Contest is over!

Amazing All-Round Angling Awesomeness by Tony!!!

This has definitely been the most exciting contest I've witnessed. So many folks put up some awesome catches, even with the challenging conditions. And Tony got to 42, without leaving the WI/MN area!

 

Vast amounts of rad. It's been a privilege to watch.

Congrats Tony! That's quite an accomplishment!

Thanks guys!  Lots of great angling out there, accross the board.  Really tough conditions for anybody fishing the midwest (I admit I have no idea what the weather has been like elsewhere).

 

I'm glad I was able to make some solid catches close to home.  I wanted to do it that way - of course it helped keeping me close to home that I was working overtime every single week and still pretty broke...  I think this is the fewest aggregate hours I've ever put into this contest, just glad I could make them count.

 

*que corny thank you speech*  I'd like to thank my very understanding Wife most of all but also; caffiene, corn nuts, the battle-wagon (I promise to clean you soon),  parking lots, the Great Cthulhu, the LRC, crawler flats, everyone who provided a handy net job, and everyone who provided handy encouragement!

 

Total stats:

• 15 species within a few blocks of our apartment (probably should have been more)
• 22 species outside town but still "local" (within 100 miles)
• the single farthest species was right around 200 miles (still really not very far)

Technically I was able to catch every species except Musky without a boat too.  My contest Pike and LM Bass pics are in a canoe but I caught plenty of them from shore over the month.  Pretty excited about that too, always fun to catch cool fish from shore.  The only thing I could make work for Musky this year was canoe trolling a mid-sized spinnerbait

You really done good. Congrats Tony.

Good job man! Hats off to ya

Some awesome fishing you done did dude! :-) Congrats!!!

Great job Tony congrats man!

Awesome dude great job, and congrats to the rest of the great fishers, I've not yet caught that many species in my life....................................yet!!! 8)

Tony, you are the man! A worthy champion and one hell of an angler. To catch all those species as close to home as you were and in a limited time is quite a feat. I really enjoyed watching you work and hope someday I can approach that kind of skill myself. Enjoy your hard fought and well deserved victory, champ!

Thanks everybody!  

 

Gary- thanks for keeping me on my toes through that, kept me from getting lazy! (or getting tired and sleeping...)

Congrats FP4L on the youth win!  Heck of a great spread of species there!

Congrats Tony!  An impressive collection of hard core species as always.  You couldn't have missed on much in the local vicinity and that makes it all the more challenging towards the end - with that said you sure know how to break out the fireworks to finish things out in style during the final days! Great work.

thanks!  Nice work yourself, definately jealous of those southern species - maybe someday.

Way to go bud! Impressed doesn't even begin to describe it. You are quite the angler, master Tony.