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The Ultimate Panfish League!!!

Matt Johnson

By Matt Johnson
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Tommyk, I must have drove right by you then in my silverado. Sorry for spooking your fish. Thanks for the info. I never tried anything much bigger than a ratfink for the day as it seemed the fish were not to aggressive. I should have tried a glow devil or another jigging spoon.

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hanson Grand Master

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Thought I should give Matt Johnson a big Thank You! for organizing the Ultimate Panfish League this winter.

Early in the winter, I wasn't going to fish any of the events and then my schedule started to fall into place around them so I figured why not? I entered the last 3 events at Medicine Lake, Rush Lake, and Turtle Lake and had pretty good results placing 2nd at Medicine and 2nd at Turtle.

If any of you guys are considering the open water events, I would highly recommend doing so. The competition is fun yet laid back at the same time and you have a chance to win some decent money as well.

I needed that prize money to replace all my Custom Jigs & Spins Ratsos that the bass & pike stole from me on Turtle Lake. Yikes! Darn near cleaned out my tackle box. grin.gif

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Kudos Matt!!! It was a tough day for Panfish but with a little work the fish would cooperate. It was nice to meet some fellow FM'ers also. I left right after the event to try and hit the evening bite on another lake so I wasn't able to hang around and B.S. with everyone.

Hopefully we will see the UPL back next year. It sounds like everyone who participated in the events had a good time and maybe learned some new tricks too. Panfish are truely my passion and it's nice to fish some different lakes and put my skills to the test. smile.gif

Good fishing,

Corey Bechtold

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Thanks Matt for the UPL. I fished the Turtle event and it was a blast. Nice to meet some FM’ers and put faces with the screen names. All the guys are real sportsman. I am surely going to try and make some of the open water events.

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I also think the panfish league was a great sucess. The intentions were to have low competition and keep it fun. I think that was accomplished well. We had some tough conditions not bieng able to drive, but most made the best of it.

I look forward to the open water events. It will be real interesting to fish the same 4 plus a couple new ones.

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I was just the opposite of Hanson. I planned to fish one or two of these and ended up fishing none of them due to conflicts in schedule. I do however plan to enter as many of the open water competions as I can. I have a couple of family vacations planned but other then that I should be able to hit a few.

In the event that one of my primary fishing partners can not attned I may have room in my boat for someone.

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Yep, great time yesterday! The fishing wasn't too bad, and I would have to say all of the teams brought in some decent sunfish. The crappies were a little mysterious, but a few nice ones were weighed in nonetheless.

The first season of the UPL has come and gone, and I would like to thank everyone who attended the events this winter. I had a great time fishing with all of you, and I'm looking forward to the open water events!

Look for the first event to be in May, and we will most likely just reverse the order of the winter lakes, and draw the last two lakes from names in a hat. We thought it would be cool to fish the same lakes during the open water season as we did during the winter. See what changes.

So... May will be Turtle Lake. June will be Rush Lake. July will be Medicine Lake. And August will be Linwood Lake. Then the months of September and October will get drawn out of a hat. Each team that fished any of the past events will be allowed to enter a lake name of their choice, and we will draw out of a hat for the last two events.

I'll post the exact dates sometime in the end of March...

Thanks again! And enjoy the rest of the ice fishing season! smile.gif

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Matt--Do you have the results for the Turtle Lake event and possibly some pics? Wasn't able to make it but I would like to see how it went. Looking forward to the open water.

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