

So here’s a question: in a state with more than 11,000 lakes, how do you narrow that down to the top eight? Draw straws? Reader polls? Navigate through thousands of pages of historical data?

I have participated in bow fishing tournaments, so I have somewhat of an understanding on how these fellow professional walleye anglers feel. One bystander even yelled out, “No way” whenever the weight was announced, which is layman's terms for that dude is a cheating POS.Īfter doing some research, it is known that these guys have won multiple tournaments in the past resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars & free boats, etc. Therefore, the fellow professional tournament anglers & director were skeptical when reading off the combined weight of the fish. On another note, when someone handles a certain species frequently, they are typically able to have a good estimate on what they think that animal weighs, scores, etc. However, this was obviously the size of a big rock, which is unusual if not just flat out cheating. When cutting open any type of fish it is not unusual to find small fishing weights, lures, or other fish. Fischer was handling them, which resulted to him cutting the walleye open.

It was blatantly obvious that something hard was in the stomach of the fish, while Mr. Fischer, the tournament director, held up the donut hole sized lead weight for everyone to see. Here are my takes from someone that has been around a bunch of fishing tournaments:
