 Minnesota fishing at its best. Minnesota Multispecies Tournament Angler, John Durward with a nice St. Louis River walleye while fishing in Duluth Minnesota.  St. Louis River Minnesota smallmouth bass, Duluth Area Bass Tournament Director O.Carson, while fishing in Duluth Minnesota.
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Night 6 found us on Sand Lake near Moose Lake. The winners tonight was Team Frustrated with 4 species, 3 limits, and a master angler crappie over 14 inches. They had three limits including largemouth bass, crappies and bluegills, along with a rock bass. Great job guys.
Second went to the Team Barley Afloat, Pat Cooke and Karl Johnson, with a 5 species bag including limits of bluegills, crappies and largemouth bass, plus a rock bass and northern. Third was Team Patience, Steve Ondrus and Dan Roach, with a 4 species bag including limits of largemouth bass and bluegills, plus some rock bass and a bonus pike.
The winner of the Big Fish of the Night, with a 24 inch northern pike as Team Patience. The Big Fish winners got $10 certificates and great travel cups from the Patrick Cooke Agency of Farmer's Insurance, Cloquet.
Sand Lake was good to us, considering this is the first time fished by multispecies and it was new to many teams. We did have a visiting team that fished and out scored our teams. Thanks John and Skeeter, we hope you had a good time and consider coming out to more to see how you do. Great job to all teams for keeping it fun and catching lots of fish again.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Night 5 found us on the St. Louis River out of the Garfield landing. The winner tonight was Team TGIF of Rick Olson and Doug Pirila with a 4 species, 4 limits bag. They limited out on perch, rock bass, crappies and bluegills. Great job guys.
Second went to the Scared Fishless team of John Michalski and Barry Bjorklund, with another 4 species. Third was Team Choppers, Ben Biermaier and Brent Selden, with another 4 species bag.
The River is still a tough bite, but starting to clear up. All the big bags came from the clearest water in protected back bays. Great job again.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Night 4 we were on the St. Louis River out of the Smithville landing. The winner tonight was John Ketola and Bob Carson with a great 5 species, 3 limit bag. They had three limits of all bonus smallmouth bass, crappies and bluegills, along with some perch and rock bass. Great job guys.
Second went to the Long Rods, Lee Carson and sub Ed Forrestal, with a 5 species bag including limits of bluegills and northern pike, plus a crappie, rock bass and perch. Third was Team TGIF, Rick Olson and Doug Pirila, with a 3 species bag including smallmouth bass, northern, and catfish.
The winner of the Big Fish of the Night, with two 25 inch northern pike as Team Patience. The Big Fish winners got $10 certificates and great travel cups from the Patrick Cooke Agency of Farmer's Insurance, Cloquet.
The River was high, rolling fast and the water temps cold and the water clarity was low. All the big bags came from the clearest water in protected back bays. Great job again.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Night 3 we are on Island Lake near Moose Lake. The winner tonight was Team Barley Afloat, Pat Cooke and sub Al Ansell. They had a 4 multispecies bag with three limits and our only limit of Largemouth Bass of the night. Their had a limit of bass, bluegills and crappies, and 3 rock bass. Great job guys, the bass bite was tough with the spawn having just finished.
Second was Team TGIF, Rick Olson and Doug Pirila, with a 5 species bag including limits of bluegills and crappies, plus 3 largemouth bass, rock bass and perch. Third was Team Choppers, Ben Biermaier and Brent Selden, with another 5 species bag including our biggest bass of the evening 16.5 and 17.75 inches, a northern, crappies, perch and limit of bluegills. They also won the Big Fish of the Night, with a 10.75 inch crappie. The Big Fish winners got $10 certificates and great travel cups from the Pat Cooke Agency of Farmer's Insurance, Cloquet.
Thanks to Iron River Sports, who provided hats for the first and last placing teams of the night. Very nice hats.
We had lots of fish and everyone did a great job.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Our winner tonight was Team Gone Postal of Bob Carson and John Ketola, again. They had a 3 multispecies bag with two limits. Their bag included a pike, a limit of perch and a limit of nice smallmouth bass. Great job guys, the bite was tough with the water temps still very low.
Second tonight was Team Barley Afloat, Pat Cooke and Karl Johnson, with a 5 species bag including a jumbo rock bass (11.5 inches), a huge 13.5 inch crappie, perch, two pike, and a pair of smallmouth bass, one 17inches. Third went to Scared Fishless, John Michalski fishing by himself tonight, with a 4 species bag including another limit of all bonus crappies, perch, smallmouth bass and a bluegill.
Big fish was bass which went to Team TGIF (Doug Pirila and Rick Olson) for their 17" smallmouth.
Very good job.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Winners tonight were Team Gone Postal, Bob Carson and John Ketola, with our ONLY multispecies bag. They had a walleye, 2 northern pike, and a limit of rockies. Great job guys, the bite was tough on the river tonight. Cold and windy.
Second went to Team TGIF, Doug Pirila and sub Ryan Pirila, with a limit of walleyes all bonus eyes. Third went to Scared Fishless, John Michalski and Barry Bjorklund, with a limit of all bonus crappies and two walleyes.
Big fish for the night was walleye and Team Barley Afloat (Patrick Cooke and Karl Johnson) won with a 24.5 incher.
Great job and good start to the year.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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ALL Fishing Leagues, Cloquet Area Fishing League, Duluth Area Bass League, and MMTS meeting Wednesday, April 23rd, 6:00-8:00pm at the Gopher Bar (back room).
Be there to paid and reserve your spot in the fishing league this year. We want a signed form this year, to get things rolling.
Thanks,
Fishing League Staff
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Be there to get the list of nights, locations, rules and to reserve your spot in the fishing league. We want a signed form this year, to get things rolling.
Thanks,
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Tournament and Fishing League Staff
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Fishing league meeting on Monday, Jan 28th, 7:00pm at Mr. D's Bar and Grill, West Duluth. We'll be holding elections, going over possible changes, picking the waters to be fished, etc.
Be sure to be there and bring anyone else that might be interested in fishing. We are only taking 15 teams, so speak up if you want in.
Minnesota Multispecies Fishing Staff
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Well the first Duluth Multispecies Classic went well with many leagues and groups represented. In the end lots of fish were scored and photoed.
Please check out our photo album by clicking here...
Here are the winners:
Bass Champs - 4 bass for 62.5 inches - Rick Olson and Mark Jukich.
Pike Champs - 4 pike for 104.25 inches - Ouitdee Carson and Al Ansell
Walleye Champs - 4 walleyes for 80.25 inches - Doug Pirila and Ed Forrestal
1st Place Overall - Doug Pirila and Ed Forrestal
2nd Place Overall - Ouitdee Carson and Al Ansell
3rd Place Overall - Rick Olson and Mark Jukich
Thanks for the great group of anglers and good sports. I hope we see everyone again next year and make this an annual event. Thanks to Fox-News for the coverage and the Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook for the support also.
Duluth Minnesota Fishing Staff
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