best tourny for a newbie

hey all,

i’ve never fished in any kind of fishing tournament before but i’d really like to try one this year. i know there are a lot of tournaments all summer long on the river. i was just wondering which you thought would be the best one to get started with for a newbie to tourny fishing?

i have accsess to a plenty capable boat. most of my experince is on pool 4, but i am willing to do the millac thing if there’s any good ones up that way. bass or walleye, i can do both.

now i’m not lookin to pay a lot to enter and i don’t need to win anything. i’m just looking for some experince. maybe there is some kind of pro/am. thing that i could try. would anyone out there be willing to show a good lookin brown haired, blue eyed, energetic 18 year old who likes long walks on the beach the ins and outs of professional tournament fishing . i’m really good with a net.

let me know what ya’ll think.

Jake,

A great place to get a start on tournaments would be Walleye Searchers,as a matter of fact Walleye Searchers is where Keith Kavajecz Got his start! We are drawing for partners this Monday night at the Elks club. Our first tournament is this coming Saturday. Meeting starts at 7pm, come & check it out

The waleye searchers website is http://www.walleyesearchers.com/

and has more informations about the tournaments and club activities. See the club tournament “guidelines” webpage for details.

Dave Gulczinski

Jake,

Got a perty good bass club in Rochester, our website is http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/zvbm/ A good place to try tournament fishing and learn of some well rounded guys. No charge for the tournaments, just a club entry fee.

riverfan,
could you email some more information on that bass club? is that a solo tournament or can you fish with a partner? thanks, [email protected]

Many great tournaments to fish, however a perfect one for you…is the Pooh Bear Open. It is the first Saturday in June, registration forms are available at 4-seasons in RW, and also at Everetts..Cost is $25.00 per fisherman..it is a very casual event, although competition is usually very strong…It’s a fundraiser event, although the top fisherman have always been paid atleast $500.00 and it pays down to 7th place I believe…the area donates a ton of stuff and there is a huge prize raffle…everyone leaves with something. We have always had over 60 boats, and included in your $25.00 is a very nice dinner at the Elk’s club after the day….Contact John at 651-388-3571 or Scott at 952-210-3803 for more details…hope to see you there!!

Rigman,

If you or anyone else is looking for a bass club ours has a couple openings. It is a non-federated club out of Mound, Mn. If you have any ?’s, let me know.

Jake,
it was good to meet you last night at the Walleye Searchers meeting, welome to the club! See ya on the water on Saturday!

same to you steve, and the other guys i got to talk to. i’m glad i was invited to join you guys. the meeting was fun. i’m glad you brought that video along, i’ve been dying to see it.

i’m sure that i’ll learn a lot from walleye searchers and am really looking forward to saturday. i’m sure it will be a great time. hopefully be able to meet a few more people too.

Hey Jake
I am just getting everything ready to head down to the river for the next two days to do some Prefishing for Sat. Hopefully I will find us some big ones.
looking forward to Sat should have a great time and hopefully catch some decent fish.
see ya sat Morning

amen to that!!

hopefully it won’t be as nice as they’re saying it’s going to be this weekend. i’ll have to bring along my shades . the river will be absolutly packed. i’m sure you got some good secret spots picked out for us though.

you’ll just have to remember that i’m completely new to this so you’ll have to show me the ropes.

i’m definatly lookin’ forward to saturday. see ya then.

Do I count as a Newbie? My first time out this year will be Friday to prefish for the Walleye Searchers Tournament and see if everything works ok in the boat. Looking forward to a knee kickin fishin good time! See ya on the water. Yahoooooooo!!! Thanks, Bill

Jake hope you had a good time fishing with Nate {He’s good} By the look on your face come picture time holding that plaque, your smile was going ear to ear! Glad to have you fishing with us! Jim Ackman

Lifes to short to fish with dead minnows! Jim

Jake is third from the left! Nice to meet ya, hope you had a good time.

Congrats.

Jon J.

Was nice to see Jake enjoying his first tournament. His smiles told it all. Felt great to be back on the water for the first weekend this year. Steve Wogan and I had alot of fun. Steve was was willing to put away his one ounce jigs and use quarter ounce ones. I’m not much of a plastics guy but we both spent 3/4s of the day fishing superdoos for the first time for both of us and believe it or not–ALL of our keeper size fish came on the superdoos. Needless to say, we both learned to like those superdoos on our first day of using them. A new experience for both of us and now its time to use ringworms and K-Tails and learn some new ways to fish too. Who says you can’t teach old dogs new tricks? See ya on the water. Thanks, Bill