Brushy Ice Tourney

[smoker craft]

2nd anual Lehigh Fire Dept Fishing Tourney will be Febuary 12 and it sounds like this year you will be able to pre register. When I get more info I will pass it on. Should be as good or better than last year lots of raffle prizes.

[goodyy7]

Thanks for the heads up! I will have to try and make this one this year.

goody

[Little Worm]

I missed it last year, I'm in.

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

ANy more details yet? I am very interested as is about 6 other guys I know. Fill us in with more details.

[smoker craft]

Will be in Lehigh tomorrow will let you know about tourney and the ice conditions. Till then be carefull...

[smoker craft]

Ice still seems good to me on the north end no snow. I talked to some tourney officals and they said, they are still waiting for a beer distibutor to print the posters. They went with a different company this year and they are worse at getting them done than last years company. Next year they will print them. They will be taking pre-registration thru january When I get that info I will let you know... It's getting colder!!!

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

smokercraft

Any info yet? Is the date a confirmed Feb 12th? I will mark it on the calendar for sure then. Do you need to preregister?

[smoker craft]

I have a offical flyer Feb 12 2005 7 to 3 Weigh in from 3to 5 at the phone office in Lehigh MUST register BEFORE FISHING!!! Registration at the phone office in Lehigh 9090 Taylor road north west part of Lehigh on top of hill. Pre Register by January 31 2005. 20$ adults 16 and under 10$. Pre register at Duncombe gas and grocery or river bend outdoors in Lehigh or by calling 515 359 2052 or 515 359 2396 if no answer leave message and number. CASH PRIZES are $100 for first $75 for second $50 for third. Four divisions Walleye, Crappie, Bluegill, and catfish. Will pay 3 places for heaviest individual fish in each division. PLUS first one to weigh in a 10- pound walleye will receive 500$ CASH. Soup supper will be at the weigh in also open to public. Raffle items 8 inch power auger, Vexliar, Two pearson ice house,Aqua view. Need not be present to win. Also ice rods, reels, minnow Buckets,jigs and much more serving till 7 pm. Any other questions I will try and get the answer. Thanks

[smoker craft]

TTT

[WALLEYE_HUNTER]

me and my wife will be there but not fishing the tourney..i sold all my ice stuff years ago for a gun.. and besides everytime i went ice fishing i caught baby bluegills every fish i caught was too small tooo keep so i gave it up for hunting... wish i didnt do that.....looking to get back into ice fishing again...

[abens1078]

Did last week's warm weather cause any problems with the ice?

Who's all in?

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

So how did everybody do? What were the results? How was the ice? Any 10 lb Walleyes caught?

[smoker craft]

The weather and ice conditions were perfect. Just enuff snow to keep the ice from beeing to slick. No 10# walleye but the wining walleye was just short of six pounds. And no catfish were caught. At noon the sun was out and I heard all kinds of people say they had to take there coats off becaus it was to hot... I think they said they had 128 paid contestants up about 30 from last year...

[abens1078]

My buddy caught 2 dandy 13" perch, a bass and had 2lb bass up to the hole that broke him off. I caught a bass and 2 bluegills. I weighed the largest one in and missed 3rd place by .04 of a pound. I weighed in around 4:15 so maybe the places changed after we left and I was no where near the money. We missed some other light biting fish and probably should have had better numbers but that's fishing. We had a good time.

The guys who seemed to be doing the best were punching alot of holes around clumps of trees and then checking the spot with their cameras. They wouldn't fish until they located a group of fish and then they would catch the active fish and be on their way to the next holes.

A fun tournament and I learned some valuable lessons for fishing Brushy which was my main goal for the day.

abens1078