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BIGFISH Charter Services also in their own meet- Attention Muskie Hunters...
ing, and after we were
Spring Salmon - Lower Lake Huron - April/May all together, a random Don't forget to pick up the free Muskie tag
Two Time Tournament Winner drawing was held to where you purchase your fishing license.
pair up a marshall "If an angler leaves a lake with a muskel-
Musky - Lake St. Clair - June/Nov - Catch & Release Only with a fisherman for lunge in their boat or the fish dies while in
Best Musky Lake Anywhere day 1… then we had a
great dinner provided the angler's care,
Sturgeon - St. Clair River - Aug/Nov - Catch & Release Only by Carhartt and were then they will
Catch Biggest Great Lakes Fish

Clean, able to socialize with need to use their
Safe, Fast the pros. Muskellunge
31' Tiara Harvest Tag and
DAY 1 of it will fulfill their
Open Tournament one fish per sea-

We have a cot- son possession
tage rental on our prop-
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where we hosted 3 of limit."
Capt.Tom Loy - Algonac, MI the fishermen, two of

Continued from page 50.... Marshalling which were in the top
10 in the country…. John Crews, Ish Mon- On Day 1, I was paired with Jason Christie,
a Bassmaster Tournament Cont..... roe, and Fletcher Shryock. John and Ish who was 3rd in line for Bassmaster Rookie

Carhardtt Headquarters hosted the pros who had arrived on Sunday, were both very of the Year, winning a $100,000 Pro Elite
friendly and offered to drive me to Lake St. Tournament recently and had previously
& marshalls Clair Metropark each day. Up at 4:00 a.m. won the FLW Open Tournament on Lake
and ready to leave the house at 4:45 a.m., St. Clair in 2012.
to a great we arrived at Lake St. Clair Metropark and As we entered the lake, Jason immedi-
meal after the

meeting & waited in line for the 99 boats to launch ately brought

into the darkness. his boat to top
There are 5 launch ramps. Everyone speed of what he
launched then hovered or took a dock and said was 70mph.
worked their gear while waiting for their The weather
pairings of the 1st turn to move out. They released the boats that morning

day marshalls with in flights to ease the congestion and to stag- was a chance
their pro. ger the return cut off time at the end of the of rain (which
day. The boats had been assigned a number it didn’t), but
pros in any way… fishing, pointing out and a take off time and we quickly lined up was a 10-15mph
fish, or navigating. We could tell him the in the lagoon. Each boat was examined to wind which made it fairly rough on the way
time, or hand him his food/water…. But be sure their live well did not contain fish. out for a 21' boat. As the boat started hit-
that was it. To save “5 whole minutes” of their allow- ting waves, it was obvious if I wanted to
All fish caught had to be hooked in the able 8.5 hours of fishing, boats proceeded remain inside the boat, I needed to locate
mouth (or were not a legal catch) and were through a small canal at the back of Lake a handle (I was told on DAY
to be verified by the marshall onboard…. St. Clair Metropark, where they had to re- 2, this is called the “Oh Shit”
No dead fish were allowed to be released move their front chair and the back light to handle). On occasion, the
into the lake, and a dead fish in the live well get under a small bridge. propeller would come out of
the water and the mo-
caused penalty points. tor would roar.
We were told not to
let anyone bully us so We arrived at a spot
there would be no in- 99 Boats launching then hovering for the on the Canadian side
fractions of the rules… 6:30 a.m. Tournament start of the shipping chan-
which I doubt would nel in view of Gull
happen with the guys Island. At 70+ mph, I
we met. would estimate we got
there in 10 minutes!
The pros were Cont. pg. 55...

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Lake St. Clair
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