2007 Freeze Your Butt – Final Results

Big Thanks to everyone who showed up to fish the tourney. It was a Freeze Your Butt kind of morning! Thanks to Dean and Everts Resort for sponsoring the St. Croix Rod award. Mark Strickland and Marine Specialties for sponsoring the trophies.

Here are the final weights. ( I apologize in advance for any and all spelling errors of your name. Send all corrections to me by PM )

Listed in team number order / number of fish / total weight.

1. Dean Marshall / Erick Rehberg /1 / 3.24

2. Jim Beaulieu / Jason Beaulieu / 0

3. Mitch Mitties / Jeff Bowman / 0

4. Tony Pauley / Jim Bouler / 0

5. Erick Carlson / Erick Anderson / 2 / 3.46

6. Justin Chonis / Nick Chonis / 5 / 10.62

7. Joe Moenck / Denver McKinney / 5 / 10.82

8. Jason Polkowsky / Don Polkowsky / 0

9. Nate Cadwell / Richard Young / 5 / 8.68

10. Rod Gehloff / Blake Brettington / 5 / 9.44

11. Glenn Marshall / Mike Quimby / 5 / 20.36 *** Big Fish 8.76

12. Jason Sullivan / David Sullivan / 0

13. Lenny Jamison / Jami Ritter / 0

14. Joel Ellingson / Martin Vreize / 5 / 14.02

15. Chad Nieman / Jeremy Abbott / 1 / 1.92

16. Jason Bongres / Jeff Olund / 0

17. Mark Strickland / Andy Powel / 1 / 2.46

18. John Brugler / Mike Huntley / 1 / 2.70

19. Richard Simmons / Chris Simmons / 5 / 13.54

20. Adam Fischbach / Terry Fischbach / 0

21. John Nesse / Josh Liesen / 0

22. Jeremy Evans / Jim Pinke / 0

23. Scott Grapp / Darren Grapp / 2 / 4.26

24. Nick Popane / Greg Popane / 0

1st Place > Glenn Marshall / Mike Quimby 20.36 $190

2nd Place > Joel Ellingson / Martin Vreize 14.02 $120

3rd Place > Rich Simmons / Chris Simmons 13.54 $80

Big Fish > Marshall/Quimby 8.76 $120

St Croix Rod > Rod Gehloff / Blake Brettington

First Place!

Second Place.

Third Place.

20 # ‘s

What a brutal day, hats off to all that braved the weather!

Way to go guys. You are a hardy bunch of fisherman.

Wow! There must have been an interesting bite going on:

7 teams had a 5 fish limit

2 teams had 2 fish

4 teams had 1 fish

11 teams were just out there to enjoy the beautiful weather

Without getting into details, it would be interesting to know if it was the “location” or “presentation” that caught the limits?

I was cold shoveling my driveway today and frequently thought of you guys being out there having a good time fishing.

Congratulations to all who fished and survived the FYB today! And thanks to Jon for posting these results so soon after the tourney.

I would like to give Dean a for an excellent job. I bet that I wasn’t the only person thinking, “I hope Dean has hot dogs this year.” I also was wondering if we should call this the freeze your fingers tourney because my butt stayed warm all day, but I think my hands are finally starting to thaw. Here is a picture of my 4.86 Sauger that hit on a good old real minnow.

Thanks and a big to Dean, Mark, Jon, and everyone else who made today a great time!

Hey Dave G! I don’t know what the other teams were doing for presentation; but Marty and I were dragging ringworms the whole day.

Joel

well done everyone. Wish I could have made it down there today. Maybe next year. Congrats to the winners. I too would be interested in tactics. Who won the St. Croix drawing?

It was a rough day on the water for us. We got 6 fish all day but 5 were big enough to cash a check. God looks out for children and fools—the boy is getting to old for the first one so I guess that leaves us in the second category. I think we picked up a fish or two vertical jigging plastics and the rest came from dragging various plastics. I think the weather from the last few days played a part in the poor bite today. On a positive note: the weather today was much nicer than they were predicting but it was still cold out there. Where is the picture of Lenny and his trophy?

Here’s our big fish for the day. 22″ 4.3lbs

to all who cashed checks. Looks like it was a fun but cold day. I’ve been itching for some open water. I should have came up!!

Congrats you guys!

I planned to make it down but I was busy running the snowblower to pay the bills

Congrats guys.
Thanks, Bill

Sure was a nice day for a boat ride on the river A little a the cool side, 14 degrees when launching the boat.

I was wishing for a cloudly day, we probably spent a little too much time looking for active fish, probably should’ve spent more time working the fish we did find. Had a lot of lookers, no takers.

I’ll probably have to get my truck sorted out before I take the boat out again, seems I either got some really bad gas or I got a coil pack going again, I’m leaning towards the latter of the 2

What is this Rumor I heard about a couple of guy’s “giving up” and going to to see Dean at 11:00? Lenny or Ritter wanna chime in here? Someone said that you would know who it was and why.

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Hey Dave G! I don’t know what the other teams were doing for presentation; but Marty and I were dragging ringworms the whole day.

Joel

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To add to Joels’ comments…It was apparent to us the fish wanted something moving horizontally through the water column rather than vertical. We actually had a couple runs where we picked up two fish. We had a couple other fish come unglued on their way up to the boat.

Joel and I had the luxury of prefishing for a day and eliminating the non-productive locations and tactics. For the tourney, we just needed to modify our presentation to the light levels and depth.

We were actually surprised nobody saw us going through the same area over and over and over again picking up fish.

Congrats guys! I was thinking of you all too while we were icing perch on Mille Lacs!

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1st Place > Glenn Marshall / Mike Quimby 20.36 $190

2nd Place > Joel Ellingson / Martin Vreize 14.02 $120

3rd Place > Rich Simmons / Chris Simmons 13.54 $80

Big Fish > Marshall/Quimby 8.76 $120

St Croix Rod > Rod Gehloff / Blake Brettington

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Nice fishen!

I let the dogs out and felt the wind on my face…The Freeze Your Butt tourney seperates the men from the boys!

I think anyone that stayed out past 11 am should have recieved an award.

They kind of did it backwards. The guys that didn’t stay out past 11 got an award. Seems like they got rewarded for being wussy to me.

All I can say is it was COLD out there but luckly I had a nice mich. golden in my hand by 1230 in the warm baitshop best fish I caught all day

As usual it was cold but I had a great time. Good seeing everybody again and meeting some new people. As for ritter and lenny and for you erick, just remember to stay off ski’s
Good seeing everybody and a big thanks goes out to dean for the hot dogs, warm baitshop, and info (even though we didnt do the best ), and to Jon for running the tourny and scales. Hope to see everyone soon.