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GLENDO,A BODY OF WATER KNOWN FOR HER ABUNDANCE OF WALLEYE (TROPHY WALLEYE.) GLENDO HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN MANY MAGAZINES LIKE WALLEYE INSIDER AND IN-FISHERMAN TO NAME A COUPLE AS ONE OF THE WEST BEST WALLEYE FISHERIES.
THIS WOULD BE THE LOCATION FOR THE SECOND STOP ON THE WYOMING WALLEYE TRAIL OF THE WYOMING WALLEYE CIRCUIT.
AS I ARRIVED FRIDAY MORNING I COULD SEE TWO OBVIOUS CHALLENGES THAT LAY AHEAD FOR THE ANGLERS OF THE WWC. FIRST THE WATER LEVEL WAS HIGH VERY HIGH AND RISING, SECOND WITH THE RAIN THAT WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING MUDDY WATER WAS GOING TO BE THE LARGEST CHALLENGE FOR THEM TO OVERCOME.
FRIDAY EVENING STARTED WITH THE RULES MEETING, I LISTENED TO SOME OF THE REPORTS THAT WERE FLOATING AROUND THE GROUP OF TWO HUNDRED ANGLERS. MOST WERE GOOD NEWS, BUT AS IN MANY WALLEYE TOURNAMENTS MOTHER NATURE HAD SOME PLANS OF HER OWN. A COLD FRONT, NOT A SEVERE COLD FRONT BUT ENOUGH TO CAUSE A SLOW IN THE BITE. THIS DIDN’T DISCOURAGE THE ANGLERS OF THE WYOMING WALLEYE CIRCUIT.
SATURDAY MORNING BEGAN AT 5:30 AM WITH BOAT INSPECTIONS, AS EACH BOAT MOVED OUT OF THE MARINA BAY TO TAKE THERE PLACE THE EXCITEMENT BEGAN TO BUILD. AS SOON AS ALL ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR BOATS WERE STAGED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEGAN TO PLAY AND ECHOED ACROSSED GLENDO, A BEAUTIFUL SITE TO SEE OVER TWO HUNDRED ANGLERS STANDING IN THERE BOATS AND PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE FLAG THAT WAVES OVER THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. FOLLOWING THE ANTHEM BOAT NUMBER ONE WAS CALLED, ONE BY ONE THEY ALL RACED OFF TO GET TO THE FISHING HOLES THAT HELD THE TOURNAMENT WINNING WALLEYE THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.
IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG TO SEE WHERE THE PREFISH HAD LEAD ANGLERS, FLOODED TREES AND SHALLOWS. A JIGGING PRESENTATION IN SHALLOW WATER USING MINNOWS AND LEECHES. THE DAY HAD JUST STARTED WHEN THE TEAM OF JASON LEWIS AND KEN MAYER CAME IN AT 7:30 WITH A NICE FIVE WALLEYE LIMIT COMING IN AT 12.2 POUNDS. THIS WAS THE WAY IT STARTED AND WOULDN’T CHANGE ALL DAY. AS ONE TEAM AFTER ANOTHER CAME IN WITH THEIR LIMIT. THE LARGEST WALLEYE TO COME IN FOR DAY ONE WAS CAUGHT BY THE TEAM OF DENNIS AND JAKE KRAUS OF FORT COLLINS.
AS DAY ONE CAME TO A CLOSE IS WAS THE TEAM OF RICK AND MARY WALTER OF CASPER LEADING THE WAY WITH A WEIGHT OF 16.42 POUNDS. JUST BEHIND THE WAS THE TEAM OF RYAN AND JASON VOWERS OF TORRINGTON WYOMING AND SIDNEY NEBRASKA WITH A WEIGHT OF 16.1 POUNDS. IN THIRD WAS THE TEAM OF CHARLIE BLACK AND DAVID EVENDEN WITH A WEIGHT OF 14.78 POUNDS. FOURTH BELONGED TO THE TEAM OF BRANDON GREEN AND BRANDON MILLER DEFENDING CHAMPIONS FROM 2007 CAME IN WITH 14.68 POUNDS. FIFTH WENT TO THE TEAM OF CLINT AND CARL ACRES WITH A DAY ONE WEIGHT OF 14.62 TO CLOSE THE TOP FIVE.
DAY TWO STARTED IN THE SAME FASHION AS DAY ONE WITH EACH TEAM RACING OFF TO BOAT THOSE TOURNAMENT WINNING WALLEYE. AS I OBSERVED EACH TEAM I FOUND THEM BACK IN THE TREES AND ROCKY SHORES AND ONCE AGAIN THE WALLEYE WERE THERE. THE WIND CAME UP IN THE AFTERNOON AND PRESENTED A GREAT CHALLENGE TO MOST ANGLERS, AT LEAST THE ONES FISHING THE TREES AT THE BAY EDGES.
BUT AS DAY TWO CAME TO A CLOSE IT WAS THE TEAM OF BRIAN WOODWARD AND DAVID RICE OF CASPER PUTTING IT TOGETHER AND TAKING HOME THE TITLE AND THE $8,150.00 CHECK AS THE GLENDO SPRING CLASSIC CHAMPIONS FOR 2008. JUST TWO POUNDS BEHIND THEM WAS THE TEAM OF DENNIS AND JAKE KRAUS OF FORT COLLINS WEIGHING IN AT 28.78. TENTHS OF A POUND BEHIND THEM WAS DEFENDING 2007 CHAMPIONS BRANDON GREEN AND BRANDON MILLER OF CASPER WITH A WEIGHT OF 28.66 POUNDS. FOUTH PLACE BELONGED TO TROY MORTENSEN AND STEVE FRITZ OF RAWLINS COMING IN AT 28.5 POUNDS. ROUNDING UP THE TOP FIVE WAS THE TEAM OF BERNIE KEEFE AND EUGENE MCCLENATHAN OF DENVER CO. WITH A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 28.42 POUNDS. THE BIG WALLEYE FOR DAY TWO WAS BOATED BY THE TEAM OF TROY MORTENSEN AND STEVE FRITZ WEIGHING IN AT 7.82 POUNDS.
TO SUM UP THE WEEKEND, THE DOUBLE DIGIT WALLEYE SEEM TO HAVE DEVELOPED LOCK JAW. BUT THE ANGLERS OF THE WYOMING WALLEYE CIRCUIT WENT TO THE TREES AND ROCKY SHORES AND BROUGHT TO THE SCALES ONE NICE LIMIT OF WALLEYE AFTER ANOTHER.
CONGRADULATIONS TO ALL OF THE ANGLERS OF THE WYOMING WALLEYE CIRCUIT ON A SUCCESSFUL TOURNAMENT. THE DETERMINATION AND SKILL THAT IS PRESENT WITH IN THE WWC IS UNMATCHED….GREAT JOB!!!
I HOPE TO SEE ALL OF YOU AT BOYSEN
THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE.
DIRECTOR
ROB DAVIS
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