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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3Roosters" data-source="post: 94312" data-attributes="member: 1351">Good read bogey! Best wishes to your dad!   I have to chime in on one of my most memorable times fishing as well.  About 25 yrs ago my best buddy and I decided on a whim to enter this 2 person fishing tournament on East Bay of Devils Lake. Now, mind you, this was way back when there was a boat ramp park on the east bay, not where the one is today, but just south of Camp Grafton on the east side..in the corner of where hiway 20 and 57 intersect..been underwater for a good number of years now.   This was a one day tournament and East bay back in the day was known for the salinity and not a super place to go catch walleyes. I am sure we had the slowest, oldest boat but we didn't care because we were just out to have fun and out fish the experts anyway. I remember that day well. It was extremely hot out that day and very little wind, the lake had barely a ripple of wind on it. We didn't have a top to escape from the sun and heat so we were sitting ducks for the suns intense heat.    Fishing was tough...catching was worse, we really didn't care as we were solving all of life's problems in the process.   I managed to fool a nice walleye pitching to shore near this dock. It was then the comedy act began, as I told my buddy I think this one has some backbone to him and to get the net. After horsing the walleye away from the dock, quite sure I would lose him, I got him close to the boat, only to get behind the motor..oh no...not that.. I got that monster away from that danger zone..in a position for my buddy to net him...at which point as he promptly knocked the beast in the head...almost knocking him off my line. "Nice try bud" but lets try it again and try not to do that again" Finally he was netted and we both laughed at each other..Not a huge one..but one to remember. I think he was like 24 inches..not bad. We decided if we wanted to win this thing that we need at least this size going forward.   Well.. we didn't keep any others that day and headed into tourney headquarters..sun burn and hot..and ready to hang our heads as weighed in with the brutal results of our 1 fish for the day.  It wasn't a great day of catching for many other teams it appeared. We ended up in 10th place with that one fish..NEAT.. !0th place was significant... as they had plaques for the top 10 finishers! We won a plaque...ONE PLAQUE mind you, it was a 2 person tournament and we won ONE plaque. hahaha  We collected our ONE plaque and headed to a local downtown watering hole to see how we were going to split this ONE plaque...after a few cold ones, it was determined that it would only make sense to flip a coin for this prized possession.  I flipped, he called and lost. This prized possession was now all mine!   A few years later my best buddy died in a car accident so when I  look at that 10th place plaque from time to time, I remember the great memory of that day.</blockquote>

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