Getting into tournament fishing

[coombia21]

I am looking to get some more information on walleye tournaments. I fished on a bass club while I lived in the twin cities and now that I am up in fargo I would like to start walleye tournaments. What would be a good series to start off fishing? I am still in college so I wont be fishing in high end tournaments, but love the tournament style fishing and would like to get more into the walleye tournaments. I figured this would be a good place to start, any help would be appreciated.

[Savage Brewer]

Well with walleye tournaments you better be ready to put in some serious wheel time and travel expenses... Just saying from Fargo you will be driving alot.

I would get in touch with the FM Walleyes Unlimited group, they will know what is going on around the area.

[JohnMickish]

I second FM Walleyes. They have many events that are pretty local to you, plus they have anglers of all skill and monetary ranges so you won't feel out gunned.

[coombia21]

I send a message to one of the members of the FM club, hopefully that works out. Do many guys fish just one or two tournaments on a trail? I would like to get out and fish different events to see how they are run as well as meet new people that enjoy the sport as much as I do.

[JohnMickish]

Minnesota tournament trail his about ten events a year in Minnesota, and you have the newly formed AIM weekend walleye series (still waiting on more info) for next year. There are several one day events such as the leech Lake walleye tournament and the Krouse Anderson tournament as well. The Masters Walleye Circuit will have three events in MN next year too. there will be several small one day events up in the Otter Tail area as well. It's all going to come down to how much do you wanna spend and how far do you want to drive.

[JohnMickish]

. Do many guys fish just one or two tournaments on a trail?

This is about evenly split. You will have your guys that just cherry pick one or two events on lakes they are familiar with and you also have a group of guys that will run for the championship.

[Cicada]

One of my co-worker's husband fishes more local multi-species tournaments around Park Rapids. I think they might be lower cost and they are organized on a points system to set up rankings. There might be 8-10 per summer.