Fish Huron Ohio Walleye Challenge Combines with the Walleye Central Get Together

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Fish Huron Ohio is teaming up with the annual Walleye Central Charity Raffle FRIDAY OCT 4 at Mesenburg Hall 545 Cleveland Road West Huron, OH 44839. There will be a great dinner at 7PM with doors opening at 5:30 to check out all the great donated fishing and outdoors gear available to win when you purchase raffle tickets at the hall. We typically donate over $5K to charity from this event. Past Charities have included United Way, Make a Wish, American Cancer Society, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. This year the primary charity will be The WOUNDED WARRIORS.

DINNER TICKETS ARE $10 PER PERSON DONATION

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE CHARITY RAFFLE TO THOSE NOT FISHING THE TOURNAMENT.

WALLEYE CENTRAL “BRAGGING RIGHTS” will be a big walleye contest this year with entry at $20 per team. Registration will be Friday night at Mesenburg Hall. Weigh-In will take place along with the Fish Huron Walleye Challenge Weigh-In beginning at 3:15 PM.

POST TOURNAMENT AWARDS PARTY & DINNER at the Brass Pelican on the Huron River – upstairs banquet room. Awards presented 6:30PM
MOST IMPORTANTLY A HUGE THANKS TO OUR FISH HURON WALLEYE CHALLENGE SPONSORS. Please take note of the local businesses that have directly sponsored the event and “support those that support us!” When you visit these businesses while in town PLEASE LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE HERE FOR THE TOURNAMENT AND CHARITY RAFFLE AND THANK THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT.

Presenting Sponsors:
• South Shore Marine 1611 Sawmill Parkway, Huron, Ohio www.southshoremarine.com
• Grady White Boats
• Pursuit Boats
Big Fish Sponsor
• MarineMax Port Clinton – 1991 N E Catawba Island
General Sponsors:
Hotel/Motels
o Motel 6 - Rye Beach Road next to Arby’s.
o Plantation Motel - Cleveland Road East
o Gull Motel - Cleveland Road at the Huron River Bridge
Food
• Costa Azul Mexican Restaurant - Rye Beach & Cleveland Rd
• Berardi’s Restaurant - Breakfast, Lunch/ Dinner
• Subway – Rye Beach & Cleveland Rd.
• Brass Pelican – on the river
• Domino’s Pizza, Huron Pizza House, Rye Beach Pizza N Deli, & Jim’s Pizza Box
Gas
• Hy-Miler Shell – Cleveland Rd East, Main Street, & Rye Beach Road
• Huron Market – Cleveland Road next to Mesenburg’s
Marinas/ Repairs
• Holiday Harbor Marine – boat gas dock
• Huron Lagoons Marine – boat gas dock
• Vic’s Sports Center – Kent, OH
• Huron Boat Basin - Dockage
Groceries / Beverages
• Cornell’s - Cleveland Road East
• Huron Market – Cleveland Road West / liquor store / gas
General:
• Crawford Insurance Group – Marine/Boating Insurance needs
• First Merit Bank - Huron
IN ADDITION TO THESE LOCAL HURON AREA COMPANIES WE ALSO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT THOSE THAT MADE DONATIONS TO THE WALLEYE CENTRAL / WOUNDED WARRIORS CHARITY RAFFLE. YOU WILL SEE WE HAVE SOME FANTASTIC PRIZES AGAIN THIS YEAR:

