The PWT pros and their mostly Canadian amateur/co-angler partners found plenty of walleyes last year, and expect to focus on the 12-pound plus monsters that swim here in 2008. Tactics varied from jigs to spinners to cranks, with one common theme – the walleyes live shallow in Lake Wabigoon. Giant muskies, pike and smallies add to the fun!
Super Pro CAN-AM team members, when selected, will complete appropriate entry blanks. Payout will be posted soon. Watch this site for details, team members and their bios. The best of Canada and the best of the U.S. on the same water at the same time will provide exciting action.
“Amateurs will love this one,” said 3-time Lake Oahe PWT winner Gary Parsons. In addition to the traditional points, channel edges, suspended (over the trees) fish and flats fish, May is the peak time for shallow fish on jigs and cranks.
This is one of the most popular PWT sites in recent years, with some pros telling news reporters it was their favorite. Fish can be shallow or deep, often on the same day, and tactics that will be used may be more diverse here than any other walleye water. Strong numbers of fish, and a great learning opportunity.
Pick a spot and catch a fish: Main shipping channels, rivers, lakes, back bays, weed beds, rocky structure, current breaks, bridges all come into play on the St. Mary’s River. Pros have a knack for showing their daily amateur/co-angler partners even more spots and methods than they ever imagined.
For the first-time ever PWT visit to Hudson, with fishing on the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers, anglers will find an exciting walleye and sauger fishery almost in the shadows of the Twin Cities. This is the first mid-October “fall bite” tournament scheduled, and promises to showcase a tremendous river system. Many community events are also planned.
Ten PWT pros, anchored by Johnsonville Brats Angler of the Year Ron Seelhoff, will fish with sports and Hollywood stars in the first annual PWT Celebrity Shootout on Manitoba's Aikens Lake Lodge in mid-September. They will compete for bragging rights and raise money for the Boomer Esiason Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis.
Competitive walleye fishing and all that's learned from those activities hit the big time with the first PWT tournament in 1989. Millions of dollars in prize money has been paid, a host of innovative tactics, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, more than 100 PWT television shows and a bunch of heroes, the PWT is rolling along.
