Huge Weights at AIM Trounament-Lake Oahe

Loooks like the guyz are sticking some nice fish,would say "huge" but the top two guyz must have a couple nice ones to get a 5 lb average/ for 7 fish

Nice, thanks for sharing.

And they are going through numbers of fish.  heard a guy on day one say 150 walleye and heard a guy again today say they went through 75.    good to hear

their hands should look like raw hamburger!!

there were only 52 entries?

Just remember thats 7 fish culling and a generous length to wieght conversion. I have never seen a 27'' fish whiegh over 8#. Not nockin them every ones on the same plane. Just tuff to compair with reguler whieght tourneys on the same lake.

Yeah a 27 inch 8 pounder is one heck of a fish.

Nice weights. Headed to Akaska tomorrow!

I have a 28 inch fish that went close to 9 pounds from Oahe last year. Its possible and likely! These are fat fish.

ripnlips Said:
Just remember thats 7 fish culling and a generous length to wieght conversion. I have never seen a 27'' fish whiegh over 8#. Not nockin them every ones on the same plane. Just tuff to compair with reguler whieght tourneys on the same lake.

Now we don't have the kind of fish like a trophy lake in Canada, but it is entirely possible to get a 27 inch fish that weighs over 8lbs and even some up to 9lb.  One day at Tobin Lake in Saskatchewan about 8 years ago I caught 5 fish all between 8 and 9 lbs and I couldn't keep a single one of them.  At the time they had a slot of 27 3/4 inches aprox since the slot was actually in cm.  These were footballs and we don't have many compareable fish here, but the fish this year are as fat as ever and healthy.  So while only a small percentage of fish 27 inches will make 8 lbs, especially this time of the year without the eggs, some will make that weight.  Either way spotting these guys even .5lb per fish with 7 they still have some nice stringers. 

Do they fish for 8 hours and then just take their 7 biggest for weight?

Geosteerer,That would be correct. Seven best during tournament hours. Not  sure how many hours they get to fish.

One guy today misslabeld a pic, I think he wrote down 23" and the pic said 22".   He still had a 30 lb basket with 6 fish.  (biggest of the day -1 fish!)  Would have put him in 2nd place.  Some said they  were sorting through 30-60 fish, and didn't have to run very far from the launch. 

I like the idea of the photo and release.  I don't really care too much for the format of best 7 over the whole day.  I would like it more if you were only allowed to photo 10 fish.  IMO, the decision making of a limit plays a big part of the tourneys and the skill of the fisherman. 

Rowdie; it was raining out and on the scorecard the 22" the angler wrote down on the scorecard appeared to look like 23" because of the wet scorecard, from what I heard.   Therefore he lost the weight of that fish which cost him a 2nd place $13,000 +/- finish.   Supposedly in the rules meeting they state to make writing legible.  So.................rules are rules   OUCH!!

Just got back from Walth Bay. Fishing is as good as advertised! Great day on the water. Average fish was 19 inches. Largest 23 inches. Limit of 12 by noon.

Just got back from Walth Bay also, Caught a 10.29, wow, What a crazy day, wind, waves, and Walleyes. Will try and post a pic next week. My son has the pic on his cell-phone.