Wendy's..... Fish with Jim..... Erie Outfitters– Avon, OH.....Bad Boy's Bait & Tackle – Vermilion, OH.....Reef Runner Lures.....Cisco Fishing Systems.....Garmin Electronics.....Navico Electronics.....South Shore Marine.....Huron Boat Basin -Doug Steinwart & Crew.....Steve Carlson.....Jerry Cox.....Tempress Tackle.....Rho-Mar Agency-Farm. Mi......Cabela's– Dundee, MI.....Fisherman's Wharf – Port Clinton, OH.....Scott Golden.....Ranger Nets.....Grayden Outdoors/Fish Hawk.....Okuma Fishing Products.....Wolverine Tackle / Silver Streak.....Offshore Tackle.....American Angler Knifes.....Pro King Lures.....Warrior Spoons.....Mike's Taxidermy.....Amish Outfitters.....Happy Hooker Bait & Tackle – Oak Harbor, OH.....Big Papa Sportfishing Products.....Bob-Cranberry Creek Marina.....Troll Master Products.....Navionic's Charts.....Winfield Tackle Co......Cranberry Creek Service.....Hi-Tech Custom Painted Baits.....Dean Sellers Ford-Troy, Mi......Erieau Marina Erieau, Ca......Faye's Auto & Truck Accessories Warren, Mi.....BIG FISH TUFF / Tru-Trip Divers..... Blue Dolphin Charters – Gary & Nicholas Zart, Mesenburg Catering – Huron, OH… Brass Pelican – Huron, OH

[FreeByrd]

Starting to set up the Walleye Central Charity Raffle - looks like it may be better than ever. Rather than giving out 100+ "little" prizes and the raffle taking forever like in the past we have arranged groups of prizes together. Waiting on some items from a few of our generous donors but the way it looks currently I expect we will have around 16-18 prize packs that will be valued well over $100 each - some pushing $200+ in retail value. For these prize packages you will have the opportunity to put your raffle tickets into drawings for the specific packages you are interested in. Those tickets will sell for $5 each or 5 for $20.

We also have another 25 or so items/packages that have individual values ranging from at least $100 to $300+ These tickets will sell for $10 each or 5 for $40. The tickets for these prizes will be in one tumbler and when tickets are drawn the winner will come forward and select the prize they want until we are done.

My goal is to get through the entire raffle in 30-45 minutes tops.

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40 pounds for a 5 walleye limit is a good day in just about any tournament and normally would put your team “in the money” but in the Fish Huron Ohio Walleye Challenge held Saturday October 5th at the Huron Boat Basin there were 21 teams that weighed over 40 pounds for their 5 fish limit. There were 478 walleye caught during the tournament with a total weight of 3306 pounds and an average weight of 6.92 pounds.

“TEAM BATO” won the tournament with 44.38#. Tony Plue(Sandusky), Chuck DiSanto(Huron), Rocky Callihan(Huron), and Jeff Hewit(Huron) fished about 12 miles Northeast of Huron in a 23 foot Hydra-Sport. They caught 27 fish throughout the day on worm harnesses. Their best color pattern was a Silver Streak “CJ Special” blade behind 3 ounce inline weights between 70 and 80 feet back at 1.8 MPH. They won $5,000 for first place but did not enter the side bet which paid out another $4,725 and went to the 2nd place team of Jason Kopf, Jeff Seyka, and Rockstar. Kopf’s “Team Carnage” had 43.69# and won a total of $8,225 - $3,500 for 2nd place and $4,725 from the side bet. They also reported being within 12 miles of Huron.

A handful of teams gambled on a long run to the East between Ashtabula & Geneva – making 100+ mile one way runs. The third place “Team Missfits” Eric Vandenk and Bob Barnhart made the run and weighed 42.52# good for 3rd place winning a total of $4,075 - $2,500 for 3rd place and $1,575 for the side bet.

The rest of the teams that were “IN THE MONEY” – top 15 places - all reported fishing within 12 miles of the Huron River – most commonly reported location was near the Huron Dumping Grounds and most of the teams reported pulling their fish on worm harnesses and some pulling Reef Runners.

The big walleye of the tournament was caught by “Team Medina Plating” of John Wagner, Shawn Ritchie, & Jim Swick. They won $1,200 for the 11.08 pound walleye. There were 11 walleye over 10 pounds brought to the scales.

The tournament paid out a total of $29,650 with the addition of the side bet and the Walleye Central Bragging Rights Big Fish payouts.

During the Friday night dinner & raffle over $7,000 was raised for charity. The funds will go to two different Wounded Warriors organizations and also to the Outreach Walleye Club.

Photos finally up on Fish Huron Website including dinner raffle pics. Click on Galleries. www.fishhuronohio.com