MWA
2008 Tournament new & schedule
It’s that time of year again when a group of MWA
angling architects set down in an attempt to put
together an exciting and fun filled tournament
season. This should be quite a year. But before I
get to involved in this article I would like to
welcome two new additions to the Tournament
Committee, Dave Hayes and Don Shelton. They both
joined the team in December and have already made
a significant impact. I would also like to give a
big ‘thank you’ to Bob “Buck” May for the year he
served with the committee. He will be missed. Your
2008 Tournament Committee is Don Shelton, Dave
Hayes, Dwight Jones, Mike Rhoades, Barry Ukele,
and Randy Gaines. Feel free to contact any of
these folks with your questions.
Have you heard the news? Join me in
congratulating the top four teams from the Michiana
Walleye Association’s 2007 Cabela’s qualifiers. They
are headed to Mobridge SD. June 13th & 14th to fish
in the Cabela’s 2008 National Championship. Team #1
Randy Gaines & Mike Rhoades, Team #2 Dan Hoffman &
Don Shelton,
Team #3 Dwight Jones & Bob May, Team #4 Dave Hayes &
Adam Hayes. “WAY TO GO GUYS”! We can now turn our
nerves to the upcoming season.
So let’s take a look at the upcoming MWA
tournament season. Do you remember, not so many
years ago, we always made an annual club pilgrimage
to the Detroit River? What happened to it? Well,
what ever it was, we have regained it and placed it
first on our list of stops this year. Let me say,
this is not a point tournament but what we call a
fun tournament. Here’s how it will work. The entry
fee is $10.00 per person per day. You are only going
to weigh your biggest fish each day. And since this
is an individual big fish event you may fish as many
folks out of your boat as the coast guard will
allow. We will fish 7-3 on Saturday; weigh in and
pay out. Then on Sunday we will Fish 7-1; weigh in
pay out. Sunday will be a shorter day to allow for
travel or a stop at Cabela’s to spend your winnings.
Now switching gears a little, you will
notice we are going to fish both the Cabela’s
qualifiers and the MWA Club point tournaments just
as we did last year. There have been a couple of
major changes to the Cabela’s series. These changes
are an attempt to put a Tournament Trail with a
chance of a major outcome at everyone’s disposal.
The changes are as follows:
A)
The entry has been reduced from $300.00 to $150.00
for all 3 Tournament, if you take advantage of the
early registration 02/01/08 – 03/31/08. After that
date the cost will be $60.00 each or $180.00 for all
three.
B)
Teams will no longer be required to have a VHF
marine radio on their boat. We will however require
that the Tournament committee have one of the Team
member’s cell phone numbers (Keep in mind, although
not required by the MWA a VHF marine radio is a
priceless piece of Marine safety equipment).
Here is the tournament schedule for
Michiana Walleye Association for the 2008 season,
this schedule contains both the Cabela’s National
Championship qualifiers as well the MWA Point
Tournaments. Along with two fun Tournament events.
We worked hard to set our season so that we didn’t
conflict with the Hoosier Walleye Tournament Series
and hopefully added some opportunity for folks to
fish both tournament series. As the old saying goes
“Grab Your Partner”.
April 12th & 13th Detroit River Big Fish “FUN”
Tournament.
April 20th Lake Of The Woods (Bremen)
(Cabela’s Qualifier).
May 17th Winona (Club Point Event)
June 29th St Joe River, Benton Harbor
(Cabela’s Qualifier).
July 19th St Joe River, Niles (Club
Point Event).
Aug 24th Winona (Cabela’s
Qualifier).
Sept 6th Pike (Family multi species
“FUN” Tourn/picnic) “WATCH FOR
DETAILS”
Sept. 13th Maxi (Club Points Event).
Nov TBD MWA Annual Tournament
Awards Banquet
