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We fished the HOOSIER COHO CLUB CLASSIC TOURNAMENT this weekend and had some very tough weather to deal with. We pre fished Friday afternoon for a few hours before the captains meeting and ended up with 1 small laker and a throwback coho in front of the pier heads. After not much success on Friday we decided to head northeast towards New Buffalo on Saturday. We started in 85 fow and trolled our to 120 before making a turn and heading into the building waves without a bite. We then made the decision to pull lines and head to shallower water. We took our first fish in 75 fow and then started taking fish again in 55-45 fow. We ended up landing only 2 lake trout but had 6 other bites and 3 were really nice fish that we lost. After day one of the tournament we were in 6th place so we knew we needed our 10 fish on day two in order to make a comeback. We ended up heading to the same area a was able to find the fish we needed to make our comeback we ended up with 4 coho, 1 brown, and 6 lake trout. We weighed our best 10 fish and it was enough to get us a 2nd place finish! We had a great time and are looking forward to fishing the St. Joe tournament next weekend!

It looks like a bunch of fish was collected during the tourney. What becomes of those fish after the weigh in? I would hope there are people or places that get them. Can the anglers that caught them keep their catch?

Steelie wrote:

It looks like a bunch of fish was collected during the tourney. What becomes of those fish after the weigh in? I would hope there are people or places that get them. Can the anglers that caught them keep their catch?

All fish in day 1 had to be donated and they went to the shriners hospital on day 2 it was optional

US Fish & Wildlife and IDNR prodded, probed and processed over 400 fish on Sat., as well.

Sadly, I believe only two large kings were brought in by the 56 boats in two days of fishing

Good job in the tourney Joe. Sounds like you had some rough fishing. Hopefully your next tourney you can concentrate more on the fish than the waves. Your boat lookes great!

Non-existant user wrote:

Good job in the tourney Joe. Sounds like you had some rough fishing. Hopefully your next tourney you can concentrate more on the fish than the waves. Your boat lookes great!

Thanks and definitely some tough conditions out there!

Nice job fellas, and way to represent Portage. Sure is a pile of grease sitting there. Was there many cohos caught by anyone?

Lickety-Split wrote:

Nice job fellas, and way to represent Portage. Sure is a pile of grease sitting there. Was there many cohos caught by anyone?

Yes most boats had half and half

Look at those bloated lakers...what are they eating

reel wrote:

Look at those bloated lakers...what are they eating

Anything and everything