a check in his first ever tournament. Congrats man!!!

We spent our time pulling 3 ways. Sat a #9 Chartruse Rapala was the ticket. It caught all our fish. Sun we did the same thing on a mix of colors. 5oz weights were needed with all the currebt we were fighting. Of course there was the one that got away each day. Oh well, that’s fishing.

Thanks for a great tournament guys!!

Congratulations to Adam on his tournament check. Way to go!!