Masters Trout Tournament

[Phil Lilley]

Got to go to my little girls b-day party so can't type much at this time.

Will say these weight are by far the best we've ever seen ever on Taney.

11+ won with a beautiful 4.1 lb rainbow

10+ 2nd

high 9's won 3rd and 4th. Most others were in the 8's, few in the 7's and not many below that.

Very nice trout. Lots of males which always are heavier than rainbows.

I know there were alot of people trolling down by the bridges. Most caught on jigs. Winning team threw 1/8th oz jigs all day. Dark colors.

Pics and VIDEO later.

[Troy Gregg]

Got to go to my little girls b-day party so can't type much at this time.

Will say these weight are by far the best we've ever seen ever on Taney.

11+ won with a beautiful 4.1 lb rainbow

10+ 2nd

high 9's won 3rd and 4th. Most others were in the 8's, few in the 7's and not many below that.

Very nice trout. Lots of males which always are heavier than rainbows.

I know there were alot of people trolling down by the bridges. Most caught on jigs. Winning team threw 1/8th oz jigs all day. Dark colors.

Pics and VIDEO later.

Finished 5th in todays tourney... 9.04lbs... thank you Phil for a great tourney, I would have stuck around for food, but my partner had to get going.

we caught a total of 68 fish today.. we were just missing some of those larger fish. we had three pretty good ones( biggest 1.80)

all but two of the fish came on cranks we had two on the 1/8oz jig. Most of the fish we were catching were between 13" and 16".

we had 0 fish in the livewells at around 10:00 in the morning, and we made the move to the landing. Once we found fish the action was non stop. we had a two limits in less than 10 minutes and managed to cull up before the bite slowed for us at around 10:30.

we stayed in that area chasing those trout and thats how we ended up with 68 fish in the boat. Today they were eating gold cranks and like phil said, darker color jigs. we were getting good hits on the cranks so it was difficult to switch over to the jigs. We had made a bad judgement on some fish otherwise things could have been a lil better. In all the action between 10 and 10:30 we placed a 12"bow in the livewell and it ended up staying in there. It got to a point if the trout were 13" or shorter we were throwing them back.

with the crankbaits we were chucking and winding... with a pause in the retrieve and on the pause we would usually get hammered.

Again Thank you Phil, we had a blast today and look forward to Feb. 28th.

[Phil Lilley]

Masters 2009

Dwiggins/Wucher - 11.22 with a 4.12 lb rainbow (Gerry Dwiggins)

Masters started in 1995. This is the 4th time Gerry and Bruce have taken first place. This is no small accomplishment. I consider these guys who fish this tournament some of the best trout fishers around. Very good jig fishermen.

2. Lutz/Fitshenery - 10.92

3. Allen/Allen - 9.92

4. Canter/Canter - 9.40

Gregg/Peele - 9.04

Dudley/Neal - 8.96

Weldele/Cross - 8.70

Boswell/Kalkbrenner - 8.68

Burckhardt/Black - 8.64

Daiels/Hattfield - 8.54

R Dwiggins/Freise - 8.38

Backer/Godefroid - 7.90

Hittler/Dietl - 7.68

Beam/Topolsky - 7.62

Rasnick/Rasnick - 7.46

Brengarth/LaBoube - 7.16

Slagle/Hunter - 7.16

Cartwright/Sullivan - 7.04

Hawkins/Hawkins - 7.04

Bracy/Bracy - 6.38

Steuck/Billings - 6.14

Ray/Fricke - 5.74

Fuhrman/Taylor - 5.56

Dressel/Kotomos - 5.12

Wheeler/Wheeler - 5.02

2 teams did not weigh in.

[DD'sMC]

Sorry to have missed it! Sounds like it was a GREAT day of fishing! Congrats to the winners!

[Toby from MO]

Congrats to all.

What were the tournament day water conditions? Any generation? How was clarity?

[Phil Lilley]

No generation, first day that the water didn't run all week which usually puts trout down for at least part of the day. Blue bird day- high sun and little wind. 60+ degrees. Water was good color.

Usually not good fishing conditions but I guess not yesterday... good fishing reported by most.

First time in a long time when you can catch bigger trout below Fall Creek than above. Alot of these trout were caught downtown.

[Phil Lilley]

Gezzz...

Megan is way ahead of me. She's already posted videos and pics of the tournament of our facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1639762773

Got to have a facebook account before you can view it. Sorry.

[knuck]

Hey Phil, We know you are busy, but would sure like to see any photos you have to share from the tournament. Sounds like the average fish size has been pretty respectable the past few weeks.

Thanks,

Steve in STL

Go Warner

[knuck]

Got the message just a few minutes to late, guess we non-facebook types are out of luck.

Steve in STL

[Phil Lilley]

They didn't get any pics of fish except this one of Gerry's rainbow. I pulled this off the facebook page.

I have a full day today. Have to write and post reports late tonight. If I can get to the videos I will but they take along time to do.

Facebook- all you have to do is sign up. I haven't gotten one spam email from signing up with them. I think that's why alot of people don't sign up with stuff like facebook is they're afraid their emails will get sold and passed around to spammers. Megan does alot with facebook and it's way easier to post videos than vimeo or youtube. Better quality too- not sure why.