Tobacco Gardens is now open (again) - And 2010 1st Annual Catch For a Cure Tourney Info AND Results

This tournament hasn't been talked about much recently but was discussed in a few other forums.  I thought it would give something for those that got canceled on by the Skunk Bay tournament to do.

Here's the news release related:

Tobacco Garden's 1st Annual

Well darn you walleyes, I see ya had a good tourney again!

Congrats to all and a thanks to Rex at Tobacco Gardens for getting me the results!

For more info click here:

http://www.fishingbuddy.com/articles/tobacco_gardens_1st_annual_ice_fishing_tournament

Yeah we had a pretty good day... the weather was great, the action was consistent, and we came out on top!  We were all set up before 7:30 and didn't have a bite until after 8:30 but then after that they would come in bunches.  We never went more than an hour without any action.  Some of the action were cats, northern and ling but the sauger were around all day too.  The fish really didn't like horizontal jigs, or anything jigging, most of them came on deadsticks.  Flyer and buckshot and hawger spoons were best for us.  We caught fish anywhere from 23-36 feet.  We had 6 fish by noon then slowly improved until we caught our tenth weigh fish at 5:04.  We had 12.61 pounds on the scale but that was including the bag so it was prolly more like 11.5 or so.


The turnout was a little smaller than i had hoped but there was alot of things going on last weekend, and I think the snow on the ice kept alot of people home(it is DEEP).  I thought they did a great job with the tourney, even delivered burgers for lunch!!!  Hopefully next year more people will come out.  Its a good time, a real ice fishing tournament, and all for a good cause.

A Big thank you to all who attended and helped make this tournament a success.
and an extra special thanks to all the volunteer's who made everything run smooth.
I could not think of a thing I would change, except maybe a little less snow on the ice.
fishing was great, and so were the people.  Definitely looking forward to next year.
and yes Tim I think we should work on timing a little more to see if we can get some more people there.

Thanks again,

Rex