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Manion or Walleye Circuit or Manufactuer's Walleye Council
Are there any guys out there that at one time fished the Manion Walleye Circuit which later became the Manufactuer's Walleye Council or early on in the Manufacturer's Walleye Council tournaments?
If so share a few stories with us about what it was like in the early days of walleye tournament fishing. Thanks!
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Stories? Where does one start? LOL One thing, of course, that stands out from the first 4-5 or more years is that no one shared info. No one paid for info. And for the most part, no one followed anyone--in other words if there was a boat even on "your spot", you still didn't fish it--or there might be a fight on shore later. Or even on the water--example--KK and I banged boats together as I held him off a hump on the river in Dubuque one time. He wanted to fish it--I ran him off! LOL Friends on land, enemies on the water. In a MWC championship on Pelican Lake--1987-- (Rhinelander WI.) it was VERY foggy one day. Guys were taking lower units off on shallow reefs in the fog. In the middle of it, a team came up to us out of the fog and asked if we knew what direction so and so was. My partner hollered over to them and said--"if you don't know, you don't belong here!" They tucked their tail and disappeared into the fog. Different attitudes back then...good or bad? "Winning isn't everything, it's the ONY thing" is how many of us competed. A few of us always hoped for vicious wind/weather, knowing most of the field would be out of it before it started since most were not good at boat control/long runs in big nasty wind/weather. Back then, until maybe the early '90's, the field didn't have as much parity as the past ten years or so--as we have now. Most had trouble catching a limit of any size two days in row in many cases. So, always, if you got a limit each day of legal size, you most likely got a check. Nowadays you had better get a big limit...with all the advantages today's (every) angler has in hand. In the first Manion championship ('84?)--I think I recall Mike McClelland winning it at Castle Rock, WI. --and not getting paid about $15K in the process. Maybe my memory is wrong on that? (Ron Seelhoff and I had the same thing happen in a big Canadian event about 20 years ago too--$12K there) Lots of waves over the bow since those early days. Hard to remember the countless stories. More to come later. Anyone remember the big fight on the main street of Garrison N.D. at an MWC event? LOL Them there was the days.... How about when Bruno wacked Seelhoff on the nose at the championship banquet right in front of the Mercury marketing boss? LOL Oh my. Lots of waves over the bow since then!
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Steve Fellegy #49 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. MLK sf1954@embarqmail.com or 651-270-3383 cell# Last edited by stevefellegy; 01-28-2014 at 04:40 PM. |
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If my weather-beaten memory serves me right, the first MWC championship at Lake Minnetonka, Mn. only 19 teams weighed a fish for that event out of the top fifty that qualified. 1985.
Mark Dorn (later became PWT and FLW tournament director) won the first Manion event that was held on Winnebago on slip-bobbers. He met Gary Grable from Oshkosh and they teamed up for several years on the MWC after that. They ran Grumman Boats in those early years. LOL I can't recall who won the first ever Manion event that was held on Lake Mille Lacs. ( I didn't--got my butt kicked) That event was the very first "national" event. I do recall lie-detector tests being flunked in that first one on Lake Mille Lacs--as culling was not legal and --well--who knows--were the test results right or wrong? Never held up legally and the leaders (not all leaders had to take the test) got their money. IF my memory serves me right...
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Steve Fellegy #49 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. MLK sf1954@embarqmail.com or 651-270-3383 cell# Last edited by stevefellegy; 01-28-2014 at 04:54 PM. |
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In the early days of MWC, Tuffy Boats was one of the main event sponsors--powered by Mariner Outboards. The top 50 teams used ALL Tuffy's at some of the first few MWC championship events--after the first one.
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Steve Fellegy #49 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. MLK sf1954@embarqmail.com or 651-270-3383 cell# |
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Keep them coming Steve. I could read about what you have to say all day long.
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Would love to see so old on-the-water pictures if anyone has them
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